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Diamond Lounge: everything a knockout punch. Coffee machine is new and works great, snacks were the best I've seen in many years. We were cruising with family so didn't spend a lot of time there, but for the first time in years, we are tempted to spend more, at least on this lady. Only real disappointment was the quality at Johnny's. Didn't do too much WJ, we ate at Solarium Cafe often, breakfast and snacks, thought Sambas Grill was very good! I felt guilty though, so much wasted meat, just couldn't hold it. But worth the $$. Their short rib was to die for. I was quite satisfied with MDR. Ate lunch a couple times at Wipeout, it is what it is...Taco Bell, but I think Taco Bell is better. I love Taco Bell Chalupas! Big hit of the venues was Chops which shocked us. We'd almost sworn off it. They were terrific. Park 150 was a meh. Giovannis, so so, not as good as the Kitchen on Odyssey.

No grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I much prefer the chairs with the foot stools that slide under than the ones they have now!

That was then, this is now! RCCL is slowly but surely sailing away from us. My 2026 Anniversary year is completely blank and looking bleaker by the day. Looks like our upcoming Sept. ICON, blissfully cheap booked last October, may be our last.

Did a price check just now to re-evaluate and not only are there no accessibles at all to be had for the entire fall/winter season next year, even the interior gty is coming in at around $5200!!!!!!!!!!! Incredible! Compared with ours: 2373.00 Amount Paid 500.00 Balance Due $1873.60 Guess we should be overjoyed. There definitely won't be a repeat in my lifetime! 🥺

Absolutely! If we'd waited we wouldn't be going at all! This is all too rich for our blood. We've got 30th anniversary coming up Jan. 2026, so we wanted to get into possibly a loft, that's bad enough on the sisters, but just thinking about how much our lowly inside interior would cost today, we may be celebrating early on Icon! Sal, I am the same way, nothing touching me or I can't sleep. Unless I want to be clocked by my bull in a china shop. 🥴 We booked a deck 10 accessible

Exactly!

I am waiting for Hubs to help with compression on the time lapse vids, they were great. But we loved the cruise. Debarkation was harder than embarkation, but not too bad...on the road by 7:48am.

Trying to get a time lapse to post, but it's too big, will try some other method later. We did all the shows and found them to be pretty good. We walked out of Mamma Mia in 2014, but this version was pretty good. Blue Planet was disappointing since they reworked the production post pandemic and in my opinion ruined it with a bunch of woke politicking. Ish! Aqua Show great as usual. And Blades was fantastic. Had a blast with Finish that Lyric the MC was hysterical. Don't miss anything he does! Our time in Coz was as usual our favorite place, we chose Resort for a Day to Allegro resort. Stayed on board and enjoyed a leisurely day aboard for both Costa Maya and Roatan. Allegro has 2 huge pools and a kids pool with play toys and a jacuzzi. This hotel bought out Nachi Cocom which is just next door.

This is day 2 gorgeous weather:

This may take a while with pics but it'll be brief. Firstly, boarding is still a snap in the new terminal🥰 On in 15 minutes and finished with dining rez in 30 mins at Giovanni's, then salad and roast beef sandwich at Park Cafe...mmmmm Our GTY balcony was fine, as I remembered from 2014 I think they carved a little out of the regular cabins and seemed small. This made storing the Wheel Chair really difficult, but we did it, technique is everything. When exiting entering anything, elevator, venues etc. I would get out and hubs would push it in, faster and less hassle. But it worked great! Saved my energy! I prefer the old menus, but not enough to grouch about it. It's basically the same just categorized into themes. I was happy to see the portion sizes getting smaller, I hate waste. But they were absolutely totally accomodating to any request we made. We could order anything. My only complaint is the Strip Steak, still tough and stringy, ick! Chops was our first of 3 specialties. And absolutely without doubt the best of all 3! We loved Samba Grill also, but tooooo much food and we did it the last day, we were maxed out!. Park 150 was not as good as I remember. Giovanni's here wasn't the same as our Odyssey experience.. Didn't think JR's was very good. They've changed the "Works", not the same wonderful veggie dish. And I had a personal disappointment in the dry and leathery french toast of all things, both there and MDR. All in all, not really any major complaints. I took these pics of the towels which are NOT prison grade to prove it:

We liked ours but probably one and done for us. I am waiting for an actual authentic Thai restaurant experience on RCI. Maybe Utopia will include that. I much prefer Thai to other Asian food.

They refused to even talk about that until the word GTY was no longer on my booking, so I couldn't change it. It only actually switched to the room number on my set sail pass the day the docs came out and by then all the other cabins in that cat. were gone! 😡 Even though the cabin number was already determined in the bar code. It worked out well anyway. I'm happy.

You can see the port on port days, I fell asleep in Galveston with it on and all that clanking from loading the ship, lulled me to sleep. I watched the longshoremen loading, witnessed them running over someone's pink case too!

There are black out curtains on it! We loved ours on Navi...we have another on Voyager next year.

Did MTD this next cruise so did not email her...try it.

Annoying when people generalize and use finite terms, speaking for "EVERYBODY"? I never heard anything like that in the DL. We've made lifelong friends there who never hogged chairs and never bragged about anything. Looks like we are in good company Doghog

When it's working! 🤔

You understand that this info changes sometimes from one week to the next don't you? You should have plenty of time to observe your own schedule on the app in October a couple weeks before yours. Even if you could see todays schedule, it may be vastly different in October.

And no trays, I've hated missing the trays, you have to make multiple trips to get food drinks and dessert. Wish they'd bring the trays back.

There is no strategy....total mystery.

Mostly We never got the email and sat in the centrum waiting and waiting bugging the Loyalty Amb. Finally, she said,...Guess we are full up, I'll have a bottle of wine brought to your room" It stunk...seriously horrible...but we told our steward and he managed to bring a better one.

Lately, there haven't been many winning bids, the ships are just too full. Maybe after September when kids are back in school completely. Good luck.

My hubs is an absolutely packing maniac. Ex military, get it all in a cigar box type. He can pack anything in anything. It's a game with him and me to try to get everything we need in as small a bag as possible. Right now, I'm looking at our packed bags for our cruise next week. One 22" carry on for each of us, a backpack for him, a big beach bag for me and an underseat bag for shoes/incidentals. All bags will be checked so I'll be in my wheelchair with my beach bag on my lap and we walk on ship with almost nothing. You can get an unbelievable amount of clothing in a carry on! Just sayin. Everything goes under the bed with no problem. When we arrive at room, we unpack everything and stow in cabin storage. We roll it off and self debark, no luggage in the hall.

On Odyssey last December, the glass walkway around it was broken while we watched sailaway from it. A lady brought a glass beer bottle onto the walk and dropped it just right. All this whilst I was trying to reassure a lady that it couldn't possibly break! 🥴 The Cpt said the next day, no one would've fallen through it, two plates of 3 inch safety glass and the one on the top was the only one cracked...here's a pic I got: I bet it was hefty to replace the glass