Enchantment of the Seas Review

Enchantment of the Seas - Western Caribbean

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Enchantment of the Seas
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rbryan
First Time Cruiser • Age 20s

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Sail Date: Sep 2006
Cabin: Junior Suite with Balcony

About us, we are a gay male professional couple age 54 and 41 and have cruised before on Royal Caribbean, Princess, and Holland America. We have 2 more cruises scheduled on RCL in the next year. This was a shorter cruise than we usually take, but was a nice change.

Pre-Cruise We flew in to Ft. Lauderdale the day before and stayed at the Marriott Courtyard in Dania Beach. This is a very nice hotel, fairly new, but also fairly remote. The only thing close by is Bass Pro Shop. The good news is that they have free airport pickup, free high speed internet and free shuttle to the cruise port. There is only one restaurant nearby, but several restaurants will deliver food if you want it (the Chinese delivery is pretty good). In the mornings the hotel has a $9.95 breakfast buffet which I refer to as a training buffet to get you ready for your cruise ship. I got a corporate rate of $87.00, I think they have AAA and other discounted rates available. We signed up for the noon shuttle to the cruise port, and on this particular day the Enchantment was the only ship in port.

Day 1 -- The noon shuttle got us to the ship by about 12:20. We decided to do a walk-on, walk-off since we only had a couple of bags each. We travel a lot and are very good packers so we just had three carry-ons, a backpack, and a shoulder bag between us. We walked right by all the porters with our bags and into the building. We had printed out our Set-Sail passes and had passports out and ready and we sailed right through the initial check points and went straight to the check-in for suite passengers, where there was no line at all. In a couple of minutes we were on or way to board the ship. You can do a walk-on to the ship as long as all your bags will fit through the carry-on x-ray machine. That way you arent waiting to get your bags. The only down side is you have more bags to handle until you can get into your room. The check in went so quickly that we were on the ship by 12:45, and the rooms dont open until 1:00. We just waited in the library on deck 7 until 1:00 and went directly to our room, 7170.

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