Adventure Girl

Crew quarters and Staff quarters are slightly different. Staff members....dancers, band, ice skaters, have slightly larger cabins....some staff members have their own single cabin...like officers or the Ice Skate captain, cruise director, etc.

Royal Caribbean crew member cabins are for two people on the larger ships....and 4 crew members per cabin on smaller ships. The crew cabin is basically bunk beds that each have a curtain to pull for privacy...sort of what you might see on a sleeper train...each cabin usually has small refrigerator, TV, VCR, 1 very small table with 1 chair...closet...the TV stand has drawers under it and a small bathroom. The crew cabins are slightly small than a basic inside cabin....smaller in length, not width.

Best waiter on the planet is Orhan from Turkey....currently on the Mariner of the Seas. He is fantastic! Very professional, yet funny. Extremely accommodating and goes out of his way to make everyone happy. Very bright and intelligent. When we returned to the Mariner our second time, he had lovely bracelets from Turkey for all of us.

Best Assitant waiter is Peter Constantino from the Phillipines. Always smiling, always there with another iced tea. Very polite, professional and funny.

We will be sailing with Orhan and Peter again for the 4th time in just 55 days when we sail the Mariner again in October.

I sailed on the AOS out of San Juan twice. Both times I had a fabulous cruise. I loved the ship, the crew, and my fellow passengers. I will say that on the first cruise, the majority of the passengers were Puerto Rican (10/03). The second cruise, (3/04), the majority were American.

I've never heard of R.C. offering such a low cabin price...especially for the balcony room. Are you saying that this low price, last minute deal is only for residents of Puerto Rico? I've been told by numerous travel agents that the pricing on R. C. goes up the closer to sail time.

I say, show me how to get a balcony cabin for $400 for my family of 4 and I'll be there tomorrow!

I don't understand why separating the port charges from the cruise price makes a difference....wouldn't the locals have to pay both anyway? So why would they say they only paid the reduced rate?

Well, my bottom line is that I LOVE the Adventure of the Seas. I don't care who the other passengers are, or what they paid for their cabin. All I care about is that I am on the ship and loving it!