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It's not about "entitlement". If they were making small talk with the wait staff, (how long have you been with the cruise line, what's life like in your home country) that's fine. But to be interrupted with "how is your meal" and "make sure you select 10 on your survey" 7-10 times by 4 different people every night of your dining experience gets at least uncomfortable if not annoying.

Constantly interrupting diners with questions that they're forced to ask is not seeking a bit of joy.

They show NHL regular season games at Playmakers on RCL, as well as NBA, NCAA sports AND Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime. Plus, being diamond, the 4 comp drinks/day at Playmakers is a nice place to enjoy them.

Hopefully, they'll have some NFL on today. Yesterday wasn't looking good.

College football Saturday and that's what sports they're showing? Ugh.

Let us know about the football coverage onboard. 😃🍺🏈 Also, has Carnival caught up and started televising the TNF game? TIA.

Like the similarly-built Carnival Vista class, this ship gets some of the worst space-to-passenger ratio scores in the industry. Plus, no SkyBox sports bar.

Don't these people know that wearing shorts in the MDR affects the quality of the food?

I was on the Oasis 10/16 sailing out of Bayonne. There was no mandatory masking of the crew whatsoever.

Makes no sense to even do that before the cruise. Afterwards, maybe, if you're curious.

Been the same shows since the ship started sailing in 2015.

RCCL doesn't have a revenue problem when allowing their drink packages to be used on their multiple private islands.

The Icon of the Seas is targeted toward young families and it's first sailing in January of '24' is completely sold out.....15 months ahead of it's departure date.

I was able to do it on my Sept '21' and Oct '21' cruises on Oasis, and my Nov '21' Symphony sailing. But, wasn't able to do it last week on the Oasis this time. Specific to particular bar manager's rules?

Symphony has Playmakers on it's boardwalk, Allure still has the pay-Mexican restaurant. No ridiculous Abyss slide on Allure.

This is how I feel when I see the "pizza" they serve onboard. As someone from the NE, NJ specifically, it boggles my mind when I see those 30-minute+ lines.

Were you at Playmakers often? If you were, I bet we drank at the same bar a few times.

I hung on my balcony on the Oasis with a beer bucket to watch some college football last Saturday and did not come across anything like the Big 10 on Fox. It was only Houston/Navy and UT Martin/Tennessee on the noon slate. I was able to stream OK St/Baylor on my laptop. In fact, they couldn't show any Phillies NLCS games because the ship couldn't show anything on FOX (no contract). A lot of unhappy Phillies fans onboard.

Wholeheartedly agree. I became diamond last year after covid changed diamond protocols. I was in the diamond lounges of the Oasis and Symphony and just didn't understand the furor over it. I'm sure it was different when that was the only place to the complimentary drinks, but now??.....Meh.

I was in the cabin to the right last week. Nice short walk to Playmakers.

Guess I'll find out the same time you will. I'll be onboard next week too. 🙂

Benny, any word on when/if Starlink will be installed on the Oasis?

Any reason why the barstools are removed at the Playmakers bar?

Thank you!!

Andrew, is there any possibility you can check out Playmakers some time tonight to see if they get the Thursday Night Football game onboard? I know it's been reported that RCL does get it through the Amazon Prime stream, I'm just looking for consistiency. TIA,