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Yes it will be. My husband was born in Halifax and we lived there for a few years in the early aughts and my son was born there. I do not think we will be getting off in Halifax as we will be working that day and I think the ship leaves sometime after 5PM. I am also looking forward to showing off my favourite ship!

I live in Saint John. What do they both include?

Here are some pics for today of how the Container Village and Market Square Boardwalk are coming along in Saint John. Apparently there will be a Cannabis NB store in the village. That is the govt run Cannabis dispensary.

Here are some pics of how the Container Village and Market Square Boardwalk are coming along in Saint John. Apparently there will be a Cannabis NB store in the village. That is the govt run Cannabis dispensary.

Thanks! We are looking forward to it 🙂 This will be another working holiday for both of us so we will be working 8-4:30 most weekdays with the exception of Coco Cay days where we will be taking the afternoons off and hopefully enjoying what it has to offer!

Thanks! I am sure we will!

Swap the names around. Put your son in your cabin and your friend with his GF. Then you and your son can buy the package and the GF can either not get one or can get a soda or refreshment. On boarding day when your friend is a no show, they will refund their port taxes. When you get on board, go to guest services and have your son moved over to the other cabin.

Getting There Normally when sailing out of Bayonne, we drive and park at the terminal, but because this set of cruises is almost a month it seemed crazy to pay $25 a day for parking. Our option then became to fly or still drive but see if there were other parking options. Flights are nuts right now and we ended up finding a hotel that will allow us to leave our car there for the entire duration at no extra charge so once again we are going to be driving to New Jersey. It is about a 1,000 KM (620 Miles) drive door to door to our hotel and it is normally a great drive, especially in the summer. If we have planned it right, we are going to be stopping in Old Orchard Beach, Maine for lunch tomorrow. It is a quaint little resort town where we used to have our 5th Wheel seasonally. We will be hitting up Pier Fries for some poutine and fried dough before heading to our final destination. Lunch of champions. Testing We just took our Covid tests a few minutes ago and are both negative. (YAY!) I really recommend Switch Health for my fellow Canadian travelers. We have used them many times since we started travelling again and never had an issue. Their proctored antigen tests are only $79CAD + tax for 2 tests. Switch Health | Aeroplan Members Get More Until our most recent cruise, we also had to get tested by Royal in between our consecutive cruises. That testing day was always stressful waiting to get the results back to see if we would be able to continue our trip. On the Ovation, we found out that they had just changed the rules and consecutive cruisers no longer needed to be tested in between cruises. At the time, we thought that was great and relieved stress, however on Ovation there appeared to be an outbreak as MANY people on the sailings Facebook groups reported testing positive when they got home. It is likely that some of the other B2Bers were positive and likely spread it around the 2nd cruise. I am not sure why RCL stopped testing, probably $$ and limiting the amount of positive reports they would need to file. I like not having to test, but also do not want cases on one leg to bleed into the next so it can spread further. With that said, the crew is the same for both sailings. I see all the sides of the issue and I am not sure what the answer should be and it is above my pay grade. We are just going to follow all of the rules, take any extra precautions we feel we need to and enjoy our cruises 🙂

My name is Jessica (Jess or Jessy works too) (45) and my husband Paul (47) and I will be travelling from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. You may have stopped here as a Port of Call on a NE/Canada Sailing. We actually moved into a condo in the city from a house in the suburb of Quispamsis in September 2020. Our condo is directly across the street from the cruise terminal here so if you have stopped here on a cruise, you will definitely have seen our building. Here it is for reference. Because of Covid, we did not have any ships stop here until the 1st Regent of the Seven seas in April. There was also one apparently one last month but we were on the Ovation and missed it. As I mentioned, the 1st leg of this cruise is a 5 night to Canada, so for this cruise, we will actually be pulling up right across the street from our front door! https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10165112103060587 I am excited that this will be the 1st time the Oasis is coming here and will be the largest ship that has ever visited. Saint John is doing alot of development on the waterfront including the Area 506 Container Village which is next door to the Marco Polo Cruise Terminal and SHOULD be opening for our visit. We will be the 1st cruise that is able to experience it. AREA 506 | Container Village

Hubby and I are going to be boarding Oasis of the Seas on Sunday 6/5/22 for 4 consecutive cruises. The 1st is a 5 day to Canada and the other three are 7 cruises with stops in Port Canaveral, Nassau and Coco Cay. These will be out 13th-16th cruises since the restart, all but one of which have been consecutive cruises. I have live threaded some of them, most memorable is probably our Oasis/Odyssey in January 2022 sailing which was supposed to be a S2S then a B2B but became a S2S and a long quarantine at the Embassy Suites in Fort Lauderdale because Hubby contracted Covid onboard. If you want to check out that thread, hereis the link: A Canadian takes on a S2B2B on Oasis 1/2/22, Odyssey 1/9/22 & 1/15/22 (hopefully) - Royal Caribbean International - Cruise Critic Community We have cruised a few times since that trip and we just got off a B2B on Ovation last month that had some challenges (a death at home in the family while onboard, lack of staffing causing some service and dining issues, horrible wifi when trying to telecommute, my dad testing postive upon his return home after the 1st cruise, just to name a few). We still had a great time though 🙂 I decided to document these cruises as well, just as a fun way to share our experiences and because I simply enjoy doing it! Please feel free to ask me any questions, and if there is anyone else onboard for any of these sailings who would like to post, please feel free. The more the merrier!!

You get free WIFI on ships that have the Sky/Star class cabins which at this time that is only Oasis and Quantum class. https://www.royalcaribbean.com/cruise-rooms/royal-suite-class

I board Sunday and I am on until July 1. Thanks for the heads up. We expected it to be crowded after our cruises on Ovation earlier this month. We are just going to go with the flow and enjoy ourselves, crowds or no crowds.

We used Beepermd.com for tests in January

I did not buy a package, I purchased a dinner at Izumi in my name only for day 2. I am hoping they will let us use the BOGO to allow my husband to get his for free

Did you use the BOGO for the other person to dine with you during those 3 nights?

I have been getting the white screen all day as well.

Thanks for the heads up. I have been trying to check mine all day but as soon as I click on a sailing, all I get is a white screen

We have never actually used the benefit before. If one of us prebuys a dinner in the cruise planner, can we still use a BOGO?

Yes we did thank you!

Agreed. Ovation was not ready on 5/5. Service was much better on the 13th

Yes they said it was specific to Ovation. We are hoping to use it a few times on our B4B on Oasis next week

To add to above, the only exception would be if someone in the cabin is not already a C&A member. They will only get 2 pts per night in a JS. The double point promo is only valid for current C&A members. We had a new cruiser with us recently and they did not get the extra pts.

I meant to post this earlier but I forgot. I was on the Ovation for the 5/5/22 and 5/13/22 sailings and tried to use our D+ BOGO dining both weeks. They are not currently offering it. I noticed it was missing from the welcome letter so I asked the Diamond Concierge and the Loyalty Ambassador and they both confirmed it is not being offered at this time because they are short staffed in the restaurants. It appears they are trying to keep reservations down. They did not indicate when it would be back. Just wanted to give a heads up in case anyone was planning on using it onboard so you are prepared.

They are not doing the BOGO right now on Ovation. I was on 5/5 & 5/13 and tried to use it both weeks. They said they were understaffed in the restaurants so it is not being offered yet

Last week was double for us as well and just pushed me over the top to squeak in at 343 🙂 BTW I am onboard now as we were on a B2B and apparently a lot of kids tested positive that had to get tested to disembark.