{"id":2240365,"date":"2026-01-19T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2240365"},"modified":"2026-01-19T05:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:00:41","slug":"royal-caribbean-news-round-up-january-18-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royal-caribbean-news-round-up-january-18-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Caribbean News Round-Up: January 18, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hope you had a great week and are staying safe out there. Hopefully you had a chance to keep up with what&#8217;s new with Royal Caribbean this week. But if not, here&#8217;s a roundup of this week&#8217;s news.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Caribbean has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/2026\/01\/13\/royal-caribbean-cancels-labadee-haiti-stops\">cancelled all of its Labadee visits<\/a> for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Visits had been suspended through April, but the cruise line made the decision this week to cancel the rest of the scheduled visits through the end of December.<\/p>\n<p>Gang violence has not gotten any better, and concern for safety prompted the change.<\/p>\n<h2>Royal Caribbean News<\/h2>\n<h2>New RCB Video: Royal Beach Club Review: Best excursion ever?<\/h2>\n<p>Have you subscribed to the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/royalcaribbeanblog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Caribbean Blog YouTube Channel<\/a>? We share some great videos there regularly, all about taking a Royal Caribbean cruise! This week, we are sharing our latest video \u2014\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4E01JwV4CCU\">Royal Beach Club Review: Best excursion ever?<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and don\u2019t forget to\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=royalcaribbeanblog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Royal Caribbean Group launches Points Choice<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s about to become easier to cruise across any of the Royal Caribbean Group brand with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/2026\/01\/15\/royal-caribbean-points-choice-details\">launch of Points Choice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning at the end of this month, you can earn loyalty points when cruising on any cruise line within the Royal Caribbean Group family.<\/p>\n<p>Points can be moved up to 14 days after a sailing, with changes managed online.<\/p>\n<h2>Royal Beach Club updated the menu to offer more food and healthier choices<\/h2>\n<p>Less than a month after opening, Royal Caribbean <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/2026\/01\/16\/royal-beach-club-updates-its-food-options-expanded-menu\">revamped its food menu at the Royal Beach Club<\/a> so that it can offer more options.<\/p>\n<p>Citing guest feedback, the menu received an update this weekend to add fresher and lighter array of choices.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, other menu items were reworked to rely less on fried food.<\/p>\n<h2>Royal Caribbean reversed an unpopular change to its specialty restaurant<\/h2>\n<p>Grilled vegetables are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/2026\/01\/12\/royal-caribbean-quickly-reverts-change-its-japanese-restaurant\">back on the menu at Izumi hibachi<\/a> once again, following controversy that it was removed.<\/p>\n<p>The menu was updated recently to remove grilled vegetables from the included food choices. Instead, it would cost $5 to add it.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Caribbean has now rolled it back to include them as part of the hibachi meal.<\/p>\n<h2>Passenger misses ship after going to the wrong port<\/h2>\n<p>A cruise ship passenger got confused and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/2026\/01\/14\/cruise-passenger-misses-ship-after-going-the-wrong-port\">went to the wrong Florida homeport<\/a> and missed their cruise completely.<\/p>\n<p>The confusion stemmed from where &#8220;Port Everglades&#8221; is versus &#8220;Port Canaveral&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, their appeal to join the ship in The Bahamas was denied.<\/p>\n<h2>Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast<\/h2>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d91W-HB90Hk&amp;list=PLbiBuw681g0in7dqolek3KHS8R_nlEkj-&amp;index=1&amp;pp=gAQBiAQBsAgC\">592nd episode<\/a> of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLbiBuw681g0in7dqolek3KHS8R_nlEkj-&amp;si=xxVVduWeRsxb3yZf\">Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast<\/a> is now available, breaking down potentially big cruise ship news.<\/p>\n<p>If the rumor mill is right, Royal Caribbean could be on the brink of revealing they&#8217;re working on two different new ship classes at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to subscribe via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLbiBuw681g0in7dqolek3KHS8R_nlEkj-\">YouTube<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rcl-blog-podcast\/id685427740\">iTunes<\/a> or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/showfeed.xml\">RSS<\/a>, and head over to rate and review the podcast on iTunes if you can! We\u2019d appreciate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.royalcaribbeanblog.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope you had a great week and are staying safe out there. Hopefully you had a chance to keep up with what&#8217;s new with Royal Caribbean this week. But if not, here&#8217;s a roundup of this week&#8217;s news. Royal Caribbean has cancelled all of its Labadee visits for 2026. 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