Rhapsody of the Seas Review

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wrp96
First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

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Sail Date: May 2008
Cabin: Owner's Suite

Booking and planning: Friends chose this cruise for a reason and I didn't think I would get to go. But I was looking at prices last fall on RCCL's website and noticed a grand suite guarantee (which I'd never seen before) and thought I'd book it because I could always cancel later. A few weeks later I opened up my reservation and noticed I'd been upgraded to an Owner's Suite. So that decided it right there - I was going on this cruise. I then transferred the reservation to my wonderful travel agent. And set about researching the ports on this cruise. This was like a homecoming for me as I grew up in Alaska and after I upgraded my mother decided to join me for the return. Best friend decided to join us as well, but actually stayed in an inside stateroom with a friend from CC.

Pre-cruise: We all were booked on different flights because we needed to come and go at different times. We came in a day early to Seattle. I was upgraded to first class on my flights on AA and we landed really early, then settled in to wait on my best friend - didn't have long to wait as she also landed very early. Mom's flight much later in the day also landed early.

We caught a cab (this was a laugh as they first tried to stick us in an economy car and as I am a member of overpackers anonymous that was not going to work) to the Marriott Waterfront (our pre-cruise hotel). Wow, what a welcome to a hotel. As we got out of the cab, the bellmen offered us ice cold water bottles - and they did so every time we entered or left the hotel. The lobby itself was beautiful as well with a gorgeous glass sculpture. We were given a room with a view of the bay even though I'd booked a city view room (bay view was more expensive). In the morning we had a view from our balcony of HAL Amsterdam and Rhapsody of the Seas sailing into Terminal 30. The hotel was directly across the street from Pier 66 where Celebrity Infinity was docked on Friday but we could not see her from our room. The beds in the room were extremely comfortable and we were pleased with room service and the bar service.

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Owner's Suite

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Great location, quiet hallway, balcony is right next to bridge wing so you may get to talk to the bridge crew when they are out there

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