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That looks like a great place!

Is that a Royal booked excursion or did you just head over there yourself?

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Amazing pics of CK food, thanks!

Wanted to let you guys know, on Allure's Sail Away at 4:30 from Port Everglades, the Port Everglades Cam will be Zooming in on my 10th Deck, Portside, Balcony Cabin.

I have sent a message to the Wave hi Cam on what my Location will be.

 

Here is the Web Site for PTZtv's Web Cam's that stream live video.

 

http://www.ptztv.com

 

 

 

 

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This is ONE of the Signs, I will have on my Balcony.

 

 

And this is what we will be waving in the Air!!!

 

Lol that's awesome, can't wait to see!

I'm following you on periscope now. Thanks for doing this, how exciting for everyone.

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Excellent, how exciting! We will be following as well! Thank you for doing this.

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Hi Kat, we will be following. Thanks for doing this! So excited for you!

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Thank you for the class review. I was also wondering about the water replenishment in suite as the Sky Class amenity lists "Bottled Water" not "Bottle of Water" leading me to think there are more than one haha.

For my first few cruises I use to bring water on board but then I tried their filtered tap water and it was fine, but that was on the oasis, the Empress water may be a bit different on a 25 year old ship--going to assume that's been upgraded a few times too.

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Hi Chris, keep it up, loving it. I'm glad you're having such a great time!

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After that we headed back to the cabin and went to sleep.

 

We got off the ship early because we had carryons. The line was short at 8am. Last time we stayed on the Allure too long and the line was very long. I would recommend getting off earlier rather than later.

I would like to thank you for reading my review and for cruising with me. I want to try Quantum next , but my parents are paying so they said they get to decide.

Thank you for the amazing and informative review! Have a safe trip home and we look forward to your next review.

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These were taken Friday (5/6) afternoon from the Valor (parked next door in DD)...

 

 

Thank you for providing those!

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I think they look great! It adds some flare!

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Bon Voyage!!!

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I am anxious for photos too. I thought we could see pictures and hear reviews before our final payment was due. No such luck! We are on the July 9th cruise.

We are on the cruise right before you, July 4th. When we booked a few months ago we had no clue it was a new "older" ship. We just wanted to go on a smaller ship to have a different experience than the larger ones.

After reading the history on the Empress, we are embracing the hope that it will be newly refurbed and held to the same wonderful class like the other rccl cruises!

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I downloaded the Shipmate app for Royal Caribbean and found that there looks to be at least a few pics of the Empress post-renovation. Pretty exciting find for me, since I've been dying to show the family pictures of the boat we'll be on in a couple of months. Here's what to do if you want to check out the pictures yourself:

 

For Iphone users, go to the App store and search Ship Mate. Cruise Ship Mate for Carnival Cruising will be the first choice. (It's a little confusing that it says Carnival, but download it anyway and you can choose Royal Caribbean)

 

After you download the app, and choose RC, you can enter your upcoming cruise dates and ship. Then if you click on My Cruises-->Empress of the Seas--->you get to a screen that shows the number of days to your cruise at the top. But if you scroll down to Deck Maps and click, you can go to each deck. Clicking on Deck 3 for example just shows the deck map that is on the main RC website, no big news here. But if you continue to click on each Deck, there are rooms such as Main Dining Room on Deck 4, Chops Grill, Focus Photo gallery, Schooner Bar, Royal Theater etc. on Deck 5, and so on. If you click on these individual spaces on the app, it takes you to a photo with a little blurb about what the room activity is.

 

Now some of the photos seem dated, but as you click on and check out each deck, quite a few pictures seem to be with very new furniture, carpet, etc. and match the glimpses I've seen when crew members have posted incidental photos of their work on the ship.

 

Photos for Chops Grill, Schooner Bar, Boleros, Guest Services, Picture This studio, Card Room, Library, the Pool Bar, Adventure Ocean, The Spa all seem to be pictures of the new interior design scheme. Other images seem to NOT show updated or redecorated spaces, including: MDR, Viking Crown Lounge, Windjammer Cafe, Royal Theater don't seem to have the same brighter blue/white color scheme that I believe the ship has been updated to.

 

Also, the pictures of the Pool area and decks might not be updated-I can't see the movie screen which I know has been installed for example-BUT the pool does have the Royal Caribbean Crown and Anchor logo in the bottom of the pool, so maybe the angle for the photo just doesn't have the movie screen visible in the shot.

 

So take a look and let me know if you think that it is truly updated photos of the empress. I had a thought that maybe these are just stock photos of certain lounges in other ships that they use the same exact decorating scheme for every ship, but then could tell that they appeared to be actually on the Empress because you can see the views/windows of the ship. It's at least worth a look! I think the updated spaces look amazing and can't wait to see them in person!

That's pretty neat, thanks! [emoji1]

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Excellent blogging today!!

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Great play by play so far, loving the regular pics and periscopes!

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I will be in a Royal Family Suite on the 6/19 sailing out of Barcelona - I'll be sure to post pictures and comments!

That's terrific, thank you so much! We're very excited, it will be us and our three children as well!

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We are following as well! Cruising November 12th, 2016 -- 7 day inaugural Caribbean. I would love a tour of a royal family suite if you had the chance! Either way, enjoy and thank you.

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Terrific, thank you for the review Jack! Going to show my children, who are the same age as you!

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This is pretty neat so far and you're not even on the ship yet!

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What a great feeling to have!

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Thank you Bugsy, looking forward to your reviews.

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Bon Voyage from the Longos!

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Royal's smallest and mature ship in 64 days (honestly a bit apprehensive haha)!

Royal's largest and youngest ship in 196 days!

Polar opposites!

Thank you for taking the time to provide this feedback. We are very excited to do this one day.