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First of all thanks to @CruiseHabit Bill for the nice compliment during his recent live broadcasts of my Celebrity Equinox Live blog post on the RCB message board. That compliment inspired a cruise recap for this Disney cruise. We booked this cruise over one year ago. The motivation was a few factors. It was originally scheduled to be on my kids Spring Break which has since been pushed back a week from the prior school year so they will miss a week of school and after returning have another week off school for their actual Spring Break. Another reason for picking this was it included a themed sea day with Star Wars activities. Additionally we had a desire to try out a Disney Cruise since we live in the Orlando area and are Disney World passholders, despite the cost of the cruise. My son's Birthday, February 29 was a great excuse to select this cruise since this will be his second legitimate birthday even though he will be eight years old. Since all of this is new I will take lots of pictures and do a recap after I return. There is not an onboard internet plan that is unlimited unless you stay in a suite (concierge class) room. You must purchase a plan with different amounts of data with larger packages being cheaper by the MB but it's a use it or lose it plan and the prices are not good and there are rumors of poor internet speeds. My Equinox blog was all done via my iPhone 7 so hopefully I will do as good or better since I recently upgraded to the iPhone 11. I look forward to sharing it with all of you. The itinerary is a Western Caribbean cruise out of Port Canaveral. It visits Cozumel, Mexico, George Town, Grand Cayman, Falmouth, Jamaica and Castaway Cay which is Disney's private island in the Bahamas with the ports in that order. We have plans to go to El Cozumeleno resort for the day in Cozumel. In George Town we are going to the Turtle Farm. In Jamaica we have an excursion to take a raft down the Martha Brae River. No plans at Castaway Cay other than the 5K race and enjoying the island. We booked a verandah room. My Niece who is in her mid 20s and didn't pay for the cruise is with my kids ages 8 on cruise day and 10 for my daughter in a large interior room with a virtual porthole. Her parents (my brother in law and sister in law) are in a verandah that adjoins to our room. We originally booked specific rooms but a month before the final payment deadline a verandah guarantee with restrictions became available that saved almost $1000 for each of the verandah rooms. We got our room assignments about 10 days before the cruise and we got rooms comparable to what we originally booked. Originally we did not have adjoining rooms but we were assigned a room on the same deck as the inside room with my niece and kids that was not too far away. If you have any questions before I go I can try to find out onboard and report back. The only day I expect to have internet is the Cozumel day but I probably won't post much until I get back.

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I know they often have a couple paragraphs of fine print at the bottom of each excursion / on-board purchase option; maybe they have it documented there? if not, I would advise calling Royal or your TA to confirm that it’s the same 90 minutes, just to be sure it’s worth booking.

I’ve used that on Royal before; the bag is very small as I recall, not good for more than a few days of clothing. If I find that Celebrity will offer it a couple times on this sailing then I might go that route. Honestly, I was just planning to budget for full laundry service for all four of us to get a full week of clothes done after day 7. I know that will cost a pretty penny, but when none of us has more than 10-12 days of “basics”, it’s not like I’ll have much choice.