For the first time in 25 cruises with Royal Caribbean, we were upgraded to a mini-suite. Yippee!! Upon entering our cabin, my biggest surprise was the walk in closet. Yes, a WALK-IN-CLOSET.
Next, a look at the bathroom……
Your eyes do not deceive you….yes – that’s a bathtub! Now, I am really in heaven. But now – look at this!
Balcony large enough for 2 lounge chairs plus a table and 3 chairs. We could have had parties out there and would have if we were sailing with friends!
The cabin was spacious and comfortable.
I love Royal Caribbean! Our first night we decided to go to 150 Park Place for the first time, using our BOGO benefit. This restaurant is billed as a gourmet, 5 course meal with a wine paring. Sounded good to us. But, what they didn’t tell you is that the wine paring is $75 more per person. So, you guessed it. We skipped the wine paring. The restaurant was beautiful and the food fabulous, but not worth the extra $$ to us. Below is a plate of different types of salt. Yes. Salt.
First port was Nassau. You can certainly see the upgrades to this port over the years. We just took a walk, took some pics and went back to the ship. Ship sailed at 2:00 PM so there wasn’t that much time to do much else.
Back on the ship, we took these pics looking down on the Boardwalk area. Johnny Rockets is pictured on the left with the red umbrellas. Breakfast is complementary here, and very good. Lunch and dinner are ala carte. The servers put on a show, which is pretty funny!
Afterwards, we were invited to a sail-a-way party on the helipad. Quite an experience.
The shot directly above is the Rising Tide Bar which rises from Deck 5 to Central Park on Deck 8.
After a spin on the carousel, (Kos the daredevil is riding backwards ----such a showoff), we went to the Aqua Show, Oasis of Dreams. It’s quite an amazing show.
Below are some photo’s taken in the Solarium --- the adult pool area.
Of course, the kiddies have their own pool area, complete with kid size lounge chairs!
Some more shots around the promenade.
Yep, that’s a Starbucks on the ship. Not complementary! Still always a line! Go figure!
Above is the track which has a lane for walkers and a lane for runners. 2.4 times around = 1 mile. There’s also a state of the art gym, which I took advantage of most days. Kos – not so much 
Below is looking down on Central Park, where there are many restaurants and Café’s. One evening we ate outside in the park at the Italian restaurant, Giovanni’s, which was a memorable experience. Food is always good, but the fact that we ate in the park while sailing was simply awesome.
There are many different pools. One for sports and lap swimming, a “beach” themed pool with artificial sand, a pool for games and live music, a kiddie pool area, and the solarium pools for adults only – complete with spa music!
The sports-deck has miniature golf (above), 2 flow riders, 2 rock climbing walls, a basketball/soccer court, table tennis, and a café that offers junk food. But, pretty good junk food – pretzel wrapped hot dogs, nacho’s, burgers, fries, taco’s.
Still our favorite ship after 3 times!
