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There are a few emergency exits you can slip through also. I found them after I walked back from the far opposite end of the boardwalk at the beach. Didn't want to wind all through the port.

That's too bad. I'm just so glad they stop blaring the sound of whatever was on the TV all day. Not everyone wants to hear stupid sports commentary all day long.

Not true, there are 2 three foot slides in the splash pad ;). In October of 21 I went down them at least a few hundred times.

I'll still auto tip. But how exactly is paying half for half the service taking it out on the crew? This is what I really don't understand about tipping culture, why should someone tip the same regardless of service?

I agree with you. The only way it ever goes back is if people stop booking, which won't happen. Difference in a cruise cabin and a standard hotel room, though, is at least 100 square feet. I also don't tip the hotel cleaners $6/person/day. Sofa beds probably aren't that big of a deal to put up, not sure about the Pullmans, though.

A lot of Americans like ice and unlike a hotel or your house, there isn't an easy way to get ice otherwise on a ship.

I still want to know how they'll handle sofa beds and Pullmans and giving out paper campuses.

Have you never actually had table mates? After 6 nights, ~9-12 hours together, I'd hardly consider that not knowing each other.

I wonder if people in a full suite can order tails to their rooms. Get a full set before dinner, a full set at dinner, and another full set after dinner.

Last time I was on Liberty the broken screen was a selling point. And I enjoyed Allure not having one.

OP thank you for the review. I'll be doing Ruby in a month for my first PCL cruise. Based on the roll call, I think the will be many RCL transplants like me. Just to clarify though, Allure does not have slides. I also think the Oasis ships have terrible Wind Jammers. Do they have printed navigators on Ruby? How was the room service around the ship?

Read the QR code and it'll have the cabin number in it.

I really don't get putting these bikes in resort gyms, then requiring a membership to use it. I've got an app membership because I own an actual gym quality spin bike, but I don't think that will work on actual peloton equipment. I guess it's a perk for current owners, but does less than nothing for non-owners. Less than nothing because it makes it pretty obvious you have a paperweight if you don't pay for the monthly subscription.

Those extras are just scheduled during normal club hours and they take the whole club. They used to publish all the schedules, now they don't. I guess that one sheet of paper was breaking the bank. So on my last Allure cruise my DD had to walk by the science lab to and from the club and begged to do it, but never got to because we had no idea when they went, if ever. I really hate that they stopped publishing a schedule.

I don't know for sure, but I don't think they let kids sleep in the clubs except for the nursery. Between 7 and 10 the clubs are quite active and loud, with group participation highly encouraged. After 10 they chill more, but I've never seen a kid sleeping even at 11 to 12.

I've seen this for years on Liberty and Allure, just at dinner, though.

My last cruise they had cake pops that were really good. I tend to have better luck at dinner, but lunch is 100% all looks no flavor.

What's wrong with calling Adventure Ocean if needed? There are phones all over the ship.

Actually royals stupid app automatically assumed everyone in our cabin watched the video. But yeah, this is what happens with the emuster, royal knows and doesn't care to change it. Basically the entire argument for emuster is "I don't like traditional muster and will ignore all days that says it's better"

No way the average pax is 217# on a completely full ship. The 110% is also a proof test, not an ultimate load rating.

The ship hit the rocks at 9:45, began noticeably listing by 10:00 and changed listing sides soon there after, by 10:12 the coastguard called the ship to report that passengers had been calling local authorities to report an emergency on the ship. The captain finally ordered a general emergency at 10:33. The ship was listed at 30 degrees before the order to abandon ship came out at 10:54, effectively eliminating half the life boats. Then to top it all off, a large percentage of the passengers had not yet done a muster drill (new passengers picked up that afternoon and the next muster was scheduled for the next day). The passengers and crew were allowed to enter full panic mode due to a complete criminal lack of leadership onboard. Not just a lack of leadership, but leadership that was blatantly lying in an obvious way about how bad the situation was. Compare that to say the grounding of the Monarch or the fire on Freedom. IIRC, on Freedom the general emergency was sounded within a minute of the Bravo call, and all reports here was that it was completely orderly and no one panicked. The difference in real leadership, and criminally negligent leadership.

The fact that it has happened well many times in actual emergencies. Just like the FA saying no one pays attention to safety briefings on planes, yet planes are evaced safely all the time and the only time I've ever heard of a pax not donning an O2 mask was after the FAA made the airlines pull the O2 generators out of the lavs. Obviously a lot of that is because the FAs are very well trained and they respond with muscle memory, the other part is people do pay more attention than it seems. Some pax on a ship will panic, some will not listen, etc, that is why it is important to actually train the crew in dealing with them.

You convinced me in the DCL thread. A few weeks later I was on Allure and thought "Man chengkp was completely right, emuster really does not provide adequate training for anyone." We were "mustered" by my wife turning on the video, phone on silent, face down in the Windjammer and then when we went to our station they were just standing out in the hallway scanning badges for every station in the theater, so people didn't even have to walk all the way to their actual stations. Doesn't seem like a big deal until you have 600 people entering the theater and have no idea where to go in a panic.

Looks like the fixed the issues with the Chef's recommendations not repeating in the main body.

I have completely trained myself, likely do to ads online, to just completely ignore banners and boxes on pages. So I generally just completely miss things like the "chef's recommendations" on the top.