Sure, we'll be in on the stateroom tour! I tried to get a look at the room when we were disembarking, but the door was shut and the stateroom attendant was not in sight.
Henry was 6 months on the cruise and he did really well. Both kids went to Flounder's Reef 4 times and liked it. Madison was 2 days shy of her 3rd birthday so she was eligible for a trial in the Club. She did the trial and failed so the Reef it was! Honestly, she liked the Club a lot, but the way they did the observation was to have me 'disappear' without telling her I was leaving, so she turned around and I was gone and she freaked out and just started crying "Mommy!" until she found me. They said we could try again, but she was terrified of being alone in the Club after that so we gave up. We took her to the activities she wanted to attend, but we had to stay with her as "visitors".
My only complaint was about the set up of the room, hence why we are going much bigger on this cruise. We were in a midship Cat 3 when our daughter was 3 months old and loved it, but we didn't want to spend that kind of money on our 7 night Eastern and ended up kinda sorry that we didn't. The big problem I think is just that my son is a very fussy sleeper. He sleeps well in that he goes to bed at 6:30pm, but he does not like light or noise. Well the only place to put the pack n play was next to the couch/verandah door. Well the tv is in that half of the room too. So it meant that once he went to bed we were trapped with nothing to do.
What ended up happening was that we'd just stick him in the stroller and take him wherever we wanted to go on the ship, but then it meant he woke up a lot, got grouchy, etc. The nights we had him in Flounder's he'd sleep there without a problem but would sorta wake up when we'd pick him up. So if you have a sensitive sleeper then I'd try to think of a way to shield the pack n play from the light of the tv.
And Flounder's had pretty decent daytime hours and they list excursions you can do that are compatible with Flounder's times. I brought home the sheet but even though we've been back a week I haven't found it yet, but when I do I'll let you know what the general port hours were. They were also really empty our whole cruise so we could pretty much drop them off anytime we wanted without a problem. Hopefully next September will be like that too, though I have a feeling it won't based on the dates.
In case anyone was interested in a SPH stateroom, we just cancelled our TWO Secret Porthole Staterooms 5024 and 5022 (connecting) and booked a cat. 3 for this cruise. Have a MAGICal day everyone!
Jennifer
