This morning we woke at about 0830, got ready and then got Starbucks breakfast from downstairs (in anticipation of food on the ship later).
We checked out at 11, attached our cruise luggage tags to our bags and waited to get an uber to the port.
We weren’t sure if we would fit in a normal size so we booked an uberXL – does anyone else have this issue?
The trip to the port was about 25 mins so we arrived just around 12, our bags were taken by the porter and then we were quickly through security.
Our paper copies of our ESTAs were requested (still not really sure why) and then we were onto the ship! We headed straight to our muster station to get our passes scanned.
Next up we had to go and sample the pizza at sorrentos along with collecting our soda cups and trying a small piece of cake (all for comparison purposes obviously!)
We explored the ship and entered the spa raffle and tried a soft serve ice cream.
Cabins were available just after 1300 so we headed up to check ours out, while we were there our cabin attendant came and introduced himself.
We explored a little more of the ship and had a drink in the Viking bar – this is something that isn’t on the newer Royal Caribbean ships that we have been on so we quite liked this.
At 1530 we went to the spa for the raffle but sadly we didn’t win
We came back to our cabin for the sail away and watched the Disney Dream leaving ahead of us, then our luggage arrived so we unpacked our stuff for the last time this trip.
We went out for another explore of the ship and got a drink. We used our promotional credit ($4 each) in the casino. Sadly, we didn’t win anything.
Rob then bought himself some camera holder which he had wanted for ages and apparently it was a good price. Aren’t you all loving the technical details?!
We got ready for dinner at Chops Grille which we were trying as they had an offer for the first night - cost $74 for both of us inc tip. We had not found Chops to be that good on our previous ship but wanted to give it a try.
We were brought the breads (which included a pretzel bread) and then to start Rob had the bacon and I had mushroom soup.
Then we both had the fillet with macaroni cheese and mash (shared) and for dessert we both had the warm chocolate cake.
Then we went to studio B to watch the ice show, it was very cold so we had to change into warmer clothes!
The show was really good, a couple of falls but when you consider they are skating on a moving ship it’s very impressive.
We were back to the cabin and in bed just after 10pm.
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