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As far as filling up at dispensers, my wife saw this happening in the buffet but from previous experience on RCI & Celebrity it is strictly forbidden. Carnival were happy to let us carry on as much water/soda as we could carry but Costa do make a point of saying no drinks of any kind but in typical Italian style they seem relaxed when it comes to enforcement.

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We’ve recently returned from Dubai cruise On Mediterranea so might be able to shed some light on your questions.

You’re right, all drinks packages are ‘by the glass’ and bottles of water were charged at €1.70/2.50 +15% per 50cl/litre. Sometimes there was someone offering it at debarkation, other times not and we had to go to a bar for it.

We were never challenged when returning to the ship with water. Sometimes they never even scanned our bags, though that could have had something to do with it being virtually impossible to buy any bottles of alcoholic drinks at our ports of call around the Persian Gulf (not that we were looking for it anyway).

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....which are Celebrity ships, that have no comparison with their aft facing staterooms compared to RCI. The OP is asking about Adventure of the Seas, which is an RCI ship. (But indeed similar to the Independence of the Seas you refer to).

 

RCI Voyager class (of which Adventure is one) have completely different aft design and structure - compared to Celebrity Millennium class ships - which does limit the aft facing balcony view, in particular when looking down. However, there would be no obstruction with a mid-ship / aft side location, which is the comparison being asked. The aft facing balconies are larger as well. Aside from view direction, IMO those would be the only distinctive differences between the two.

 

Can't answer regarding the reported door noise you refer to from the crew outdoor lounge on deck 5.

I stand corrected. I can only imagine the confusion caused by my Millenium reference.

My first response, however, to the OP stands; it depends on the design of the ship and both Adventure and Independence, although different classes, appear to share stern design similarities.

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Which deck?

 

 

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It was on deck 6. There are plenty of CC posts about Millenium class cabin 6410.

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First time cruiser,,, Opinion and advice on very back AFT cabin on the corner vs Aft almost mid ship spacious balcony cabin

 

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I think it depends on the ship design - we were assigned a rear corner cabin when booked a gtee balcony on Independence. When we read that previous occupants had suffered irritation of constant door banging of crew entering and leaving their smoking area directly below alarm bells started ringing. Thankfully our TA records all booking calls and had to accept that their consultant had assured us there were no restricted balcony views on IotS and had to agree that our assigned cabin also had a vista severely restricted by the ships structure so persuaded RCI to waive their no change gtee rule.

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