This trip was to celebrate my and my husbands retirements. We started planning about 5 years ago, and decided to begin our adventure with a 14 day repositioning cruise, so booked the RC Allure about 9 months in advance of the trip. We were surprised and excited to hear that RC was changing itinerary, and that we were being moved to the brand-new, largest ship in the world! We did a lot of research ahead of the trip and here are some recommendations and a few (very few) critiques.

First, remember that this is REALLY a big ship, in 2 weeks I'm sure I didn't see it all. But because of this you may not want to go for a room at either end of the ship. Originally we were booked into a forward facing ocean view cabin and were fairly okay with this. However we learned of the Royal Up program and bid on a balcony cabin and got one. This cabin was just at the AFT end of Central Park on deck 10, so in a very central location. I think this the best area to be, it's not too far to any location once you leave your cabin.

The cabin itself was 'cruiseship-sized', haha... but honestly there was Plenty of storage for our clothes, toiletries, etc. We try to really keep our cabin very tidy, and since there was basically a place for everything this was very easy. There are now hooks on the wall for hats, backpacks, etc. Very handy. Read more