We were looking to get away over the Christmas Holidays. Being an Elite class passenger, I had been attempting to find suitable arrangement to book a room on Celebrity Reflection out of Ft. Lauderdale. Alas, no good airline connections were to be found. Therefore, we looked at RCCL Enchantment of the Seas out of Baltimore. Since we live in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, the drive is less than one hour to the port. Enchantment had just undergone a two-week overhaul in early December and boasted some nice improvements, plus being well cleaned up and painted. I found a guaranteed Junior Suite on the RCCL website and put it on 24-hour hold. I knew they had sold our all of their Junior Suites but this might be a cancellation. After my wife approved he cruise I called back to find out that since I was in the Diamond class of passenger it was likely we would be upgraded to a larger suite at the same price. A few weeks later, I did some digging and discovered we indeed had been assigned a Grand Suite around the corner from the forward elevators. I look at the floor plan a discovered a very large L shaped room with a huge balcony. This was looking good. I looked at the itinerary to discover we would make three port calls. One stop at Port Canaveral, FL, the next day, Christmas day on to Nassau, Bahamas and the next day to their so-called resort facility called Coco Cay, which was originally Little Stirrup Cay, Bahamas. It turns out that the Nassau stop was on Christmas day and no stores were open. There was the standard hawking of tours of the island, but I had my fill of touring Caribbean Islands.

Embankment was smooth and well organized. We arrived early, got a close parking spot and registered quickly. Now the start of some of the disappointments. To get to the fourth level of the ship where the bridge crossed onto the ship required walking up a series of inclined ramps to deck four while being weighed down by my carry-on. Our bags were very late so our fabulous room attendant went to look for them, located them and delivered them to our room.

Our room was lovely, large airy, vast storage space, three closets many drawers, and huge bathroom with tub, pullout couch opening into a double bed and a huge balcony. Heat and AC were well controlled. Note there is almost no shelf space as there is only one shelf in one closet that is filled with life preservers. There were no hooks to hang things and the hangers are the type that clip into the hanger holders on the clothes pole. Read more