The AOS is our favorite ship, even after 9 cruises. We loved the AOS so much we sailed her again(this was the second time). To find out what makes the Adventure so amazing... read my review. I had an amazing time on the AOS and would love to share it with all of you. This was our second time on the Adventure of the seas, last time we did the Barbados route and this time we did the Aruba route. To answer a very common question here on CC… which itinerary is better? It depends what you do on each island and what you enjoy. Personally, both itineraries were great but we prefer the Aruba route.

We arrived in San Juan a day early. We decided it was best to go to the hotel to drop off our stuff. On out taxi drive to the Condado area we nearly get in a head on accident, but (thank god) our taxi driver stopped within inches. At this point we were all ready for a Pina Colada. We were staying at the Radisson Ambassador and to our pleasant surprise our room was ready at 9:30. But when I opened the door there was 1 king bed (for a family of four)!!! With a quick phone call, we changed that. The Radisson Ambassador was not our first choice, but that's what Priceline gave us and it was suitable for one night. We paid $110 for the room. We even got a balcony….overlooking Burger King! We took bus B21 to Old San Juan. It was 0.75 a person. The pro to this would be the price, much less then a taxi. The con would be that this bus runs on island time and didn't really follow a schedule. After arriving in Old San Juan, we walked around. We had already seen the forts and everything. We ate brunch at La Bombonera, a local favorite. We all had mallorcas (I hope I spelled that right). They were so good. If you want to eat with the locals, come here for breakfast or lunch. We walked down by the water and shopped. Old San Juan is pretty dead when no ships are in! We were so hot that we decided to just take a taxi back to the hotel, instead of waiting for the bus. In the afternoon, we walked around Condado, went to the beach (rocky, but nice) and took a quick nap by the pool. On our walk, we stopped at Starbucks. There are lots of Starbucks in San Juan, they actually have more of a variety on a menu then in the states. Try the Coconut mocha or the dulce de Leche frappicinos at Starbucks. For dinner, we ate at Uno's Chicago Grille. It wasn't exactly authentic, but it was good!

The next day we went to Burger King to get coffee, they automatically put milk in it. Then we changed and went to breakfast at the Latin star. The food was good, but the service wasn't. It's like our IHOP, open 24 hours. Straight from breakfast, we went to Stella Maris, a small, Catholic church in Condado and the priest was great! They had a Spanish mass at 8 and an English mass at 9:30. It doesn't exactly look like a catholic church, or any church, when you look at it. From church, we went back to the hotel and got all our stuff together. It was finally time to get on the beautiful AOS again! When we arrived the line was never ending! But it moved really fast once they opened the door. At noon, we were on the AOS. We got a soda card and something small to eat, none of us were that hungry yet. We sat by the pool and relaxed. At 1:00, we went to our room, but had no luggage yet. We played golf and walked around. The next time we went to our room, our luggage was there and we unpacked. We got ready for dinner and went to the dreaded muster drill, then to dinner which is at 6:30 instead of 6 the first night. Our waiter Ardeth from Columbia was great and our assistant waiter Santiago was also great! He kept the bread coming. We were on deck 5, table 540. It was just the four of us at our table as requested. We went to the sail away party, which is always fun! Then to the welcome aboard show with mike the cruise director and John Wing (a comedian). He was hilarious. From here we went to the sail away parade in the promenade and then to bed. Read more