My Wife and I wanted to take a nice vacation for our One Year Wedding Anniversary and since we love cruising, we decided to try out Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas. We booked a 7 night cruise, which left out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and sailed to Nassau Bahamas, St. Maarten, and St. Thomas from November 30-December 7. This was my third time cruising (once on Carnival and second on Royal Caribbean) and my Wife's second time cruising (once on Carnival and first on Royal Caribbean). We had an amazing time both on board the ship and off the ship, but here is a breakdown of everything.

Check-in:

This was a very smooth process! They told us not to get there until 1:00 p.m. to check in, but we arrived around noon and there were already a lot of people there being checked in. We walked right in, got through security, and was at the desk being checked in by a Royal Caribbean Representative within about 10 minutes. Royal Caribbean seems to have this process down pretty good and there wasn't much of a wait for any portion of the check-in process. We left our luggage outside the facility where there were a bunch of staff members placing luggage tags on everything, which linked the luggage to your room and they carried it in from there. Read more