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In allure I think we had most bags by 3. Room was ready at 1. Only thing that didn't show up until late was daughters back pack oddly

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It is pricey but to its worth the change. The food is better imho like going to a very nice steakhouse. You pay the fee then u order all u want. Appetizers, salads, main entree, dessert. U will be so full before dessert that u will have to find room ..[emoji12]to me mdr does ok but steak first night I had strip so tough, prime rib was good and another night they only had same steak and boring pasta dishes. To me it was fine in mdr but nothing exciting or different.

The only extra charge at choppes is the lobster which I heard was amazing. But u can do that at mdr on formal night for no cost and that was good

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Highly suggest Giovanni's and choppes. Amazing food and service. Steak at both. Pasta fresh at Giovanni's or seabass was amazing at Giovanni's

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Btw we never ate at wj. Dh tried was so busy he said no not again. I wished we did but park cafe was our go to for quick breakfast.

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We were on this same cruise. I started my review but haven't had time to finish. We did blue hole with marvyns paradise tours and we got there before or after crowds because it was not busy at all. We also did the river tubing and it was just our family on the river. All was great. As well as they took us to scotchies.

We were on oasis 4 years ago so we kind of knew what to expect. Did u see love and marriage or quest or battle of the sexes they had these shows on different nights and seriously funny.

Glad you enjoyed you are now spoiled!![emoji12]

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Book on ship u get less deposit and obc and can change. Benefits of booking on ship. I don't cruise often (not sure how you all afford to our 2 or more on calendar) but we sail every few years so I put one on calendar with hope to not change but things do change. So I will pay more for flexibility

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Or booking 2 and writing to see how airfare pans out.

 

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Seriously yes. I book a cruise fully intending on getting my airfare. Same s any vacation I take. I get we want the best price and book early but it seems prices go up based on availability etc. so if less people hold and then cancel maybe pricing wouldn't go up as there is less demand.

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Is that any different from booking 2 cruises and then taking whichever one is priced the best at final payment time?

Yes it is. Why hold cruises if you plan to cancel. I can see holding them because you are going to travel. But it's seems it's been abused

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I'm wondering the same. Hubby says no way to nj port. And I'm like why not. We've sailed twice out of fll on oasis class and I want to try the anthem. I don't care if some is indoors because we travel in June and Its hot and humid outside as well . I'd love to do the southern itinerary. So following along. As to pro/cons or if any. And differences in ship

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I like this idea somewhat especially when I hear many hold multiple rooms:cruises and then just continually cancel. We always take our cruise. Booked on the ship to get low deposits and obc but had to move out due to change of plans or better pricing. But to hold multiple cruises and then cancel doesn't benefit other travelers.

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I did the drink package. Allcoffee specialty and liquor coffees included. Well worth it in my opinion. Coffee was good and can get at any restaurant while dining or cafe promenade or park cafe.

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Cafe promenade on oasis class has specialty.

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Symphony will be out of Miami new terminal. I think that's great as Miami is great to visit as well

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Don't do deck 9. 10 would be nice.

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Sorry if this is all over the place doing this quick while I have breaks.

So we enjoyed dinner but the strip steak I ordered was tough. But overall it was good and the chocolate cake was great. After that we saw ocean aria had reservations amazing!! Then we were pretty tired and called it a night. Will come back and go onto Day 2

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So we headed to mtd. I didn't realize that all my time dining was in the American icon room. It's nice but it appeared the grande and silk were a lot nicer. The thing I think mho is assigned dining time I think u get better service. You have the same the staff every time you go. I felt with mtd you get different staff they don't you, what you like or what you drink etc. but it did seem to be quicker and liked being to go when I want to. But I did realize we are around 7-7:30 and our shows some were not until later. So the later assigned dining would have been fine for this and more time doing other things. Found we would have an hour in between dinner to a show which was nice too but I think I'd rather have more time before dinner.

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We love the rooms it's just the deck we are on. You might experience noise being just below the pool deck , teens club etc. I'm not sure tho. I love being kid ship just not right above Central park

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Hi. Not sure if I mentioned our room location. We have two connecting rooms. Deck 9 above Central Park a bit noisy. We are right above the trellis bar and every night around 12-2am it gets noisy as I think they are cleaning. I definitely would avoid deck 9. But we absolutely love the connecting rooms and would do this all the time.

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We heard samba was great as well as park 150. I made reservations for park 150 for Friday. Please let me know if it's worth it and to ditch my time dining with the kids.

We did choppes last night fantastic again!

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Yep!

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I'll post this in my review too but quickly for those that don't know as I didn't. As you know you can takes pics around the ship off and on. There are packages to buy. It's a wonderful way to capture moments and family photos. Well they offer it was a package price if 296. If you buy early for us we saved 100 bucks so it cost us 196 for either 100 prints or digital all photos. This is An amazing deal and there photo ops are fantastic. And the photos always come out beautiful. You can't get this price at home. And beautiful backgrounds or just plain backgrounds. We took advantage of this. The trick is find all the areas and times they take photos and be ready to get your pic taken. At the end of the cruise you will have amazing memories .. you can get separate ones if your kids or all together etc. I just think it's a great option as we live family photos .. plan on bringing outfits casual or dressy to change for each night or photo op

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Ok here is the correct info as I found out and thank u to everyone. We were in Labadee yesterday. As soon as you get off the ship there is an area with towel bins to check out towels. We did that and you check them back in as you return.

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Once on ship we walked around then headed to park cafe. At this time ship was not too crowded. Yummy salads and beef sandwich. We enjoyed and cheesecake. After that we went to tour ship. First stop kids club signed my son up he saw it and left. Then to find teens club found that and left. Then to get bracelets for kiddos for the waivers I signed on line for zip line and flowrider. My son was not tall enough for flowrider but the guy behind the desk thanked me for filling out my papers on line and quashed more did that as it saved alit of time .. it's super easy you just go your cruises and sign waivers for everyone before you leave. So all that stuff was done out of the way and no crazy lines .. then we headed to room it was about 1pm. Got there got in room and one bag arrive. Yes! After that we decided to go swim it was soo hot. So we walked around, swam etc then back to cabin for main dining room. We had my time dining. Some tips and just thoughts on this next .....

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Ok wanted to post my review to help others as you have helped me plan this trip. Family cruised oasis 4 years ago. We took on this trip myself, dh , daughter age 14 and son age 9. I will post day to day as I can and any tips. We booked two connecting rooms on deck 9 view of Central Park.

Arrived from lax nonstop sat day before cruise booked Hyatt place. Last time we stayed in Bahia up on beAch. Hyatt was perfectly lovely but I prefer to bE near so next time back to Bahia. We had a small suite , breakfast included of course close to walk to shops restaurants. Checking in no issues since we arrived at 6am. We paid extra to get early checkin hot our room and slept til -12pm. We ate at Gilbert's first day for lunch. It was very good but just mostly a hamburger joint. We shopped went back and rested. Very tired. As we flew overnight. Dinner was at Kelly's landing very good. I had crab dh had surf and turf. Sunday checked out at 11 wanted to be at ship by 11:30. No problem took the hyatt shuttle paid the guy 20 bucks it was perfect. We did use Uber as well in fll. Got dropped they took out luggage. I only made 4 luggage tags they had a stapler stapled them on and gave me others and we wrote in the info took our bags and done! On our way . So if you don't have tags don't worry they have them ! As well as staplers for us half prepared ones!

Went to gold priority lines not bad moved fast and just like that we were on our way to park cafe.

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