It was hard to figure out whom to give your bags to but we were directed by a nice lady to the "men with white hats"

Miami

Bus arrived on time. Got us to zoo before it opened so we waited. Did not get to see most animals as they were sleeping. You can get in the cage with the jaguar for an extra $20 per person and be licked by the jaguar (the guide said that this is normally $50 so we got a 'break'). Went to lunch place. Food was burned. Boat to take us on the river was 90 minutes late so the river boat then rushed us back to the port on the "chocolate river" as we deemed it so we wouldn't miss our port time. We saw maybe 5 crocodiles, a dozen monkeys, and five iguanas while on the boat. Not worth the money.

Excellent. Many water slides to go on. Zip lines were fun. There are even slides for little ones. A lot of fun!

Costa Maya

Very very very very good! Best excursion of our trip. We got to pet the dolphins! Very nice

so we watched a countdown to New Years for an hour (which was just numbers  "xx:xx:xx") and then got to watch the Royal Caribbean cruise logo (underwater with bubbles) play over and over until the feature movie was to be played.(Closed captioning was used during movies so the feature was available)

11) Ice Cream Machine: This cruise, being for the holidays, had a ginormous amount of kids on it and Royal Caribbean supplied only ONE ice cream machine which was constantly running out of vanilla.

Empress of the Seas Review

Staff was great; however, Empress is O.L.D.

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