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  1. I'm on Caribbean Princess in a couple weeks with the Princess Plus package. I've been reading about how they screw up the bar sales in many ways. One being that they charge the medallion that pops up on their screen, so if I go to the bar to get drinks for my wife and myself, they charge both to me by default. Some even went over the 15 drink limit because of this and were cut off even though they hadn't had 15 drinks. I just can't wait. As for Royal Caribbean - at least 30% of every cruise they are doing now is "new to cruise" or "new to Royal" and they have nothing to compare the drink package price to, so they buy it. And it's not going to stop anytime soon. Eventually the company will tip the scales and package sales will decline enough for them to adjust the pricing.
  2. https://www.royalcaribbean.com/plan-a-cruise/certified-vacation-planner
  3. Yes. My mistake. Make Prime after April 1, 2024 and you are good until March 31, 2026.
  4. Yes. And as soon as you get to 2500 you start getting the Prime perks and then you are also Prime for the following year. So go on a cruise that starts this Monday April 1 with no prior casino member level and get 2500 points that night, you are now Prime for the rest of this casino year and also through March 31 2025. The annual free cruise for Prime is in an inside cabin, 7 nights or less. There are blackout dates.
  5. Since Adventure is going into drydock this fall in Spain, I'll say no they are not replacing it. None of the Voyager class ships are leaving the fleet for quite a while.
  6. Which is exactly what I did today during our Adventure stop. And it’s what I do when on Carnival stopping here at Grand Turk. As you well know, there is not much else to do here. Water is beautiful and clear. People are pleasant, even on what was supposed to be their off day until we pulled in on short notice. And you can drop $32 on two frozen concoctions in 12 ounce plastic cups, just like I was on the ship.
  7. Oh, absolutely! Grand Turk is much more pleasant than Nassau. I guess I'll wander down the beach to Jack's Shack for some jerk chicken and a rum punch or three.
  8. We get Grand Turk as a substitute for the Adventure 8 night starting on Friday. Not exactly an exciting stop but it is what it is.
  9. They are about to complicate it some more when they roll out the new three assigned seating time scheme fleet wide. Supposedly just started on the current Icon cruise with times of 5pm, 6:30pm, and 8pm.
  10. It's as if they sourcing their lasagna meat from Taco Bell. And it's always dry to me, not enough sauce is used.
  11. Yes indeed. Every time I go to the Windjammer for lunch or dinner I marvel at all the visually appealing dessert choices, and then I try a few and they are almost devoid of any taste. Literally like biting into nothing.
  12. This thread made it to CNN. And let's see, "a former journalist who lives in Hinche in Central Haiti, says there are no political tensions there like those in Port-au-Prince, and “Labadee, in the North, is also 100% out of danger.”
  13. You can add pre-paid gratuities during the online booking process. The option will appear as a check box as you move through the various booking screens. Drink packages are a purchase you can make once the booking is created and listed in your Cruise Planner online or in the booking using the app.
  14. The couple times I checked yesterday it was not showing a current location for the ship that was there (Symphony?) so it was just “passenger vessel” showing as docked at Labadee.
  15. It wouldn't surprise me if the word went to out from the head bean counter's office to make DP340 a tedious exercise to add to a booking.
  16. There is a little known website that RCI has for this type of thing, although it’s aimed at larger audiences. https://www.royalcaribbeanincentives.com/discover/event-customization/ They do have a price list for some things. It’s in this: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/407543a3#/407543a3/1
  17. Do a web search for the time it takes to drive from Port Au Prince to Labadee. While it’s just 120 miles it takes 6 to 7 hours to drive because of the road conditions. It may as well be 500 miles away.
  18. We have Princess Plus for our April cruise on Caribbean Princess. It is a good value. $840 total for two drink packages, two wifi accounts, crew gratuities, oh, and the two "premium" desserts per day whatever that means. They show it as $1637 worth of stuff if bought separately.
  19. I drink Bacardi and Coke Zero. On my last cruise on Symphony in January, for drinks beyond my 6 free ones I was charged $12.97: $10.99 plus 18% tip.
  20. Every time they have a President’s cruise I think about how little money the bar department is making with the thousands of C&A drinks being poured every day. As for Coco Cay, I hope a hurricane never flattens the cash cow. The shrieking coming from the executive floor at Miami headquarters could probably be heard for miles.
  21. I am on Utopia this coming October B2B and I have discount, but my agent did those bookings on the day bookings opened for Utopia. It does also seem that DP340 sometime works using Cruising Power for agents when it doesn't work on the RCI website. Update: I think the current promo of 60% off guest #2 is superceeding the DP340.
  22. A few months ago DP340 wasn't showing for fall Europe 2025 at all. A friend was trying to book October on Voyager for 2025 and finally his agent went to resolutions and they manually entered the code on his bookings. He was told by someone in Bayley's office it was another one of those pesky Royal IT glitches, which while often true is also a convenient excuse to toss around. Then they told him it was fixed, yet when I tried to book the same cruises I wasn't getting the discount. A cynical person might think they are doing it on purpose to see if anyone notices. But I'd never suspect that.😏
  23. The price of a standard mixed drink is the shot price. The mixer is no extra charge. A Bacardi and Coke is $10.99. A shot of Bacardi is $10.99.
  24. All I can say is the benefits list was revised a little over a month ago and it says June 15 to August 15.
  25. My last Carnival cruise was in 2019 and I’ve never spent more than $20 in their casinos. I got on the Club Royale bandwagon two years ago for the free drinks and annual cruise, and as with you my Carnival account started showing casino offers. Funny how that happened.
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