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I will be sailing on the Harmony of the Seas on Feb 18, 2017 Join and follow my live blog of my trip and I explore the ship and Ports of Call Nassau, St Thomas and St Marten

We're cruising on Harmony and the on-line check-in had an "Arrival Appointment" option, but times were only between 2-4p. Is the appmt just an option and if you want to get on board earlier, can you just show up at the pier at 11:30 like the other ships allow? We want to get on board as early as possible. Thanks!!

We are on Harmony of the Seas out of Barcelona this weekend (10th July) if anyone still has any specific photo requests or wants us to check out or ask anything whilst we are on there just let us know before the 9th. Can't wait for this one :) and booked in Sabor on Day 1 for some lovely Guacamole > Matt we are trusting you are right on this :) Mark & Lindsey

Hi guys, I have recently returned from a visit onboard the new Harmony of the seas. If any of you lucky people are booked to go or are thinking of going then please check my blog out for an in-depth look at the ship and all she has to offer. http://annualleave.blog.com/2016/05/23/harmony-of-the-seas/ Any questions please feel free to ask on here or at my twitter page - @dann85 More blogs to follow soon for other holiday/cruises Enjoy :)

I don't know if I should be terrified or excited... 10 days till I try it out tho....

Anyone have experience bringing wine on a B2B? We are 12 days away from Harmony and are doing her first two sailings B2B. We have the same two cabins for both sailings, so technically can bring 8 bottles between the two trips, and are wondering how they will handle this at check in...Has anyone gone thru this? I know it is likely to all depend on the local pier employees, but they should be following some sort of guidance.

For those of you who are booked on the 11 February 2017 sailing of the Harmony of the Seas (Stephanie ??), all dining options are open for booking ! This is a little surprising, really. This sailing is still 341 days out. This just goes to show that there is NO "norm" when it comes to when dining reservations options will open for any particular sailing. The dining options for my 23 December 2016 Navigator still aren't open. With the Harmony being a new build, I find open dining reservations this far ahead to be very unusual. Whatever... Just a note. I am in a 2 BR Aqua Theater Suite, which qualifies for the Star Suites package. This package is supposed to include unlimited specialty dining....however, when I chose a specialty restaurant to book, it showed the standard PP fee...so I did not book any specialty restaurants at this time. I will just wait and see what how they handle this. I have no interest in paying now and having them reimburse me later. Seems like a lot of unnecessary work. Surely they will figure out how make this work efficiently. Either that or I won't be making any specialty restaurant reservations until I get onboard and that sort of defeats the purpose of having open reservations options in advance... WOOHOO !

I cant wait to see what interesting blogs come out of " 99 days of harmony " I remember finding this website when it was 99 days of quantum and loved it, what are people most excited about for Harmony? I really don't know what I'm going to do once I get on there, maybe buy the drinks package although I might pre book that. maybe the slides will be open and I can periscope going down them.

Hi Everyone, Looking to make a reservation on Harmony. As much as I would love an ocean view balcony, its not in the budget. :angry: :( Has anyone stayed in boardwalk or central park balconies? Advantages? Dislikes? Recommendations? Looking forward to hearing from you! Thanks! Mel :)

Interesting that the dining reservations for my cruise on the Harmony in Feb 2017 shows the ability to reserve 150 Central Park. That is the only dining option available but it does appear that if you wanted to book 150 on that cruise, you could.

I noticed on the new deck plans for the Harmony that the 3 MDR levels are just labeled "Main Dining Room". Does that have any special significance ? Are they going to leave the MDR "open" like the old Oasis and Allure used to be ?

I thought it might be kinda fun to look at some of the differences between the Harmony and the Oasis/Allure. Deck 4 - The Blaze nightclub on the Allure/Oasis has become the Comedy Club on the Harmony. The old Comedy Club on the A/O is now the Diamond Lounge on the H. There is no Blaze nightclub at all on the H. Deck 5 - The Starbucks that is on the Promenade on the A/O is gone (you will see that H has moved it to the Boardwalk when you get to Deck 6). The Champagne Bar on the A/O will be a bionic bar on the H. The complementary restaurant on the A/O is called Silk. On the H this restaurant is named Chic. Deck 6 - It appears that they have removed 2 of the interior rooms that they added during the A/O refurb. The Starbucks has been moved from Deck 5 up to Deck 6 on the H. Either the donut shop on the A/O has been removed on the H or they just haven't finished naming all of the little shop/retail areas on the Boardwalk of the H (a number of these spaces are just labeled "retail" at the moment. No doubt they will fill those names in later). The space that is labeled "Candy Beach/Star Pier" on the A/O is now an Arcade on the H. The bar that was smack, dab in the middle of the back of the Boardwalk on the A/O has been moved over closer to the Sabor restaurant. This seems like a good move. That bar was really in the way, IMO. Deck 8 - It looks like they have removed 1 interior room on the starboard side of the ship Deck 10 - It looks like they have converted/combined a couple of the smaller balcony rooms into Grand Suites. There are 6 GS on the Harmony (3 starboard, 3 port) and only 4 on the A/O (2 each side) Deck 11 - They have added 1 new interior room the front cluster of the ship. Again they have converted/combined some smaller balcony rooms into GS. Same config as Deck 10, 6 vs 4. What was the lower level of the Diamond Club on the A/O is now Wonderland restaurant on the H. It appears as if they have removed the Library that is on the A/O completely from the H. The 2 Grand Suites that they added to the aqua theater area on the A/O during drydock are now AquaSuite rooms on the H. They are much bigger than the GSs on the A/O. The GS on the A/O are 466 ft sq (room) 470 ft sq (balcony). On the H, these new AS rooms (classified A4) are 606 ft sq (room) and 626 ft sq (balcony). Deck 12 - Same conversion/combinations of balconies becoming GS. What was the upper level of the Diamond Club on the A/O is also Wonderland restaurant on the H. Similarly, the GS added to the aft during drydock for A/O are now AS (A4). These GS were 433/362 ft sq and the new AS are 604/631 ft sq. Deck 14 - The GS added to the aft during drydock for the A/O are again AS (A4). The GS were 421/136 ft sq. The new AS are 562/589 ft sq. Deck 15 - There appears to be some changes to the H2O zone (kids' pool area). It looks like they have added a water slide and made some other modifications. They seem to have moved the Wipe Out Café on the A/O a little bit and it's called Mini Bites on the H. Deck 16 - Either they have removed the Mast Bar that is on the A/O or they just haven't named it yet on the H. That space is just empty on the H deck plans. Deck 17 - Very curious. It looks as if they have removed both of the Royal Suites with balcony (RS) rooms on the A/O and replaced them with much smaller Crown Loft Suites (L2) on the H. It also looks like the Suite Lounge and Coastal Kitchen on the H are much smaller than the they are on the A/O. So, unless I have missed something (entirely possible) they have completely removed the biggest suites on the ship - the Royal Suites. Perhaps they had trouble keeping them sold since they are SOOOOO expensive. Who knows. Deck 18 - They have added a new upper level on the H that serves as the water slide launch area. So...once again they seem to be downgrading the Diamond Lounge, relegating it to some small, interior area on Deck 4 vs the beautiful glass area that it currently has on the O/A and have eliminated the Concierge Lounge completely (as both the Oasis and the Allure have as well). There are probably plenty of reallocation/changes of different staterooms/categories throughout the decks that I missed. I did not look at every room nor its category. I just got the ones that kinda stood out.