hello this was our 4th cruise first on rcl. and we went down with friends whom were getting married in st. thomas.
Embarkation: we flew down the day of the cruise to miami airport, booked own airfare and saved 100.00 from the rcl package price, at the airport was a little disappointed with the long wait for a bus to transfer us to the port about 1 1/4 hrs. once on the bus the driver was wonderful. when we got to the port and we were told by our travel agent to go to the aft line and we went right in about 15mins for such a large ship. the only other complaint about embarkation was the lack on notice of having to fill out a second customs form for the bahamas with limited table space to fill these outs.
Public rooms: once on the ship wonderful greeting of the staff and we arrived on board about 1:15pm and went right to our balcony room which was ready and our luggage was waiting. now we were off to lunch and to explore the ship. we first went to lunch at the buffet it was wonderful the food was great with plenty to choose from you name it and it was there. now the rest of the ship was incredible the design was nothing we have ever seen before in this class of ship from the main decks to the skating rink and the rock wall was wonderful the kids loved it. so off to the cruise now.