Hokie79

I have a question about the coastal kitchen.Because your in a JS you couldn't make reservations pre cruise & had to make them on board.Did you have any issues making them for any day or did you just show up?

No problem at all. Got all the times we wanted but we also eat on the earlier side. We went right up to Coastal Kitchen when we boarded and made reservations for the rest of the week. Not sure about walk ins. It seemed to get full around 6:30-7.

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Did they have anything special for the 4th on the ship?

 

 

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A BBQ on the boardwalk and all kinds of special foods at Windjammer for dinner.

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Could you post the results of a speed test?

I've seen downloads as high as 20.92 and as low as 1.10

Uploads as high as 11.22 and as low as 2.44

Ping is 223-236 pretty consistent

Definitely has its moments when it gets bogged down but pretty happy with it so far.

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Beautiful ship with friendly staff

Stateroom layout (in a JS and fits myself, wife and two DD's 4 and 7 comfortably.

Coastal Kitchen for dinner twice so far. Great food and service.

Aqua Theatre show amazing

Adventure Ocean, great staff and having a science lab, art studio and theatre have been great for the kids.

Windjammer (we usually are early birds and hit it when it first opens and haven't seen any of the crowds people talk about). The variety and quality have been at least as good as the two other RCI cruise we have been on. Easy with two young kids in tow.

Flow riders

Voom is quick and reliable so far. We have surf and stream package.

Misses:

Perfect storm water slides. When it's warm out it's easy to get stuck in the racer slides. The toilet bowl slide most people get one and a half times around and then have to crawl to the exit. Need more water flow or elevation change or something.

Splash away bay. Same issue as the perfect storm slides with one of the two slides. Also, kids have to be 42 inches to use anything but the diaper pool slide. My youngest is just shy and can't do any slides. I guess I missed this height requirement before sailing but it seems to have caught a lot of kids.

Dreamworks - only a few random meet and greats and one ok dance party. Would be nice to see the characters around the ship more. The kids all love it for even the very short time they see them.

I'm sure I'm missing a lot but thought I'd share part way in. Overall a great cruise and having lots of fun.

Will try and get another update later in the cruise.

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Harmony of the Seas had priority check in for JS this past Saturday. We just went in the entrance for suites. Interesting if Allure is different.

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