First of all I would like to Thank Cruise Critic . com for all the help and info I gathered on the boards.

This was our Fifth cruise third Royal. First for the east coast, the others were the Mexican riviera and coastal short cruises to Ensenada. We booked our cruise while on the last day at sea in april 2006 booked on ship through Royal. All air hotel and transportation was booked also through Royal around june of 2006. I liked the convenience having everything done and nothing left to bother with.

Friday evening left LAX on the redeye nonstop to San Juan arrived too early to check in . Finally checking in got a good night's sleep and took a small self guided tour around old san juan and the forts . Took a cab ( to save the trouble going back to the hotel) To the ship and to my surprise , was onboard the AOS in less than 10 yes ten minutes. online docs and seapass already to go luggage transferred for us , started our tour of this beautiful ship. I did not encounter any loud drunken or rude individuals all week, Take all the reviews with a grain of salt! Dining was fair to good our waiter and assistant were not as good as previous dinners but they tried. Read more