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Boston Iced Tea Party in the pub onboard... Learned my lesson about that one on the last cruise!

Oh I know it's a long wait :( we thought of the RC tour but it's $160 we don't have so unfortunately it's not an option. We're staying in the Country Inn pre-cruise for a night so will have our outlet shopping done! Thanks a mil for the replies. We had to wait 8 hours for our flight out of Barcelona in November so we're seasoned airport bums!

Next cruise: 10 nt Explorer of the

Apologies if this has been asked before, I can't find it. Is there a shuttle available from Cape Liberty to EWR? Our flight isn't until 7pm so we're not in a rush!

Next cruise: 10 nt Explorer of the

I've only been on three so far - Explorer was my favourite, although I loved Freedom as well. I was bitterly disappointed by our Navigator cruise but to be honest that was issues we had with staff rather than the ship

Just realized you said Anthem not Quantum, hey but my idea is good.

Love the idea - last May we did a 9 night on Explorer out of Bayonne and 5 nights in NY, and in 4 weeks we're heading back to Explorer for a 10-nighter :) :) Anthem will be in Europe so again cheap flights!

Next cruise: 10 nt Explorer of the

I am beyond excited by this announcement - we had said we were only going to do one cruise next year and it was going to be on Allure as I've always wanted to try her. We live in Ireland and even though the cruise fare will be a little dearer the flight prices should be a quarter of the transatlantic prices for us so we might be able to squeeze in a second cruise next year after all... I'm voting Anthem, my husband thinks I'm nuts :D

Honestly I wouldn't worry about it - we were on her last May and had a brilliant time, so much so we're going on her again in another 5 weeks! Shes a little older than some of the others but nothing major and honestly the nicest and friendliest crew ever, from the captain right down

They serve regular Smirnoff Ice and Mike's Hard Lemonade as far as I can remember

Just wondering anyone who has done one of these before at the start of November - when did the weather start to improve to a level where you could comfortably use the pool/sunbathe?

I'd love to try this itinerary - now I just need to find a way of getting a reasonable one-way flight from FLL or MIA to Dublin - at the moment it's only €100 less than a return :(

Any place to get tacos, nachos ect?

On our cruise in May, some days the Windjammer had both tacos and nachos for afternoon snack (between 3pm and 5pm, I think)

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I'm reasonably sure they won't allow a blender as it could be a fire hazard as it has a motor (they don't allow fans for example). Could she purchase a shaker cup? That would make it easy for her to make up the shakes wherever she wanted

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This is good news in my opinion, when we were on Explorer last year we got soaked leaving back our towels on the last evening - there was some really really heavy rain and strong winds and we got drenched running out to leave back the towels!

I know this is a bit soppy but to be honest it's enjoying a shared love of cruising with my husband and having quality time together!

There is a back door in the library on Navigator but it's staff only I'm afraid

Frankie is currently in the UK so he won't be at that table!

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I have a funny feeling Leigh will be moving to Oasis from Explorer... Totally gut instinct but Frankie did say there was big news to be announced later this month!

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I'm with clarea, we sailed on Explorer in May and had absolutely no complaints about her condition

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Frankie has left the Explorer, and is RUMORED to be going to the Oasis. The Activity Director is currently Kristen/Christine (I apologize for the spelling) Blair aka Mrs. John Blair. Her husband, John is filling in for Leigh, as the CD. Erky from Turkey will arrive on September 28 to assume the duties of Activity Director.

Frankie starts on Oasis on October 5th, he's currently on vacation

Just checked my phone and we were standing outside calling the car service at 8.43am! There was no queue for us at customs, as we were the only people in the non-US citizen queue. Also we were waiting in studio B for announcements but couldn't hear any so my husband went to check and turned out our group which was down for 8.30am had already been called (this was around 8.15) so we headed off

We're not long back after a 9 night on Explorer (beautiful ship & great captain). We managed self-debarkation ok but we only had one large bag each. There's no compartment for the luggage but they did have a staff member at each door on the shuttle helping people with bags. That was the only step, the rest was ramps/elevators. We had quite a wait for an elevator that could fit us both and the bags - in the end I squashed in with the bags & my hubby ran down to deck 3 to meet the elevator

We were signed up to attend the meet and mingle on Freedom last week but didn't get an invitation with details. As first time cruisers we weren't sure when we should get the invitation and when we went to ask at guest relations we had missed it by 2 hours! It was our own fault I suppose for not asking sooner, lesson learned. It was a shame thou as we're both quite shy and wanted the chance to meet a few people but it just didn't work out

Yes! We did Bernard's tour...were you on that??

Loving the detail in your review - we're heading on our first ever cruise for our honeymoon in September! And we are hoping to book this excursion so can't wait to hear about it!!