I will simply highlight a few points, and mainly compare this sailing to our November 2021 Harmony sailing. There have been quite a few significant and a few insignificant differences.
The first difference was traveling with a fully vaxxed 11 yo as opposed to partially vaxxed 10 yo. No bracelets of any kind to indicate the vaccinated vs. unvaccinated status on the Allure. Check-in was a breeze because DS didn't have to do the antigen test at the terminal. In November it took us an ex
Aruba - what a paradise...
We went to Eagle beach - $15 per taxi each way. It was extremely windy that day, and the umbrellas ($40 for two chaises and one umbrella) had to be dug in pretty deep. We got there pretty early - around 9 am - and were #4 umbrella takers.
Ours is the left most, right next to the turtle nest (turtles hatched a week prior). This was before a hoard of tourists arrived and long before the cruise excursion dropped the people off there. The excursion