Rare RCCL Fan Posted March 28, 2021 #1 Share Posted March 28, 2021 I'm just curious... what are your guesses as to why Royal chose Adventure as it's first ship back in business. I look at all the choices for these first sailings: Adventure, Vision, Jewel, Celebrity Millennium.... Grandeur (kinda sorta counts) and I'm just really curious as to the reason to pick these. I can assume concern about having enough passengers to operate an Oasis class.... perhaps they're not wanting to sully the name of the newer ships if something were to go wrong? I'd love to hear you thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawniepoo Posted March 28, 2021 #2 Share Posted March 28, 2021 I’ve been thinking about this since the announcement. I still have no clue! I mean I would have picked Mariner or Navigator 🤷🏻♀️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dswallow Posted March 28, 2021 #3 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Could be a challenge to properly staff an Oasis class ship for all the entertainment and activities that take place on them. They may also have other plans for them and the smaller ships could even be on a trial run to stay in the new home ports beyond the current last-planned sailings from them. Bermuda is a tiny island with perhaps not quite the infrastructure to support home-porting a large ship so I can see why they'd put the smallest class ship there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly333 Posted March 28, 2021 #4 Share Posted March 28, 2021 3 minutes ago, dswallow said: Bermuda is a tiny island with perhaps not quite the infrastructure to support home-porting a large ship so I can see why they'd put the smallest class ship there. I agree maybe oasis just too large to port there, smaller is easier ... but isnt adventure out of nassau bahamas, not Bermuda? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalC Posted March 28, 2021 #5 Share Posted March 28, 2021 4 minutes ago, dswallow said: Could be a challenge to properly staff an Oasis class ship for all the entertainment and activities that take place on them. They may also have other plans for them and the smaller ships could even be on a trial run to stay in the new home ports beyond the current last-planned sailings from them. Bermuda is a tiny island with perhaps not quite the infrastructure to support home-porting a large ship so I can see why they'd put the smallest class ship there. Adventure is smallest class? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalC Posted March 28, 2021 #6 Share Posted March 28, 2021 10 minutes ago, RCCL Fan said: I'm just curious... what are your guesses as to why Royal chose Adventure as it's first ship back in business. I look at all the choices for these first sailings: Adventure, Vision, Jewel, Celebrity Millennium.... Grandeur (kinda sorta counts) and I'm just really curious as to the reason to pick these. I can assume concern about having enough passengers to operate an Oasis class.... perhaps they're not wanting to sully the name of the newer ships if something were to go wrong? I'd love to hear you thoughts. Actually they are sailing other ships in other parts of the world right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dswallow Posted March 28, 2021 #7 Share Posted March 28, 2021 1 minute ago, RoyalC said: Adventure is smallest class? Vision is -- that was the paragraph about Bermuda, not The Bahamas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Hudson Posted March 28, 2021 #8 Share Posted March 28, 2021 I have no clue. But I do think Adventure is a lovely ship. I like dswallow's thoughts about staffing a smaller ship. It will be a challenge to get the crew vaccinated, proper paper work, medicals, etc. A smaller ship will be easier to do. Katherine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine3601 Posted March 28, 2021 #9 Share Posted March 28, 2021 I think mariner and navigator will be part of the test cruises out of us ports, whenever that happens. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted March 28, 2021 #10 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Might be as simple as it being in North America already when it was supposed to be in Europe. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverbeenhere Posted March 28, 2021 #11 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Goldilocks paradox? Just right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken at the beach Posted March 28, 2021 #12 Share Posted March 28, 2021 56 minutes ago, RCCL Fan said: I'm just curious... what are your guesses as to why Royal chose Adventure as it's first ship back in business. I look at all the choices for these first sailings: Adventure, Vision, Jewel, Celebrity Millennium.... Grandeur (kinda sorta counts) and I'm just really curious as to the reason to pick these. I can assume concern about having enough passengers to operate an Oasis class.... perhaps they're not wanting to sully the name of the newer ships if something were to go wrong? I'd love to hear you thoughts. Adventure had been a recent redeployment from the Baltic’s to doing short cruises out of Barcelona. Royal most likely recognized that there was not a hope of her sailing this year from BCN and that coupled with fewer people booked on those sailings that would need to be displaced would have been a couple of factors. They are still hoping Caribbean sailings start this year so why would they move a ship that is already sailing the Caribbean with bookings to a new itinerary. all of these ships are ships that either did not have itineraries planned or itineraries that the cruise line knew were not going to sail. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandebeach Posted March 28, 2021 #13 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Adventure is actually a nice mid-size ship, we sailed her last year. Not amped like Navigator or Mariner, but still a nice ship. I think it is a good choice for the Caribbean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted March 28, 2021 #14 Share Posted March 28, 2021 It's all a game of chicken with CDC. But Royal won't commit their good ships into the fray 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vera/Lee Posted March 28, 2021 #15 Share Posted March 28, 2021 27 minutes ago, sandebeach said: Adventure is actually a nice mid-size ship, we sailed her last year. Not amped like Navigator or Mariner, but still a nice ship. I think it is a good choice for the Caribbean. Adventure is a nice ship! We were on her next to the last sailing last year. Mid week we started hearing disturbing news about Covid. The passengers got serious about washy, washy and sanitizing their hands. The ship stepped up sanitizing to double time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruise Wonderland Posted March 28, 2021 #16 Share Posted March 28, 2021 I guess RCI wants to keep Oasis Class for Florida departures (Miami / Fort Lauderdale / Port Canaveral) as soon as US re-opens these ports. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trixie21 Posted March 28, 2021 #17 Share Posted March 28, 2021 I think some ships are earmarked for elsewhere - Lots of rumours about harmony going to be deployed to the UK for a summer season and I wouldn't be surprised that there are other plans afoot to restart more ships in Europe as things improve , especially in Eastern and southern Europe. Also someone made a very good point that staffing an oasis class ship is much more of a challenge than the smaller classes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LXA350 Posted March 28, 2021 #18 Share Posted March 28, 2021 The ships that don't have year round home ports are most likely to be used for such experimental / Trial cruise itinararies from random ports. Hence, this is the reason we saw Adventure chosen for the Bahamas for instance. Same can apply to Harmony, it will anyway be in Europe this season for it's dry dock, hence if the only way for her to be able to set sail during the summer will be Southampton they will move her there. For the ships like Mariner, Navigator, Allure, Oasis and Symphony that have a year round home port serving the Florida market, RCL is waiting to have these ships launched as soon as possible from it's original home ports. Once the CDC will give the green light you will not see all of these ships launch simultaniously, but step by step one after the other which can be weeks or months of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruise a holic Posted March 28, 2021 #19 Share Posted March 28, 2021 We were on the Adventure and found it fair at best. We sail in a suite and the perks on the Adventure are sub par. Missing many of the bells and whistles, suite deck, restaurant and real lounge. Has a makeshift lounge for suite guests. Cabins need updating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellwingri Posted March 28, 2021 #20 Share Posted March 28, 2021 I’ve sailed on Adventure twice and absolutely loved it both times. Perfect size, in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted March 28, 2021 #21 Share Posted March 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Cruise a holic said: We were on the Adventure and found it fair at best. We sail in a suite and the perks on the Adventure are sub par. Missing many of the bells and whistles, suite deck, restaurant and real lounge. Has a makeshift lounge for suite guests. Cabins need updating. Have you been on Adventure since it got a new suite lounge in 2016? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruise a holic Posted March 28, 2021 #22 Share Posted March 28, 2021 (edited) 31 minutes ago, smokeybandit said: Have you been on Adventure since it got a new suite lounge in 2016? Yes. It was a makeshift area , seemed like an area that was for another purpose, with a portable bar. Nothing like oasis class. The ship also had outdoor seating for suite guests in full sun in a theater type rows. Had breakfast in the specialty italian restaurant. Was very disappointing Edited March 28, 2021 by Cruise a holic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker19 Posted March 28, 2021 #23 Share Posted March 28, 2021 38 minutes ago, Cruise a holic said: It was a makeshift area , seemed like an area that was for another purpose, with a portable bar. It was part of the old DL and they slapped an SL sign on the outside. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean Boy Posted March 28, 2021 #24 Share Posted March 28, 2021 3 minutes ago, Biker19 said: It was part of the old DL and they slapped an SL sign on the outside. It was never part of the old DL. the DL has always been in the starboard side of the crown. They took the old card and game room in the port side of the crown and created the SL. It looked quite nice to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted March 28, 2021 #25 Share Posted March 28, 2021 I never minded the old suite lounges with no windows, personally. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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