Here's my thoughts on our Allure Sept 4th 2011 sailing. My husband and I traveled with 167 Cruise Critic members and we had such a great time onboard. We were called the Hurricane Dodgers and we did just that. We dodged Hurricane Katia that week in the eastern caribbean. But here is how our vacation on her started.

Embarkation: Very smooth. By the time we knew it we were boarding the ship and getting our welcome aboard pic taken. We boarded the ship at 12:30 after driving to Port Everglades. By 1:30 we were in our cabin.

Cabin: Balcony deck #11 11218- very clean and the bed by the balcony door instead of the closet the way I liked it. After reading the cruise compass briefly we went to Windjammer for the welcome aboard lunch. Read more