Seaside Feb. 10th to 17th, 2018

First a bit about us. Our first cruise was the surprisingle infamous Royal Caribbean Quantum of the Seas maiden transatlantic and somehow we have gone on to cruise 3 more times. 2 on Royal and once on a much smaller local ship. We love new friends and new experiences. We enjoy hearing accents, other languages, and trying out other cultural experiences.

As many have reported the embarkation process is thrillingly smooth and fast. Only other time we have experienced a similarly speedy and seamless experience was boarding the Adventure in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Although there were lines laid out for crowds at security when we arrived at 11:45 AM we simply walked through and there was barely a slow down. We proceeded straight to check in where numerous staff waited eagerly. A minute later literally we were sent upstairs, cruise cards and boarding number in hand. Had we not decided to stop for juice we could have headed straight to the ship, but decided to stop to allow the 15 or so people in a large family group ahead of us to sort it out at the escalatetor.

Less than 20 minutes after our Taxi pulled up out front we were in the casino setting up our cruise cards with our credit card. No pin was required or requested so perhaps that is only certain cards?

Off to our roll call meet up so more later.

Yeah! Happy your onboard- nothing like that first day excitement :)

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Looking forward to reading your comments. Enjoy!

Have a great time. Weather looks nice down there for sail away.

Gert ... enjoy the cruise and say hello to our friend for me ... :D

Have a great trip!

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We must have boarded the ship right around the same time as you. I think we arrived around 11:30 from MIA and were on board in 15 or so minutes. There was a small line up at security of about 40 people but we used the priority/black card lane on the far left which had no line. There was no line at check in, the photo or escelator and bridge. It was so painless. I wish ever cruise was like that.

I guess I missed the roll call as I wasn't paying attention to the thread. We are off to dinner soon.

I don't have onboard WIFI so I'll check in at ports where I find a hotspot.

I'm going to piggyback on Gert's thread for now and will write up a final review when we return.

Dinner service must be greatly improving now because we were in and out for three courses tonight in under 1.5 hours for four of us. Portion sizes for me were just right. Not too big that I couldn't finish but not too small that I was wanting more.

I'm going to piggyback on Gert's thread for now and will write up a final review when we return.

 

Dinner service must be greatly improving now because we were in and out for three courses tonight in under 1.5 hours for four of us. Portion sizes for me were just right. Not too big that I couldn't finish but not too small that I was wanting more.

Enjoy your cruise.

First a bit about us. Our first cruise was the surprisingle infamous Royal Caribbean Quantum of the Seas maiden transatlantic and somehow we have gone on to cruise 3 more times. 2 on Royal and once on a much smaller local ship. We love new friends and new experiences. We enjoy hearing accents, other languages, and trying out other cultural experiences.

 

As many have reported the embarkation process is thrillingly smooth and fast. Only other time we have experienced a similarly speedy and seamless experience was boarding the Adventure in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

Although there were lines laid out for crowds at security when we arrived at 11:45 AM we simply walked through and there was barely a slow down. We proceeded straight to check in where numerous staff waited eagerly. A minute later literally we were sent upstairs, cruise cards and boarding number in hand. Had we not decided to stop for juice we could have headed straight to the ship, but decided to stop to allow the 15 or so people in a large family group ahead of us to sort it out at the escalatetor.

 

Less than 20 minutes after our Taxi pulled up out front we were in the casino setting up our cruise cards with our credit card. No pin was required or requested so perhaps that is only certain cards?

 

Off to our roll call meet up so more later.

Thanks for sharing your cruise, enjoy.

Bon Voyage Gert ! Can't wait to read about your experience !

Enjoy your cruise, Gert. Can't wait to hear your review.

Enjoy!!! Thanks for taking us along! If you go to the gym can you please take a picture if the paid and fee classes and times. Can you please let me know how many rowers are in the gym and if there are showers with large changing areas. Thinking may take my shower down there (we have spa access) if my shower is being used. Thanks and enjoy! Two more weeks for me.

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I hope you have a great cruise.

Enjoy!

Eagerly waiting for more of your review!

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Have a great trip. Looking forward to hearing more

~Brian

Enjoy!!! Thanks for taking us along! If you go to the gym can you please take a picture if the paid and fee classes and times. Can you please let me know how many rowers are in the gym and if there are showers with large changing areas. Thinking may take my shower down there (we have spa access) if my shower is being used. Thanks and enjoy! Two more weeks for me.

 

 

The gym and spa have separate locker rooms. With a spa pass both would be available to you. Everyone onboard has access to the gym locker with its own sauna.

 

The showers do not have attached individual changing space. There is a common changing area that is poorly laid out to be honest. While I only used the gym once, the thermal suite I visited nearly every day and always showered down there afterwards.

 

Also, there is no punch code but rather you use your sail card or wristband to lock/unlock a locker. Pretty cool when it worked.

Great start! Looking forward to reading more as your week goes on. Have fun & happy cruising

Hope you enjoy as much as we did. Can't wait to be back aboard in April

Have fun

Safe sailing

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General impression and enjoyment of the cruise was excellent. Ship beautiful, cabin comfortable, beds excellent, food hot, fresh, well-prepared and presented with far more choice than expected. Would definitely cruise Seaside again.

Awesome...Glad you had a nice experience!!

Now on to juicy details.

Thanks to the excellent boarding process we were able to squeeze in touring the majority of the ship, drinks, gelato, and a visit to Venchi's chocolate counter for espresso with praline trio prior to meeting up with old friends and gathering with our roll call. We had no trouble receiving all the expected benefits of our drink plan. It looked like all staff had to do was ring up our purchase and swiping our card automatically reduced the charge to zero.

A wonderful unexpected bonus we received was our desired first choice dining time. Our waiters were Ronny from Honduras and Joshua. They really made an effort to make our dinner delightful in every way possible.

Now on to juicy details.

 

Thanks to the excellent boarding process we were able to squeeze in touring the majority of the ship, drinks, gelato, and a visit to Venchi's chocolate counter for espresso with praline trio prior to meeting up with old friends and gathering with our roll call. We had no trouble receiving all the expected benefits of our drink plan. It looked like all staff had to do was ring up our purchase and swiping our card automatically reduced the charge to zero.

 

A wonderful unexpected bonus we received was our desired first choice dining time. Our waiters were Ronny from Honduras and Joshua. They really made an effort to make our dinner delightful in every way possible.

We've always had great service from Honduran waiters and fun to have a laugh with, too.

Now on to juicy details.

 

Thanks to the excellent boarding process we were able to squeeze in touring the majority of the ship, drinks, gelato, and a visit to Venchi's chocolate counter for espresso with praline trio prior to meeting up with old friends and gathering with our roll call. We had no trouble receiving all the expected benefits of our drink plan. It looked like all staff had to do was ring up our purchase and swiping our card automatically reduced the charge to zero.

 

A wonderful unexpected bonus we received was our desired first choice dining time. Our waiters were Ronny from Honduras and Joshua. They really made an effort to make our dinner delightful in every way possible.

Did your bags arrive in time to change for dinner?

Did your bags arrive in time to change for dinner?

An announcement notified us rooms were ready appoximately 2:30. Our bags along with everyone else in our section of hallway were waiting against the doors.