My wife and I are 45 and 47; this was our 3rd cruise, the first on Royal Caribbean. Our first two cruises were on Celebrity. We booked this cruise 18 months prior to sailing mainly because the price was so low. We booked an inside stateroom on deck 3 which we found to our great surprise on our last cruise worked just fine. An inside cabin got us out of the cabin quicker in the morning giving us more time to use the public areas and to meet new people around the ship.

We arrived 2 days prior to sailing and stayed at the Best Western Bayview, the accommodations there were adequate. A complementary hotel shuttle dropped us off at the cruise terminal the day of departure. Upon arriving at the cruise terminal around 12pm there seemed to be a lot of confusion as to where we should line up with our luggage in hand to enter the terminal, no porters were visible at this time... There was also a Carnival ship in port that day so that added to the problem. We finely did get some answers to where we should line up and from there the line moved slow, but not that bad, before you know it we were in the cruise terminal getting our sea passes and boarding the ship. This whole process would have been hard if you were not able bodied.

Our cabin 3077 was right in the middle of the ship It was a quite nice space, about 165 sq ft with plenty of storage for even our bulging luggage for this 15 day voyage. We were able to get four suitcases under the bed after unpacking them and found plenty of space for our stuff in the cabin drawers and closet space. The room was always cleaned when we expected but never smelled of any cleaning products so we don't think the job was very thorough. We are kind of clean freaks so many may not be able to relate to that statement. Our cabin attendant did provide us with body location and an extra large bucket of ice everyday after we requested it. He did serve us very well! Read more