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On 3/17/2019 at 9:08 PM, LuCruise said:

Our Room

 

We booked a Boardwalk Balcony room on the 10th floor.  This seemed like a perfect deck as it's not too high, and not too low.  I had always wanted to try this type of stateroom and this was a great opportunity.  I had debated on booking a room far aft (since booking on opening day, I had selection), but was a bit concerned about noise so went mid way at 10307.

 

 

The room had the full bed as usual and then a "double sofa" bed.  It looks like the picture above when you first enter the stateroom.  For anyone interested, the sofa bed is not actually a double sofa bed, but it turns into a flat sofa with another mattress that pulls out from underneath.  

 

This configuration actually worked great for our two kids as they each got their own mattress and sheets.  Much better than sharing a sofa bed.

 

In the day, our cabin steward put the beds back to the configuration below.  This gave us some floor space back, but yet probably made it easier for her to put the two beds back each evening (plus gave us cupboard space as the sheets and comforter took up important and limited space for shoes!).

 

Did you have any issues with noise at all having this boardwalk balcony?

I'm slightly worried about the upgrade i recently got from Royal Caribbean for an upcoming cruise on the Symphony of the Seas. I was upgraded from a central park balcony to boardwalk balcony and I'm concerned about the noise level, lights and also being alllllllll the way at the back of the ship. I'm not sure if I'll try out the guarantee cabin again.

Thank you so much for this incredible review. This is exactly what I needed! My husband, 5 year old son and I will be on the Escape March 2018. Looking forward to the reading more....😃

Wait - why don't they allow takeout from osheehan's?

We took a cab to Atlantis......$4 per person....approx. 15 minutes. We had booked a room using Marriott points. We went straight to the check in counter which is where the taxi drops you off and had our room keys within 5 minutes. They give you vouchers for bottles of water. We never actually went to the room, we simply went straight to the water park. We went to a towel hut to grab towels and our bracelets. It's a bit of a walk so I would say we got off the boat at around 12h30 and didn't get settled in until around 1h15. We did a good 3 hours of water park, walked around a bit, saw the aquariums and then took a cab back. Shopped a little and then back on the boat. For sure this would not have been worth it if we would have paid cruise ship excursion but since we used Marriott points it only cost us $67 resort fee so it was VERY worth it as the kids had an amazing time. When we got on the boat, we went straight to margaritaville as we wanted a pre-dinner nacho/beer, but we were very disappointed that it had closed at 5pm. Then we went to the room with the hopes of ordering nachos via room service, but none on the menu so I went down to O'sheehan's to grab wings and nachos BUT learned that they don't allow take out (I wanted to bring them back to wife and kids to end on balcony/relax). So out of luck for pre-diner snack.

 

 

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