Just Off Harmony

[neptune18]

Great ship and crew. Had deluxe drink package-well worth it.

Ate at Jamies twice-excellent, Park 150-best meal on ship, Chops-NY Strip was awful, definitely not prime beef,

and Wonderland-excellent, fun experience and you do not need to be a foodie to enjoy.

 

Lunches were at Park Cafe and dog house, as well as once at Sabor because kids got it with their Central Park balcony.

I'm not much of a Mexican fan but wife and kids loved it.

 

Shows were great. Saw Grease, Fine Line, comedy, headliner (Jeff Tracta, singing Trump from last years AGT who was hilarious). Didn't like Columbus. The talent was there but not a great show).

 

Did beach bungalow and wave runners in Labadee, Spoon food tour in San Juan (awesome) and Random Wind day sail in St Martin.

 

Ship is beautiful, overall a great cruise. I'm happy to answer any questions.

 

 

 

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[countess5]

What can go wrong on Harmony or any Oasis class ship?

 

Did a B2B in January on Harmony and loved it!

 

Doing a B2B on Symphony in 2020 and can’t wait!

[beachys]

Do you have any tips in regards to the bungalows? I have two reserved for our cruise.

[neptune18]

Few more points I forgot to mention. Flew into Miami and did two nights there pre-cruise because my kids (24 & 22) wanted Miami. Stayed at Hampton Brickell. Nice hotel in a great area. We liked Brickell better than South Beach.

 

Only had two dinners in dining room with completely different experiences. First, on night two was awful with awful service. Waiter had no personality and couldn't even tell us how the fish was prepared. The second time our waiter (female) was awesome and the food was not bad.

 

Smoking. I hesitate to bring it up but here goes. Smoking is allowed in an area on the port side of the pool deck. The entire smoking population of the ship must be there because you can't go near that area without literally getting smoked. We sat well forward of that area one sea day and it stunk all the way up to where we were. and it's not just cigarettes as there were always cigars and on several occasions pot being smoked as well. It didn't bother me that pot was being smoked but it was surprising. I guess that area is the Wild West of smoking.

[neptune18]

Do you have any tips in regards to the bungalows? I have two reserved for our cruise.

 

Get there as early as possible so you can pick which ones you want. We were at the door when the gangway opened so we had our pick. We had no. 5 which we liked. the only ones you probably don't want are 1 and whichever number is the last one.

[SP4]

Hi! Thanks so much for answering questions. What was the name of the tour in San Juan? Was it the food and culture tour? What did you do on it? Thanks again!

[neptune18]

Spoon food tour, booked privately. Lasted three to three and a half hours. Consisted of about five stops where we had food. It is essentially a walking/history/culture walking tour of Old San Juan with food stops along the way. My 24 and 22 year old sons enjoyed it very much as well.

[CruisingMarch2016]

Great info. Tells us more about the Random Wind Tour. We sailed with them on our last cruise but anxious to hear about the new boat? crew? etc.

How many people did you have on it?

 

Any additional information would be great.

 

Thanks,

[neptune18]

I'll give Random Wind a mixed review. The crew and new catamaran are great, as is the beach stop and Tarzan swing.

 

Here are our negatives:

1. At about 28 people it felt a little crowded.

2. There was some sort of "grill disaster" where the grill caught fire, burning the chicken so lunch consisted of

bread, rice and salad.

3. Smoking is allowed and apparently the designated smoking place is the only shaded part of the boat. I don't

know how you permit smoking in such a small confined place.

4. Okay, this is a strange one. There was a large family of about 15 on board who held a service for the late

husband of one of them where his ashes were scattered in the ocean after about a 15 minute religious ceremony.

It wasn't a huge deal but it made others uncomfortable as we had to watch while they

understandably became emotional. It certainly put a temporary lull in the party atmosphere. I can

only assume this had to have been cleared before hand and we all felt this was something they should

have done privately, and we, who paid for a premium experience, should not have been part of it.