We still had about 15 minutes to kill before our room would be available, so we wandered toward the atrium, taking a few pictures, and then just chilling near a porthole until it was close enough to 1:30 to go find our room.
Just a few minutes after arriving at our deck, they moved the ropes, and allowed us into the hallway. We were in room 8662, a category 7A (“Navigator Veranda”), which was right next to the aft elevator lobby. I had not noticed this when booking the cruise, but had noticed it a few weeks later. I was a bit nervous, but read several reviews that noise wasn’t an issue. Spoiler alert: we heard no more noise from the elevator lobby than we had heard from the regular hallways on our previous cruises. I had had nothing to worry about.
I watched the barely controlled chaos on the dock, loading provisions on the ship, and decorated our door. I really didn’t take pictures of the room, other than the balcony, because that was the only thing different from previous cruises. And it really was quite similar to last year’s. It was great, and a great money savings.
Once I got bored with the room, and Nick had settled down to relax, I set off to explore the ship a bit. This was our first time on this class of ship, since our first two cruises were on the Wonder and the Magic.
I explored for quite awhile, and then went back to the room in time to wake up Nick for the muster drill. No wonder he wasn’t responding to the pictures I was sending him!
Our muster station was station P, which was in the Tube. The start of the drill was quite chaotic, as they were lining us up to then proceed to our station in the hallway that the bathrooms are in, that leads between the Tube and La Piazza. This is NOT a large hallway. But once we were situated in the Tube, we were fairly comfortable, and our station leaders were quite entertaining. This was by far the loudest muster we have had, in terms of them sounding the alarms though.
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