This was my first cruise. Ever. I have read so many "happy reviews" by people who seem clueless about what the term "critic" actually means. Worse still, look at how many of these folks love to list every single cruise they have taken. Some must think they are some sort of "Cruise Admiral" in their own mind - wearing every cruise "badge" as some sort of medal. The term "critic" rarely seems to occur to them.
So I'll skip most of the happy talk and just get to some REAL issues experienced during my Dec 14-21, 2013 cruise on the Oasis of the Seas. I was in stateroom 12594 with my best buds and we were celebrating the years it took for one of my mates to get his VA disability benefits for a serious brain injury incurred during his service to America. This trip was for him and he deserved better. We deserved better.
HIDDEN DANGER IN THE FOOD
There is NO way three people belong in this "stateroom". The A/C would seem OK during the day, but at night I would frequently wake up sweating as the cabin would be over 80 degrees (F). I measured it with my weather watch. The balcony door was closed and locked during these times. My stateroom attendant advised me to call "Engineering", which I did - to no avail. Interestingly, the room would cool down to 74 degrees around 9 am.BED HAD MORE WAVES THAN THE OCEANThe third pull-out bed for this stateroom was horrible, causing painful muscle spasms in my back from an old back injury. There was nothing the stateroom attendant could do about this. The other beds were a bit more comfortable but needed an egg crate foam cushion.CLOSE YOUR CURTAINS If your neighboring cabin curtains are open at night, you can see into their cabin as the balcony plexiglass turns into a reflective mirror of sorts. They can also see into your cabin.