Can I be booked in 2 different rooms?

[mashisback]

This is a complicated one.

 

I usually get comped rooms from the casino, I go with my wife and son. We usually stay in an ocean view balcony. So we only pay around $400 total because I have spent a chunk in casino on previous cruises so they want me back hoping I donate enough for the room plus more.

 

This time I am looking at a poker cruise, so its still a normal RC cruise but a poker team work as travel agents and there is a poker area exclusive to those who booked through the pokercruise people. You MUST book through them to be able to play in there poker room. If I book through them though its going to cost $4600 for the same cruise I could get for $400. So it isn't worth it. Their cut is only $150 per head which I offered them but thats apparently against the rules.

 

So I am wondering if I could book with them a really cheap room with just me (or sharing with someone they find to make it cheaper), so I can use the poker room... but then I also get a comped balcony with my family.

 

So the question is, can I be booked in 2 rooms on RC?

[Merion_Mom]

1 minute ago, mashisback said:

This is a complicated one.

 

I usually get comped rooms from the casino, I go with my wife and son. We usually stay in an ocean view balcony. So we only pay around $400 total because I have spent a chunk in casino on previous cruises so they want me back hoping I donate enough for the room plus more.

 

This time I am looking at a poker cruise, so its still a normal RC cruise but a poker team work as travel agents and there is a poker area exclusive to those who booked through the pokercruise people. You MUST book through them to be able to play in there poker room. If I book through them though its going to cost $4600 for the same cruise I could get for $400. So it isn't worth it. Their cut is only $150 per head which I offered them but thats apparently against the rules.

 

So I am wondering if I could book with them a really cheap room with just me (or sharing with someone they find to make it cheaper), so I can use the poker room... but then I also get a comped balcony with my family.

 

So the question is, can I be booked in 2 rooms on RC?

No.

[mashisback]

3 minutes ago, Merion_Mom said:

No.

Thank you. That was an anti climax 🤣

 

in that case, anyone have any genius ideas how we could get round it? lol

[Ferry_Watcher]

I do check-in for cruise lines, including Royal, and having the same person booked in 2 different staterooms is complicated situation, that even the counter agents can't help you with. 

A individual passenger. who booked themselves into 2 different staterooms would be using the same passport to be embarked into both staterooms.  At check-in, the system will alert that two passengers are using the same passport and the system will automatically initiate a hard stop, halting the embarkation.  At that point you would be directed to the Pier Coordinator, who will most likely need a ship's crew member to use their computer knowledge to make this happen.  This means a much longer embarkation time for you, and probably a 'side-eye' from the ship's crew member on your 'gaming' the casino offer.

[Ourusualbeach]

36 minutes ago, mashisback said:

This is a complicated one.

 

I usually get comped rooms from the casino, I go with my wife and son. We usually stay in an ocean view balcony. So we only pay around $400 total because I have spent a chunk in casino on previous cruises so they want me back hoping I donate enough for the room plus more.

 

This time I am looking at a poker cruise, so its still a normal RC cruise but a poker team work as travel agents and there is a poker area exclusive to those who booked through the pokercruise people. You MUST book through them to be able to play in there poker room. If I book through them though its going to cost $4600 for the same cruise I could get for $400. So it isn't worth it. Their cut is only $150 per head which I offered them but thats apparently against the rules.

 

So I am wondering if I could book with them a really cheap room with just me (or sharing with someone they find to make it cheaper), so I can use the poker room... but then I also get a comped balcony with my family.

 

So the question is, can I be booked in 2 rooms on RC?

You can be booked on two cruises at the same time but you can't check in for both as mentioned above.  You could quite possibly be charged the prevailing rate for the cheap casino cruise.

[mjkacmom]

I think this gets asked fairly often, a lot of times someone wants to double book a suite and a cheaper cabin to have the perks plus privacy, it can’t be done (or at least I haven’t heard any success stories).

[topnole]

11 minutes ago, mjkacmom said:

I think this gets asked fairly often, a lot of times someone wants to double book a suite and a cheaper cabin to have the perks plus privacy, it can’t be done (or at least I haven’t heard any success stories).

I’ve read one person swear they did it (on CC I believe).  But I agree, not supposed to be possible.  Barring some type of mistake that doesn’t get caught, it simply isn’t possible.  Otherwise, lots would book as 3-8th in sky and Star class suites and then book a cheap inside cabin for sleeping. 

[Cruiser_1977]

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Edited June 14, 2023 by JennyB1977

[Ferry_Watcher]

We have had the same passenger booked in two different rooms, but in that instance it was a handicap individual who needed an interior across the hall to keep medical equipment.  We had to have a crew member come off the ship to embark the passenger in both rooms.

[FionaMG]

1 hour ago, Ferry_Watcher said:

I do check-in for cruise lines, including Royal, and having the same person booked in 2 different staterooms is complicated situation, that even the counter agents can't help you with. 

A individual passenger. who booked themselves into 2 different staterooms would be using the same passport to be embarked into both staterooms.  At check-in, the system will alert that two passengers are using the same passport and the system will automatically initiate a hard stop, halting the embarkation.  At that point you would be directed to the Pier Coordinator, who will most likely need a ship's crew member to use their computer knowledge to make this happen.  This means a much longer embarkation time for you, and probably a 'side-eye' from the ship's crew member on your 'gaming' the casino offer.

 

Very interesting. So what about someone with dual nationality checking in with their different passports at two different desks? I'm not planning on trying it. Just curious.

[PWP-001]

59 minutes ago, FionaMG said:

 

Very interesting. So what about someone with dual nationality checking in with their different passports at two different desks? I'm not planning on trying it. Just curious.

Indeed an interesting thread that confirms what I was told.  Specifically, I was told you can't even book a second room/have a second booking number for yourself on the same cruise.  Initially reservations are duped by name, address, C&A number, but so it seems if you circumvent that, you'll be blocked at the port.

 

While the two passports may fool the system, ultimately remember that each BODY is accounted for as we embark and disembark:  so only one of you (your staterooms) can be on the ship.  

 

Years ago I remember that for security reasons, when a pax scans their boarding pass and walks on an international flight, they CANNOT leave the plane for any reason to go back into the terminal, whereas you could domestically.

 

On a ship, I once was able to disembark on embarkation day without issue, to get something forgotten in the car.  However to scan on the ship, scan off the ship, then never scan back on during embarkation I would expect to cause a red flag.   That could draw attention to the dupe.  

 

I, too, have a reason to be listed twice, so I wish there was a way.

 

[Ferry_Watcher]

1 hour ago, FionaMG said:

Very interesting. So what about someone with dual nationality checking in with their different passports at two different desks? I'm not planning on trying it. Just curious.

 

The passenger could only use 1 boarding pass at the gangway to walk on to the ship.  I believe the "2nd" passenger would be shown as a 'no show' because they never technically boarded the ship.  Also, the security photo would show the same individual, and that would get the attention of the security folks on board.

[nolimits]

Try mking arrangements for wife to book with them but you take her place in Poker tournament 

 

[mashisback]

1 hour ago, nolimits said:

Try mking arrangements for wife to book with them but you take her place in Poker tournament 

 

This is definitely worth a try, thank you 🙂

[Ourusualbeach]

13 hours ago, PWP-001 said:

Specifically, I was told you can't even book a second room/have a second booking number for yourself on the same cruise

That is incorrect.  I have had several clients where I have been able to book them in different staterooms on the same sailing.  Royals systems, unlike other cruise lines do not pick it up.  

 

Here's one of the situations where this has been done.  Family of 4 booking a cruise 2 years out.  Won't know until closer to the date if 1 child can go or if both can go.  If all 4 go they get 2 rooms, if 3 go then they get 1 room.  The one room with the three of them has all the same people that are booked in the 2 rooms.  One set oif bookings would be cancelled before final payment

Edited June 15, 2023 by Ourusualbeach

[JsMom2]

Have done it on another line, so there’s no issue with immigration etc,  Just up to Royal.  Need to call and ask!

[Ferry_Watcher]

3 hours ago, Ourusualbeach said:

That is incorrect.  I have had several clients where I have been able to book them in different staterooms on the same sailing.  Royals systems, unlike other cruise lines do not pick it up.  

 

There no problem booking the room, it's what happens at embarkation that the system catches it.

 

[Ferry_Watcher]

One time we had an Mom, her two adult daughters and her son-in-law booked into 2 staterooms.  But mom, trying to be clever, booked herself and her married daughter together into one room, and her other unmarried daughter and her son-in-law into the other room, apparently because it was unclear if the young married couple would actually be able to sail.

 

On the day of the cruise, it's only the mom and the unmarried daughter that are sailing and they are booked in to 2 different rooms.  When mom (who paid for the cruise) realizes that she will still have to pay for the no-show couple, she asks if instead she and her daughter can give up their 2 staterooms and move into a suite.  The ship says 'no'.  Finally, the ship lets them move into the same stateroom, but the mom still has to pay for the no show couple.  It is a Guest Services crew member that has to do all the computer work to make this happen.

[Ourusualbeach]

3 minutes ago, Ferry_Watcher said:

 

There no problem booking the room, it's what happens at embarkation that the system catches it.

 

I fully understand that.  Others do not seem to. 

[luvbrady]

The potential problem with booking yourself at the tourney but still staying in the cabin with your wife would be that if you are booked into a cabin for 3 and change to 2 they may reassign you to a cabin only accommodating 2 passengers to free the 3 person cabin.  I've had this happen under different circumstances and they rebooked my 2 young kids 6 doors down because the aunt traveling with them was able to take her grandson.  We had to go from deck 8 to deck 3 to get them in connecting cabins.  Was not fun....