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No big ugly purple slide blocking the aft view from the ship on Allure!

Thanks @niksmom630 for doing this live review! I’m enjoying following along with you. We’re on Harmony in a couple of weeks, so this will be a good warm up! 🛳

Thank you for a great review, @mac_tlc! I’ve enjoyed cruising along with you. Three weeks from tonight our bags will be packed and we’ll be ready to board Harmony in the morning! I can’t wait! We really appreciate all the info you’ve provided including the parking garage and show information, and the awesome pictures. Thank you for taking the time out of your family vacation to date your trip with us.

Thank you for an awesome review, @RCCL Fan! I enjoyed every minute of it. Special thanks for all the information about our cabin on our Odyssey cruise in April. I know we’re going to love that cabin! Thank you also for all of your wonderful pictures!

Love your cabin! 🤩 Great layout. Really love 💗 your unicorn ducks! If I found one I’d keep it. 😁 Even better that you’ve been able not only to get foods that meet your dietary needs, but that taste really good as well! 😋

We got our first invitation to submit a Royal Up bid 90 days out from our September Harmony cruise. I was surprised to see it so early.

There’s no way I’m giving up that room! 😱 Thank you for all of your input. We’re really looking forward to our aft view. 😎 We got hooked on aft view cabins on our first cruise. We booked an aft cabin because we couldn’t decide between port and starboard. We liked it so much that the only times we haven’t been booked in an aft view cabin we’re one of our Princess cruises and our Oasis class cruises unless you count our one time at the aft end of the Boardwalk. We’ll be on Odyssey in mid April. I can’t wait to see if we will still prefer Oasis class ships, or if Odyssey will win us over.

Thank you to both of you for your responses. I haven’t heard any complaints about parking at Terminal 1 since Mariner was moved so I was assuming we would be ok, but I’m sure you know what happens when you assume 😂 so I figured I’d ask. We do have a 10:30 arrival time scheduled. Based on what you’re telling we we should be fine. 😎🛳

After hearing you talk about the noise in “our” cabin, I was getting a bit concerned. I don’t do noisy well, especially in the morning. I feel much better now after hearing you say that with the right itinerary and that aft cabin being available you would be interested in booking Odyssey again. I’m still bringing ear plugs though just in case! Might need to use them in the show, not the room! 😱

Thank you for the report, Sue. I’m glad your plane landed safely.

How was the parking lot when you arrived at port? When we last cruised from PCN in December we got there about 11:30 and the garage was packed! We did manage to snag a parking space but it was up on the top level. I’m hoping the fact that they have moved some of the ships to another terminal has helped with the parking lot congestion. Thanks for the show schedule. It will be different for our cruise because we’re doing Eastern Caribbean with our first two days being sea days, but at least it gives me a general idea as to how the show schedule is running. I hope you and your family have a great cruise. Thank you for taking us along.

All I could think of when I heard the term Kraken was the roller coaster by that name at Sea World in Orlando! 😱 Actually, I did think of the giant squid that I occasionally hear referred to as Kraken too. I loved the Orca statue riding in the little blue wagon! 😂🤣😂 It seems to me like there a lot of fun and interesting things to see and do in Seattle. Getting there is definitely on my bucket list of US cities I’d like to visit some day. The problem is that I have a number of different bucket lists and none of them are short lists. I’m checking things off one at a time but it’s going to take a long time for me to get to all of them. They’re my motivation to maintain my health and fitness as much as I can for as long as I can.

Here’s a link to her website. Hope it’s ok to post it here. https://www.travelwithmitsugirly.com Looks like she’s on a land trip to Mexico right now. Since cruising shut down she has been doing land trips, no cruises yet that I know of. When she does cruise it’s mainly been on NCL and Carnival. She’s only done a couple of Royal Caribbean cruises.

Thanks for this great report, Sue. I enjoyed cruising along with you.

It was when we sailed on Indy this past December..😀

I always enjoy your reviews, so I’ll definitely be following along. Congratulations on your wedding! That’s a beautiful picture!

Thanks for another great review! I’m still looking forward to your adventures in Rome. While I’m hoping that someone gets the message and turns the volume down just a bit so we can enjoy the show and the cabin, I’m adding a couple of pairs of ear plugs just in case. Hopefully we won’t need them if we do but they won’t take up much space in the suitcase. I loved everything you did in the ports. Glad the catamaran excursion worked out well for your group. I’m making a reminder to myself to thoroughly read, then read again the descriptions of any private excursions before I book them. I think I would react exactly as you did if I found out that an excursion I’d booked thinking it was private I wouldn’t have been very happy either. Definitely mad at myself and embarrassed for letting that happen.

OKW resort renovations look good. We haven’t been there in quite a while since we only live 45 minutes away so it’s nice to get a peek at the latest updates. We were typo supposed to be at Magic Kingdom but cancelled due to DH getting Covid during a visit to Animal Kingdom 2.5 weeks ago. He had a mild case and is OK now. I’m not sure how I managed to avoid Covid, but two friends of ours caught it from DH over dinner two nights after our day in the park and a day before DH had any symptoms at all. Fortunately our cruise on Harmony isn’t for another 31 days, so we’ll be avoiding the parks until after we cruise. Parks are way more crowded now than they’ve been since reopening, more like pre pandemic levels and none of the people you’re likely to encounter will care at all that you’re heading for a Harmony cruise when you leave Disney. I, on the other hand, selfishly want to to be sure you get to go on Harmony! I’m very much looking forward to your trip report since I have enjoyed your past ones a lot and haven’t seen any recent Harmony reviews. Selfish reasons aside, I really hope that you and your family are able to enjoy your time at Disney and are able to board Harmony as scheduled. I know it’s possible because we have been in the parks on a regular basis since they reopened and have never had a problem until now. I’d love to see the Harmony show schedule from your cruise. I’d also love your opinion as to my decision to go with Traditional Late dining as opposed to My Time. We’ve done Traditional Late dining on all of our pre pandemic cruises but switched to My Time on the two cruises we’ve done since the restart.

That snorkeling excursion was unacceptable. I see that you’ve already brought up the problems you had to the excursion desk. I’d also include it on your post cruise survey. I’m sorry that you had to deal with such a poorly run excursion, and on your anniversary, no less! I loved your champagne and cake from the casino! Hope the rest of your anniversary day was magical! 🥂🎉

Congratulations on your anniversary! The wedding picture is beautiful. Thanks for sharing it. Sorry the turtles were hiding on you in Curaçao. We got lucky when we were there and had plenty of them to swim with. I loved it! 🐢😃 We may have been at a different location than you were at though.

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Looking forward to cruising along with you! 🛳

Loved the pics from Santorini. With the lines for the cable car being as long as it was, you might have had plenty of time to have dinner and still catch the end of the long line waiting to get back to the ship! 😱. No, we wouldn’t have done that either! Smart move making sure you got back on time. 😀🛳

@RCCL Fan, thank you for the great video of our cabin this coming April! I’m really looking forward to sailing in it! I’ll be following along to see how the rest of your journey goes. We sail on Harmony in September so I’m not very focused on Odyssey yet, but I’m wondering about how we will feel about how she compares to the Oasis class ships we love so much. I do know that I’ll love that balcony being aft facing with no superstructure but where are the lounger(s) and regular height tables that I’m used to having on my JS balconies? I’m sure I’ll enjoy spending a lot of time out there regardless of the furniture.

I love your reviews, so I will be very happily following along! 🛳