Oasis of the Seas Review

Great ship , shame about the staff

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Sail Date: Feb 2011
Cabin: Superior Ocean View Stateroom with Balcony

Hello. This is my first review on this site. It is quite long so apologies for that.

My wife and I are from Scotland. We have only cruised twice before this trip, once on the Carnival Victory in 2009 and once on the Oasis in Jan 2010. This trip was a repeat of our second cruise and was to celebrate my 50th birthday. We flew directly from the UK to Fort Lauderdale prior to boarding the ship. Here is my summary of our holiday split down into various categories.

Embarkation - I had one small problem that left a bad taste right at the start. I purchased some duty free vodka on the flight over. Knowing that the cruise line don't allow you to carry on alcohol I showed my duty free bag to a Royal Caribbean employee immediately upon arrival at the terminal and asked what I should do with it. He said that everything had to go through the X ray machine so I put the duty free bag on to the conveyor belt along with my small flight bag and then proceeded through the metal detector. Immediately a security officer approached me and asked if I had alcohol in the bag. When I said yes he asked me to accompany him to a desk. He asked me to empty out the contents of the bag and when I did he then thanked me and said I was free to carry on to the registration desk. I asked him how I went about getting my vodka back at the end of the cruise and he said " Oh no sir you don't. It's been confiscated. We don't allow any carry on alcohol ". I tried to explain that I wasn't trying to carry it on board and that his colleague had only just told me to put in on the conveyor belt. However this fell on deaf ears. I refuse to believe that this guy seriously thought I was trying to sneak this vodka on board cos if I was, having 2 bottles in a duty free bag and putting them into the X Ray machine was clearly not a clever way to smuggle them on. However at this point my wife told me to forget it and just get on board ship. Literally five minutes later we were on board so apart from this hiccup the embarkation was a breeze but it did dampen my initial excitement about coming on board.

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Superior Ocean View Stateroom with Balcony

Cabin D6
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