DragonOfTheSeas

I feel the same about this. I do not sail in full suites very often. However, there is really no incentive on an older ship. There are so few benefits it doesn't justify the cost. Voom is something they could offer. I get there is no space or number of potential guests for a Coastal Kitchen on these ships.

This is what we did with our DD. I selected boarding times for all of us. then she was able to enter passport info etc.

Wow! That is very nice. We were on the Anthem in March for my DH b-day. They did not do that.

I guess it depends on the ship. We were on the Liberty last May and we saw two groups of 14 brought and seated at tables that had been four tops all pushed together. They were across from u and I counted the seats.

I hope you were able to describe what he did in the survey. That is so far above and beyond. He should get praise for this. 🙂

I am interested to see how this boarding goes. We like the Norfolk area around the terminal. there is lots to see and do. There is also a lot of traffic. We sailed from there many years ago.

We were on the Anthem a week ago. Our DD had those each day. 😁

The 2pm matinee on the last day.

You are the one who needs all of our positive thoughts. What most of you don’t know is the Delta was on the Royal Caribbean cruise that left Baltimore and had to return to Norfolk. It was a bit of a train wreck there, but the best Royal Caribbean could do under the circumstances. So welcome back to dryland Delta blue.

post of the day. 🏆

While passenger vessels are not the main traffic at this port, they are still an important source of revenue for the area. Hotels, restaurants, parking, gas, etc. It does not make sense to build a new bridge without increasing the height. I know the other bridge is still a choke point. However, there are already plans to replace that one. too.

Sorry--I listed the correct event, just not the correct class. 😜 My bad!

We had this same situation last week. We just did not take access any Sky class benefits. We ignored the tours, top tier event and cheers with the officers. We were ok with that.

Thank you all for reading my thread. I find I pay more attention to the cruise when I am telling others about it. Here are a couple of final comments: I was very worried about the number of children that would be on this cruise. Someone on the FB thread said the number was 1600. I can't confirm that--but I would believe it. . . . and there were some children that were running amok. However, the vast majority of them were just being children. They were occasionally taking too loud, walking/running too fast and moving in packs. I must admit I spent all of my pool time in the solarium and had a Hideaway Beach pass on Coco Cay. [good strategy on my part HaHaHa] However, I have seen a lot worse behavior with less children. [and from adults] Some of the credit goes to RCL for all of the activities they had planned for the children. Food-- We felt the food was pretty good. Breakfast was excellent each day. We enjoyed the brunch on sea day. However, I felt it needed to stay open until at least 1 or 1:30 to be a true brunch. We enjoyed the stir fry station in the WJ. [so good] My DD enjoyed the chicken dishes. I enjoyed the lamb and the beef tenderloin. I do not feel it is a good idea to select steak. They seem tough and we avoid them. DD gives me grief about all of the soups I eat. I feel the cabin arrangement with the JS and the solo cabin worked out well for us and we would do this again on a ship that has this. We did not go to very many of the entertainment options so I can't really comment on those. However, DD did and enjoyed them. I really liked "We Will Rock You." I already gave my opinion of Spectra. Disembark was as smooth as we have ever had. We reported to Jaimie's for the assisted disembark at 8 am. They took us right away. We left the ship, took a taxi and got to the train station by 9am. I paid a fee to change our Amtrak tickets from 12:22pm to 9:23am and we were off. 🚆 It turned out to be a big plus. There was no waiting around and the later train ended up being late. I hope everyone made it home safely and you enjoy your next cruise!

We just got off the Anthem today. We had an employee anytime it was open.

They met us at breakfast this morning with complementary mimosas. Now that’s the way to end cruise.

We are back! Currently 6:05 am. So no worries about us arriving late. Wr kept her in good shape for the next cruise. Have a good time.

During dinner tonight, one of the crew-members dressed up and walked through the various dining rooms, entertaining the kids while they were waiting in line and at the tables. it appeared when he was walking that the alien was carrying him, and then he had a baby doll in his arms that moved its arms and head. It was really something. Ha ha ha. As if the “my time dining” lines weren’t crazy enough already.😜 he was happy for me to take his picture

If I hear that, it’s going to affect us in anyway even if it’s tomorrow morning, I will post so you’ll know. Have a great cruise.

I agree with you. The two MTD lines were huge and slow. We were so glad that we had been given the trial 6:30pm fixed seating.

Speaking of Norfolk. We are headed back to Norfolk to meet a helicopter from the Naval Air Station. During our “we will rock you” performance we heard an alpha, alpha alpha. Just a few minutes ago the captain came on and told us that we were going to meet helicopter because of medical emergency. This is our current location.

I’m sorry this post was supposed to be in another thread. For people who were coming to Norfolk. I didn’t notice I was in the wrong thread soon enough to delete it.

There is very little time between courses.

There are only two cruises in April. They leave on the fourth and 12 April. And then the vision goes to drydock until May. It’s too early at this point to decide what to do with those cruises. Officials keep saying it’s only going to take a few weeks not months. But I don’t think anyone knows that until they actually get in there and start seeing the particulars.