Royal Caribbean

I’m looking at booking a suite on Harmony of the Seas and noticed the “we select your room” option is about $1500 cheaper. We would most likely want a Junior Suite anyway, so I’m wondering if there’s much risk in letting Royal Caribbean assign the room instead of picking one...

Planning a Royal Caribbean cruise and usually just leave the automatic gratuities in place. This time considering going to guest services and asking them to remove it so tips can be given directly in cash to the stateroom attendant, dining staff, and others. The main concern is...

Just a quick tip from a recent Liberty of the Seas cruise. At CocoCay, towels were already gone by around 10am. When leaving the ship, crew were offering pool towels but calling it a “towel exchange,” which made it a bit confusing and sounded like you needed to swap one instead...

Saw a pretty rough situation someone posted about a Royal Caribbean cruise. Their aunt and mom booked a Bahamas cruise for about $6k total. Right before the sailing, a hurricane had passed and the cruise got heavily modified. The Bahamas stop was removed and the ship stayed...

Booked a Royal Caribbean cruise for May 2027 and one of the ports is Labadee. I know RC suspended stops there through 2024 and has now extended it through the end of 2026. We booked knowing it might get swapped out, but I was actually excited for Labadee since it would be new...

We’re supposed to cruise in two weeks but my son has a new medical issue and we can’t go. I did purchase Allianz travel insurance. Do I cancel with Royal Caribbean first to start the process and get port fees and taxes refunded? Then file the claim with Allianz after? When...

Haven’t sailed Royal in 5 years. Did Oasis for our honeymoon 13 years ago and loved it. This time… totally different vibe. Booked 5pm dining and somehow got switched to My Time. Guest services gave me 5:30 reservations each night just filling random tables. Not the end of the...

Just a heads up for anyone considering the 4x4 Jeep excursion. Within the first 10 minutes the AC died and the engine overheated. When we first started it, the dash was already lit up with warning lights. Check engine, ABS, low tire pressure, traction control. As a mechanic,...

Booked Icon of the Seas as our first family cruise and realized I messed up and booked our flight into FLL instead of Miami. We’re flying in the night before, kids are 1.5 and 3. Public transit looks like 1.5 hours, which feels rough with two little kids and luggage. We won’t...

Booked a 9 night Eastern Caribbean during Black Friday and felt like we scored. Just over $2700 total for me, my wife, and our two kids (4 years and an infant). Been looking forward to this for months. Two days ago our travel agent calls and says Royal removed Haiti from the...

With Royal rolling out Icon and Star and NCL putting slidecoasters on ships, it kind of feels like we’ve hit peak theme park at sea. So if budget and engineering limits magically didn’t matter, what would you actually want to see added to a ship? For me, it’d be a massive lazy...

I mostly sail Royal and love the 2-bedroom setups. Done a bunch of AquaTheater 2BRs and once lucked into a Royal Loft, but trying to find these rooms again at a decent price is such a pain. Feels like I have to click through every sailing one by one to see what’s even available....

Went on my first cruise last year with a friend and had fun, but apparently that unlocked something. Since then I’ve booked a 5 day solo cruise to Mexico on Margaritaville, a Comic Con cruise to the Bahamas on Celebrity, a Galentine’s themed cruise on Royal Caribbean with my...

Just read the CBS piece and it’s honestly awful. A 35 year old guy on Navigator of the Seas was allegedly served 33 drinks in a few hours, got lost trying to find his cabin, and things escalated so badly that security tackled him, pepper sprayed him, and even had him injected...

Got back from a cruise all relaxed (pretty sure it was Oasis of the Seas) and the next day I went out to lunch… then just walked right out of the restaurant. Didn’t even think about it. My brain was still in “everything’s included” mode. Got back to work and realized I basically...

Booked our first cruise (RC Star of the Seas) and thought I was reserving two connecting balcony rooms. Turns out I actually booked just one room listed as a “connecting balcony.” Now all four of us me, my husband, and our two adult sons are in one cabin. I’m honestly so...

Was looking at a Christmas cruise for the family and the prices are insane. Disney and the big Royal ships are running 9–12k for one cabin for a family of four, and some go over 30k. That’s before flights or drinks. Are people really dropping 15k+ just to cruise for a week?