I liked our D7 category room on deck 9 in 9702.  Our group had rooms 9698, 9700, 9702, 9704 and 9706.  It was great having these rooms.  It was quiet, you couldn't hear anything.  The bed was by the closet and not by the balcony in 9702, 9698 and 9706.   A/C blew cold the whole trip.   Shower had nice water pressure.  Overall we were very pleased with our room.

I booked the Tulum Ruins and Beach Break directly with Royal Caribbean, and I won't ever do that again.  It was expensive, and we only got 20 minutes to really explore Tulum.  Of everything we did, this tour was the biggest disappointment.  First off, the seas were rough, so the ferry ride from Cozumel to Playa del Carmen ended up being the vomit ferry from hell.  It was contagious, once one person started throwing up, it felt like everyone started throwing up, there was vomit on the walls, the floors, the seats, it was everywhere, and so gross.  The smell started to make me ill, I ended up putting a tube of sunscreen in my beach towel and held it to my nose and just smelled sunscreen to keep from getting sick myself (I don’t get sea sick, but the smell will turn my stomach).  I felt bad for the ferry workers who were running all over the boat trying to clean up all the vomit.  We finally got to Playa del Carmen, but the seas were so rough the ferry captain had trouble docking, and then it took a solid 40 minutes just to get everyone off the boat, because the seas were so rough the gangway was rocking and rolling and sliding with the boat.  We all finally got off, got in our respective lines, and were led to buses across the street behind some buildings.  We were all happy to be on dry land, and headed to Tulum, or so we thought.  I knew we were behind schedule (3 hours from getting off Oasis to getting on the bus in Playa del Carmen), but thought there was still plenty of time for Tulum.  But then our Bus stopped at this horrible tacky tourist stop as a “bathroom break”.  There was a bathroom on the bus, and there were bathrooms at Tulum, we didn’t need a 45 minute stop at a tacky tourist destination.  I don’t need to buy Chinese made magnets in the shape of a sombrero.  I wanted to see Tulum.  We finally got to Tulum, and we had a 15 minute walk from the Bus to the actual ruins where our tickets were finally given to us.  Once we got into the Tulum Park, our tour guide then led us up the hill away from all the Tulum structures, and talked for 40 minutes about Mayan life, not Tulum ruins, or the structures he had led us away from, but just general mayan life.  At the end of the 40 minutes, he told us we had 20 minutes to explore Tulum and then we were all leaving on the bus.  WHAT?  I had 20 minutes to actually see Tulum?  Seriously?  You couldn’t even do a lap at a brisk walk in 20 minutes around Tulum, I tried.  My whole family started getting really pissed.  We wanted to see Tulum, it was the whole point of the trip, and I get that our tour may have been cut short due to the ferry ride, but we lost 45 minutes due to that awful “bathroom” break at the horrible tourist trap.  And then we were racing off to this beach break where the water was too rough to swim.  That 45 minutes could have been at the ruins and not at that awful tourist trap shop.   We could have cut the beach break down since the surf conditions were so rough.  Why cut down the time at the one thing we all went on the tour to see?  And why was our 40 minute tour with a guide so far away from the structures in the Tulum compound?  And why did our guide not discuss hardly at all any of the Mayan Ruins in front of us, no architecture or construction details.  Just that it was a trading post, and most of the structures were limestone.  That was it.  That was the extent of the knowledge of the Mayan temples in front of us given by our guide.  Anyway, we raced to lunch at this restaurant on the beach in Tulum, where the beach was covered in thick seaweed and the seas were very rough.  We had a full 2 hours here.  Why?  I don’t know, I would have preferred more time in Tulum ruins.  Our ferry ride back confirmed my initial suspicions, the afternoon ferries from playa del Carmen are fully booked by the cruise ships, the available ferry to the public was at 6pm and would have been too late to make the boat.  Overall I’m glad I got a quick glimpse of Tulum, but overall, I wouldn’t do it again.  I would wait till I’m staying in Mexico several nights to do Tulum, and then Chicheniza.  It was too rushed, and frankly too poorly done for the price.

The level of talent really surprised me, I was thinking prior to the cruise, the shows will be good “for a cruise ship”, when in actuality the shows were really just down right Great!Prior to going, Ricardo had tried to warn us we didn’t need to do Dunns River Falls if we were doing the Blue Hole, as we would like the Blue Hole so much better.

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