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  1. Sorry fro your disappointment.  

    I play the free cruise Bingo every cruise and have been aware of this rule for some time.  The Bingo caller on my June cruise made sure to point this out before we started.

    I'm still waiting to win that free cruise.

     

  2. 12 minutes ago, Zurc said:

    Even in 1 room, you still have the balcony to retreat to while the littles nap.    

    For small kids under 5, we would save the $1000 and take advantage of the KSF promotion.  

    We have always had two rooms for our kids except for one cruise.  First cruise with kids they were 6 and 4.  Stayed in adjoining room standard ocean view.  Worked great.  But if they were as young as yours and I had a balcony I'd save the $1K and put them in with me.  

  3. On 7/22/2019 at 3:01 PM, fonemanbob said:

    We were on a cruise last year and the wife forgot to empty one drawer. We filed a lost item claim.. Never got the stuff back. They throw out or keep most everything.  Good luck finding the passenger.  Have to give you a lot of credit.  

    While waiting to disembark one cruise, I looked down and saw a dumpster on the pier filled with several women's dresses still on the wire hangers and in dry cleaning bags.  I was amazed that someone would leave their clothes on the ship and the ship would just throw them away.

  4. On HOS you can order room service on your TV.  This includes breakfast.  

    I ordered every night via interactive TV except the first night.  Every morning breakfast arrived on time, except the first morning.  The first day I used the hanging door menu.  Breakfast was an hour or more late.

  5. Cabin 6648, JS, HOTS, starboard side, rear hump, 2nd to last cabin on the hump (aft).

    Advantages:  Large balcony.  Had room steward place a lounger on balcony.  It adjoins with cabin 6650.  DD's stayed in adjoining cabin.  Able to open balcony partition.  HOTS always docked on starboard side.  Hump blocked wind when underway.

    Disadvantages:  It adjoins to room 6650.  Hump blocked cooling breeze when underway.  Aft cabins can see a little onto your balcony.  Pier could be noisy when docked in the early a.m.

     

  6. If it is your first trip to Alaska, I recommend doing the RCCL pre-cruise.  It was a good value and well executed.  Unpack and rest on the ship.  The land tour is busy with early mornings and late nights.

    When we go back we will cruise again, but we will plan our own land tour.  I will use the train as much as possible to travel and avoid the bus.  We want to go above the arctic circle and spend more time in Denali.  We also want a better hotel than the one RCCL put us up in in Denali. 

  7. Had a cabana two weeks ago.  We had #1.  Was informed that RC assigns numbers based on order of reservation.  The attendant told us we must have been the first to reserve.

    There is power and a ceiling fan, a cooler with water,  towels, mats.  The attendant did bring drinks and lunch from the Snack Shack.  You can request snorkel gear and they give you two vouchers for the snorkel shack.  No speaker, no lock box.  There is a storage box to put your stuff in.

    Later in the day the attendant brought us fresh fruit.

    All and all a good experience, but not as good as our last in the old cabana location.  Also not sure price point is as good.

    I miss the close bath rooms, the close bar and special lunch cook out.

  8. My DD's refused to go to the teen club on our last cruise.  Last day of the cruise my oldest went and loved it.  She was sorry she did not take advantage of the Teen Club.  She plans to do more next week on HOS.  She is about to age out at the end of the summer.

  9. 1.  My wife and oldest have always been able to find a dance party they both enjoyed.  DD has been cruising with us since age 7 now 17.

    4.  Adventure Ocean on the O class is separated by age groups.  My DD's always enjoyed including on the Allure.

    5.  RCI now has swim vests at the pools on all of their ships free of charge.  They also have life guards on duty.

  10. 2 hours ago, tiny260 said:

    I rented a car from Hertz, Hotel is Residence Inn Cape Canaveral Cocoa Beach, Hertz has a drop off in the same parking lot as the hotel. Then I will either Uber or taxi to the port the next day.

    A lot of people on the boards will stay at the airport and then there is a shuttle to the port.

    I decided to stay close to the port so that is why I made my decision.

    We always stay here the night before a cruise.  Nice breakfast and they do offer shuttle service to the terminal.  As mentioned, Hertz is located out front of the hotel.

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