Our cruise began on September 19th. All things considered with the hurricane still lurking out at sea, we were very lucky to have gone to 3 ports out of 4.
Embarkation was a breeze, we got to the airport early. (We booked our air transportation on our own and flew down the day before.) The ship was the best we have ever been on. This was our ninth cruise, the second one with Royal Caribbean.
We booked an inside cabin which was very nice. Plenty of room for all the clothes we packed. I wasn't sure if we would run into bad weather, so we packed everything, just in case. What I liked about the room...to close the safe, you punched in a 4 digit code instead of using a credit card, like on some of the ships. That way, we didn't have to worry about losing a credit card on the ship. The room was very comfortable and quiet. We were able to access our shipboard account on the TV which made it nice to keep track of expenses. The cabin steward was a really nice Phillipino who took exceptional care of us.