

This one was a weird one: I got my certificate during my sea day, day 2, of a four day cruise. Cruise Certificates Granted Based on Previous Cruise Sailing While it’s $500 more in coin-in, it’s not a particularly difficult change, and now it’s much clearer: Cruise once a year, and earn 2,500 points, and you’ll get two free cruise certificates one guaranteed from your PRIME status and one granted from your cruise. To make it simpler, Royal tweaked the interior cabin number to 2,500 to align with PRIME and make the messaging simpler. PRIME status was 100 points more, at 2,500 points earned annually to maintain that status. It used to be that a comped interior cabin could be earned with 2,400 points of play on a given cruise. Now that I’ve taken my latest cruise, here’s three (and possibly four) changes I spotted in the latest review of the Club Royale program, as well as a few things that haven’t changed. At the time there was word of some small tweaks, but I was unable to verify on my particular cruise, and so I waited patiently for things to get going already. In early March 2020, I sailed on Oasis of the Seas, two weeks before COVID-19 led to an industry shutdown of cruise ships worldwide. I admit the headline of today’s post hedges my bets a bit, and it’s in part because it has been 18 months since I last sailed on a Royal Caribbean ship.
