Shari

Your hubby will love what my hubby and best friend did when they walked out onto the main floor of the Colosseum, they yelled "Are you not entertained?" The rest of us made sure we were quite a distance away as to not be associated with them. We could hear our guide say "Stupid Americans." over our headsets.

What is the name of that cafe? We will be staying at the Golden Hotel about a block away from the Marriott in September and that food looks awesome!

I wonder how this is going to affect cruises out of Galveston for the next few days. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1007818900713488&set=a.314811013347617&__cft__[0]=AZVnVGM3dlmwt-H4dVkqUxoV0419YI86y_TYUmfsPHw4XCgL7vfJP9HbH8M8Tw-iKmhzSqr-jVLZEJney7a_nb9FHb9zseSIqDgJW-JfkDZv6CAuy2bQLbPDhiXB-iZXeTDqncNF-T17CIhSLYL8Cv8uM2REDdF6ROv_16osWJCvTWOgRuFJwhZjn1y5hRnQujjVa29V-TNjJxK4hajgD5woR4sMgp-FQw8HzntdVbzq7FJe6QbPLtUo7T6VBRkK9IU&__tn__=EH-y-R

Enjoy your cruise, I am looking forward to your blog. Voyager was our first Royal cruise back in 2012 and we will finally be on her again in September in Jr Suites with a B2B Rome to Athens to Ravenna. We booked the first day it was open in 2022 so got great prices of about 3000 for each leg. It is now double that for a balcony on a single leg. I understand about flight prices we ended up booking 2 airlines and spending the night to get cheaper Business Class. We fly DAL to LGA, Uber to JFK and fly JFK through Heathrow to FCO; then Venice to Heathrow to JFK, spend night and fly LGA to DAL all for about (including hotel) 3000 each. Our friends booked with a stop SAN in Canada for Economy Plus for the same price we got.

I checked my upcoming cruises and the 3 night package is actually $1 more expensive than the one I purchased due to the gratuities NOT being added into the advertised price!

We are cruising out of Rome for the second time. We always look for a hotel with an elevator for our luggage so I would suggest that. We stayed at Hotel Sonya near the train station several years ago. It had an old-fashioned elevator that people are saying now doesn't work very often so we are choosing a different hotel this time, Hotel Golden. Our cruise ends in Ravenna, so we are shuttling to Venice and staying at Palazzo Guardi. My research has shown that taking your luggage into Venice is very difficult, so we have reserved storage at Golden Luggage and are only taking a large backpack to the hotel.

They were celebrating National Bourbon Day so that is why it was so short.

Our B2B Mediterranean cruises on Voyager show a 53.99/day for Crown and Anchor members. Since we get 4 vouchers we are not doing this but I have not seen it lower in a long time.

You will also need the birth date for one of the people listed on that reservation.

Since our trunaround day is the only stop in Athens we have booked a tour so will be getting off the ship as soon as we can and I don't know if we will be able to that is why I asked about the previous week.

Thank you. We have access to the Crown Lounge Concierge.

We are doing a B2B for the first time in September. We have booked the 3 night specialty dining package for the 2nd cruise. Has anyone tried to make reservations for the specialty restaurant dining on a 2nd part of a B2B while on the 1st part?

I just repriced our Holiday cruise on Jewel of the Seas and saved $398. I booked it 8 days ago so very surprised that Spacious Balcony price went down.

How did we miss this sign of casino programs merging as reported by The Street on 22 December 2023? Royal Caribbean's Celebrity brand sent out an email that it would be extending the casino year for its Blue Chip casino through July 31, 2024. That means that existing members will hold onto their current tiers for seven more months as the year normally ends at midnight on Dec. 31.

The app chat feature is really unreliable. We had a group chat with the other couple we were cruising with and one of them never received the message and kept sending messages asking where we were and we never got them. It caused a bit of a stir so we made a pact of always texting OK or K to let the others know we got the message. Those missing messages finally showed up the next day.