Jamie SC

Yes! I much prefer the MDR to the WJ when we're not in a hurry. It's a much more pleasant an experience. On ships that have them, the Solarium Bistro is a good choice for breakfast too.

Got put a plug in for MDR breakfast, it is a really great start to the day. Lunch on the other hand takes too long and will leave you stuffed. Enjoy!

Great thanks! I’ll take a chance on 7 and look into meds for us.
 

I get horribly motion sick in every situation so when I did my first cruise a few months back in November on Allure I got a patch from my doctor. I never got sick once. Most of the trip I never felt the ship move. One night we went through a storm and the waves got bad. On the upper levels I could really feel it but on 6 I felt nothing. If your daughter is old enough I would ask your doctor about the patch. It's a life saver!

I get horribly motion sick in every situation so when I did my first cruise a few months back in November on Allure I got a patch from my doctor. I never got sick once. Most of the trip I never felt the ship move. One night we went through a storm and the waves got bad. On the upper levels I could really feel it but on 6 I felt nothing. If your daughter is old enough I would ask your doctor about the patch. It's a life saver!

I get horribly motion sick in every situation so when I did my first cruise a few months back in November on Allure I got a patch from my doctor. I never got sick once. Most of the trip I never felt the ship move. One night we went through a storm and the waves got bad. On the upper levels I could really feel it but on 6 I felt nothing. If your daughter is old enough I would ask your doctor about the patch. It's a life saver!

Thanks so much. Hopefully my last cruise was full. My parents took a cruise 30+ years ago and my father hated it. Said it was crowded and boring and he will never cruise again. Because of him I never took a cruise until last month. I was amazed that it was nothing like he said. So I convinced him to try again and they will come with us in Feb. But I started worrying that maybe my first cruise was a fluke. Y'all are making feel so much better. It sounds like oasis class ships are just that way. I really want them to enjoy this trip. They don't get out much.

Thanks so much. Hopefully my last cruise was full. My parents took a cruise 30+ years ago and my father hated it. Said it was crowded and boring and he will never cruise again. Because of him I never took a cruise until last month. I was amazed that it was nothing like he said. So I convinced him to try again and they will come with us in Feb. But I started worrying that maybe my first cruise was a fluke. Y'all are making feel so much better. It sounds like oasis class ships are just that way. I really want them to enjoy this trip. They don't get out much.

I usually go to guest services, or the Loyalty Ambassador, on the second day and ask them.
They can give you the final count for your cruise. There’s always no-shows on embarkation day…or those unfortunate enough to be denied boarding for whatever reason. They can also give the breakdowns…how many kids and loyalty levels.
Then it’s easy to just Google the ship for capacity limits. They’ll have the numbers for full double occupancy and full to capacity.
Capacity is the top number allowed onboard that the available life boats and rafts can hold. In other words…having every available bed, pullout, drop down, crib or rollaway bed occupied will never happen. I have seen once where they offloaded some crew members and put them up in local hotels for a week because we had so many guests onboard. Recently, there was a story where some cruise passengers had to be disembarked mid-cruise due to damage to some life boats. The maximum amount of souls onboard is the amount that the life boats and rafts can handle.

You can certainly ask, but not sure if they'll be able to accommodate you.
I find in practice people are in flux with respect to seating, so you may not need it.

Dinning correspondence tend to be the exception. I think they get a reply because the customer service people actually know the answers. My guess is most general questions don't get a reply because the folks reading the questions are not really trained in much of anything. In the old days the reps lived in the same country as the provider and were given (and encouraged to take) FAM (familiarization) Trips at deeply discounted rates. The customer service people actually understood the questions because they "got" the product. Most today only have cruise knowledge based on "stock" answers they are given. And the experience and expectations etc of a cruise (or any vacation) is a foreign concept to them. So the questions (IMHO) don't really make sense to them. 

For the OP: 100% capacity is 2 passengers in every cabin (like double occupancy in a hotel).  Over 100% is bodies in sofa beds and Pullmans.
Our last 3 cruises were all varying degrees over 100% on Jewel Wonder & Mariner. Wonder was 263 passengers short of absolute maximum occupancy. Lot o' people  no matter how you slice it; the ships handle it pretty well.....except for the elevators. 🤪

I think most ships now are pretty full.  I never have felt overwhelmed with the amount of people on ships.  There is definitely times and places there are lots of people at one time but also are places to get away from people.   Even though the larger ships have more people, they also have more space.  So it all equals out. 

I've seen posts and YouTube videos where people have said how full to capacity their cruise ship was when they sailed. How do you find that out? I cruised for the first time a few weeks ago on Allure and was amazed at how not crowded the ship felt. I wondered if it was the size of the ship or if a lot of rooms were empty. I'm going again in February and it would be neat to know if it's at capacity or not.