It had taken me 4 years to do this trip because of mixed reviews that I've read here in cruise critic but my dream of going to Southern Caribbean won. If you're like me, I do recommend to go ahead, read the reviews here but it eventually comes back to you and making your vacation to what you want it to be. Here's my cruise review.
This was my 3rd cruise, 2nd in Royal Caribbean, First was Freedom of the Seas and I would say not much of difference except of the flow rider and more specialty restaurant in Freedom of the Seas.
Per recommendation, We did arrived in San Juan Thursday and I choose Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel in order for us to do the downtown areas for easy access prior to the cruise then just do the beaches after the cruise so I booked the International Hotel in Isla Verde for after cruise.
Cabin: The cabin has a small refrigerator which we put our drink in and we found a bottle of red wine courtesy of Royal Caribbean for our Anniversary. I thought that was nice Since our kids, ages 15/17 years old, didn't really want to swim, we went to explore more and we met our stateroom steward, Angelica. She asked us what our preferred bed arrangement since were 4 in the cabin and asked her if she can put an ice bucket in our room for our drink. This she did for the duration of our trip. The bathroom was extremely small but we managed and there were an on and off sewer smell but I brought in a Lysol spray which we used to take care of the smell. In any case, we were hardly in the room and bathroom so it really didn't matter. My husband and son uses the bathroom/shower in the gym to get ready for dinner which gives them and us, girls, more space.