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Well, if it's only us, we'll have the entire ship to ourselves!!!

Anyone else out there on this cruise to Cozumel?

Favorite ship so far is Symphony of the Seas. Ship has everything you need and want. A lot of places to eat, great entertainment, quiet places to relax, plenty of spots to relax in the water. Food is excellent and drinks are very good.

20 days now All the cancellations got tedious and frustrating; while we sailed in November Mon a S2S it was with masks and no self serve in the SL so have to admit it was a little weird. It won’t be long now! 18 days to go. Time seems to creep by when the time gets closer. Looking forward to meeting some new people that we may be able to call friends. Fingers crossed for great weather and a great time in the pool. Hope to meet and see each of you by the pool. Cheers!!!

You are correct. IOTS is pretty big. I probably used the wrong words when asking my question.

Anyone know if duty free alcohol is being sold on some of the smaller ships? I've been on Symphony and I've purchased a few bottles from my sailings on it. However, I wasn't sure if the smaller ships do the same thing. I'm cruising on Independence OTS in Nov and wanted to take some alcohol home with me for the holidays

We don't take hundreds of pics (just our preference). However, we took quite a few each day. On our 7 day cruise, I would say we took 50-75 pics

I've seen shorts worn in the MDR. I've worn some nice Polo Shorts and Polo Shirt in the MDR. I would try to dress up the shorts so that it doesn't come across too casual.

Although they are very sensitive for guest keeping masks on indoors, they allow you to remove for personal pics and/or ship photos. My wife and I took several personal pics indoors and was never bother by staff.

It seems as if no one has had any dealing with Priceline and several of you like MEI. On future cruises that I book, I may give MEI an opportunity to service my cruise bookings. However, reading some of your comments. it may be better to go back to booking directly thru RCC. It seems as if it's better to deal with RCC directly than having a TA do it for you.

Has anyone had any experience with Priceline? I've used them for my next 2 bookings. Seems as if we have to call them if we're alerted of a price drop. From what I've read on this blog thread, the agent should be contacting the client.

I was on Symphony 9/18 as well. I was told that the ship had approximately 30% capacity. The 1800 or so seems correct.

Just booked this cruise a week ago. Looking forward to the quick Bahamas/Coco Cay get-a-way after the Thanksgiving holiday. Is anyone else cruising this ship during this week?

So sorry to hear about your loss GA Dave. I hope you have a great cruise. Please let me know your thoughts about Independence. I will be cruising a couple of weeks after you on this ship. Would love to hear your thoughts regarding this ship.