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This is pretty late, but better late than never! We sailed back in December and had an amazing trip! Sorry, my pictures are not uploading properly. Hopefully I will have them up soon, but sadly, I forgot about taking food pics :eek:

A little background on our family: We have the happily married couple, Rob and Carrie, and we'll say they're middle-aged (; then we have the kids: Emma (13 at the time), Lily (8 at the time) and Calvin (6 mos at the time). We also traveled with the grandparents, Ken and Jan. We had 2 gluten-free passengers in our party. We did not mark them as gluten-free on our booking because we are not CRAZY sensitive, and I wanted to try some stuff with gluten in it and I knew I wouldn't be able to if I was marked as GF. Now on to the good stuff (:

Embarkation:

I don't quite remember the time we got to PCC, but I know we were there as soon as we could be. Maybe 10:00 A.M.? We waited in line for awhile until the ship was cleared and ready for boarding. We got through security and waited for a desk to be ready to take our photos for SeaPass cards and get us checked in. As I mentioned earlier, we had a baby, so we had a stroller. We had the nice surprise of being able to go through different doors and straight onto the ship after check in, since we had the stroller. What a nice surprise!

The Ship: My first impression of the ship was "WOW!!!" we had been on Liberty and Navigator, so she felt very familiar to us (: We stopped and had lunch at Cafe Promenade. YUM!

We explored the ship and went up to the pool. H2O Zone was so neat to look at! We had fun with the pool and H20 Zone. Very fun!

We headed to get ready for our first dinner and see the cabins. Our cabins were connecting inside cabins on the 8th deck. They were just your typical inside cabins, nothing too special. My only complaint was that the beds in both cabins were together even though we requested them be separate on the booking (though, this is typical). When we asked that they be separated, our cabin stewardess took the egg crates off, which made the beds not so comfy. We later got this taken care of, but I would recommend that you get this taken care of immediately if the egg crate is something you want, not wait until the next day.

We met our waiters, Kirk (from Jamaica) and assistant Silroy (from India), at dinner that night. They were WONDERFUL! Kirk photo-bombed a picture we were taking and we knew we would have great service that week (: He was very efficient! Our courses were always out in a very timely manner. I don't think we ever waited more than 7 minutes between courses coming out. He was so good with Calvin, too!

The ship itself was in beautiful condition. They were replacing the green flooring/mats up by the H20 Zone while we were there, so we had to wait a few days to get up there and play around.

We had the one and only Richard Spacey for our CD. In 14 cruises, I have never had a better CD than him! We had so much fun watching his "TV show" called 'The Space Station'. Thank you to Spacey for making our cruise PHENOMENAL!

That's a short review of our cruise (:

Hope you enjoyed!

Does anyone know what the oldest ship still sailing is??? Been curious about this for awhile now!

Explorer of the Seas! Still love her (:

Hello,

We are sailing on the 8/24/14 (birthday cruise) Navigator of the Seas cruise and I am wondering what she looks like after her refurb! Does she feel overcrowded at all with the new cabins and features? Any advice/tips/pictures/stories are appreciated!

Thanks (;

I just read this whole thing over again. I loved my cruise on Monarch, so I was very pleased to stumble upon this. Thank you for doing this! Beautiful pictures that really capture the atmosphere of the ship. (:

Just wondering, what is the oldest cruise ship still in service (on ANY line)? I've always been curious about that. I have a couple guesses, but someone on here probably knows off the top of their head, and has done a whole bunch of research, LOL.

:):D:cool:

LOYAL TO ROYAL!!! Yay! I've tried other cruise lines -- multiple times, and none of them are as good as Royal. Nothing does it like they can! I can't wait to see the features that they will put on Project Sunshine!

LOYAL TO ROYAL!!! Yay! I've tried other cruise lines -- multiple times, and none of them are as good as Royal. Nothing does it like they can! I can't wait to see the features that they will put on Project Sunshine!

The bread and butter pudding was my favorite dessert that I had on the LOTS! Did you like it :) ?! SO YUMMY!

I thought she was an extremely negative person and did not appreciate her comments....that's not the direction I like to take my day...into negativity. However, the pictures are great, so I just look and quit reading! Solves the problem!

I agree! I have been curious about Seabourn for clients and wanted to find a review w/ pictures. These are great! I personally like the big name lines (RCCL, Princess, NCL etc.) , but other people I work with enjoy the boutique cruises, so it's good to see and have some knowledge of this area of cruising.:)

My carrot cake cupcake was the second best dessert I ate (first being the sticky toffee bread and butter pudding) on the Liberty OTS. Too bad you have to pay extra for it.

WOW! That's HUGE! LOL

We stayed there when we were on Monarch in February :) We loved the pool!

That was just mean. Maybe she meant pricing it or if they had done extensive research on it. However topanga49er , I do think that she would love it (from what I've read about it), and it would certainly make the trip more special. But, if you decide not to do it, don't tell her anything about it even existing or being a thought in your mind, and the trip will be JUST as special and fun :) . Which ship are you sailing on? I know it is only available on select ships when it starts in Jan. 2013.