Independence of the Seas Review
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The local professional association goes on a cruise n' learn every second year during Spring Break. This year was the 6 night Western Caribbean cruise on the Independence of the Seas, a Freedom class ship of Royal Caribbean.
We decided to do Disneyworld in Orlando before the cruise so didn't have Royal Caribbean (via the travel agency) make all of the flight arrangements. Instead, we rented a one-way car to Fort Lauderdale and then took a taxi from FLL to the port.
Boarding was easy (though we weren't prepared for all the people that "needed" to be tipped) though a little tedious. The stateroom was very small but neat and, as we aren't that tall, we had the bunkbeds down all the time with no problems.
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Oceanview Stateroom
We had an oceanview stateroom the cheapo one without the balcony.
As none of us are exceptionally tall, the four of us were comfortable even with the bunkbeds down all the time.
Closet space is tight, but putting luggage under the bed solved that.
If would've been nice if there was less of the non-free stuff in the fridge so we could store other stuff (e.g., water bottles) in there.
Finally, a couple more outlets would've been great, e.g., charging cameras, laptops, etc.