Freedom of the Seas-- 4 -- review

After tracking the forums of cruise critics, all cruise lines have the rules that baby w/diaper
cannot play at the kid's pool. Disney cruise only have one small infant pool for babies, rest
of the cruise lines have no pool for baby w/diaper. Those experient parents says it is extremely
hard to stop baby w/diaper not to chasing elder sister/brother go to the comment pool
area. The baby pool has less attraction there at Disney cruise. I guess we cannot
take Miaomiao to another cruise until she has the potty trainning done.

Shows
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Once upon a time is the best, a smart comic musical that change the Disney fairy tales
into a pop tunes. Cinderella sings a rap version of "If I were a rich girl'' , and the angle lady will
make her "popular". Two huge guys dressed as the evil stepsisters dance on (It makes me sick)
 Little Red Riding Hood drives through a video version of "Route 66'' on her way to wolf
country and she didn't bump up with Wolf Grandma, instead he is a Wolf handsome boy.

At the beginning I was thinking Royal Caribbean starts to attract Disney's youth passenger, then
figure it out after the show, it is still an Adult's fun Cruise line.
Miaomiao was felt to sleep right after we arrived at the studio B watching for the ice skating show.
We missed it. I heard it was a super attraction to the babies. okay, next time, I am glad
miaomiao still keep her regular eating and sleeping schedule.


Karaoke
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Mom was so thankful that Daddy was watching Miaomiao after 10:00pm, so that Mom
had a night out at the studio B for the Karaoke. This is a new feature at the ship, it acturally
can create a CD for the singer. And you can mail to SONY if you want to be famous oneday.
Although I only saw 1 American Idol iposode, I saw another version here.

Flowride
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I didn't get the chance to ride on the wave, next time, this is a must to do.


Mini golf,  full basketball court, Ping pang table, rocket wall, and A FIRST BOXING RING
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Finially, play a 9 holds golf w/ miaomiao, they even offer small size club for baby and kids.
GREAT


Music bar
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Nomatter what one likes, there is a bar for you after dinner, county, jazz, blue, rocken roll,
latin, boardroom dancing, ect. It's a life we used to familiar in Beijing, it's a life we couldn't
 melt in locally.


Baby playgroup, daycare center, advanture, explore game room
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Normally, RCCL is not designed for kids, but FOS is the one for family w/ kids.
I saw from cruise forum that it starts to draw Disney cruise passenger's attention now.
as matter of the fact, Disney cruise will double the price that RCCL offer.

yes, it is also true, that at RCCL, parents cannot avoid kids saw
casino, smoking bar.

Also heard of
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The teen club was a hit with teenagers as other ships - Aquanauts,
the Living Room, Fuel, etc

A few extra perks for us since we were part of the United Way benefit –
• to see the new ship first hand...smell the fresh paint and feel the
new carpet, we acturally see they still painting.
• endless excellent food
(lunch in the windjammer and dinner in the 3 story dining room!)
• gratuities included
• welcome aboard photo was included along with any additional
portraits you wanted done (this was a nice extra!)
• OPEN BAR.. Do I need to say anymore?
I kept myself cool and not to drink more than 3 wines/cocktail for one day,
people there were running from bar to bar. If there isn't 20 bars,
coffee shop, ice cream, smoothies friut shop, they must be 19 of them.
As good as a health society can be, I can hardly find anyone left a full
glass of drinks over the table, nobody wastes anything. I didn't
bump up w/ one drunk himself into unconsciousness, oh, maybe,
I didn't stay the whole night to catch one.


• free games in the arcade
• free parking for the car at the port (normally need to pay)
• free souvenier tshirt from the surfer party, it is good to wear to the work.
• free on demand movies in the cabin
• free ben & jerry's ice cream (normally need to pay extra)
• free Johnny rockets (you normally have to pay for this)
• free seattle's best coffee/pastries
• even the towels in the bathroom were still soft!
• the beds are AWESOME...they are so comfortable -
so unlike cruise beds I've been on before!
• free bottle of champagne in the room

brand new, brand new, everything is brand new, it makes me thinking
back of Titanic:" everything is new, the china has never been used"


Wrote a letter to RCCL about the unhappy part of the trip
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1. Karaoke's song menu is not big enough. How come there are 8 languages
in the cabin's handbook, but only 2 (English and Spanish) at the site? Did
you guys call RCCL is an international cruise line?
2. H2O park doesn't allow diaper baby in, and there is no infant pool on board
3. Ice skating stage was closed right after the show, it didn't open for public,
I was looking forward to skating that day since I really miss it after left Beijing.



Anyway, there are so much to do, I cannot keep up with them all in a short 
period of time that it is all a blur! It was a remarkable experience for our
first family trip w/ Miaomiao.