After hearing so much about the Oasis of the Seas and the now new Allure of the Seas we decided with three other couples to venture forth and do a Back to Back on Oasis. This was the 22nd and 23rd Cruise for my DW and I and our 8th and 9th with RCI. We have also sailed a number of times on Princess and Celebrity as well as cruises with HAL, Disney,NCL, and Carnival. We opted to try our first B2B on Oasis since we figured we needed that much time to see and experience the whole ship, and we were correct. Trying to do it all in one week would be very difficult for sure. We normally prefer the 10 day and longer cruises anyway since we have to fly to most ports from here in Michigan.

I had also been active on the two Roll Calls for these Cruises and enjoyed

meeting many of my fellow Cruise Critics over the next two weeks. Our Sail Away Gatherings up at the Sky Bar were rather smallish but was nice to put a face to some of the people I had been chatting with for over a year. Our Meet and Mingle for each week was attended by about 30 the first week and probably over 40 the second. RCI has these events mostly in Dazzles Nightclub which I do not feel is a great venue for these events in that seating is not conducive to people mingling about which is the main purpose of the event. Read more