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I agree! We took our granddaughter out of Galveston last year for her spring break. She wanted to do it again this year but there was no way I was doing the same ports on the same ship. Looking for a little variety in what is offered!

I will sort through our documents over the next few days and post what makes sense.

 

A few quick comments, based on what I have scanned through of other posts...

 

• We were in 1600 - Owners Suite - Port Side
  
• No strange smells in our room.
  
• Water temp varied greatly. Sometimes difficult to get shower cool enough to get in (esp with sunburn).
  
• Someone in the room before us unplugged the playstation and bent the HDMI cable. Took them 1.5 days to fix. Thanks person in the room before us!
  
• There was an iPod dock radio. We didn't try it.
  
• Playstation connected to the TV (turn TV to channel 3 to watch). We borrowed the controller and a DVD from Concierge... until we ran into the previously mentioned HDMI cable problem.
  
• We were told there were 1220 kids on the ship (no definition of kids).
  
• Adventure Ocean never had a waiting line to get in (had that problem during Thanksgiving a few years back).
  
• Didn't think it felt that packed.
  
• We did not try any of the specialty restaurants - hopefully next trip! Did main dining every night. Not a fan of buffet with kids, I hate being the waiter.
  
• We did the unlimited photo package and were happy with the results
  
• We pre-paid for the photos, and they charged us again. Will contact post cruise resolutions tomorrow and see how that goes.
  
• The sports deck crew was FANTASTIC... but there were people cheating on the flow rider wrist bands, those that got caught were not happy.
  
• We enjoyed the shows, but didn't make it to all of them.
  
• Stateroom Attendant was efficient and did her job. We didn't see much of her (unlike previous cruises, missed this a bit).
  
• We could see the gangway in Cozumel... no drunk run. There was an ambulance taking someone off the ship which delayed everything (hope they are OK!)
  
• Felt that execution in the main dining was a bit off. Esp breakfast & lunch, they took a long time.
  
• Roatan: Zip 'n Dip by Victor Bodden
  
• Belize City - Flow Rider & Johny Rockets :) (Disappointed that they didn't do everything on the compass due to small crowd e.g. kids were looking forward to line dancing)
  
• Cozumel: Mr. Sanchos
  
• We enjoyed the 2 sea days before ports. They were more fun looking forward to ports. Previous cruise had the 2 sea days at the end. That felt more like the cruise was "over" when ports were done (I know - a mental thing...).
  

 

And of course the fog coming into Galveston. I am curious if anyone was in the new deck 12 cabins on the board here? We could hear the horn starting around 3:30am from our cabin. Wonder how loud it would be in a cabin right under it?

 

Finally - we had a great time!

We were in one of the new cabins on deck 12. The panoramic window was great! The foghorn was not! Woke us up at 2:15am and went off every 5 minutes until after 6. It was very loud!

We are on your cruise! Not happy with today's weather but we will be on vacation! I am a retired teacher so I totally understand the limited vacation windows. We are taking our granddaughter on this cruise for her spring break. Leaving Katy shortly for our trip to Galveston. We are from MD so this is a new cruise port for us. Looking forward to it! See you soon!

Thanks Clarea!

We've literally just got of Rhapsody and my girls loved their barbie experience! It was $300ish each aud. They got blanket and pillow case, a barbie, barbie bag, pack of barbie clothes, barbie activity book, a magnet sign on cabin with "special barbie guest", barbie door hanger and a barbie lanyard for sea pass. They got 6 barbie activities ( barbie wii session, barbie storytime, barbie fashion workshop (where they made3 barbie outfits), barbie tea party, barbie dance class and it all end on thr last sea day with a barbie fashion parade. There were only 5 girls including mine doing it so it was very exclusive and the adventure ocean staff called them all barbie girls throughout cruise. Definatley worth the money!

How old are your girls? My granddaughter wants to do it in March. She is 10 and I don't want her to be the only one around that age.

Has anyone's daughter done the Barbie Experience on RCI? How was it? Worth the money for a 10 year old who does not play with Barbie dolls but loves fashion design?