Woody14

yes but really it is only 10 min max.

For the majors as you asked San Juan will be the place that most have sailings from to take in the southern carribean.

you might be right but pretty much everyone of them I have seen in BC offers at least a $50 obc

both fair comments, and I would agree the vista class ships are all not old as they first started in 2016 but I would not use the argument that they are too new to get answers to the original posters question of experience in cabin for deck 1 & 2. I would have answered it but I was on deck 9 on my trip on the panorama. The new to fleet is very true and being they are brining a new customer experience it will be different but I had not heard there were any cabin changes so that experience should not really change.

is 2018 still considered new?

absolutely. one of the main chains in Canada (also in the US) does this. they have Cruise ship in there name and are affiliated with one of the big online travel companies that advertises on TV a lot.

sailed on her last summer to Alaska. the ship was in great shape, I didn't notice the age at all,

generally there are 2 kinds of perks that are possible with a TA 1. is if the agency the TA works for has negotiated 'group pricing' or specials which could be for a specific cruise or cruise line and usually are only good for certain time periods or till they sell out. some times they may have some perks that they always offer on all cruises (usually OBC) 2. is agent specific perks - this could really be anything (OBC, special dinning, wine, et all) ultimately a portion of this comes from the agents commission and is often split with the company they work for. At least that is my experience after 25+ years cruising and 3 years where I supplemented my income working as a cruise agent for a travel agency specializing in cruises.

Thank you I should have checked your site as I figured you would have it.

Anyone have a bar menu for day 1 sailing out of Galveston?

RU2 is now a rare offer. Have seen lots of RU0 - basically a slight discount on adding cheers separately and occasionally RU1 which puts cheers on at about 50% of as a separate add on. I haven't had a RU2 come across my promos for at least 18 months.

Usually they have a decline (I am happy with my current room) option, so it goes away once you click that.

that is a Royal thing

Best shows is Disney. But Royal has some good ones as well.

loving all the faces they put on / build in to the food.

price will likely be the same, a TA may be able to offer you a bit of extra OBC - really they are giving up part of the commissions to do this but may TA's have this as a benefit. Most PVP are employees of the cruise line directly and can only give your the current offers provided by the cruise line - no extras.

I took my first cruise with MSC on the Divina in 2012 and between that experience and what people are getting now it is already way more Americanized. My hope is the add back in more of the European flavours it had back then

I have both and to be honest I think this is an over-rated 'must have'. Most of the time they are more hassle than they are worth in my mind.

The picture of the eggs benny with scrambled issue is amazing!!! glad it worked out in the end. PS love the drink summary at the end of your daily posts on all your blogs.

Still have not nailed it down yet. I am leaning towards a cooking excursion that also has a 'beach break' or at least time at their pool. Not so worried about getting off the ship in Cozumel as it is an island on its own so the issues going on in Mexico are not really affecting there (or at least from everything I can tell).

I always select prepay when I book. the reality is you don't actually prepay till you have to make final payment and my tip rate is locked in. I can't see carnival going belly up between my final payment date and sail date without a lot of talk out there so not a lot of skin in the game per se

if you keep checking the app reservations do open up, I did not see a waitlist.

It might depend on the person at guest relations. The default seems to be the benefits go with the room but when you factor in minors it seems they have some flexibility on this. If the 2 rooms were booked together they likely have the same benefits. Celebrity seems to deal with this a lot better than some of the other lines I have been on.

you can really easily make the changes you want at guest relations. if the beds aren't right your cabin steward will make that change for you. One tip do the muster drill before making the cabin changes at guest services as some times it takes a bit for the system to update all the hand held devices they use to scan you in for the muster drill. speaking from experience here as we did the change before and it caused some issues, nothing major but just took extra time and had to have a supervisor come in and fixit up.

I had to pick the date and time (although time was only one choice) when I booked for the Chef's Table through the cruise planner. How did you book?