Harmony of the Seas Review

Fun and worth it, but a little limiting

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Sail Date: Nov 2017
Cabin: Aquatheater Suite with Balcony - Deck 11 and above
After entering the front door, this is straight in front of you and is the
Walking out the sliding door from the living room onto the balcony.  This
Walk-in closet.  The picture is taken from the bedroom.  If you walk into t
Another photo from the living room with the blinds open.  The living room a
Front door and doorbell.  My sister put up a big door cover that says Aloha
Walking out the sliding door from the living room onto the balcony.  This p
Sitting area of the balcony.  There are two sliding doors, one from the liv
Living room.  This is taken from the front door and is the vantage point if

I try to provide reviews that answer things I wanted to know before I went on a cruise. Hopefully the long review below helps (hint: hit CTRL + F and type in keywords and see if you find any :-) Most of this you can probably find in other reviews, except for a review of suite 14330...which apparently nobody ever wanted to review before so I'm going to give a full review of it in my review below. I get long winded but hopefully this helps you…

Booking - As I had planned this trip for my 40th birthday, I booked the room in May of 2016 (a year and a half early). Everything went well but one word of major warning, pay your bill off by the time they say it has to be done (aka Situation1). My sister didn't and the amount of stress, phone calls, emails, etc. it took to get everything back to normal was ridiculous. This is one area that RC could truly use some improvement, such as calling the person with the reservation because guess what...they may not know there is a cutoff date! Anyways, booking is easy and their website gives you everything you need.

Day 1 - Ubered to port from Hyatt House - Dania Beach. They Hyatt House was $8 a day to park (or around there) so I suggest this over parking at the port. Port Everglades requires you to show an ID before even driving into the port, so remember this. The car line can be huge. We got to it around 11:33am and it took us 15 minutes to get through it; it may have taken longer but our Uber driver knew the port so well he was able to get us through pretty quickly. Uber dropped us off right where we put our luggage in and, as usual with Royal Caribbean, the boarding process was incredibly easy. Since we had a suite we were in Sky Class and went through a different security line. The main security line was incredibly long at 11:58am. However, I didn't see any line that was just standing still...RC has always had a great embarkation process. Took us 18 minutes to be on the boat. This ship has many food options once you board. Be aware that some of them are Pay-Per-Eat (PPE) so don't just sit anywhere. We sat at Sabors where my family was waiting for us. It was $20 bucks but what a fantastic place to start the eating festivities. Great food! Mustering was easy and RC doesn't require you to carry a life jacket with you anymore. All you have to do is get to your muster station. However, seeing as how our muster station was full by the time we got there, I wonder what that means when the time comes we need to get on a life boat...

Cabin Review

Aquatheater Suite with Balcony - Deck 11 and above

Cabin A4

I’ve been waiting all week so I could get home to write my review on this. This room is incredible, fantastic, amazing, and every other related synonym you can come up with. It was only myself and my girlfriend staying in the room. This suite is the top Aquatheatre room but if you are booking this suite to watch the Aquatheatre from the balcony (you can’t see it from inside the room), you may want to reconsider. You can see the show but you are wedged in to a tiny corner and if there is more than just you, it’s just not comfortable and there is no way to sit and watch the show. All of the other balconies below this one has the sitting that faces the show but this one does not. I’m going to try to upload pictures so hopefully they come through. However, the balcony is phenomenal for sailing. What it lacks looking out at the back of the boat, it more than makes up for for ocean viewing. There is a full table with 4 chairs, and 2 lounge chairs and enough space for as many people as you want. It literally keeps wrapping around when you first see it. There is a separate living room, separate bedroom, a walk-in closet bigger than any at my house, and the bathroom has 2 sinks, full shower, and full bath. Combined with a nice big entrance area and you can spend your whole trip in there and feel extremely good about it. Our suite attendant was awesome, as usual (another area where RC always shines). His name was Vicente and if you get him, tell him Travis and Erin said hi and even years from now I bet he will still remember the names of every person he’s ever had in his rooms. Very awesome guy. Room service is fantastic and for $8, you can get as much as you want. We ordered so many grilled cheese sandwiches and quesadillas that I thought at one point they would ban us from room service. They serve guacamole with the dilla and, if you are a big guac lover like me, you won’t be disappointed.

Suite 14330 Negatives - There are some negatives. First off, it is bumpy. It’s the back of the boat so bumpiness is a little normal since the engines are back there. It wasn’t constant and, for me, was not an issue in any way directly. However, that bumpiness has one major indirect problem…it shakes all of the clothes hangers in the walk-in closet. Trust me when I say this, as soon as you enter the room, go to the closet and put all of the hangers on the ground or throw them overboard. If you don’t, you will develop a lifelong, deep vendetta against hangers that I think is going to need years of counseling for me to get over. Throwing them overboard is probably not a good idea but that doesn’t make the thought any less loved by me. Another word of advice, if you are not going to be in your room for the day, close the curtains!!! This room gets ridiculously hot during the day even with the AC at full cold. It seems the sun faces the windows directly at every stop.

Port Reviews

Falmouth

Great place. Vendors do not harass you until you walk into shops.

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