We love rock n roll cruises, so decided to hop aboard when a familiar TA advertised this one for Doo Wap entertainment. We booked a Royal Suite since we had invited a friend from California to go with us. We are from Ky. We stopped the night at the Embassey Suites Airport in Miami since this is where a lot of the people who had booked were staying for the night. Am I glad we did! Jimmy Jay and his lovely wife JoAnne and Chris Edwards White (DJ) and Patti were all there as well as several of the groups entertaining us - Teenagers, Dubs....and they decided to do a live broadcast from their room that night. It was great fun and we stayed up way too late.
The next morning we were transferred to the ship, where we did not wait in line more than 5 minutes. On board, we went directly to our room - #1049 and dropped off our hand luggage and then went to the lunch they had prepared. The first order of business after lunch was collecting our arm bands to get into all the wonderful concerts and attractions. Since we had a penthouse, we got front row seats on all concerts, which was fine with me. We were in the crystal room and everything was on a level with us.
After the mandatory life boat drill, everyone met up in the crystal room for a welcome aboard coctail party. This 5 days, someone, somewhere was always giving out free drinks, so we never went without. LOL
Royal Suite 1049 was great, except for the noise from above whenever someone was on the pool deck. I never could understand why they would put the most expensive suites under the pool deck. Bad decision.
Other then that, the room was excellent and had lots of space to move with 80 people in it. LOL