My wife and I are also on the 4/13 Rhapsody Cruise (celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary). We are counting down the days!
Our only other experience with Royal was with a smaller ship too...Adventure of the seas in 2016 (pre retrofit). Even though it was a smaller and older ship, the service by the staff more than made up for it. That’s what I expect on the Rhapsody too.
Hello all! I will be sailing on Allure of the Seas on March 3rd with my husband and our 5 year old daughter. Their first cruise, my 4th but it's been 10 years.
After reading many of the posts here and on Cruise critic, I have come up with the following for our shore excursions, want to get your thoughts if something looks amiss to you.
Our priorities are to balance finding some fun things that our daughter will enjoy but also get some beach time, and we definitely want to enjoy the ship as much as possible.
Nassau-No excursions planned, will likely take a walk and stay in the port area, possibly grab lunch but we would like to enjoy the ship while people are on shore (though my understanding is that in Nassau many people stay on the ship).
Cozumel-Dolphin encounter at Chankanaab and enjoy the beach there before our dolphin time. Lunch and then as soon as we are done head back to the port for some quick shopping and back on the ship. (I have been to Nachi Cocum twice and would love to do it again but we thought it might be boring for our daughter, except she would love the pool).
Roatan -My original plan was to stay on the ship for this port because I have been there before, but then we read that there is really good snorkeling from the shore so we changed our plans. We will book a private tour through Victor Bodden so we can be on our own schedule. We'll see monkeys and sloths, then go to West Bay Beach to hang and do some snorkeling and lunch. Head back to the ship by 2 or 3 but that is flexible.
Costa Maya-Maya Chan for the day and probably do a vow renewal ceremony while we are there. They are very reasonably priced for the vow renewal. We may consider leaving our daughter on the ship if she is loving Adventure Ocean and we'll have some couple time, but that will be a game day decision. I'm sure when she sees the water activities in the port she will want to do that but I really am trying to avoid that.
Some changes to consider. In Nassau, book the dolphin encounter and beach day at Blue Lagoon and do Nachi Cocum in Cozumel instead of Chankanaab because our daughter would probably enjoy the pool there even if there isn't much to do for kids, but we would enjoy the food and drink ?
Any advice or thoughts welcome.
Thank you!
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