My wife and I cruised on Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas from January 30th to February 2nd, 2006. This short four-night cruise was our 11th RCCL cruise (that makes us Diamond Crown and Anchor members); we departed out of Miami and visited Nassau-Bahamas, CocoCay (private RCCL island, in the Bahamas) and Key West-FL. We are 34 and 39 years old; I am a Finance Director, my wife is a Realtor. My wife earned this cruise by selling a certain amount of real estate in 2005; so the airfare and tickets were paid for by her company. They booked us in an outside 'porthole' stateroom on deck 2, (this was quite different as we normally book suites on deck 10, and we prefer 7 night cruises, but, hey, the price was right!).
As I said, this was our 11th RCCL cruise - we like Royal Caribbean very much, they have always taken great care of us and we are loyal to them. We go into every cruise with a great attitude, we understand that sometimes things out of anyone's control happen (i.e. weather, simple mistakes - we are all human, the fact that people have a variety of tastes, etc.) - we know we are going to have a good time. In fact, our biggest pet peeve is cruisers that are so arrogant they don't think rules apply to them, or so inept to think everything should be 'free', all the time. That being said, we had a wonderful time and following are some remarks to pass along about this cruise.
Embarkation. Per normal we arrived in Miami the day before the cruise, stayed at a no frills Crowne Plaza the night before, and had transportation get us to the Port of Miami at 10:30 AM. We always arrange our own airfare and ground transportation - we have found the prices much better and far less crowded. Being Diamond Crown and Anchor members, we were immediately taken to the Chairman's Club lounge while the RCCL staff prepared to check everyone in. Our hope was to upgrade to a higher deck, bigger cabin, but we quickly found out that over 1/2 of the ship was chartered by members of a Mexican pharmaceutical company - the ship was completely full, so no upgrade. We got checked in and issued our Seapass cards about 11:15 and boarded Majesty at 11:40 - for the first time ever, we were the first ones to board - that was fun.