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On 9/12/2023 at 7:58 AM, NorthStarStateCruiser said:

FYI, Royal Caribbean Group updated the cruise planner page authorizations and by doing so, each cruise planner page accessed outside of a reservation needs to be accessed independently. On the spreadsheet tool, there are now links to the highest used pages instead of only one link. Here's the link to the spreadsheet tool (same link as previous).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ukT6gOPcu7coL92LuDcyDaWXQfO88u5kN9FEdHRj5bM/edit?usp=sharing

 

For those of you utilizing the URL trick manually, Royal Caribbean modified the page authorizations and the workaround I found now disallows the navigation from page-to-page within the cruise planner. Therefore, you need to manually enter the page category in the url.  Here's the updated schema. Note: There's no longer "000000" for the bookingId parameter.

 

https://www.celebritycruises.com/account/cruise-planner/category/{PageCategory}?bookingId=&shipCode={ShipCode}&sailDate={YYYYMMDD}

 

1. Replace the {PageCategory} portion of the URL with your desired cruise planner page (referenced below).

Shore Excursions = shorex

Beverage Packages = beverage

Dining = dining

Spa = spa

Packages = packages

Internet = internet

Onboard Activities = onboardactivities

Casino = casino

Photo = photoPackage

Gifts and Gear = gifts

 

2. Simply replace the {ShipCode} portion of the URL with the ship code you're looking for. You can find the ship code by doing a search with on the main "Find A Cruise" page and filter down to the ship you're looking for. The 2 letter ship code will then be shown within the URL for that filtered page.

3. Also replace the {YYYYMMDD} with the sail date of the cruise you want to look at. 4 digit year, 2 digit month and day.

4. Sign out from the Celebrity website before navigating to the url. It blocks you from viewing if you're logged in.

Is this still working, it won’t load for me?

25 minutes ago, PTC DAWG said:

I’ve sailed both, the Wife and I much prefer the total experience on Celebrity…

I think we would prefer the total experience of celebrity more than royal but have never tried them. Did royal as a kid and for our cruise vacations just never switched it up.

10 hours ago, LeeW said:

Same size ship?  For example, Oasis and Anthem class ships on Royal usually have high prices.  And newer ships cost more.

4 hours ago, chemmo said:

If you state which two ships you are comparing CC members can comment on both (strengths and weaknesses).

Celebrity millennium and summit or independence of the seas. I had a small amount a FCC from a problem we had on a cruise so obviously Royal was better this time but just looking for next time. I do like that royal has better entertainment but always seems to find the food lacking. I also think my wife and I would prefer vibe of celebrity more than royal. 

2 hours ago, 4774Papa said:

We have never done a cruise less than  7 days and prefer two week cruises.  Love TA cruises.

When I check Royal and Celebrity for TA cruises, Royal wins hands down.

Also, for us, we don't drink alcohol all day and usually start at happy hour.  Drink and internet packages just add to the cost.    When cruising on Royal, we enjoyed the lengthy Diamond happy hour and NEVER had to purchase a drink.   Not sure we will every book with Celebrity again, if their prices stay so high.

 

 

I usually haven’t either and usually like to find an even longer one since I have to fly to the ports but I’ll be living next to one for a few months so figured I’d take advantage of it but don’t have much wiggle room with time off right now.

I always thought celebrity was significantly more than royal. I was playing around with cruises for both, same number of nights and stuff and it seemed like with the drinks and tips included celebrity actually seems cheaper than royal once you include tips and buying the drink package separately with royal. Does this tend to be the case or did I just happen to pick sailings with good prices on celebrity. For example 4 night on celebrity with drinks and tips included came out to just over 1,000. While royal it came out to just over 1,400 once you bought the drink package for 2 people (800 base fare plus tips and then about 600 for drink package)

Now they changed their mind 🤷‍♂️

9 minutes ago, WeMissSeaView said:

Is the part missing that lists the Brilliance?

Yes I was just showing the Royal reps reply but a phone rep I just talked to said they are still figuring it out and couldn’t say if it was happening or not

Looks to be true for brilliance.

Does any one know of any good companies/boats that go out to snorkel spots. I don’t want to have to book through RCL.

Trunk bay looks really nice but will it be too crowded? How is the snorkeling at either? Will be going in Dec in that makes a difference.