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Old September 9th, 2009, 09:29 AM
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Default Freedom-last cruise before dry dock

I just realized that we are the last cruise before the Freedom goes into dry dock. For those of you who have been the last cruise before a ship goes into dry dock, did this make a difference?
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Yes! the staff were not as attentive and were all very excited about the upcoming dry dock....food deteriorated..just overall seemed more "laidback" with everything....not sure if good or bad....but I did notice a difference, the same as the week or 2 after a ship comes out of DD.....a few glitches to iron out and new crew that have to get used to customer service etc...
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spammie, when is the ship going into drydock?
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spammie, when is the ship going into drydock?
April 18th to 25th
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Does anyone know why it's going into dry dock?
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Does anyone know why it's going into dry dock?
Normal scheduled maintainance, she will be 4 years old and this is her first dry dock, there are a lot of things, hull cleaning, painting, pod maintainanceetc, that cannot be done while the ship is in the water and or passengers on board, this will be a fairly routine dry dock as it is only 1 week long
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