Oasis of the Seas Review
Cptnkirky
6-10 Cruises • Age 40s
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Sail Date: Apr 2018
Cabin: Ocean View
Traveled with children
We decided to go on the Oasis of the Seas about Jan this year, as we always wanted to try out one of the mega ships. We didn’t do too much research into the ship and Royal Caribbean now before booking. The choice of cabins was also somewhat limited by the time we booked, but we were okay with that. I will leave our overall decision of the ship until the end.
VACATION START - We had a total of 7 people, my family of 3 (incl a 5 year old) , my parents (both seniors) and 2 friends of my parents. It was 4 cabins total, as the 2 friends each booked a single cabin. My parents drove down 2 days before the cruise (with the gas prices have determined they did not save any money!), and the rest of us flew in on Saturday. The 2 friends stayed near port overnight and had a transport to port morning of the cruise. We stayed next to Disney Springs and visited with local family that day.
EMBARKATION - My parents and we drove to the port, leaving around 8:45am. We decided to park at the port after reading about issues with the buses to/from the other parking lots. We decided with a young child and seniors it was not a good idea if we had wait outside in the heat. This choice was totally worth the extra cost. We got to the port about 9:45 am and sat in line at the light and heading into the garage about 20 mins. Once we got close to the parking structure, someone directed us into the parking lot on the right side and told us to pull around and into a parking space to drop our luggage. We did so, then pulled back out of the lot, made the right turn and right back up into the parking garage. It went very quickly at that point. This seemed a lot better than being in the large group of cars/people inside the parking garage dropping off luggage. I believe we just happened to be in the right place at the right time for them to pull a few cars out separately to drop luggage on the side. We agreed that we could or should have left earlier and been at the port by 9am and it might have gone faster, but either way it certainly was not a bad experience so far.
Cabin Review
Ocean View
Cabin 6N
CABIN: We were on Deck 3 in an oceanview cabin, 3614 and 3616. The room was large for us (we have been in some TINY cabins that barely fit the bed before). It didn’t seem as large as Disney’s rooms, but still suitable. Daughter loved her sofa bed and our bed was comfortable. We had asked for a topper, 2 extra blankets and extra pillows before boarding and had them all. Our room steward, Anak, was excellent. He was a shy and quiet person, but did very well at his job and always talked to us in the halls. He left towel animals many nights and we never had any issues. We came across other attendants in the halls every day and they were all very, very nice. We were about mid ship and liked the access to the back areas, such as dining room, Windjammer, pool, promenade, boardwalk, etc. Finding how to enter the cabin areas was a little difficult, but we got it down by day 2.
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