My husband and I and our 2 best friends just returned from a 7 night w. caribbean cruise on freedom of the seas on 5/23/10. we booked through the Royal Caribbean website and had an aft Junior Suite rm. 7712. we booked a flight and hotel in Orlando for the day before the cruise and the day after.
Day 1: Orlando/Hotel
After arriving in Orlando late due to a delayed flight, we were all tired,hungry and a little cranky, thank god we flew in from Buffalo, NY the day before the cruise.
We had JS 7712 Aft. It was fairly large and we never felt crowded and there were 4 adults in it. It was clean and well decorated. Our balcony was huge, we had 2 loungers, 2 chairs and a table and still had plenty of room. The view of the back of the ship was beautiful. You do see the structure of the ship in your view but it's not bad at all, just a beam horizontaly in your vision, not a wall. we had no touble seeing the ocean wether we were sitting or standing. However you can not look straight down into the ocean as there are more balconies and and extnded area under you. That didn't matter to us though. The only bad thing I will say is that we had a less than steller room steward. Sometimes when he came in to clean he would only make the beds and not clean the balcony (not of trash we always took care of that) but you could just tell it wasnt cleaned and our balcony door looked dingy some days. Also he didn't clean the bathroom at all a few days or he would leave the dirty towels on the floor and not give us any fresh. But besides that we loved the room and the view. It is a far walk to everything which is fine by us, because we like using the stairs and walking and we didn't gain any weight this way lol.