<!--quoteo(post=380863:date=Aug 28 2009, 03&#58;48 PM:name=frednsb)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (frednsb &#064; Aug 28 2009, 03&#58;48 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=380863">&lt;strong&gt;QUOTE BELOW&lt;/strong&gt;</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Just got back today from a nice 4 nighter on Monarch of the Seas with my wife, two daughters, and 4 grand children. It was a nice cruise. Coco Cay was nice, but had a few jelly fish (can&#39;t controll that now can we?). Nassau was good. We went to the aquarium under Atlantis. Very nice. Second time there.<br />But friends, I got to tell you. . . after cruising Carnival and RCCI I&#39;ve got to say Carnival gives you more bang for your buck. Food&#39;s better, ships got more to do. . . but, RCCI (at least the Monarch) has the friendliest, most helpfull staff I have ever come into contact with&#33;&#33;&#33;<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br /><br />I agree with you completely about the Monarch staff, Fred...wish I could have been on with you.<br />I have been getting emails from so many of the staff who are waiting for me...of course, I&#39;ve known so many of the crew, now, for fourteen years and, when they were here for ten days in dry dock two years ago, I took a week&#39;s vacation and was out with them day and  night.  I have been grieving since they left CA...I used to cruise four times ( or more ) a year when they were sailing out of San Pedro but this is only my second time sailing on the MN since the FL move.