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I’ve got a couple of questions. Do the rooms have coolers? I know they don’t have refrigerators. And were the bathrooms updated to resemble the ones like on the Glory or Dream? I will have an OV room this summer.

We just cruised Paradise had one of the new aft balcony cabins loved it! Bed was comfy had mini fridge new everything. Thought food was yummy the pool Mexican buffet was awesome great tacos, burritos and huge taco salads they also serve breakfast yummy huevos rancheros and breakfast burritos all redecorated had picnic benches and new high tops by the pool bar. The pool looks bigger and less kids since they have the new water park. I met someone who had a room on the new 14th floor he said it still has that new smell he was the first in the room. The staff was super nice I know it's a training boat but for the waiter to sit down and cut my 8 year old daughters steak wow. This is our 3rd time I would say biggest changes pool area, rooms, water park, miniature golf and kids ocean club

We are doing this same cruise in May. Was your $17 tax ride to Mr. Sanchos round trip or one way?

It was for one way for all 3 of us so you could actually fit one more person

Thanks for the review - DH and I will be sailing on her in May. Hopefully not a lot of kids since it's the week before Memorial Day weekend.

no there should not be this was just a little crazy because of Easter and the Northeast April vacations. I have been on several cruises and never saw this many kids (well I have not been on Disney that could be a different story)

So glad I was able to get you aboard after zone 10!!!

I remember you so funny you were doing all the zones everyone was cheering bubbles were everywhere and then zone 10 happened and you were yelling zone 10 where are you and it was crickets :D

Do you know if the propulsion issues have been fixed with the ship yet? They have not changed our itinerary for July yet.

Not that I know of I think as long as it has Costa Maya on the itinerary it is not fixed but don't quote me. I did not notice anything wrong but I did notice when we went 2 years ago we woke up and were in Tampa this time we woke up and we just started getting into port at about 7:30-8 but that did not seem to hold us up getting off the boat.

glad you had a good time, thanks for the review. we go in July. Do they have a movie screen somewhere or just on the tv's and do they show the good movies like the bigger ships do?

No big screen on this boat only movies on the TV's and they were not new movies

We just came off of a carnival cruise last week and we did decide on the cheers program. I did the math one day and it really worked for us. A usual day I would get a cappuccino in the morning $3.50, bottled water not sure how much those were but I got a bunch during the day to keep hydrated and to put in the room for overnight, a strawberry shake for me and darling daughter to share ;p or a virgin daiquiri I think shake was $3.50 and daiquiri might be closer to $4-5. I would get one bloody mary in the morning with Grey Goose $8.95ish have some drinks by the pool during the day $8-9ish, before dinner I would get a carnival cosmo yummy that was $8.95 and drink a few glasses of wine at the end of the night around $9 each our boat did not have the expensive wine other people talked about I think there might have been a white that was closer to $12 but I'm a red girl.

I always like to find a really nice bartender and tip them well I do tip on every check $1 but like to give extra to those that are fun to talk with and on our trip it was the main bar downstairs from the pool deck called united states bar. We went a week that had a ton of school vacations so sometimes it was hard to get something because of all the kids and the soda cards so I would just run downstairs and my favorite bartender was working I ordered a bloody mary and she said here you go I gave you the good stuff I looked at the bill and it was $17 its the higher end grey goose comes in a fancy bottle so of course later that day I went to her to get my vodka and soda I made out those day for sure :D. She said it was only at that bar so on the bigger ships you might have to search for it.

I did see someone ask about buckets of beer I think on this thread we had a really good waiter at the pool bar he hustled and was very nice. We found that if you ordered a Michelob Ultra they kept the screw cap in place where the bartenders would open it for you (I'm sure you could say please do not open) 5 minutes later he came by and noticed I did not open it yet he winked at me and said do you want another??? I said sure he said give me a few minutes and I will bring you back 2 and a bucket. My husband brought it to our room so he could have some for later. My husband said he found a more expensive Dewers somewhere but he forgot to look at the bill to see how much that cost :rolleyes:

I found that I did not hit 15 but always came out over what we spent

Cheers!

We just got off the Paradise on the 20th we had a great time! We took Uber from the airport cost just under $13.00 for 3 of us. We got to the port at our exact check in time 11:30 am. There were a lot of people in line but went quick they were just starting the boarding of zones and while we were in line they got all the way to zone 10 and were all done so once we got checked in we could just walk on in total from walking in it took 40 minutes to get on the boat.

Our cruise was sold out but still easy to get food etc. the only line that was super long was the Wok line everyone loves those noodles. There were a ton of kids on this cruise so you might see bad reviews because of this. We took this cruise 2 years ago at the same time and there were hardly any kids for my daughter to play with not the case this time I was trying to figure out why and it was because of Easter I guess some schools have their vacation specific to Easter where we have the same week in April every year. It was great for my 7 year old but I can understand where adults would be upset the pool and the Jacuzzis were packed with kids and the bars could fill up with kids getting sodas. So sometimes I would run down one flight to the United States bar to get my drink that bar was always super quick.

we occasionally smelled the funky smell but nothing different from other cruises and cruise lines and it would be on deck not in our room. No problem with water or toilets they did leave a note that the water would be turned off from 1:30am - 2am one day but we did not notice. Our first sea day the boat rocked a little you walked around like you had been drinking all day and it stopped around 3 this also happened the last sea day.

Crew was very nice and the boat is clean I can understand where people say its dated but we didn't care. We had an ocean view state room on Riviera deck and it was fine.

We made it to both ports went to Mr Sanchos in Cozumel which was great it was a $17 taxi ride and just did a walk around in Costa Maya.

We were the last people off the boat group 24 so we just hung out by the pool until they called us around 10:30am and probably took 30 minutes to get outside. Someone told me if you grab a porter they have there own line so you can get out faster but since we were the last group we just stood in the line. I heard a ton of people went with the first group so it took really long to hear them just call the 2nd group. We took an Uber back to the airport same price just under $13 for all 3 of us.

We got the Cheers program it works for us when you do the math. I always got a cappuccino in the morning, water bottles during the day, sometimes a powerade, milkshakes and of course the booze. You can also get Monster drinks, different kinds of coffee and virgin daiquiris. If you drink Grey Goose the US bar has the more expensive Grey Goose that drink alone cost $17 I didn't even know about it the bartender pointed it out to me.

any questions just ask