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Room Service on Harmony opens at 5

Have a great trip! We leave for Harmony tonight so will be excited to see what we missed out on with our choice ?

South Beach is currently closed while they finish off the Beach Club and what not I believe they have for now moved the Beds to Chill, but no word on if they will go back to SB or stay put Can report back in a few days after our visit on Monday!!!!!

Will try to check when I get on Harmony!

@dahdoul44 thank you!!! I ordered a beach bed for our upcoming cruise but couldn't find much about their current conditions! so glad to see it looks like each bed also gets some chairs to lay out in the sun! 10 days until we are relaxing at Cococay

We use our phones for boarding (so we can get expedited arrival) but once on the ship, I prefer using the paper copy to give bartenders, etc. if needed

I'm seeing the same for my 9/29 Harmony sailing. It's been sitting at 799$ for awhile so was surprised to see the come down Oasis & Chill came down from 1,299$ to $999 as well

Welcome!!

Yes, hopefully we get lucky again (we were in Ft. Lauderdale just last weekend for my birthday) Hoping you stay safe down in Wilmington, I have family in Southport and when the hurricane came through last year they couldn't get back home for 2 weeks Would be interested in hearing your thoughts when you get back!! We are so excited to try Harmony

We have finally booked all of our excursions for this cruise! We ended up going no snorkeling as my husband doesn't want to deal with his facial hair bothering him Cococay - currently planning on just hanging out by the pool, maybe by the beach. I've been eyeing the beach beds and may jump if the price goes down. Really devastated by everything going on in the Bahamas right now, but hoping we can still get here Costa Maya - we are going to Maya Chan! Roatan - we booked our first & only excursion through Royal (it was cheaper than any 3rd party site similar excursion I could find) We'll be doing the Jungle ATV Adventure & Beach Break (got it for around $75pp) Cozumel - going to Nachi Cocum for a beach day I figured I'd use this post to keep my thoughts organized about what we thought of all the stops!

@DublinFC I found El Coz bookable on a couple different third party sites, but not through cruise planner. Nachi only seemed available through their website

thanks! I think we will take your advice and book Nachi for the day! We can always go back and try El Coz ?

My husband and I are going to Cozumel next month and are trying to decide on a beach club. I see both of these are favored in many blog posts. Both are going for the same price ($55pp) for all inclusive packages. Has anyone been to both and have a preference? We are in port 7:30-5pm so we expect to spend most of the day there. Any tips or thoughts? We are horrible indecisive people and need all the help we can get ?

My Harmony sailing is now at $52, but I bought it for $46 and I don't think I'll see anything close to that again ?

I am droooling over your Santorini photos, I want to go so bad Looks like you guys are having a great time!

Love following along! Looks like you are having a great time I'm going to need to find me a lemon drop on Harmony in Sept! Very interested to see how that "fast track" works as we have the key booked

Sorry for disappearing! Work got crazy but I appreciate all the responses here I sure know where to go whenever I am feeling hmmm should I book this cruise and need encouragement My husband was pretty down on the idea, I think he would miss me ? Looks like its working in my favorite to convince him we need a second cruise anyway! But for now back to counting the days to Sept 29 and HARMONY

@WAAAYTOOO i wish! harmony for 2 weeks gets a little pricey, i would be more worried about getting off and flying if Anthem wasn't in NJ (would go home Thursday, cruise from Florida isn't until Sunday, we wanted to spend Saturday in Orlando) I'm not picky about the convenience of it all just want to spend my 2 weeks as best as I can (and 7 days on Harmony by myself seems less ideal) @Boston Babe happy anniversary! sorry to hear about your husband ? Very tempting thoughts on here, going to talk my husband tonight about what to do....

thanks @twangster and @KLA I'm not too worried about being by myself on the ship, and wouldn't venture too much in Bermuda (would just save that for a real trip with my husband) Another questions: If you had to choose, would you pick 5 day Bermuda before or 4 day Bahamas after (will have already gone to Cococay on Harmony) Both are looking to be around the same price, only added cost would be a hotel in FLbetween Harmony & Mariner

@Matt I had a feeling that would be the answer to that one LOL guess I just put that out there for people to tell me I should do it @ChessE4 I don't think getting from Orlando -> Miami or vice versa is an option for me otherwise I would be tempted! @ellceethank you! I am so very tempted by this Bermuda cruise because of the closeness, I just almost feel bad if I didn't invite anyone to come with me I don't think 7 days would be possible by myself, I would miss my husband, we spent 9 months apart after college but haven't been apart for more than 5 days since so it would be weird for sure! I'm currently paranoid that the cruise would be late getting back to NJ and I would miss a flight to Orlando even though I have 3 days

I’ve been thinking about the ways to best expand my vacation time in Sept/Oct despite my husband not being able too Currently we’re booked on a 7 night cruise on Harmony out of Orlando (departs 9/29) Would it be too much to take a short 4 or 5 night cruise before or after just by myself? My options would be: 1) 5 night Bermuda cruise (Athem) On Anthem 9/21-9/26 (home port, no need to fly/hotel, only about 30 minutes away) by myself Fly to Orlando with my husband 9/27 (evening) Cruise Harmony 9/29-10/6, fly home and back to work 10/7 2) 4 Night Bahamas Cruise (Mariner) Fly to Orlando with my husband 9/27 Cruise Harmony 9/29-10/6, send husband home to NJ Cruise Mariner 10/7-10/11, fly home 10/11, back to work 10/14 I have never taken a trip like this by myself, have no idea what solo cruising is like any thoughts for me? Am I crazy to think I can fit this in and not be Cruise-d out? How likely would it be to be able to do this? Should I be worried about storms messing with getting from NJ to Florida and vice versa? Otherwise hope everyone is having a good week!

Congrats to Matt! RC Blog & podcast have been so instrumental on keeping me entertained and informed! I'm a speed listener so I appreciate the fast speak ?

Yup! I am one of the lucky ones who has access to those things, hence the 10 days off Locked out of the building & all systems, I'm not mad about it ?

I grew up in the tippy top of Rockland County! Welcome @sk8erguy1978 I've never been to SWF but drive past it all the time We now live only 20 minutes from EWR so thats our go to

I have 4 weeks, plus 11 Federal Holidays (whenever US Gov market is closed, better than the NYSE :P) I honestly don't know any sick/personal leave details but I've never had problems when I had to use it We also are mandated to take 10 business days off in a row so no frowning at 2 weeks here! Sadly, my husband can't do this so its typically a 1 week and change actual vacation and 5 business days of "relaxing" at home