Atlantis Events
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Great Cruise experience - Lacking information.
First of all let me say that we really had a great time, so if you want the short version: Yes this is an awesome experience, go buy your ticket! We went on the 10 day Mediterranean cruise in august 2022 aboard the "Odyssey of the Seas" cruise ship, which is to my knowledge one of the larger of cruise ships with around 4000 guests i think. I would roughly estimate that 75% of all guest were Americans, and the remaining 25% were mainly European, so this means pretty much everyone on the ship spoke english. We were traveling five people (my boyfriend and I plus three friends). We chose two rooms, both with a balcony. The room for three people was 7437 dollars. The room for two people was 5958 dollars. The rooms were identical (which is fair of course that you pay more for an extra person). It was difficult to see anything about prices onboard or what exactly could be expected to be included. It does say on the web page that "Things that are not included are few and far between". This statement is in my opinion far from reality, and might be what annoyed me the most about AtlantisEvents. Lacking/misleading information! So for this reason i did a small list on some of the things that are included and some of the things that are not. Included: > Great food at several restaurants with changing menus and perfect service pretty much all trough the day without any need for reservations. > Lemonade, coffee, water, and juice at the above mentioned restaurants. > Entertainment in the form of shows and great parties every day. > Your room with twice daily cleaning. Not included: > Specialty restaurants aboard the ship (like a sushi place, a steakhouse, etc.). > Soft drinks like coke, fanta, etc. (~4 dollars) > All alcoholic beverages like beer (~10-12 dollars), wine (~13-17 dollars), drinks(~15 dollars). You can buy drinks tickets that gets the price down to 12 dollars. You are not allowed to bring alcohol or soft drinks aboard the ship with the exception of two bottles of wine/champagne (not hard liquor) per room. > Excursions off-ship (~150 dollars, although very varying prices here) > All beverages including water, outside of the designated cafes/restaurants. > Photographs taken by photographers on board (20 dollars for one print or digital copy, a little cheaper in bulk but will require you to spend 150-300 dollars) > Wifi or chat systems on board the ship. The above means that unless you dont drink alcohol you will definitely need to bring your wallet. Personally i can say that my boyfriend and I spent around 2000 dollars on the ship. Im okay with prices being whatever they may be, but i disaprove of the lack of information regarding all of the above. The Royal Caribbean has an app to use on board. This is completely useless! And by all means do not buy the chat package in the app, it didnt function properly and was just a waste of money. The app in general is meant for you to see what's going on at the ship, but it is not updated with the shows etc. It is just really hopeless and would need a total revamp to be of any use, but you will need to download it anyway as you get your boarding pass there and upload covid-info etc. I may have underlined a lot of the bad things about our cruise, but this is just so you know what you are getting into. Overall, my feelings towards AtlantisEvents are positive and i also want to state what makes the AtlantisEvents Cruise great: The parties (lots of them!), nice restaurants wtih all the food you could dream of, new city almost every day, perfect service (i mean really good, all of the staff are just amazing), and open people/guests (you'll make a ton of new friends :-) So to sum up: There is room for improvement when it comes to the available information. But i will still give Atlantisevents 5 stars because we really had a great time and you can feel that they do a lot to give you value for your money. Just expect to spend a lot of it ;)