Allure has a lot to see. Shows are fabulous! We didn't miss a one. Booked the shows on line before we left. You use your room key to get into the shows for those who made reservations. We had a cabin with a balcony on the 9th deck. Facing Rita's Cantina and the water theater. We also made reservations for most of our speciality restaurants on line before we left. Booked one restaurant while on the ship, in our cabin on the TV -it's easy. I would book before I left...better chance of getting what you want. Showed up 10 min before lunch at Giovanni one day and got in. Speciality Restaurant ate at: Giovanni's Table, 150 Central Park, Johnny Rockets, Izumi Japanese, Rita's Cantina. Also ate at the Adagio Dining Room, Park Cafe, Broadwalk Dog House, Solarium Bistro, Sorrento's Pizzeria & the Windjammer Cafe Lido Restaurant. Of course 150 Central Park was my favorite. Dinning evening experience takes about 2 hours that is average for the Allure. Be sure you tell the waiter if you have a show booked so he can get you out on time. Must be there about 30min before the show to get in even if you have reservations. We booked dinning in main dinning room for late sitting 8:30. We had booked to be at a big table, but when we arrived we were seated with a newly web couple in their 20's. My husband and I are in our mid 50's. The newly web couple had booked to sit along. They asked the Maitre d to move them, but when we asked to be moved, they could't seem to fine a big table to move us to. So we made the best of it. We love meeting people! So our dinning experience wasn't like past cruising. Fun dinners with great conversation. The food was actually the worst we've had on any ship. I spoke to other season cruisers on board and they agreed. But we all agreed how could the service and food be up to par with as many people on board. Speciality restaurants food was much better. Loved our room steward, waiter, waiters assistant. We bought the wine package before we left, and had a bottle each night for dinner. Good way to go. Checking in on the ship was a breeze. Getting our luggage to our room was the fastest ever. They are organized on moving people and their things. We choose the walk off with luggage the day of departure. That was very smooth.

Over all we are so glad we saw this ship, but we have decided we don't like the mega ships. We are going back to the smaller or middle ship in size. More personalized and the food is better.

The only real negative to us was our dining experience but other than that it was an OK trip. We are glad we went to see the ship. Read more