vakmom

I was on the Seaside for the April 19th 4 day cruise. It was bad, really bad the first day. I'd brought a group on this cruise (we had a total of 5 cabins) and I was so worried at what I'd gotten us into. Over 3 hours in line to board, dinner running an hour late (we had to stand outside the door then when they let us in the previous diners were still at the table eating), no room service offered, bars severely understaffed, so many of the staff seemed new and confused. But as the cruise went on things seemed to improve. Everyone ended up having a great time in spite of the rocky start to the cruise. But we were a pretty easy going group. There were some very unhappy passengers onboard. It just didn't seem the staff had their shiza together at the beginning of the cruise. I felt bad for them though, they were doing their best, they were just under staffed.

We were on this same cruise! Just a heads up...no breakfast room service was available ( at least for our package fantasia). Our room steward said this was the first cruise after repositioning and that might explain it but he was unsure why. One of our friends tried to order room service twice for dinner and was able to get through one of those times but her food was never delivered. No deal breaker there was plenty of yummy food at the buffett and dining room. It's just to give you a heads up on that. Other than the crazy long onboarding line (3 hours) the rest of the cruise was fabulous! Y'all will have a great time!

And what was even more incredible was the fact auto-correct actually got his name right!

The 3rd bed was for our 19 yr old. None of us have mobility issues. I think in your situation they will make an exception. I certainly hope so at least.

We just got off the Dawn. We had 3 in a tight balcony cabin. Our Stewart told us he could not pull the sofa out and also fold it up. We would have to do one and he would do the other. The problem was he made our room mid afternoon. We would fold the bed away in the morning and he would unfold it around 3 pm. We were able to step on it to get to the balcony but I would not recommend it for anyone with mobility issues. If it was just the 2 of us the once a day service would have been fine with us. We even offered $$$ but he apologized and said he was not allowed to come back in later to unfold the bed. I felt bad for him he seemed so overworked.

We are traveling on the Dawn next week with our college aged daughter who will be utilizing the third person pull out sofa. How comfortable is the pull out? Would you recommend we bring a twin size foam mattress topper? Thanks!

Does anyone know if you can reserve a parking spot without prepaying? My spouse is a disabled vet (with DV tags) and I understand parking at the port is free but was unsure if we can reserve a spot or just show up. We are considering valet too and was wondering if we would just pay the difference in price. Thank you in advance!