The weather is warm. I am ready for vacation. I know people have questions. I am ready for vacation . We are ready to break out the grill. I am ready for vacation. You see a trend here?
How about we all get together on Saturday 5/16 around 6:00 p.m. for a little cookout and chat session at our house? Who is interested? Between now and then I promise to do more research and post in the blog and you all start getting questions together?
Sound good? Ya mon (said with my best Jamaican accent)! Let us know if you can come!
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Eat early? Eat late? Eat when you want?
These are the questions that have me thinking lately. John and I have done the early dining (like we are signed up for now). Honestly though we find the 5:30 time frame for eating to be quite early (especially on a port day when you barely get back on board and then have to get to the dining room).
We have also done late seating (normally around 8:30 pm) and find that to be quite late.
Royal Caribbean has introduced My time dining in recent years and we have used that twice and really like it. With my time dining you are expected to pay your tips up front (i.e. As soon as you decide to change). Then once you do that you can go in to your reservation online and reserve your dinner times.
Before John and I switch over to that though we would like to know who else might be interested in doing this as well. That way we can reserve dinner times together or whatever . If you all are perfectly fine with what you currently have (early dining) then please do not feel like you have to change. And if the majority want to stick with early dining then we will too!
Let me know your thoughts!
We have also done late seating (normally around 8:30 pm) and find that to be quite late.
Royal Caribbean has introduced My time dining in recent years and we have used that twice and really like it. With my time dining you are expected to pay your tips up front (i.e. As soon as you decide to change). Then once you do that you can go in to your reservation online and reserve your dinner times.
Before John and I switch over to that though we would like to know who else might be interested in doing this as well. That way we can reserve dinner times together or whatever . If you all are perfectly fine with what you currently have (early dining) then please do not feel like you have to change. And if the majority want to stick with early dining then we will too!
Let me know your thoughts!
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Are you tired of me reminding you about this week's deadline?
Sorry to keep pestering you. I just do not want anyone to forget. Please make your call if you have not yet! 1-877-442-5659.
Unfortunately I am sad to report that 3 more cabins from our group are canceling. It is my college friend and his mother in law and mother's cabins. We still have a great group though! We still have 9 cabins booked and I am still planning on having a blast with everyone!!! I know of possibly one more cabin that may cancel but to the rest of you... I encourage you to call in and finish your cruise payment if you have not done so yet!
Friday, April 10, 2015
Deadline coming up!!!
Just another couple of reminders...
1. Final payment is due by 4/16 to our travel agent. You need to call 877-442-5659 to make your final payment within the next week.
2. Also, if you are debating on getting trip insurance, you can ask the travel agent at the time you make final payment about this or go to www.insuremytrip.com and enter your trip information to get a quote. You do not have to have insurance but be aware that after final payment, if you have to cancel, you are no eligible for a full refund unless you have trip insurance.
3. I know it seems early but start thinking about your packing. You can start putting some things aside now (like walkie talkies, baggies for sandwiches to carry off the ship, extension cord/power point to give you more plug space. I have a 3 plug power "strip" that I bring with me that I got at Target a couple of years ago. It is a Belkin brand and has 2 USB ports on it as well for charging phones). Anyway... there are things you can stat packing now or putting aside. I will check my previous posts but I think sent one post with suggestions for things you might not have previously thought to bring with you!
Thanks all!
1. Final payment is due by 4/16 to our travel agent. You need to call 877-442-5659 to make your final payment within the next week.
2. Also, if you are debating on getting trip insurance, you can ask the travel agent at the time you make final payment about this or go to www.insuremytrip.com and enter your trip information to get a quote. You do not have to have insurance but be aware that after final payment, if you have to cancel, you are no eligible for a full refund unless you have trip insurance.
3. I know it seems early but start thinking about your packing. You can start putting some things aside now (like walkie talkies, baggies for sandwiches to carry off the ship, extension cord/power point to give you more plug space. I have a 3 plug power "strip" that I bring with me that I got at Target a couple of years ago. It is a Belkin brand and has 2 USB ports on it as well for charging phones). Anyway... there are things you can stat packing now or putting aside. I will check my previous posts but I think sent one post with suggestions for things you might not have previously thought to bring with you!
Thanks all!
Monday, March 30, 2015
Who is dancing right now?
We all should be doing the double digit dance! We are now only 97 days away from boarding the ship on 7/5. We have lost a few cruisers and I will miss them not being on the cruise but there is still plenty of us left to have a great time and enjoy one another's company!
A couple of things to remember...
1. At 90 days out you can finish up your online check in if you still need to do that!
2. Final payment for our cruise needs to be done by 4/16 by calling the travel agent at 877-442-5659
Keep these things in mind! Thanks everyone!
A couple of things to remember...
1. At 90 days out you can finish up your online check in if you still need to do that!
2. Final payment for our cruise needs to be done by 4/16 by calling the travel agent at 877-442-5659
Keep these things in mind! Thanks everyone!
Monday, February 23, 2015
Online check-in update
Hello folks! It is me again. Well.... Remember how I told you all some time back about doing online check-in early just to get it all done and out of the way ? Well.... Apparently some of you were trying to do just that this weekend. I am so proud of you go-getters but there was a problem. Sometime recently I guess Royal Caribbean decided to no longer allow passengers to do all of that check-In stuff until the 90 day mark.
This 90 day prior to cruise time is when you will be making your final payment and I guess they just felt it best for people to just wait to do check in until their cruise is paid in full. So sit back and relax if you have not done online check in yet. We are currently at 132 days out. You have some time.
If you had by chance already done yours I guess just double check things at the 90 day time to make sure your information is all still out there!
Thanks all!
Dream on. Dream until your dreams come true...
Hey folks! Finally figured out where we will be resting our heads for our last couple of dreamy nights before we cruise on 7/5!
Our family has made our hotel reservations for the days leading up to the cruise. We will be staying at the Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront. We had some time share points we needed to use and that hotel was an option for us. So please do not feel obligated to stay here if you had a different hotel in mind.
If you do decide to book here I highly recommend that you DO NOT book through the hotel website as they price their rooms quite high. I did look on kayak.com this past weekend and was able to find prices for this hotel that are much cheaper.
The hotel does appear to charge $5 a day to park there while you are staying at the hotel. That is a standard charge and has nothing to do with any park and cruise option I had mentioned that some hotels do. We will most likely park at the port or use park and go for our parking during the cruise.
Anyway... Happy hotel hunting!
Our family has made our hotel reservations for the days leading up to the cruise. We will be staying at the Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront. We had some time share points we needed to use and that hotel was an option for us. So please do not feel obligated to stay here if you had a different hotel in mind.
If you do decide to book here I highly recommend that you DO NOT book through the hotel website as they price their rooms quite high. I did look on kayak.com this past weekend and was able to find prices for this hotel that are much cheaper.
The hotel does appear to charge $5 a day to park there while you are staying at the hotel. That is a standard charge and has nothing to do with any park and cruise option I had mentioned that some hotels do. We will most likely park at the port or use park and go for our parking during the cruise.
Anyway... Happy hotel hunting!
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