I know the general idea and we love 7 day but feel like 3/4 are just too short. I know things may look different after we get restarted, but IF you have the same stateroom:
1. Do you have to pack and unpack
2. Do you feel like you lose a day?
3. If you have done 3/4 and 7, do you prefer one over the other?
4. If you don't have the same stateroom, do you have to get your luggage and recheck it in as well?
5. Do I get 2 rounds of customs incoming allowances, or is it just one?
We are just considering for a several year in the future Wish cruise. Thanks for playing everyone
We have done a B2B and a B2B2B, both on the Dream, both with same stateroom for the entire set. We loved them and will do it again in the future.
1. No. And in our experience the stateroom host will not do a "deep clean" of your room on changeover day, they will just do a normal cruise day clean; they will talk with you about doing a "deep clean" on a different day.
2. A bit, but not a big deal. You get up early because breakfast is early, but unlike everyone else you can be kind of leisurely and you aren't having to haul luggage off. We have breakfast then take our time getting off the ship, getting off near the latest we are allowed to. One of the times I think there were about 15 people behind us in the customs line and many of them were contractors not passengers ! Getting back on the ship, we get to be among the first in line at guest services to get on the wait list for a Cabana [came through for us once!!], and then we get to spend time on a mostly empty ship - a great time for taking pictures and hanging out on Cove Cave [which has some free beverages!!].
3. It depends. We like the Eastern itinerary and have done a Western, but we have also really liked our B2B and B2B2B. And we liked multiple visits to CC
An advantage of B2B is you can pick and choose which nights you see the shows, explore the menus more, do more activities [especially if two overlap each other].
4. Nope. Leave it in your stateroom. Don't even have to pack it up.
5. I believe you only get one, at your final disembarkation.
Our stateroom host and servers were so excited we were doing B2B [and even more when we did the B2B2B]. And the other servers and the stateroom hosts in our area all knew we were too [I don't know who told them, it wasn't us] and would come and talk to us about it and how we were enjoying it/looking forward to it. Each time we kept our serving team for the subsequent leg, and things seemed more relaxed on the subsequent leg... certainly easier as they knew what we liked etc
We had some great conversations with them.