CrystalSeas

Hi HappyChippy, not sure if you'll get to catch this post or not but if you see this, want to THANK you and let you know yours is the gift that keeps on giving!!! :) I feel like I just went on your cruise! I'm getting ready for 8 days on the Adventure on November 10th (2018!), and although she's been thru drydock since the time of your review, and we're sailing out of Port Everglades, we'll be visiting a couple of the same ports and I wanted to have a first-hand look at the ship! Thanks for all your hard work, I appreciate everything...I'm even more excited now than I was before!!!

Daisy, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I bookmarked this thread but no need...I just read this ENTIRE thread, every post, every word and you are AMAZING! I LOVE live reviews and I absolutely relished everything you wrote about about your trip, every photo...ALL of it!

Okay, so I have the funniest thing to tell you...

My husband and I love cruises and ironically, OUR last cruise was on the Anthem too! Anyway, just today, we got the 'itch' for another big boat ride (hah!)! I started looking this morning...it was either going to be the Anthem or the Grandeur and, crazy, but we didn't even have to think twice. The Grandeur quickly won out and I picked up the phone and we booked a cruise on her!!!

I. am. beyond. excited. We were on the Grandeur back in 2015 and we LOVED her. (By the way, I SO get it when you describe the differences between the Anthem and the Grandeur. There are wonderful things to say about both of these ships, aren't there??? I love them BOTH for very, very different reasons!)

Since I'm in Maryland I've always considered the Grandeur my 'home ship', I always said I'd be on her again and I am SO excited it's now coming to pass! Anyway, I was very curious as to what may have changed after her Spring, 2017 refurb and couldn't find all that much on it. That's what brought me to reading your Live Review. I didn't mean to, but ended up just reading it all from start-to-finish in its entirety tonight!!!

Anyway, after finishing the thread just now and feeling like I've actually gotten to know you (lol!) I finally got allllll the way down to the end...it was post #275 I think...that I realized...OMG...we're about to be CRUISING TOGETHER THIS COMING MARCH 15th, lol! That was actually the VERY SAME CRUISE I booked this morning!!!

When I read your words tonight I just about fell out of my CHAIR!!! :') :') :')

Toooo funny!!! So I thought I just had to share that with you! :hearteyes:

((((Abe)))) you wonderful, wonderful person you!!! :) A gazillion thanks! I am not packed, nor is my house in any shape for our house sitters, and we are 48 hours away from sailaway...BUT, your thread was SO worth every moment it took to read it!!!

This will be my first journey on the Anthem and I CAN'T WAIT!!! (After reading your post, I can't wait even MORE!!!) Just had to weigh in and say thanks!!! ;) :*