We want some luxury and relaxation...so Florida and a cruise :) Day 7

Sunday

We were awake at about 8am so we got ready and packed our stuff back in our bags (we obviously hadn’t unpacked again.

We went down to get breakfast, Rob had a muffin and probably a juice and I had an almond croissant with a mocha.

Shockingly this included a 15% gratuity so breakfast was $25!

We had breakfast at our table in our room because when you have a table that looks like it should be in a boardroom why not?!

We gathered our stuff and went down to book our uber; it was very busy but we got one in just a couple of minutes.

We actually walked down the drive to meet him because the front of the hotel was mayhem with shuttles going in all directions. The uber was about $50 inc tip.

The trip to the port was fairly busy, we think there were a couple of breakdowns that added to the traffic, we counted about 5 ships in port as we drove in.

We arrived and headed to the “Retreat” entrance where we had a very different experience to our previous cruises.

We were invited to sit to do check in, our passports and estas were checked and then we were allowed to board.

Once on board we went to our muster station and scanned in, we then took our hand luggage to our cabin where we were greeted by our butler Mahender and then almost immediately by our cabin attendant Hemraj.

Our cabin was already “ready” which we weren’t expecting so I took some photos before we spoiled it 

We dropped our bags and went up to deck 14 to get some pizza.

After pizza we explored the decks and somehow ended up with cake and coffee on deck 4 and Rob had his first cocktail (although it had coffee in which he didn’t realise.)

We explored some more and headed back to our cabin around 1430 where we discovered our bags had arrived.

So, we unpacked and then went up to the retreat lounge for a drink during sail away. Rob had his second cocktail which he preferred to the first one.

We went to the spa raffle (which once again we didn’t win) then had a quick look around the shops before getting ready for dinner.

We went to luminae, which is a suite only restaurant, where we had:

Rob: beef short rib, NY strip and chocolate napoleon

Lizzi: Caesar salad, lasagne and hazelnut cake plus a caramel latte

After dinner we did a walk around the walking track followed by a couple of raffles in the shops – which again we didn’t win!