This morning we were awake at 0630 we packed our last few bits into our bag, got ready and left our cabin
We headed to breakfast at luminae for the last time; I had French toast again and Rob had an omelette with some bacon and toast.
We headed down after breakfast and were already able to disembark so we walked off the ship, we collected our luggage and went through passport control – all very smooth.
We ordered an Uber to our last hotel – the Hilton downtown where we dropped off our bags.
We knew there was a monorail so we headed outside in search, we did have to pop to the publix across the road because both Rob and I discovered that we had been savarged by mosquitos in Cozumel and the bites were really itchy! We secured some cream and then found a monorail station nearby.
It arrived in a few minutes and we went to Knight Center then walked along the water.
We found our way to shops and had a look around before getting some drinks because it was baking out.
We then got back on the monorail to near a Target, we went shopping and got a few bits - bounce sheets obviously!
While we were in Target there was a mega rainstorm so we went to Aldi and had a look in a couple of other stores.
We managed to navigate to a nearby Publix and then had a look in the Brightline food court but didn’t find anything we wanted to eat.
We ended up taking the monorail to a McDonald’s which was odd and possibly not in the best neighbourhood but we got food which was the main thing (we were hungry by now.)
We took monorail back to the Hilton, our room was now available so we had a rest, while we watched our cruise ship leave us behind and caught up on some discovery tv programmes!
We decided to have Publix subs and cake for dinner as we didn’t want a big meal after the cruise.
We then watched some more of our favourite tv shows before bed.
This morning we were awake at about 9 (the clocks changed back to Miami time overnight).
We got up and had tea/coffee and pastries downstairs. I had picked up a cold which was annoying!
We went for a look at Eden which we had not really explored before going to the sundeck for a couple of hours.
We also had a burger each for lunch while we were there.
We came back to the cabin, I had a rest while Rob went to the gym. I did do a little 10 min low impact workout in the room.
Next, we went to the buffet to get Rob some pizza before packing our bags. Hemraj had mentioned that he had some help with luggage in the early part of the evening so we got them ready so they could be collected.
We headed to luminae again for dinner – we had considered booking one of the speciality restaurants but we checked the menu and found that we could get the food we would have ordered in Luminae (or at least they looked pretty similar.)
I had tomato soup and Rob had pork belly for our starters.
We both had the filet mignon for our mains, I obviously had mine well done
Finally, Rob was convinced by Wadzy to have a different dessert again while I had the almond cake.
I also had a Bahama mama tonight (without alcohol) for my drink while Rob had his usual!
In amazing news, we had no alarm today so we got up and headed to breakfast at Luminae.
I had scrambled eggs on toast and Rob had an omelette with toast, this was accompanied by coffee I am sure!
We headed off the ship at about 1130, and firstly we secured our magnet and got a drink and a snack of churros and ice cream.
We checked in for our tour at 1245 and were allocated Juan as our guide (there were 3 buses for the tour, each with different guides.
We got on our bus and were taken to a shop (but it was the same company that we had bought our magnet from earlier.)
There wasn’t much else nearby, so this was a slightly odd stop (but was listed in the description.)
Then we went to the bee sanctuary which was smaller than we expected, the bees in Cozumel are different to our honey bees – they don’t sting but also they make a much smaller quantity of honey.
We were given small samples of the different honey’s to see the difference.
Next we went to the Mayan Cacao Company which was in a very odd location (it appeared to be next to a closed down shopping mall) and when we arrived they told Juan they had no electric (remember this later!)
They tried to do their best and to show us around but there was no air conditioning and without the power they were limited. I also got savaged by mosquitos (more to come on that!), we left quite quickly as there was really not much to see under the circumstances.
Our final stop was the barrecita where we were told about the different types of tequila, we also got some samples (Rob had mine!) but in a weird twist they also had no electric.
Again, our stop was cut short and we were glad to get back on our air conditioned bus.
We drove back to the port where we discovered that the power was out across the entire island…..which was very eirie as all of the shops were in silence – they were still open and willing to sell goods if people had cash.
Overall, a slightly weird excursion for us. Probably not the right choice again but the loss of power was an extra challenge.
We got back on board and then had a drink and a rest in our cabin before dinner, no surprise we went to Luminae
We both skipped starters; Rob had steak and I had the Cornish hen.
Then Wadzy (our assistant server) convinced Rob to try a different dessert! We both had the chocolate bar with Rob’s chocolate cake in reserve (he ate both.) I also had a coffee
