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PamperedChefDebi said:Janice, how come we never ran into each other on the ship?
If you used your debit card (as did I) as the card for "additional" charges there was a pending amount. I wasn't real happy about it as I settled my bill with cash and then got home and looked online and said I had charges pending for the same amount I had already paid in cash. I called Royal and they just check to be sure we have funds in the account and the bank "authorizes" it. I explained that I still wasn't happy as there shouldn't have been any authorization since I paid cash and if I had known it was going to show pending I would have just paid with my debit and just deposited the cash. All you have to do is have Royal contact your bank directly, they'll need to fax over some kind of proof or something and the bank will release it. It was taken care of the day I called!jwpamp said:I called Royal and had them call the credit card company to release the pending charges. I wouldn't have worried, but we spent $410 on the ship and had another $300+ being held per them.
Just didn't want to get charged twice what we spent!
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