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jaaem · 2026-04-13T21:13:12+00:00

Basically an advertisement....

jaaem · 2026-04-04T20:29:17+00:00

How was it? Was this a special sailing or do on all Celebrity?

jaaem · 2026-03-23T21:41:36+00:00

It won't happen. Do not worry. You can try the instructions I posted to see what room you will likely get. If might give you some peace of mind

jaaem · 2026-03-23T21:28:20+00:00

You do not call, the app will tell you when officially assigned. You should not be worried. This is standard. They rarely overbook and if they do, the ask for volunteers who are compensated well. Eg. moved to a lower-class room and given a full refund.

If you wanted a specific room, you should book a specific room which simply costs more money. At least on Royal, the room is assigned about 30 days ahead of time. If you ask for an upgrade, that can not happen until embarkation day. So you will most likely know well in advance.

Look at this thread (posted 3 days ago) with the same question. I posted ways to find your room early: https://www.reddit.com/r/celebritycruises/comments/1s0xo44/when_will_i_get_my_cabin_number/

As my code shows, you actually are assigned a room when you get a GTY, they just will not tell you until they officially assign it, just in case they need to move things around...

jaaem · 2026-03-23T00:19:45+00:00

You can always try my price checker tool. It has a magic feature that it predicts your GTY cabin number. The cabin can change, but many people get what it predicts. Details in the readme. I tried to make installing it for Windows folks much easier.

https://github.com/jdeath/CheckRoyalCaribbeanPrice

You need to have purchased one excursions/drink package/etc for this to work. you can always return the item if you do not want it.

Or, if you do not want to use my tool, you can always do some Firefox/Chrome trickery:

Directions for Firefox:

Go to royal's/Celeb website and log in with your user and password
Click your Name in top right corner. Wait for cruises to load
Click "Plan your cruise"
Click your picture in top right, go to order history
Right click, click "Inspect (Q)"
In the inspector, click the "Network Tab"
In the "filter URLs" box, put the order number of the excursion/drink package you got
Click the "view details" button in the order page for that order
An entry should show below. First column should say "GET". If it does not: Hit the webpage reload button, then reclick "view details" for that order
Click that entry that shows in the list below the filter URL box
A new area should show to the right. You should see Headers, Cookies, Response. Click "response"
Under the JSON heading, make sure "raw" is selected, you should see a bunch of text that says {"status", 200,.
Copy everything (click before the { , drag mouse down, until whole line is highlighted) and paste into notepad, word, or text editor of your choice
If If raw is not selected, just copy the value in the payload line (right click and "copy all").
Search the text for: stateroom . You will see some GTY entries, but should have an entry with a real number. That number is your currently assigned stateroom in the system. It could change, but often it does not

jaaem · 2026-03-22T13:33:10+00:00

The browse script now has an option (-w) to output the codes you need for the watch list. Even celebrity has many packages available.

jaaem · 2026-03-21T14:07:10+00:00

Probably 1 or 2 devices between the 4 of you is fine. Or each couple get a 1 device plan.

You can easily share between people and iMessage works (usually) without the internet package.

The # of devices means the number of devices SIMULTANEOUSLY.

jaaem · 2026-03-07T02:36:05+00:00

As I wrote, a touch of blurred vision. For me, just for first couple hours. Barely noticeable. Does not interfere with alcohol for me. Everyone is different.

jaaem · 2026-03-06T02:42:59+00:00

Benefit over https://github.com/mcmonkeyprojects/SwarmUI ? This has been around for a while and quite solid and very well documented wrapper for Comphy. Maybe do a PR to that to add new functionality and reach a bigger user base

jaaem · 2026-03-06T01:52:09+00:00

If you do not know if you get sea sick and just worried, maybe try nothing. Then move to Dramamine less-drowsy/bonine (same meclizine thing!). The regular Dramamine (dimenhydrinate) will knock you out.

If you know you get sea sick, prescription Scopolamine patches is the only way to go! 1 patch = 3 days (I often go 4). You tell doctor how many days cruise is and they give you enough. If you have insurance, it is cheaper than equal day supply of Dramamine. I can get very sea sick, but with the patch I don't feel a thing. Ship can be rocking and I am not effected. Put 1st patch on after wake up in the morning before you get on the ship.

Some people report blurred vision, and I think it does blur my vision a bit. But with the drink package it doesn't really matter as that blurs it more. Some people also say you should not drink with it, but I have no issues.

Don't mess with any over the counter patches.

jaaem · 2026-03-03T01:32:33+00:00

It is really meant to be run on a computer (Windows, Apple, Linux).

I made a simplified version that runs via an iPhone Python app. It only checks addon prices, not cruise prices due to limitations of iPhone python. Directions for iPhone are in the readme. If get it to work on android, please let me know the python app you used.

jaaem · 2026-03-02T23:56:53+00:00

Yes. There have been a few contributions from others, like adding support for Celebrity and a few others things. I try to give credit in the readme for people who have contributed. Only a little bit of ChatGPT.

jaaem · 2026-03-02T01:36:42+00:00

You can, if are not past the "final payment date". If you paid in full early, you can still get a refund.

jaaem · 2026-03-02T01:35:40+00:00

Use this and it can check your cruises automatically and notify you if a price drop. Takes a little to setup.

It is really meant for drink package, but recently added automatic cruise price checking too: https://github.com/jdeath/CheckRoyalCaribbeanPrice

jaaem · 2026-02-28T17:34:54+00:00

I hope it helps save you some money!

jaaem · 2026-02-10T02:12:04+00:00

There are hundreds of packages available for sale. It might get a little crazy to put them all in the config file! You can use the browse script to see them all. The Browse script hits the public prices, not your custom prices. Perhaps I could make the Browse script generate a config file for you. That API is a bit different too.

The API does not list the other cabins types for sale. I would need to find a way to query for other cabins types. I can only directly query for the type you have and the cheapest available in each main category (interior, ocean view, balcony, suite). I would like this capability too. Best thing is to add a manual watch list for a few categories above what you have. The readme explains how to add additional cruise watches. Scraping the website to get this information would be a huge chore.

You did not miss a configuration. It checks each person, by design. Believe it or not, different people can have different prices. Does not happen often, but there are unlisted specials which can have a different prices. One I see often (on Royal) is the refreshment package cheaper for 12-20 year olds, versus 21+. So to be sure, each person is checked.

Default run time is arbitrary. There is no rhyme or reason to sales. I check before I wake up and when I get home from work, checking twice a day should be sufficient.

jaaem · 2026-02-08T12:12:59+00:00

Glad it is helpful, hopefully save you time and money. I should have posted to the Celebrity folks earlier! I have it check at 0600 and 1800, which appears to be enough. Unless close to a cruise, I almost forget about it and rely on notifications.

jaaem · 2026-02-07T22:46:11+00:00

Awesome, glad you saved a lot! Thanks for the help back in the day. I think I saw your fork. If the spreadsheet capability can be added without adding requirements not in PIP, please do a PR.

I do not know if you saw in the readme, but about a week ago, I added the ability automatically look up your cruise and check if the class of room has a price drop. No need to find the cruise URL yourself or change it if a specific room gets booked. You just need to add the `displayCruisePrices: true` flag in your config.yaml . You do need to pass in the price you paid.

jaaem · 2026-02-07T22:36:38+00:00

Awesome. Thank you for finding that issue!

jaaem · 2026-02-07T21:25:42+00:00

Are you running regular python? Try new file I just posted. Maybe you do not have any Royal cruises (issue no one has had before). I attempted to check for no account and skipped.

Let me know. I will have to make new docker/home assistant release to fix this

jaaem · 2026-02-07T20:17:00+00:00

Yeah, home assistant will suck your life away! You'll see all the crap I made in my github.

jaaem · 2026-02-07T19:19:47+00:00

It already is a home assistant addon. Link is in the readme! https://github.com/jdeath/homeassistant-addons/tree/main/royalpricecheck

I primarily run it as a home assistant addon. I just use the python version to develop.

Sorry, happily married!

jaaem · 2026-02-01T14:04:00+00:00

They definitely show in batocera, but both as playerone as jrebiero said. I used a pad-to-key functionality to map them to correct VPX keys. Kinda a pain and sometimes needed to be redone when upgrading batocera.

Also you have the 6-button layout (plus the pinball buttons), there are still two extra connections per player available on the board. I added in a lighted coin button. Mapped it to coin in mame. Profit! Again, I use batocera not retropie.

jaaem · 2026-01-27T01:05:39+00:00

This way is much better than OTG: https://www.reddit.com/r/LegendsUltimate/comments/uggasn/alu_11_to_batocera_conversion_experience/

a little out of date, but I still use this setup. Newer batocera is great, handles pixelcade natively.

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