luckyinpa

on oasis we ordered MDR food 2x last week. it came pretty quickly. 30 minutes usually. the steward asked us to call her to pick up the stuff after so it didnt smell all night. also PPV movies were free so dont forget to enjoy them. i love the free drinks in the suite lounge, made heavy use of bringing water and soda back to the cabin. also part of the CK menu is the same every day and some of it changes which is better than haven on NCL which is the same every single every single every single day 🙂 you can be very specific in what you want as well. for bfast i learned to tell them how many hash browns and sausage every day. the idea of a single hash brown just made me feel so wrong the 1st day when i found it was their standard order. your comment about the better atmosphere in CK is totally right. MDR is too crowded and close together (you literally cannot walk between the tables, you need to walk down the aisle to get to your seat) and the food not as hot. CK heats up their plates so they are HOT to the touch and food is always great that way.

i watched a vid of a royal suite loft on oasis. even THEY dont have outlets by the bed. i guess when oasis was built there were no cell phones or alarm clocks needing plugged in. i did just discover 2 secret outlets on oasis CLS if you pull away the night stands though..shhh.

amen about problems. since this is the complaint thread i may as well add some from my oasis cruise last week😁 1st bfast in CK i ordered a dish that included hash browns . it was a single one about the size of a quarter. sigh, disappointing 2nd bfast i got a single one, but now it was triangle shaped. totally confused me. whats going on here! talk about inconsistency 3rd bfast i decided to ask for more than the pittance they gave me. i said could i have 2 or just a few more. i got 4.count them..FOUR of the triangle ones. also i asked for 2 sausages and got them. but since i had 4 hash browns, i felt very full. worried i wouldnt be hungry for lunch. 4th bfast. they didnt read my mind and know i wanted ketchup with my hash browns. i forgot to ask for it all week. to make matters worse, when i finally did remember, even i forgot to ask for it till meals were brought to me. then they had to run for it and put it in the cute little cups for me. this delayed my pleasure of overeating. also the cups were irregularly shaped, not perfectly square. i prefer symmetrical dishware. i trimmed my order down to 3 hash browns for the rest of the week scan forward to disembark day. asked for just 2 hash browns so as not to be full. they went back to the ROUND ones. can you believe it? and again they didnt remember that i forgot to ask for ketchup. so more delays in my hash brown pleasures. and if i knew there were the tiny round ones. i could have gotten 4 instead of 2 so now i wasnt the exact measure of fullness that i wanted. another huge issue is they HEAT the plates in CK to the point where you get your food hot and fresh but you cannot touch the darn plate. so if you wanna change positioning for maximum pleasure you had to use your napkin. if you forget you get a stern burn reminder. and they dont always warn you about the hot plate. you are expected to remember day to day where mcdonalds always warns me coffee is hot. also planters warns me nuts are in their peanuts. every single time! went to MDR for lunch one day and dinner another day. both times they put me next to a window. it was sooooo far a walk. then when you get there, they make you and your party scooch down different aisles because it's impossible to go between the tables or your bum will be literally on the other persons table. what reallllllly sucked is when i got up to leave, both sides of the aisle were now seated and i literally couldnt fit between the seats to get out cause i'm too big boned. (i think skinny would still touch the chairs though). they didnt realize that sitting next to the window would cause me such a hardship. sigh. i wont even mention that the curtain on the window was literally covering up the middle of the window so it was impossible to easily see out. why would they make the curtain the focus of your attention..why why why??? pull the curtains back so we can see the full window! then there's the silverware..does anyone really know why there are like 9 pieces on the table in the MDR. there arent even that many in CK! then they start adding and subtracting them during the meal and it makes me feel like i dont know what i'm doing. what if i use the wrong one. will they kick me out to the buffet? i had to stop going to the MDR because of the silverware stress😜 but i did miss the cold plates and barely warm food. sigh. cant have it all i guess. in the buffet i wanted mustard on my fries...the pump didnt work till the 3rd try..again more wasted time and effort..sigh i could go on..but i wont.. or will i....when it was time to disembark the concierge took a group of us to the elevators. turns out the people in the lower floors learned the trick to take an elevator up..to go down. to avoid the crowds. so we had to wait like 60 seconds for her to take the people down to 5 then use her key card to get priority up to 17 and back to 5. oh the forgot best part... since boarding was delayed due to marine traffic we had to wait like 15 minutes to be let in the terminal. in NJ once you are in there are comfy black chairs for the suites to sit on (far away from the dock door) which is where i sat last time but noooo, this time they sat us in the uncomfortable green chairs. and they were literally next to the dock door. meaning we were forced to be on almost first. we had to take an empty elevator to the solarium buffet which literally had no one in for like 15 minutes. all this with nary a passenger to talk with and socialize. sigh. so lonely and all that hot food all to ourselves. except i think the burgers werent hot because there was zero cheese meltage. i was also disappointed that announcements werent made in the cabins..except the ones calling peoples names to do muster. id rather hear it's time to get off in port than some strangers name. sigh. my cabin was so sound proof i couldnt even hear any announcements unless i kept the balcony open to hear the echo of the speakers from the pool deck. next time ill get a less sound proof cabin. i really will stop now. i had to sit down and think of what to complain about given the circumstances of this thread. it took a lot of effort and now i'm waaaay past my bedtime. and it's all royals fault. im removing my gratuities now! 🙃

i feel bad for all you people who planned this out. i was really looking forward to real pics and vids of all the new cabins too help me plan my trip 🙂

if you leave from the USA and on your way home you stop in a USA port before getting to your USA disembark, do you have to get off the ship and do customs in that 2nd to last port instead of the last port? someone posted in another forum about this and gotta admit i never heard of this before. seems like a pain if you werent getting off the ship and just wanted to enjoy it