{"id":4055,"date":"2017-09-24T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stillaslife.com\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2017-09-13T13:59:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T03:59:58","slug":"royal-caribbean-changes-shore-excursion-cancellation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/royal-caribbean-changes-shore-excursion-cancellation-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Caribbean Changes Shore Excursion Cancellation Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you haven\u2019t heard, Royal Caribbean<\/a> has sadly changed their cancellation policy related to shore excursions. It used to be that once you were on your cruise, you could cancel a shore excursion without penalty up to 24 hours before arrival in the relevant port.<\/p>\n

As we have future cruises and shore excursions already booked, I\u2019m disappointed that Royal Caribbean<\/a> didn\u2019t think it important enough to warrant notifying us. I actually found out in this short blog post<\/a>\u00a0on the Royal Caribbean<\/a> blog dated June 13, 2017.<\/p>\n

According to this blog post, which gives just two days notice, as of June 15, 2017, shore excursions must now be cancelled 48 hours before port arrival to avoid the cancellation penalty.<\/p>\n

The blog indicates that excursions booked before June 15, 2017, can still be cancelled without penalty up to 24 hours before port arrival, so the new policy will only affect excursions booked after June 15. I understand the reason for the change and have no inherent problem with it. I also appreciate that already booked shore excursions will still have the 24 hour period honoured. However, it\u2019s disappointing not to receive any kind of official communication from Royal Caribbean<\/a> about this change.<\/p>\n

Or was it just me? Did anyone receive any official notification about the modification\u00a0to the policy? I’d love to know if you did and if it is likely to affect your cruising style? For us, we usually book our excursions on another cruise, so we get 10% off (find out more about how to do that in my blog post\u00a0here<\/a>), then we are all set and don’t change them. Occasionally we might book a last minute one on board the ship, but that is a rare occurrence. It’s not common for us that we change them. I know for some though, like my father-in-law, who suffers chronic fatigue and often doesn’t know if he will be unwell until the 24 hours before the excursion, it means it’s more likely he will get hit with a penalty if he is sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you haven\u2019t heard, Royal Caribbean has sadly changed their cancellation policy related to shore excursions. It used to be that once you were on your cruise, you could cancel a shore excursion without penalty up to 24 hours before arrival in the relevant port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wordproof_timestamp":false},"categories":[1422],"tags":[1424,1794],"country":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Voyager-of-the-Seas-Noumea.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}