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RCCL Allure of the Seas - Huge Photo Trip Report!
On Feb 22, 12:41*pm, Chrissy Cruiser wrote:
I'm with you on this one, Pal, wait until you have to tender in to one of the Carib islands when these massive beasties are a float! Oasis and Allure do not visit any ports where you have to tender. They only visit ports that the ships can dock at. In fact, in the last couple of years of doing RCCL ships, the only place I've had to tender at was Grand Cayman. Maybe we just got lucky with our itineraries, but it seems like the ships we do rarely tender anymore. --Robb Alvey www.themeparkreview.com |
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RCCL Allure of the Seas - Huge Photo Trip Report!
Labadee's not a tender anymore?
Well, the alpine coaster wasn't there either in 1990...times change I guess. |
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RCCL Allure of the Seas - Huge Photo Trip Report!
On Feb 22, 1:11*pm, Pathetic Old BaSSclown
wrote: Labadee's not a tender anymore? Well, the alpine coaster wasn't there either in 1990...times change I guess. ^ Nope! They build a dock there last year. Seriously, Labadee has gone through a ton of changes in the past three years we've been there. Check out this page of photos specifically: http://www.themeparkreview.com/parks...10080&pageno=7 That shows the ship docked and all the things they have added to the resort. If you haven't been since 1990, it probably looks like a completely different place now! --Robb |
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RCCL Allure of the Seas - Huge Photo Trip Report!
On Feb 22, 1:11*pm, Pathetic Old BaSSclown
wrote: Labadee's not a tender anymore? Well, the alpine coaster wasn't there either in 1990...times change I guess. Nope! Check out this page of photos specifically: http://www.themeparkreview.com/parks...10080&pageno=7 That shows the ship docked and how much there is to do at Labadee now. If you haven't been since 1990, the place probably looks completely different! --Robb |
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RCCL Allure of the Seas - Huge Photo Trip Report!
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:45:13 -0800 (PST), Pathetic Old BaSSclown
wrote: On Feb 22, 3:33*pm, Theme Park Review wrote: Disembarkation was even easier. *RCCL allows to stay in your stateroom until your time to head out. *We walked right off the boat, picked up our bags and we were off to our car. *No waiting for anything. *No having to go to a certain area of the boat and wait for your number to be called. Wow! So glad that's a thing of the past. I hated having to sit around in a lounge or on deck, not being able to do anything fun. It's like "your vacation is over, you probably have to fly across the country now, and god help you if you're going through Atlanta". Our group always seemed to be the last one called, LOL! Live in ATL and I can attest that when we hit Hartsfield, it was a relief to grab the tram and head home instead of trying to muscle your way across 6 or 7 concourses. -- http://moourl.com/CruiseCheep |
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RCCL Allure of the Seas - Huge Photo Trip Report!
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:55:58 -0800 (PST), Theme Park Review wrote:
On Feb 22, 12:41*pm, Chrissy Cruiser wrote: I'm with you on this one, Pal, wait until you have to tender in to one of the Carib islands when these massive beasties are a float! Oasis and Allure do not visit any ports where you have to tender. They only visit ports that the ships can dock at. In fact, in the last couple of years of doing RCCL ships, the only place I've had to tender at was Grand Cayman. Maybe we just got lucky with our itineraries, but it seems like the ships we do rarely tender anymore. --Robb Alvey www.themeparkreview.com No ****? Yeah I guess you're right considering the itineraries. Just got off the Jewel OTS, tendered in GC. Thought we did in Labadee. Don't remember, my boobs were sore, not enough Vit E. LOL -- http://moourl.com/CruiseCheep |
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RCCL Allure of the Seas - Huge Photo Trip Report!
On Feb 22, 2:36*pm, Pathetic Old BaSSclown
wrote: Continuing to represent the "old fart" demographic... I don't get this trend toward these huge boats all of the lines are putting out. I understand it increases their profits to pack more asses in the tub, but to me that's gotta lessen the experience somewhat. I took a bunch of cruises back in the 80's/90's and it seemed like the boats were big enough back then! I can only imagine the extra time involved with embarking/disembarking that many thousands of people, much less the impact on a port when 2 or 3 of these monsters show up. I think it depends on the line. Princess didn't seem to have moving a thousand or more people at once mastered when it came to on ship events, but I'd hope that RCCL would. Between them and Norweigan starting to hand out "tickets" to the various shows to prevent crowding, I think that's probably a big help on either of the really really big vessels out there. As far as the lure of big ships, people like big buildings and big cars and big coasters (for us RRC folk, see also; TERA, TERA TERA). RCCL having the enormo ship that they do limits the kind of ports it can visit, but the places they do go are where people are gonna want to visit at this stage, or at least will be most comfortable at like the new cruise port at Falmouth or the private island on Labadee. Hope that Royal Carribbean is still holding up...they were by far my favorite of the three companies I tried. As I've said previously, my attitude is basically "mass market is mass market". Which is good and bad. If you want what RCCL offers in terms of onboard activities and you really like their itineraries, then go for it. I think Allure is going to be doing both Labadee and Falmouth (which is their new gateway to Ocho Rios) on the same cruise soon should you decide to eschew any sense of wanting culture out of the experience and want them credits. I count 'em at least. |
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RCCL Allure of the Seas - Huge Photo Trip Report!
On Feb 22, 3:36*pm, GodsOnSafari wrote:
On Feb 22, 2:36*pm, Pathetic Old BaSSclown wrote: Continuing to represent the "old fart" demographic... I don't get this trend toward these huge boats all of the lines are putting out. I understand it increases their profits to pack more asses in the tub, but to me that's gotta lessen the experience somewhat. I took a bunch of cruises back in the 80's/90's and it seemed like the boats were big enough back then! I can only imagine the extra time involved with embarking/disembarking that many thousands of people, much less the impact on a port when 2 or 3 of these monsters show up. I think it depends on the line. Princess didn't seem to have moving a thousand or more people at once mastered when it came to on ship events, but I'd hope that RCCL would. Between them and Norweigan starting to hand out "tickets" to the various shows to prevent crowding, I think that's probably a big help on either of the really really big vessels out there. This worked insanely well. We were all really impressed. Your Seapass card was your "ticket" and they scanned it when you entered the theater. The scanners were all hand scanners, so they could add or remove staff if needed during busier times before a show would start. We always got to a show early anyway, so we never had any issues (nor did we see anyone else) waiting to get into a theater. One of the shows at the Aqua Theater was rescheduled due to high wind, and oddly enough the system knew what other activities we had booked and picked the best possible day to reschedule us, and it worked out just fine. We didn't have to do anything, talk to anyone, it was just done automatically, and if we wanted to change the time, we could have done so via remote control on our TV. One thing I did forget to note is that Liberty just came out of dry dock, and Freedom is going in soon, but it's been reported that RCCL is upgrading some of those class of ships to have some features of the Oasis class, like the touch screens, Dreamworks characters, ship wide Wi-Fi, and a few other "little" things that seemed to work so well on Allure. I still can't believe how impressed we were with the ship. So much so that the ports really didn't matter to us. We got off the ship and "Did a lap", but we took that time when the ship was quiet to explore it some more. FYI - if anyone is interested, TPR had a very in depth look at the Disney Dream a couple of weeks ago: http://themeparkreview.com/forum/vie...996498#p996498 I tell 'ya, that ship is only 128,000 GT, a whole 100,000 tonnes smaller than Allure, but wow, it looks insanely awesome as well! We are planning to do the Disney Fantasy when it comes out next year (we always tend to wait until a sister ship of a newer ship is released so they can fix any problems in V2.0) and I am just more and more impressed with where the cruising industry is heading. We have been covering cruises since 2003 and this is probably going to be our most exciting year so far! --Robb |
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RCCL Allure of the Seas - Huge Photo Trip Report!
In article
, Theme Park Review wrote: Please also note that our sense of humor can be "PG-13" if not "R Rated" at times, and if you are easily offended, you probably shouldn't click this link! Although RCCL tweeted about our updates so I guess if it's good enough for them, it's good enough for anyone! You've been warned! Here's the link: http://www.themeparkreview.com/parks...0&linkid=10080 Excellent. Thank you for sharing. Did Oasis last October and I am doing Allure in December. Many things are the same and some are different. Your great photos and trip report are building my anticipation! -- Charles |
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RCCL Allure of the Seas - Huge Photo Trip Report!
On our last three cruises we opted to take our luggage off
ourselves,therefore we had no wait to get off the ship.Took our bags and got off and in our car within 10 minuets,And they did have people that would help you if you needed it. cruise lover(~~~~~) .. |
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