MBFergie

We brought 2 bottles of wine in our luggage. I did use Just Because of You to order a few cases of water (there were 21 in our group), a case of beer for my husband and champagne and wine for my parents. JBof Y was awesome! The packages arrived just after the muster drill. Our room steward was awesome and kept a small cooler we brought filled with ice for the beer. The last night we brought the wine to quest and the waitress brought us an extra glass. Carlos brought us champagne glasses to my parents suite for a champagne toast, nobody was upset that we didn't buy bottles from RCI. Trust me..we spent enough on wines at dinners too!

We went to Chops on the 3rd night of a 4 day. I would have preferred the last night and I found the menu so-so. Since we were with a large group we went to reg. dinner first and had a glass of wine, everybody loved the italian night. We found Chops average, my filet was good, my husband and daughters steaks were average. The spinach was not to our liking. The mississippi mud pie was yummy! Service was average. If we had a do over I would have skipped Chops.

Dinner in the dining room was better then expected. The cafe at the Solarium could use some help. Room service food was also lacking, but the cookies were good. We never ordered breakfast from room service, only late night food. Teens ordered everynight tons of food.

I loved the EOS but wished there was less smoking. The casino was extremely smoky, everynight when I would kiss my son good night he pushed me away and told me I was too smoky smelling. The bars seemed the same way. Maybe we just had alot of smokers on board.

We had conceirge service. Wish we had Julian. Carlos was very efficient but not overly personal. He made reference that Julian may be going to a different ship when shortly after getting back from his vacation.

The pools were packed on the sea day but you could still find chairs. Did not find to much chair hogging. I felt the Solarium was too hot everytime I went in there, looked beautiful just need more air circulating.

PennState-I think we were on the same cruise, 6/14-6/18. Did you have a son with you who goes to PennState. When my son was at one of the bingos and the card was blue the staff said what does blue stand for and my son yelled Penn State..the kid behind us yelled "yeah", he goes there. Don't know where my son came up with that..sports junkie I guess.