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"Each day, give a different stranger a free drink using your beverage package" ooh, i do like this one. We use to get a high off of giving adult couples with no kids our FastPasses to skip the line at Disney Parks.(Before Disney Nuked their fastpass system) Adults need nice things done for them sometimes when they least expect it. ❤️ The world can be so cold when you aren't a cute lil kid anymore.

No but in all Seriousness! You are right, I could definitely "sample" each port if it really came down to it.

perhaps I should look more into the free stuff at CocoCay. It seemed that the only free stuff was: food, drink**, and beach chairs + ocean. So i wrote it off. 🙂 **drink package willing

Might've been a coincidence, but we had amazing 110% service when the crew could BREATHE a little bit and it was less busy. It's like folks who stayed onboard were more relaxed and easygoing than the ppl rushing to hop on a tender boat. Even the kids seemed more chill. haha

Hi there, Me and the Husband did our first Cruise Feb 2023 and it seems that multiple people we spoke to were shocked that we had no plans to leave the ship until they Kicked us off on day 4. (Cali/Catalina Island/Ensenada/Cali Itinerary ). Last week we, by some stretch of luck and a neat travel agent, scored a balcony cabin on Icon of the Seas for 1/3 of the website price...and we still feel like we are going to skip all the ports and stay on the ship for all 7 days. We figure that there are enough Western Caribbean sailings available that those ports "aren't going anywhere" and We'd have a hard time justifying a 9K balcony room under normal Website prices, so I doubt we will be seeing the ICON again for at least half a decade. Heck, even Coco Cay seems less worth getting off the ship for if Icon already has a smorgasbord of lounging areas and its OWN water park baked into the crust. IDK are we making a mistake by skipping ports and soaking up as much of the "brand new ship smell" as possible? Are we "Cruising wrong"?