No, let me be clear, the lounge ON the boat!! They will turn you away to cabanas or if your room is ready, (around noon) send you there until you can come back to the lounge.Welcome back!
Sorry about your ankle! Did you use the gym? Did you see if it was open early morning?
I cannot believe the concierge lounge at Port Canaveral is not big enough and they actually send people away. Terrible. I plan on getting to the
port for approximately 10:00 am, what time did you get there?
We have cabana 25 on SB and don't plan on going to the FB so hope this may be a little better. My trip is Sept. 14 so I'm hoping
most kids will be in school (mine will, although HS and college).
I wanted to get a length of cruise pass for the Rainforest just to avoid people soup. Do you think it is the same in the spa area
Welcome back and happy planning for Hawaii We love it there!
No, let me be clear, the lounge ON the boat!! They will turn you away to cabanas or if your room is ready, (around noon) send you there until you can come back to the lounge.
Gym is open at 6 or 7. DH used it once.
We were at terminal by 1015. They will not open the gates till 1030 to anyone so you will be waiting in a LONG line outside.
The adults areas were packed. Everything was adult soup. That's why i chose not to mess with the spa common areas.
May 14-18 is still school time for most of the US yet TONS of kids. We took our daughter out for a week just to do this cruise. I don't doubt the same will be for any cruise any time (especially the ones you and i are on b/c they are weekend cruises not weekday)
what? you're mon through friday? omg girl i have no idea still what day it is! i just figured out there's no school on monday cause it's a holiday! LOLThe 9/14 sailing (which I think js is on as well as me) is Monday-Friday. I hadn't considered the days of the week either way, but I'm mentally prepping myself for everything being packed all the time. Did you get a look at Cove Cafe, by the way? (The coffee shop.) I know it's kind of lame, but that's a place we would probably end up spending a lot of time. If that doesn't work out we'll just chill in the room.
A friend on another forum mentioned something about ways to 'zig when everyone else is zagging', I'll have to find her PM, it was a couple of months ago.
Unfortunately it really just seems that the cruise lines are all about packing on as many people as possible, so if you don't do crowds well (and I certainly don't) you either have to pay for something like The Haven on NCL, or upgrade to a line like Crystal. I would have never bothered much with trying to get in a pool on a cruise ship, but at the same time I thought I had a reasonable expectation of places like Cove Cafe being somewhat manageable. And I've seen a lot of pics of the adult pool only having a few people and plenty of loungers. So I've had to reset expectations now. But ... I'd rather know the real deal.
(Oh, and I probably won't bother with 12000 now, but I'm still kind of wistful about a 1bdrm if another bump out popped up.)
OH Merdian bar and outdoor lounge. GO! NO ONE was there. It was so peaceful!