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Is the clean your cabin once a day policy in force on all ships, or is it still in the trying it out stage on certain ships?  

Just wondering.

April 15 - Harmony of the Seas -7 days

My husband and I both did the muster drill information on the app and went to the muster station. On the app, it checked off the muster drill after we went through muster drill information on the app. They did not look at the app to see if we had both done it, though.  We did not have cards yet and they scanned the paper with the bar code that we were given when checking in. The scanned both of them.  It was too soon to go to our cabin to get our cards. 

We have early dining on the Harmony next April and the early dining time is 5:30.

My husband used to rent a tux and it would be delivered to our cabin with 2 shirts.  He bought a new suit and started taking it. He always looked good in the tux, and I mentioned this, and he said he would wear one again for me.  If you cannot get it on the ship, I don't think it would be worth the hassle, though.  There are always men on board who wear a tux on formal nights, but not like it once was. 

If they are jackhammering the pool in the Solarium, are they taking it out to make the Allure like the newer Oasis class ships?  What a shame if that is the case.  

Royal Carribean lost money during shutdown and when it was sailing with small numbers of passengers instead of a full ship.  They probably won't put ships in drydock unless they have to. 

I looked at a video of the ship on youtube.  I doubt I will try the water slides and other features that are for young people, but the ship looks incredible.  I will never see all those different cabins when on the ship, so it was fun to see them on the video.  I know I will go on the ship once just to see it, but i suspect it will be really expensive in the beginning. I thought it was an Oasis class ship, but it is a new class, the Icon class. 

We were on the Allure in July and we had to book on board.  You could do this on the app, or get in line where they were doing it in the promenade.  We went to the Diamond Lounge after dinner and the Concierge helped us book the entertainment.  

We will be on the Harmony on April 15, 2023 and it shows under the Entertainment tab that if your ship allows booking entertainment before boarding, to come back closer to the sail date to do it.  It showed Harmony as one of the ships, so I will check this closer to April.  

Pre-pandemic we were packed and set to leave on a cruise when the day before we were to leave, my husband came down wth the flu. My daughter's family had the flu and were passing it around, and we took the 6 month old baby 4 days before, all of us hoping he would not get it. He got sick and my daughter took him home. The doctor the next day told her the baby had the flu, and to have her Dad, who was coughing, go to the doctor and see if he had the flu. This was the day before we were to leave. He went to an ugent care and they tested him and told him he had the flu and should not go on the cruise.  I called that night and I canceled the cruise. We had the ship's insurance and they gave us the number to call them. I called them and they e-mailed me the forms. We filled them out and about 3 weeks later, we got our money back except for the insurance.  

On the Allure last July, there was a huge line of people to get entertainment scheduled in the Promenade.  It reminded me of when we started cruising in 1999 and had to schedule all excursions after we boarded. We all waited in a long line then. 

I will do this on the app, but I wish we could do it on the web site.  I don't see why vaccinated people can't since we don't have to prove we tested negative for Covid.  It would be one less thing to do after boarding, and wifi is available at home.  

I was on the Allure the last week of July and we had the traditional cup that I have had many times before.

On 8/6/2022 at 8:15 AM, Lionesss said:

Message from RCI. 
 

I wish all correspondence was via text messages. Many a tree could be saved. 
 

 

I got this, too, and when I got the terminal at 11:55 for my 12:00 appointment, I found the terminal absulutely crowded with people and I doubt they all had 12:00 appointments. We went through 3 stops and nobody asked for my passport or set sail pass. They wanted the positive Covid test report that we printed and each scrutinized it. The final lady did look at our vaccination record, too. She then directed us to the sign that said "To Ship" which was the best news we could get. All the "don't be early, don't be late" instructions were ignored by most people, I think. I was on the Allure for the July 23 - 31 cruise and enjoyed the Allure very much. 

My brother likes to have an early flght. He booked a 9:30 a.m. flight which could have worked if the ship had been cleared on time. He did not get off until 8:30 and got a cab, explained when his flight was, and the taxi driver did his best to get him there as soon as possible. He checked his luggage, had TSA Pre for security and made the flight, but he said it was close. 

You never know if something will slow you down. 

We are on the Allure with a 12:00 check-in time. We have a downtown hotel. If we leave at 11:00 and get there too early, do they make us wait for 12:00, or do we just go ahead? 

When I was doing the check-in, one of the things was the check-in time. I took the first time available, whch was 12:00 to 12:30. They had said on the site that I would be e-mailed when check-in was available, but I was not e-mailed and just stumbled on it after logging in. 

We are also on the Allure sailing Jan. 22. When we booked it, we thought we could handle the risk from Covid while on board. Now with Omicron and with the numbers going the way they are, we think we will cancel. We had a May 2020 cruise canceled, and now this one looks worrisome. My husband says we are just postponing our cruise and will go later. Sigh. 

Ours was in June 2019 on the Allure of the Seas. 

We were booked for May 2020 on the Navigator, but this cruise was canceled. 

I still want to cruise,  but accept that it won't happen soon. Other options are also not possible until the virus situation changes. We're not going anywhere. Sigh. 

On 7/16/2020 at 5:13 PM, John&LaLa said:

 

Did the Dr note thing ever get a chsnce to take affect? Or did everything shut down prior?

 

I don't think it was in effect when we left Ft Lauderdale on March 1

I e-mailed my brother about it on March 17 and commented there were two threads about it. I must have searched wrong, because I could not find the threads. 

You were lucky enough to have a normal cruise before this all hit cruising. 

I think the cruise lines should require the vaccine. They did not worry about alienating customers over 70 when this started with the required doctor's statement that no doctor in his/her right mind would sign and they got rid of it eventually, so I don't think they will worry about people who won't sail if they have to a vaccination against Covid-19. 

I would not want to be stuck on a ship with people who came down with the virus, so I hope they require the vaccine. I also hope it will be a proven and safe vaccine. Obviously there might be exceptions for people who medically cannot have the vaccine. Or maybe not. 

4 hours ago, reallyitsmema said:

 

My cancelled May cruise is also still listed as a past cruise and shows 7 points, though it should be 14 since we had booked a suite.  The points shown are not included in our points total though.  The total shown is the correct total through the last cruise I took in February.

My total points still shows our May cruise that was cancelled, and since they did not give you the double points for a suite, it is hard to tell whose account is more screwed up, yours or mine! In time this will get straightened out. I hope they don't mess it up further. 🙄

When I log into my account, it still shows the cruise RCI cancelled in May on my past cruises and also the points for this cruise. I expect their software is not up to date right now. I think it would be a nice perk to get to keep the points, but life does not often give us something for nothing. 

I requested a refund for our May 17 cruise. It was supposed to come in 40 days, but actually our card was credited in 30 days. 

I am sorry this is taking so long for you.  

On 6/8/2020 at 8:56 PM, Esmerelda said:

Great thread...

 

My husband;  USMC, 1977-1979 Combat Engineer.

 

He is very ill now (and disabled) due to be stationed at Camp LeJeune. 😞
 

God bless all of our men and women who served. 🇺🇸

So sorry about your husband. God bless him for serving. 

On 6/6/2020 at 8:28 AM, Ocean Boy said:

Are you sure about the air conditioning? I can't imagine having to wait for a cabin to cool down everytime I return to it and whether or not that would be energy efficient.

We were on the Harmony in February 2018 for my brother's birthday. I checked with him and he said the cabin attendant gave him a card to leave in the card reader on the wall so the air conditioning would stay on when he left.  It did take a while to cool down the cabin when you came back, which is why people used a card of their own to leave in the card reader to keep the air conditioning on. I think this was so prevalent that they changed it to just turn on/off the lights. I would let it turn off/on the lights without putting in a card to fool the system.