DW makes a booklet for every cruise we take. Deck plans, comments, port info, weather - the whole gamut. We started one for Sun yesterday. This is a casino comp so it's pretty cheap. Best way for us to cruise nowadays. 😀 There are thing we'll like and things that are not our cup of tea. I expect we'll spend most of our time on decks 8 and 9. Though how the Sphere is used could be interesting. Like any new ship, we shall see.
Thanks for doing this. We'll be back on Silhouette in April, 2024, visiting a few favorite ports and a few new that you have hit. Tobago, St Lucia, Grenada will be new to us. Great pics, especially the food. 🙂
We've been to St Kitts a couple of times and just wander around the port shopping area. Plenty of local shops. There is a centralized open air bar with live music and dancers. The local beer was pretty good and reasonably priced. I think it was Caribe.
I'm not on Ruby. I'm going by some research we'd done for possible trips including Guadaloupe and Martinique. Also, the titles didn't say Death in Paradise. Sometimes the details did, sometimes you could find out from reviews.
Our only S-class disappointment was a TA last year on Reflection. We had a cabin problem that took 2 days just to get some attention, and we had to move. The really annoying thing was that, with <50% capacity, the bar service was very sub par. I expected just the opposite.
A few years ago, we started getting Player's Club comp offers. Basically, a free cruise with a few hundred casino credits added. We just pay the taxes and port fees for a deluxe balcony. We kick in a few hundred dollars to bump us up to a min-suite for anything longer than 7 days. Total cost for our 2025 Circle Caribbean is $1,980 with the bump up, gratuities and drink package. It's a great way to keep cruising as we go into retirement.