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colesc15

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On 1/14/2022 at 8:39 PM, colesc15 said:

Outside of the first day in regards to St Thomas, covid hasn't been mentioned once and it's been refreshing since back home every news story is about it. We both completely understand the risk involved with covid and will never downplay it, but we take our precautions and avoid situations you know could get you into a quarantine or catch it and we've up to this point had a phenomenal cruise 

And thank you for taking the time to share your experience!

it's been wonderful cruising with you. Can't wait to be onboard in a month!

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Thank you very much for a great review, @colesc15! We were on Allure back in September and had a great cruise on her. You brought back some wonderful memories! 
 

Since you mentioned that you’re flying home tomorrow, I hope you’re keeping an eye on the weather. From what I’m seeing on TV, there will be plenty of snow and ice, so things are unlikely to go as planned. Here in Florida, we’re not expecting snow or ice 😱, just high winds and rain in the AM. I hope that you and all of your Allure shipmates are able to make it home safely. 

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1 minute ago, colesc15 said:

At the airport for a long day. I love the facial recognition for customs VS the actual agents. Until next time friends! 


Many thanks for taking your time to bring us along. It is greatly appreciated.  
 

Safe travels home. 

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Thank you @colesc15 for the great live thread. The wife and I will be on Allure, if all things work out testing wise. (Hard to feel good about. Our son is getting married on Saturday, and my wife is visiting some family in San Diego, with a flight the following Friday). If all goes well we hope to have a great cruise like you did. Ready to roll with the punches.

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4 hours ago, colesc15 said:

At the airport for a long day. I love the facial recognition for customs VS the actual agents. Until next time friends! 20220116_092949.thumb.jpg.ae58a9c2c75ac8626f0ef4a172883ceb.jpg

Thanks so much for doing this the past week. We are heading out on the next 8 nighter and it was fantastic to see how things are going. I followed it from the start.

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Great report!  Just to add things that I don't think were mentioned:

Cleaning going on all the time.  As you sat down at any table the "available" sign was immediately turned to the "unavailable" side until you left then the table and chairs were washed and disinfected.  Playing 3-card poker, the dealer pumped hand sanitizer on your hands before you could touch the cards.  When you gave them your seapass, they wiped it down as well.  Had breakfast and one lunch in the MDR, never mixed tables and there were never two tables occupied next to each other.  Felt totally safe the whole time.

 

If we had to wait 40 seconds for an elevator, that was unusual.  Think that happened once.

 

Disembarking was the easiest ever.  You get a time to leave.  Put your bags out then in the morning go get breakfast them head back to your stateroom until your number is called.  We got off the ship a half hour before our time was scheduled.  Very smooth, never had to slow down all the way to the car.

 

Johnny Rockets has the best bacon.

 

Giovanni's has the best filet.  It is juicy and not as dried out as in Chops.

 

Drink package to buy on board on day 1 was $84 but second one was 50% off so about what we paid pre-cruise.

 

I was a little disappointed that the casino does not let a husband and wife combine points for future cruises.  But I got over it.  Both of us got Prime with 2500 points.

 

We had a great time and Roual Caribbean is top notch.  I don't think they could have done a better job!

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17 minutes ago, fndumb said:

Great report!  Just to add things that I don't think were mentioned:

Cleaning going on all the time.  As you sat down at any table the "available" sign was immediately turned to the "unavailable" side until you left then the table and chairs were washed and disinfected.  Playing 3-card poker, the dealer pumped hand sanitizer on your hands before you could touch the cards.  When you gave them your seapass, they wiped it down as well.  Had breakfast and one lunch in the MDR, never mixed tables and there were never two tables occupied next to each other.  Felt totally safe the whole time.

 

If we had to wait 40 seconds for an elevator, that was unusual.  Think that happened once.

 

Disembarking was the easiest ever.  You get a time to leave.  Put your bags out then in the morning go get breakfast them head back to your stateroom until your number is called.  We got off the ship a half hour before our time was scheduled.  Very smooth, never had to slow down all the way to the car.

 

Johnny Rockets has the best bacon.

 

Giovanni's has the best filet.  It is juicy and not as dried out as in Chops.

 

Drink package to buy on board on day 1 was $84 but second one was 50% off so about what we paid pre-cruise.

 

I was a little disappointed that the casino does not let a husband and wife combine points for future cruises.  But I got over it.  Both of us got Prime with 2500 points.

 

We had a great time and Roual Caribbean is top notch.  I don't think they could have done a better job!

Have to agree with most everything except in our area of the MDR, prior to us being assigned a table, they attempted to squeeze us in to one of 3 tables for 2 that week maybe 15" apart. All 3 we're occupied every night but plenty of available spaced tables throughout the MDR. When they tried to squeeze us in on the first and second nights, I said no and they say us at a somewhat distanced table and we had that same table every night after.

 

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21 hours ago, wellsme1 said:

Yeah, I’d like to see the final report on this one.

I'm also curious. Eventually it will be made public by whichever authority has control over it. It will probably take a little digging but it will be out there. Same with plane crashes. Sometimes it can take up to a year or so.

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19 hours ago, colesc15 said:

Thank you! I figured it'd be higher than the previous week since we stopped at Coco Cay three times to do a crew swap. 

The previous week (the sailing that ended on January 8 ) had a higher rate (4.95%).

 

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