What is REAS service?

[jtrain73]

Seen the term REAS mentioned in a couple of threads. What is that?

 

[TiggerKing]

REAS refers to the Romance Escape at Sea package that DCL offers for their cruises. The package contains:

- Advance reservations for Palo
- Advance reservations for the spa (couple's massage included in price)
- Champagne welcome basket in your room on the first day
- Champagne breakfast in bed (includes hot items not normally available for room service breakfast, as well as Mimosa's or a glass of champagne each)
- Romantic turndown (there will be rose petals all over the room, and most likely a towel sculpture of two swans kissing - this is done on the night of your Palo's dinner)

DW and I did this four our recent 4 day cruise since it was our anniversary. We definitely enjoyed it, and will most likely do it again on our next cruise!

 

[PoohJen]

2 other perks of the REAS:

- you can also reserve your Palo brunch in advance (although not included in the REAS price)

- you can request a particular seating rotation (which you may find helps you decide which night you want to reserve Palo's)

We did REAS on our recent cruise, and it was really nice to have all those reservations done in advance - nothing to worry about when I boarded except getting up to Deck 9 for some sun and lunch! I had been skeptical, b/c I didn't want/need the champagne basket, etc., but now I am really glad I booked it, and will definitely book it again!

 

[faireygod mother]

I assume there is an additional fee for this. Does anyone know what it is to add this to a reservation? Can you add it after you have already booked it?

 

[oybolshoi]

I assume there is an additional fee for this. Does anyone know what it is to add this to a reservation? Can you add it after you have already booked it?

You can add this to your reservation any time - we added REAS to our 7-night cruise about 7 months after making the reservation (we sailed the 10/23 Magic).

The cost is $299 for sailings through 12/31/04 and then increases to $339 per sailing for 2005.


I haven't decided yet if I want to do it again for our next cruise in October 2005 - but it was definitely worth doing at least once!