OCSC Mike

I only cruise in the summer and it's plenty light out when happy hour starts and stays that way until after I leave. Maybe if I cruised in the winter I would feel differently.

Yes, it's in "the basement" on deck 4. You might want free cappuccino, espresso, lattes, etc. from the complementary coffee machine. You might want to check out the snacks during the nightly 3 hour happy hour. You might want to grab pastries and whatever else they put out during breakfast hours although you can find them elsewhere. You might want to be in a room with no windows. You might want to see the Diamond concierge about something. There's nothing wrong with it; it's just in a crappy location compared to say Freedom class that still has the DL in the Viking Crown.

I agree, they did get warm after a while. We were there in the mornings after breakfast. I enjoyed the privacy and the bar up there. The bartender got to know us, was very nice, and would add fresh bananas to my wife's daiquiris that she brought him from the WJ. Our normal routine is to hang out in the Solarium which we enjoy a lot, especially on Oasis class. We spent plenty of time there on Indy last month as well but the multi-deck Solarium plus the bistro is far superior.

Sorry to hear you guys have had such poor suite experiences. We had an amazing experience on Harmony 5/29 and it was the perks, not the cabin (I personally don't care about my cabin and don't use balconies). We enjoyed CK, the SL happy hour and 11-11 free drinks, and the suite deck cabanas. That said, we were not paying (it was a family cruise and my in laws were kind enough to take our extended family of 8 for their 50th anniversary and our 20th). I have a great time in an interior with my D vouchers and spending very little extra onboard so I can certainly understand why one might not consider the price worth it.

Fair enough. I always have the ultimate mostly-free dining plan and I don't do much budgeting, lol. Eventually I get full... but then it passes.

Had Junior on the 5/29 sailing. He was very nice & helpful. The other concierge has changed. They pre-booked the comedy show, some CK dinners, & took care of a few other requests via e-mail several days before the cruise.

It would be a triple… The Playmakers burger already is a double.

Oasis class never feels overcrowded to me and nearly all my cruises have been in the summer when ships are close to full. The main pool often looks crowded but we also never go near it unless we just happen to be crossing the ship.

They also have an amazing s'more cookie dessert. It's a nice enough looking sports bar but we were just there for the food and drinks.

This is the reason I can see... but I absolutely loved the burger at Playmakers on Indy last month. The garlic parm fries that came with it were excellent too. Some good drinks at Playmakers too like The Pitch (Long Island with Midori & Sprite instead of coke and one other liquor) and the Goalpost Margarita (pineapple and jalapeno).

It was pretty far out if I recall, 1-2 months. They have a mock calendar on the site you can check without actually booking an appointment. You may want to wait, however, as testing protocols are changing and for all we know you may not even need to test in October.

Free! (but cold is pretty important too)

Not unless you go to medical complaining of symptoms.

I put down Oasis-class and I'll stand by it if forced to pick just one. That said, after many years of solely Oasis-class (ignoring Radiance in Alaska b/c that was a very special 18-day land/cruise vacation and I didn't care what ship I was on), we just spent 7 nights on Indy for various reasons, one of which was to see how we'd feel about Freedom class after all these years. We certainly loved Voyager/Freedom class before there was an Oasis. The experiment was largely successful as for every venue/aspect that was missing on Indy, something else was offered that can't be found on most Oasis-class ships.

It is accepted if you use a 3rd party site like RT&T or OnPoint. That's the benefit of using them; you can use any FDA authorized test (i.e. free ones from the government). Maybe this will help...

Yep, didn't spend much time in its Indy counterpart but every time I passed through on my way to the DL it was pretty empty (except when there was a private event going on).

Sorry to hear that. Had a bunch of them on Harmony back on 5/29. I believe the banana is some sort of banana liqueur.

Not that it's a big deal but I always thought it was silly that you couldn't manually enter whatever you wanted into the app calendar just like your phone calendar.

This. And since you have the DBP, you might as well just pick one based on location, ambiance, or out of a hat and start there. Lovely view in the Viking Crown if you want a random suggestion based on that.

I had the same experience on Indy recently. I called customer service and they confirmed that was exactly what it was.

The temperature varies by ship. They've always been cool enough for me on Oasis-class. In two separate cabins on Indy last week, it was the warmest I've ever seen. As mentioned above, ask for ice from your cabin attendant. We always do no matter what just to have it. Gets replaced twice a day.

Be aware that Walgreens has changed policies since June and now charges something like $129 for travel-related covid tests.

Of those not mentioned... Kraken Colada, Bushwhacker.