Jordie's home alone

Good question as to which is the scariest, although it easily comes down to free fall or the plank for most. (corkscrew a distant third) I did four free falls, each time bypassing a guy at the drop zone who kept trying to get his courage up. I'd arrive at the bottom and see his wife patiently awaiting his arrival. Eventually I passed him retracing his steps back down the platform stairs. The irony in it was his NYFD tshirt!

I'm not afraid of open heights, so the free fall gets my vote for freakiest.

That makes me feel a lot better.

 

My 7 year old son says he's going to do the ropes course, including the plank. He's tall enough. I'm definitely going to do it with him. For the whole course, are there staff who make you wait and leave space between the person in front, or is it just free for all and I can be right next to my son? If there needs to be space, is it better for me to go in front of him, or behind him?

 

Also, I'm assuming only one person on the plank at one time. Will see how this goes!

I don't recall anything with the safety track above that would prevent two individuals from simultaneously occupying the plank. The zip line attendee might be keeping his or her eyes on the plank and shout you back if you try (because...you know...it's just not allowed, or something like that), but if possible, I say go for it. I'd keep your son in front just for the father/mother hen of it!

I just remembered , however, a rule I believe is posted, stating in general that two ropers should not occupy any particular element of the course at the same time, so to answer your more general question, you probably would be expected to stay a few yards behind as you move throughout the course.

I find it odd there's no NCL staff working the plank!

The fact that the course wasn't even designed to accommodate a staff member at the plank shows how foolproof it is, vs. the staff member assigned to the zip line to prevent more obvious potential problems (though on this course I can't even imagine that being too problematic.) :)

I intentionally "jumped" from the plank and only dropped what felt like a few additional inches below the plank itself. It's really only the differential in the slack from your safety harness!

We booked Baja midship (inside) before realizing the stairs situation, but didn't want the hassle of rebooking despite the major crimp to our usual "traffic patterns."

I resolved to enjoy the extra steps (almost always forward in our case), especially when backtracking through action decks, which I love to wander through anyway.

Ultimately it was almost a non-issue for us. HOWEVER, the overall impact of the general stairs/elevator situation on the Royal was not a pretty sight, and I felt bad for almost anyone needing to use an elevator except for the middle of the night. I've never witnessed more overloaded elevators, guests playing elevator roulette, and the like, on any other ship.

For what it's worth though, we loved the ship and our fellow guests.

We just got off of the Majesty this morning. My primary bag was found later on sailaway day in the naughty room, of all places, without the paper tag I had carefully folded and taped without additional "laminating". One other tag was pretty beat up upon arrival outside of our stateroom.

Now, in a quasi thread steal: Upon claiming my bag, a secondary inspection uncovered our iron. So my question is: would the baggage tag have been intentionally removed as part of the naughty room sequence of events, or did my untagged bag coincidentally wind up in the naughty room, where by coincidence the iron was discovered?