That drop was during the start up phase after Covid when price drops were a dime a dozen. That is no longer a common occurrence and I have not seen any since last year. If it does happen it makes no difference whether it is a TA group or set group, pricing is treated the same.
You are sailing STAR class. why are you even considering even eating in the MDR or Coastal Kitchen. Star class includes dining at all of the specialty restaurants.
Travel agents do not hold cabins.
They hold space at a set rate within a category. In order to hold cabins for more than 30 days there must be names and deposits.
All group space is recalled by Roydl 120 days prior to sailing.
It is ship dependent. We always get 2 rooms. On some ships they would only issue extra cards on some ships they would make the actual changes to the guests and put them in the right room.
There are no one way trips from Seattle. One-way are all out of Vancouver on smaller older ships. If you want a newer larger ship you need to do the round trip out of Seattle and sacrifice the itinerary to a certain extent.
If you and your wife are linked the points you see on both accounts will be the points of the person with the highest total. As mentioned above there is no way to see your individual points if you are linked in a relationship.
Correct.
For any combination of sailings on then same ship the CBSA only looks st your point of embarkation and point of debarcation to determine the validity of your cruise, not that in reality they are separate cruises.
Ive had guarantees assigned before even making the deposit and as late as the day prior to sailing. Lately it's been closer to a month before sailing.
What you see as available has no bearing on what cabin you will be assigned.
May 2025 through April 2026 will start to be released in November. Look on yhe 2025/2026 deployment thread closer to that time and someone will post the release schedule.