For all those who have booked or are going to book the AOS - read this!

[Ocean Boy]

[quote name='Teeara']Some people won't be happy unless others are bowing and scraping to them.

It's a 10 year old cruise ship. It's not Allure or Oasis. It's going to show it's age just a wee bit.

Staff turns over, too. Sometimes you get people who are newer than others. Just as there are all kinds of people with different personalities who are vacationing you're also going to have the same situation with the staff. [COLOR="Red"] You also don't know how a staff person had just been treated by a passenger or another staff person. A smile goes a long way to smoothing ruffled feathers[/COLOR].

Again, just go and have fun.[/QUOTE]
You also don't know how the person posting their rant on these boards treated the staff person that they are complaining about or about what type of attitude they portray when interacting with the staff.

All I can say is there is a reason why many of us have sailed Adventure mutilple times. And it is NOT because it is a run down rust bucket with a cranky crew.

[mom2two2]

[quote name='Ocean Boy']You also don't know how the person posting their rant on these boards treated the staff person that they are complaining about or about what type of attitude they portray when interacting with the staff.

All I can say is there is a reason why many of us have sailed Adventure mutilple times. [COLOR=red]And it is NOT because it is a run down rust bucket with a cranky crew[/COLOR].[/quote]

LOL - I like that part.
But I hope I have not offended by asking....

[ckrobyn]

Mom2two - Looks as if your concerns have been addressed :)

Go and enjoy your cruise! :D

[ukx0101]

I'm down to 38 days until my AOS cruise and still the status of my Documents is 'Not Issued'.
I've completed the online check in and have printed my setsail pass.

Just wondering if anyone can shed any light? Is it because we're travelling from the UK and booked through a travel agent?

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed...

Michelle

[Teeara]

[quote name='Ocean Boy']And it is NOT because it is a run down rust bucket with a cranky crew.[/quote]

Darn! That's EXACTLY why I chose AOS. :( I thought I was booking a run down rust bucket with a cranky crew! :rolleyes: Oh well. Guess I'll have to start the search anew...NOT!:D

[Teeara]

[quote name='ukx0101']I'm down to 38 days until my AOS cruise and still the status of my Documents is 'Not Issued'.
I've completed the online check in and have printed my setsail pass.

Just wondering if anyone can shed any light? Is it because we're travelling from the UK and booked through a travel agent?

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed...

Michelle[/quote]

I'd be calling my TA ASAP and wanting to know what's going on.

[Teeara]

[quote name='mom2two2']LOL - I like that part.
But I hope I have not offended by asking....[/quote]

Absolutely not.

I would hate for you to have second thoughts about your cruise. Hope I haven't offended in my responses. I just want people to cruise and have fun. I think you'll be just fine.

[ukx0101]

Thanks Teeara. I'll give them a call tomorrow. I wasn't sure how it worked with air/cruise packages booked via a TA from the UK.

I just really wanna do the Doc Dance that everyone talks about on here and oh those lovely luggage tags ;)

[cookie225]

TOONJIE:mad::mad: wE WERE WORRIED ABOUT you!!! THAT'S # 1 AND #2 I didn't know you had a second baby, hey where are the pics (you know i always harrass you about the baby pics)...anyway your older son is almost engaged by now and you have the same picture........Ok I vented:D:rolleyes:
CKROBYN & TOONJIE......you have been so helpful to me getting through this time that we had to cancel our 2009 AOS because my DH accident, just reading & looking at pics has been great, now it's hopefully my chance again to get to see this ship.
Hey CKROBYN did u see my post? I got the Intercontinental on my first try!!
TOONJIE thanks for those pics, i have to tell my roll call to come to this board.

TEEARA....you are so right in all of your posts about making the best out of your cruise that i couldn't quote them all:eek: and you had me rolling on da floor laughing too!
Hey i wish we were all on da same ship!!!!

[jrljel]

[quote name='above sea level cruiser']Drive a little north to NJ and you will get a Southern Caribbean cruise from RCCL.:)[/quote]

I didn't think EOS went to Aruba or he southern route from NJ. Fill me in please!

[ckrobyn]

[quote name='cookie225']TOONJIE wE WERE WORRIED ABOUT you!!! THAT'S # 1 AND #2 I didn't know you had a second baby, hey where are the pics (you know i always harrass you about the baby pics)...anyway your older son is almost engaged by now and you have the same picture........Ok I vented
CKROBYN & TOONJIE......you have been so helpful to me getting through this time that we had to cancel our 2009 AOS because my DH accident, just reading & looking at pics has been great, now it's hopefully my chance again to get to see this ship.
Hey CKROBYN did u see my post? I got the Intercontinental on my first try!!
TOONJIE thanks for those pics, i have to tell my roll call to come to this board.

TEEARA....you are so right in all of your posts about making the best out of your cruise that i couldn't quote them all:eek: and you had me rolling on da floor laughing too!
Hey i wish we were all on da same ship!!!![/quote]

Cookie :) I am so glad that you will finally be sailing the AOS!!!! It's your turn now!!!!

I didn't see your post about the Intercontinental - but congrats on scoring a fantastic hotel - it was the first hotel we stayed in on our first visit to SJU and it's wonderful :D

You KNOW you have to come back and give us a full review WITH pictures when you return......it's the rule :rolleyes::p

[ckrobyn]

[quote name='jrljel']I didn't think EOS went to Aruba or he southern route from NJ. Fill me in please![/quote]

I'm not really sure, but I think the EOS does an 11 or 12 day cruise that includes some of the islands on the southern itinerary.....

[jrljel]

[quote name='ckrobyn']I'm not really sure, but I think the EOS does an 11 or 12 day cruise that includes some of the islands on the southern itinerary.....[/quote]

Yes, EOS does Caribbean, but not southern Caribbean from Bayonne. No where near the southern route that AOS does out of PR. If it does, I am SOOO on it!

[Alexis]

[quote name='ckrobyn']I'm not really sure, but I think the EOS does an 11 or 12 day cruise that includes some of the islands on the southern itinerary.....[/quote]

This is the EOS itinerary I have seen for her 12 night cruise out of New Jersey. ;)
Not bad, but not as great as a 14 night B2B on the Adventure or the Serenade out of San Juan. :D

[B]Ports of Call: [/B]

Cape Liberty Cruise Port, New Jersey; Labadee, Haiti; Samana, Dominican Republic; Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; Basseterre, St. Kitts; St. John's, Antigua; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; Cape Liberty Cruise Port, New Jersey

[Ocean Boy]

I do not think that Explorer is going to Aruba on any of its present itineraries.

[cookie225]

Yes I will post reviews with pics:D Good or Bad...hey CKROBYN since you're going a few weeks ahead of me, can you just tell me about the lounge that plays latin music when you come back...since you don't write reviews:rolleyes:

[ckrobyn]

[quote name='cookie225']Yes I will post reviews with pics:D Good or Bad...hey CKROBYN since you're going a few weeks ahead of me, can you just tell me about the lounge that plays latin music when you come back...since you don't write reviews:rolleyes:[/quote]

Of course I can :) In fact, I will write a "mini review" - just for you!!!!

[rupertfrog]

[quote name='ckrobyn']Of course I can :) In fact, I will write a "mini review" - just for you!!!![/quote]

Robyn I'd appreciate it too! Since I go after you ....

[ckrobyn]

[quote name='rupertfrog']Robyn I'd appreciate it too! Since I go after you ....[/quote]

Okay, Okay!
I am being convinced to do a review......:rolleyes: I will try and type it all out in a word document each night for easy posting when I get back :)

I'd love to do a LIVE report....but the internet onboard is slow and unpredictable and I don't want to start something and then not finish it because I got frustrated!!!!

[Teeara]

I'd also appreciate someone posting Compasses for the Aruba-Curacao-Domenica-St. Thomas cruise.

Along with spa and drink prices, too.

Theresa

[ckrobyn]

Got my luggage tags today!!!! :D:D:D

[Teeara]

[quote name='ckrobyn']Got my luggage tags today!!!! :D:D:D[/quote]


[SIZE=7][COLOR=lime]Woo hoo!!![/COLOR][/SIZE]

[Ocean Boy]

[quote name='ckrobyn']Okay, Okay!
[COLOR="Red"]I am being convinced to do a review......:rolleyes: I will try and type it all out in a word document each night for easy posting when I get back :)[/COLOR]
I'd love to do a LIVE report....but the internet onboard is slow and unpredictable and I don't want to start something and then not finish it because I got frustrated!!!![/QUOTE]

I picture your review reading something like this.....

Ok, this was my 176th sailing on this ship. I found the boat to be in a terrible state of disrepair. The crew must have been scraped from the bottom of some old bucket and the food tasted like it came out of the same bucket that the crew was scraped out of. The itinerary is the absolute worst. St. Thomas is a pit. St. Maarten is a deeper pit. All of the bars were empty at night because drink prices were so high and the passengers were all in bed by 10PM anyway. Forget about using the elevators because the average age of the passengers was about 97 yrs. and it looked like scooter and wheel chair city lining up for them. The entertainment was nonexistant. The CD was horrible. And the worst part about the entire week was that there were Puerto Ricans all over the the ship cutting in line and speaking... SPANISH....of all things. The nerve of them.......

OK, you know I am joking.....RIGHT??!! :eek: But I did try to cover most of the negative things that I read about the ship. :D

Oh, and one more thing. The part about this being Robyn's 176 cruise on the ship.... THAT was no joke!:p

[ckrobyn]

[quote name='Ocean Boy']I picture your review reading something like this.....

Ok, this was my 176th sailing on this ship. I found the boat to be in a terrible state of disrepair. The crew must have been scraped from the bottom of some old bucket and the food tasted like it came out of the same bucket that the crew was scraped out of. The itinerary is the absolute worst. St. Thomas is a pit. St. Maarten is a deeper pit. All of the bars were empty at night because drink prices were so high and the passengers were all in bed by 10PM anyway. Forget about using the elevators because the average age of the passengers was about 97 yrs. and it looked like scooter and wheel chair city lining up for them. The entertainment was nonexistant. The CD was horrible. And the worst part about the entire week was that there were Puerto Ricans all over the the ship cutting in line and speaking... SPANISH....of all things. The nerve of them.......

OK, you know I am joking.....RIGHT??!! :eek: But I did try to cover most of the negative things that I read about the ship. :D

Oh, and one more thing. The part about this being Robyn's 176 cruise on the ship.... THAT was no joke!:p[/quote]

[SIZE=3]OMG!!!! They must think I am insane in my office because I almost fell off my chair laughing!![/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]Oceanboy - you are awesome! Thanks for the laugh!!!![/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]One of these days we shall end up on the same cruise.....:D[/SIZE]

[toonjie]

Okay Robin and Cookie, you've brought out the proud papa in me, here are some baby pictures:

Noah, shortly after coming home:
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Baby feet:
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Halloween:
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Josiah as Woody from Toy Story:
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Fall apple picking:
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