Ontariocruisers Posted December 6, 2021 Report Share Posted December 6, 2021 New to the board and first Cruise ever for the Mrs. and Mr's first RC cruise. Sailed Carnival twice 13 and 15 years ago. Flew Toronto to Miami the day before, 2 hour drive to the airport with all delays, waiting, time at the airport it took close to 15 hours. We are going to try driving to Bayonne next cruise which is 9-10 hours. Pretty over air travel and being herded like cattle and all of the waiting. Shuttled from Fairfield Inn to the cruise terminal. Well organized and everything went smoothly. We were on the ship around noon and walked around the Promenade. Beautiful ship, staff absolutely amazing! We loved the slices of pizza, loves the coffee and desserts! We ate the pizza one slice at a time 2-3 times a day. Ate at the Windjammer for dinner the first 2 nights and it was great. We had great conversation with Aaron in the Windjammer. The last 2 nights we ate in the dining room which was amazing as well. We had french onion soup, tiger shrimp, prime rib, all so very good. We had breakfast in the Windjammer every morning which was great. Love the wash stations and the washy washy hostess who had to get firm with a few people that didn't want to wash their hands. 2 years in this pandemic and people like that is why we are still in it. Also several people still not washing hands after the restrooms in the airports and on the ship. Disgusting and sad. Our room was deck 8 Promenade view. Next cruise we will do deck 6, felt too high up but was still great and so quiet. We did not get off the ship and that was our plan. We aren't big beach people and we enjoyed the empty ship on the 2 port days. Coco Cay looked great but the views were more than enough for us. We soaked up a lot of sun on the ship and didn't have any regrets not getting off the ship. The layout and ease of getting around the ship made it that much better. We enjoyed wandering around getting coffee and finally just being on vacation again. Pretty calm sailing compared to my first cruise out of Long Beach. All in all what a terrific time we had and RC did a great job in all aspects. We look forward to sailing with RC again out of Bayonne. 10/10 and no complaints. We made sure to write names down of every crew member that impacted us. Passed their names along on the review e mail. Now we want to go back soon but will wait to see what this stupid omicron does first. Signed 2 happy RC cruisers! Also we used the fitness centre one day on the Wednesday and had a great full body workout that left our muscles quite satisfied. We work out a lot but on vacation we limit that to once or twice. Great workout facility with everything we needed. Took the stairs a lot so got some good cardio in as well. I rode the flow rider once to say I did it. Might do that once per cruise. PPPJJ-GCVAB, WAAAYTOOO, KristiZ and 1 other 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrznTxn Posted December 6, 2021 Report Share Posted December 6, 2021 Great review and typical of what we have seen so far. Have been on four ships out of four different ports so far this year and each one has been great. The crew has been fantastic on each one and the fewer folks on board has not hurt. Have only seen one long line at Windjammer so far at a breakfast time and they rearranged and adapted so it did not happen again with the distance protocols still in place. PPPJJ-GCVAB and WAYNO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ontariocruisers Posted December 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2021 6 minutes ago, CrznTxn said: Great review and typical of what we have seen so far. Have been on four ships out of four different ports so far this year and each one has been great. The crew has been fantastic on each one and the fewer folks on board has not hurt. Have only seen one long line at Windjammer so far at a breakfast time and they rearranged and adapted so it did not happen again with the distance protocols still in place. We aren't sure what the capacity was or how to find that out. Would be curious to know though. Seemed like not many got off at Nassau but the Coco Cay day felt like we had our own private cruise ship! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrznTxn Posted December 6, 2021 Report Share Posted December 6, 2021 9 minutes ago, Ontariocruisers said: We aren't sure what the capacity was or how to find that out. Would be curious to know though. Seemed like not many got off at Nassau but the Coco Cay day felt like we had our own private cruise ship! Was also true at our Nassau stop on folks staying on-board. Our Coco Cay stop was great, with only one ship there it seemed we had the place to ourselves even though almost everyone got off. As far as capacity, we asked Guest Services. Also found that if you are 50+% capacity Windjammer opens up in the evening for dinner. Our first time for this to happen may be later this month as it is already on the App. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ontariocruisers Posted December 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2021 12 minutes ago, CrznTxn said: Was also true at our Nassau stop on folks staying on-board. Our Coco Cay stop was great, with only one ship there it seemed we had the place to ourselves even though almost everyone got off. As far as capacity, we asked Guest Services. Also found that if you are 50+% capacity Windjammer opens up in the evening for dinner. Our first time for this to happen may be later this month as it is already on the App. Windjammer was open every night for dinner so I guess that tells us the ship was at least 50% full. There were hardly any lines for anything and we barely ever heard a thing at night in our room. I would love to know the capacity as every time we went to Sorrentos and the cafe we pretty much walked right up. PPPJJ-GCVAB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rene Desmarais Posted December 6, 2021 Report Share Posted December 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Ontariocruisers said: New to the board and first Cruise ever for the Mrs. and Mr's first RC cruise. Sailed Carnival twice 13 and 15 years ago. Flew Toronto to Miami the day before, 2 hour drive to the airport with all delays, waiting, time at the airport it took close to 15 hours. We are going to try driving to Bayonne next cruise which is 9-10 hours. Pretty over air travel and being herded like cattle and all of the waiting. Shuttled from Fairfield Inn to the cruise terminal. Well organized and everything went smoothly. We were on the ship around noon and walked around the Promenade. Beautiful ship, staff absolutely amazing! We loved the slices of pizza, loves the coffee and desserts! We ate the pizza one slice at a time 2-3 times a day. Ate at the Windjammer for dinner the first 2 nights and it was great. We had great conversation with Aaron in the Windjammer. The last 2 nights we ate in the dining room which was amazing as well. We had french onion soup, tiger shrimp, prime rib, all so very good. We had breakfast in the Windjammer every morning which was great. Love the wash stations and the washy washy hostess who had to get firm with a few people that didn't want to wash their hands. 2 years in this pandemic and people like that is why we are still in it. Also several people still not washing hands after the restrooms in the airports and on the ship. Disgusting and sad. Our room was deck 8 Promenade view. Next cruise we will do deck 6, felt too high up but was still great and so quiet. We did not get off the ship and that was our plan. We aren't big beach people and we enjoyed the empty ship on the 2 port days. Coco Cay looked great but the views were more than enough for us. We soaked up a lot of sun on the ship and didn't have any regrets not getting off the ship. The layout and ease of getting around the ship made it that much better. We enjoyed wandering around getting coffee and finally just being on vacation again. Pretty calm sailing compared to my first cruise out of Long Beach. All in all what a terrific time we had and RC did a great job in all aspects. We look forward to sailing with RC again out of Bayonne. 10/10 and no complaints. We made sure to write names down of every crew member that impacted us. Passed their names along on the review e mail. Now we want to go back soon but will wait to see what this stupid omicron does first. Signed 2 happy RC cruisers! Also we used the fitness centre one day on the Wednesday and had a great full body workout that left our muscles quite satisfied. We work out a lot but on vacation we limit that to once or twice. Great workout facility with everything we needed. Took the stairs a lot so got some good cardio in as well. I rode the flow rider once to say I did it. Might do that once per cruise. you waited 15 hrs for a ride from the airport to the Hotel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ontariocruisers Posted December 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2021 15 minutes ago, Rene Desmarais said: you waited 15 hrs for a ride from the airport to the Hotel? Hahahaha no no. I'll be more clear, from our door to the hotel in the Miami including all of the travel it took about 15 hours. You must think we are pretty easy going if I was ok with waiting 15 hours for the shuttle! Bahahaha PPPJJ-GCVAB and Rene Desmarais 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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