NoobCruise

It's the last night of our 7 night Mediterranean cruise on Voyager. The cruise started July 1. It has been amazing and I have a lot to say but I am kind of surprised that there was no free lobster night. There were two formal nights. One on the 4th of July (not a great idea but this was not an American cruise) and one on Saturday the 6th. Neither night had lobster on the menu other than the upcharge one that is there every night. I have to be honest the frozen lobster they offer on lobster night is not that great or anything to get excited about but it is a bit of a tradition. Lobster night! And there wasn't one. Is this a European cruise thing? A new dining MDR thing? That's for any responses.

Thanks @Noskill we will plan accordingly.

I read a news article about a year ago that Royal had agreed to dock most of its ships outside the center of town when porting in Barcelona. I guess the ships use to dock near Las Ramblas. Does anyone know if all of the ship docking has now changed to the one slightly outside of the city or more north of it and what exactly that location is? I ask because we will be on Voyager in a couple weeks and Barcelona is our final port; which is where we will be hopping on a train to Madrid to continue our adventure. I am trying to finalize the logistics of taking an uber, taxi, shuttle, bus, etc so we don't miss our train. Thanks for an information.

You Sir are correct. While this was just our third cruise I normally travel with all the requisite traveler pharmaceuticals. Having not suffered from a stomach acid problem for years I thought I would be fine. What I failed to realize is that I don't live next to a Lemon Post bar, and after a few days of sweet and sour drinks my stomach was wrecked. Another epic fail was Royals failure to charge me $40 for a $6 dollar roll of Tums. There simple wasn't any antacids in their singular essential store. It wasn't like they were out of stock of it there just wasn't any place for it. They had Pepto tablets (not the bottles) and Akaseltzers but zero antacids. Very strange.

Thanks for watching. We did do some adult only type things but not much. A great comedy show. I hung out at dueling pianos which was great as well but I say I hung out there because I couldn't actually enter it was so crowded. I just stood outside the venue but it was smartly designed to have a bar there for expected overflow. Other than that not much adult evening type stuff except the casino. We were both so beat at the end of the day my wife went to bed at the same time as our 6 year old.. I probably should have said at the beginning of the review that it is geared towards family's with young kids. I met plenty of people on the ship without their kids who were loving the ship. It is not like it is bad for adults in any way (unless you live and die by the Solarium) it is just great for kids my son's age. The spa and the shopping are first class as one might expect. I just didn't use the spa or do any shopping other than some Icon swag and a failed search for antacid medication.

We sailed on Icon on Feb 24. Since then I have spent way too may hours creating a video review of our cruise. Yes it only took 2 months. It's geared for family with kids. Please watch the review if watching YouTube videos about cruises is your thing. Spoiler alert: ... we liked it?

I wish that was the case in my attempted booking. I would book a GTY $5300 icon room in a second if i knew I would get an ocean view room.

Thanks WAAYTOOO but I don't think I was ever given an option for ocean or neighborhood. We are pricing Icon cruises next year and if I am remembering correctly once I selected the category of balcony it gave me two options pick your room (which i guess would be type of balcony as well) and a guarenteed balcony with no further options.

Does a guaranteed balcony really mean that you could get an ocean view, or a central park, or royal promenade, or boardwalk? Is it just me or is that a ridiculous amount of variance? It seems like quite the gamble. Assume that you won't get an ocean view I guess? Is royal promenade any better than an interior room?

That is certainly interesting. I have been to CocoCay twice in the past couple of years and both times our ship was the only ship there that day. I guess that streak will come to an end.

That's some eagle eye pixel peeping. I am not sure that's a real picture of the ship, not that it matters. If it's on the deck plans I am sure it will be there.

There is going to be a lot of drunk dads going down this slide. I predict this get closed before the end of the year.

One night! A man can dream!

Found it! Maybe. This looks like a slide to me.

I personally am all for having more slides and fewer staircases.