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| I found the cabins to be fairly small but efficient. If we didn�t have to pay full price for the baby, we would have likely reserved a window cabin. I don�t understand the logic of charging full price for a little child which eats practically nothing and uses no services, yet seniors do get a discount. I think that this is one thing that may keep us away from more cruises, unless we can find a company which is more forthcoming in accomodating infants. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Promenade on deck five is the center of the ship, analogous to a center square of a town. Here one can visit the wine bar, the caf� or the Two Poets Pub. The customer services and the Champagne bar are also here, at he back of the deck. It is also a convenient walkway to take over the fourth and third deck, which are split in half by Studio B (deck 3) and the Casino (deck 4). Decks three and four have entrances to the theater and the Dungeon at one end and dining room at the other. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| In order to walk to the theater from the dining room, one has to push throught the crowded casino on deck four or bypass te studio B on deck three, so going through the Promenade on deck five is definitely a more pleasant option. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| After the Windjammer closes around 9pm, this is pretty much the only place to get snacks. The fare consists of two or three types of sandwiches and as many types of sweets, not counting the cookies. There is a self serve coffee and tea station and water available. I have periodically ventured here to get milk for the baby, but they do run out of the small cartons of milk and only on one occasion did they actually have regular milk, the rest of the time we either remembered to getmlk at breakfast and store it in our cabin�s fridge or she had to be content with skim milk. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| There is no place to warm it up, so I do recommend a bottle warmer. To the right and just out of the picture is Ben and Jerry�s ice cream, sold for a �nominal fee�, which means about $2.80 for a small portion or over $4.00 for large. I wouldn�t call that �nominal�. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Two Poets Pub. Very nicely decorated, not very large, yet not often crowded. Drinks are around $5 (beer) and up.
Note that your bill already includes a 15% gratuity, which is easily overlooked, as there is a line fo�additional� gratuity where the usual space for gratuity is found. Great music, unfortunately very loud and I don�t have a particularly low treshold for loud music. |
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| The interior of the ship is meticulously designed, with two sets of four elevators. The most useful floors to have cabins on would be near floor five, the Promenade and the upper floor of the dining room. The other most frequented floor was eleven, where the pools, hot tubs and the Windjammer are located. It wasn�t uncommon to wait a good while before the elevator reached your floor, but being on a cruise, who is in a rush. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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