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So glad you have shared comments and pictures from your experience.  We enjoyed our Panama Canal voyage on Holland last year.  We are on the vision in January and i had hoped the food would be very good but guess i better lower my expectations based on some of the experiences noted on this board.  I know food is not all that you go for but on this trip it wasn’t so many great ports that were included and we were going to chill out and enjoy the dining and a few shows......again, thanks for the comments or tips you have given

Thanks for everything you have posted and for the time and effort it took. 

I might have missed something in earlier posts was was wondering:

1. Have the night time shows on Vision been good?

2. Could you post a sample of the daily activity schedule if you get a chance.....any day....just a sample

thanks again and the pictures have been great

Thanks for everything you have posted and for the time and effort it took.  If you have a chance later and can post a sample of royal carribean daily itinerary/newsletter we would love it since we are going on vision in January and would love to see what one looks like ......

Sorry you dont feel well.  Hope you are much better tomorrow.  Enjoying your posts very much!!

Enjoying your posts very much.   Are you finding that email and social media is slow or just uploading the pictures.  Still trying to decide if we purchase the internet/WiFi package for our January trip.

After on-line check in my paperwork says arrival time 11:30-12:00.  Thought i had read that no rooms ready till about 1:00.  We will have a few things with us I prefer to not check in with other luggage like 2 cpap machines and bag with meds.  Can anyone offer a few thoughts about where you stay if room not ready.....are the dining options already overwhelmed with people ......just need tips on what we should do or if it is better to wait until 1:00 to even try to get checked in.  We will be going out of New Orleans for the first time and I am not sure how long it takes to get parked and processed at that port.  We have made decision to try to get parked in attached port parking area if we can locate a space.   Any thoughts or tips appreciated.   

We will be on vision of the seas in early January visiting cococay.  We have been reading about the 200 million upgrade.  I kept looking for recent comments on current level of services, tender details, if food/buffet is included at no costs???  Can anyone share some details?   Appreciate it very much.

Enjoying your posts very much.   This lets us relive our trip through Canal last year and we get to see areas around the ship which we will sail on in January .    Thanks!!!

Since we have not been to Nassau before could I ask following form anyone:

1.  Is is safe and easy walk to do independent walk tour of the distillery, cigar and chocolate tour stops

2.  Can you purchase and bring back to US any cigars without major ordeal with customs

Ok thanks......I guess we have been lucky and on last princess and holland cruise as they had received some major updating with interiors (carpets, linens, dining chairs, deck chairs). because we had also sailed them before drydock so we knew what they looked like before drydock.     but it doesnt matter because i plan to have a good time and am confident their routine maint will help it look fine.  Thanks for all the pictures and comments

I had hoped drydock on ship her age was going to include upholstery and linens but guess that was wishful thinking.  We are scheduled on deck 8 so hope that issue with the leaks got fixed and rooms cleaned back up good.  We have sailed holland and princess several times and we like mid size ships rather than larger ones and dont need all the bells and whistles at our age.  We had chance at this one leaving from port we can drive to and i had hoped it would be fresh and clean after dry dock but maybe that was wishful thinking...........thanks for update

Enjoying pictures of different things you see and run across .....been thinking about the outlets as most cabins dont have many......we have a cpap so hope there are some near bed as well.....appreciate the updates to familiarize our group with the ship a bit prior to getting on.  We have been on holland and princess but upcoming cruise on vision will be first on RC

Thanks for pictures of the menus or activities and public spaces.  Enjoying your live updates.   Have a great trip

Thanks so much.  Will be looking forward to everything you post!!

Thanks so much!!!

Thank you so much for the pictures and updates.  We hope to see and hear more.  We are going to be on Vision Jan 5 out of New Orleans.  We have been on several Princess and Holland trips but have not sailed Royal C before and have been appreciative for all your posts. Thanks again for pictures of any sights around ship as we are also attempting to acclamate a few other senior citizens who will be with us on upcoming trip......some who have never cruised at all .........so your pictures and general comments will help them to get a feel of things.  We did Panama Canal back in Dec on Holland and loved it so we hope you have a great trip.

Anyone on Vision or been on Vision since drydock that could give us pictures of ship......we have never been on Royal Caribbean nor Vision and would love some idea of what ship looks like.  Yes I know I will eventually see it but we are helping some senior citizens get ready for their first cruise and were hoping for some pictures of cabins or public spaces since dry dock......thanks to anyone who can help........

Yes I was aware of not updating menus during drydocked, just wondered if they were on ship post drydock and going to ask them a few questions about how ship looked since dry dock.....

Thanks for response.   So was this before the drydock and updates?

Anymore updates from anyone on vision of seas right now?  I dont have access to the ap that was mentioned as to where to find some sample menus so any snapshots of them would be great.   Just excited and wondering what the ship looked like since dry dock.  Thanks for any update

Hope someone who is on Vision of Seas after drydock in a week or so will post some comments and pictures.  We have never been on Royal Carribean and looking forward to a Jan cruise out of New Orleans.   Thanks ahead for anyone who could give any update or menus of any equivalent ship.  Helping a few senior citizens get their thoughts and plans together.

Cruise lines vary like hotels as they can all have some good and bad ships.  Overall we have found RC to be above NCL but that also is strictly an opinion.  If your friend cruised others like princess or holland or celebrity and carnival she would have a more varied view of them as some do food slightly better and some do entertainment better and some have more busy activities and others do relaxation better.  But I would not put NCL at the top of the bunch.

As a mother of 3 and grandparent of 6 we have been fortunate to be on 9 cruises through the years with kids and grandkids all ages.........that said I now have these thoughts.  Taking kids that young is hard and you will not fully enjoy your trip so just count on that ahead.  I know it is your child and you might say you have no choice or that you really want your child with you (all very good answers) but please understand the ordeal can be exhausting with a baby.  Moving along......please honor above requests about not doing anything to shut down the pool.....because they will do it in a heart beat if they think someone has used the pool......and you will definitely become the well known disliked passenger on board so just dont chance it.  Also, it is hard to bathe babies In most cruise ship bathrooms unless you have a suite.  Space is hard to navigate so think ahead about a product to help with that and the fact that you can only carry so much on and off ship and through any airports.  Also, again from experience, crying babies in dining rooms does not win you any passenger awards so please take the baby out if they become fretful.  We all understand babies and love them but people pay a lot for cruises and dont care for crying babies when they are trying to eat a relaxing meal.   So have a great time but just be prepared for above type situations,

Any comments about food or copies of menus?

Any tips or comments from staff about proposed drydock changes?

Have a great trip!!

We got off in Corinto and would not worry with it next time. Very impoverished and undeveloped so next time we will just enjoy the ship that day