Tatka

If it is not sold out which lately is a case.

We book balconies occasionally. They do not make much sense for us as cruises for us is a way to get away from our regular life. We do not spend much if any time on balconies, so we only book them when price is identical. And before we booked several times when I needed to work some days. Otherwise it is insides, because it is all we need.

You are paying for balconies. 😉

In some reason we have excursions opened in booking on Symphony for April next year. So maybe they are planning to use this port.

I honestly do not remember issues. Maybe going straight to Solarium made us forget inconveniences. We were a bit sad as our friends joined us on that cruise in hope to explore Hopewell Rocks and Fundy Trail Parkway... we booked a car. Oh well. That day in St John they also had huge explosion right near that port. At least we are alive. 🙂

Last year we docked in Bayonne, NJ one day earlier than planned due to hurricane Lee in Atlantic. People were allowed to leave that day, but we all went through immigration.

Longer cruises and cheaper cabins, although location is important. We like to be above promenade, but not on highest deck. We won't book GTY or lowest decks. Most of our cabins were inside with about 15-16 balconies. We go on 5 cruises a year to be "out of our house or regular life" so we are not in our room anyway even when we have balconies. We had several 4-5 day cruises, but they were Christmas cruises supplemented with 10 dayers for New Year. Mostly when we wanted to combine different ships/lines and even drove to Florida for this. One stand alone 5 dayer we took to Bermuda last year as I had important release at work and wanted to be at work for that. We won't book stand 3-4 dayer. Does not make any sense to us.

Great port and cheap parking. We drive there once a year for 12 night cruise to Southern Caribbean. Aside from that cruise with bridge accident when we returned to Norfolk no issues at all.

Prices now are not cheap, but on board it’s still more expensive

Documents Meds Personal hygiene Jewelry Powerbanks cords to charge phones and such Swimming suite

Yes, and this is absolute majority

I’m not extremely positive .We were a bit apprehensive of Nassau before 2019. Paradise Island was our safe place for this port. Then in November 2019 I was on my “semi working” cruise were I had to work 3 straight days with Nassau being the second port and my last working day. I worked till 3 pm, but really wanted to get some beach time, so we walked. I was a bit tired to overthink all dangers and was just walking happily that I am done. And suddenly noticed that there was literally nothing to worry about. Pretty modern downtown (now it is even cleaner). This is one of our walks (Thanksgiving 2023) Starts at 1 hour and 5 minutes (I’m away from my computer to provide timed link)

Mamma Mia is in Allure I believe, We’ve seen it in 2016. Amazing show.

18 years olds absolutely can leave the ship alone. Our son did on some occasion. I believe several times even at 17 (but that was in 2000-x, so this could've changed)

I have to admit we do not eat at the beach. We are either there after breakfast or after lunch for about 4-5 hours. (We rarely eat at Coco Cay too. Maybe 1 funnel cake 🙂 )

We go to Junkanoo lately on average twice a year since 2019. Me and my husband. Literally NOBODY hounds us. Never ever. We used to feel a bit uncomfortable in port itself when it was old and crowded... and Nassau was different too, just like Junkanoo. Back then we usually used taxi to get to Atlantis or Cabbage beach on Paradise Island. Not anymore. Of course if we have less people on Junkanoo it will be even more appreciated. 🙂

Maybe they will have seafood welcome buffet like we had in May on Symphony?

At $66 pp we are walking to Junkanoo for free. $10-$15 two chars (not longer) by the water for several hours is fine for us, I am glad for all people who won’t be afraid of Nassau anymore though. 🙂

I just give my card to my husband when we are in pool area or during evenings. He brings drinks for me. If I didn’t use all my drinks he could.

Nowhere it says My Time Dining. its looks like Traditional Dining (assigned). Second shift.

Table number is never assigned for My Time Dining before cruise and never put on cruise key card. ”Anytime Dining” is not a term on Royal Caribbean International. It’s Princess’s term. Table number is not assigned for MTD or Anytime Dining on both lines. Why are you saying things that cannot possibly be true?

Sailed on Anthem 11 times (7 since Covid) and nobody asked us to give them 10. We were asked on some other ships, but not Anthem.

Welcome to Cruise Critic. Something doesn’t add up. If you have MyTime Dining you couldn’t have table number on your card. With MTD you don’t have reserved table. If you have a table this means you have traditional dining at the same time/table/waiter and you don’t need to wait.

On Oasis, Quantum and some Freedom class ships like Liberty (Saturdays Night Fever). We have not sailed on Adventure for several years. Sailed in 2018 (Bahamas/Florida), 2019 (NE/Canada) and 2022 (NE/Canada)... and we overall enjoyed entertainment. Ice show was very good. Also ship orchestra was great. Very talented orchestra conductor. Overall we had very nice cruises on her.

Double points t applied to all booking made before September 30th 2021 for years 2021 and 2022. By 2012 we had 4 cruises with RCI. We lost about 7 points during conversion as our 9, 9 and 10 cruises counted as 1 credit (7 points). Since 2016 we started cruising more and more with Royal, but still cruised with all other lines... Became D in 2018 and D+ in 2022. Nice itins from NJ "switched" us to RCI completely. If nothing bad will happen we will become P in 8 years or so. This is not our main dream... we are good with just sailing and being D+ now.