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Day8/1 . Morning , 7:30 am it's the end of the cruise but beginning of the next one , mix feelings . Breakfast in Park Cafe and packing, now B2B needs to pack it all and can't leave things on the hanger or at least this is what we understood. Packing was quick and we went to the B2B location in one of the bars. 88 people are doing B2B so there was a small line , good that we came early as lines after that were much bigger they did the vaccine verification (starnge as we wouldn't be on the ship if we weren't vaccinated already). I used the time to connect and check some emails , unfortunately it seems that I will need to do some candidate interviews this week. Around 10 they started to hand over the new cards, first cards we got was with different names which worried me but they re print it. Around 10:45 we were herd to the port with many unexplained stops until we brought to immigration which only took our photo. Next we had to wait for 20 minutes upstairs untill allowed back , Sunil wasn't any part of this process. Back to the ship we what's up again Sunil to let him know we are there and to ask when we expect the cabin to be ready. There was internet issue over the ship which can explain why Sunil was not available although we saw him running to the gangway I guess to bring one of his other guests. I saw the internet was still allowing using the old cabin which explained why there was an issue. Every new cruise they need to run end of cruise/start a cruise script to clean up leftovers and old users/password and do some changes in the database. I ask one of the internet representative to call IT and asked if they did or not. Not sure if it help but after 15 minutes it started to work well. We went to Jamie to eat lunch and wait for our cabin to be ready (we checked and it was not) after lunch we checked the rooms again and got a lecture from one of the cabins attended that the cabins are only ready at 2 PM even if we just wanted to leave our backpacks. We went to tour the spa and gim At 2 PM we came again and finally we were allowed in. What a wonderful cabin Sunil came to say hello and check if everything is OK. We started our star experience.

Good morning , now I know, genie can do anything. Greek salad for breakfast !

Hope you enjoying Hero.

So sorry to hear about your check in process , I guess the genie power is limited to no exist until you past the test , they will need to do better and figure out how to handle this. I can tell you that our B2B was also without any star benefits and we just went bent back by ourselves. But now I hope everything is behind you and you started to enjoy the cruise.

Hearing soon to Hibachi , what is the recommended cocktail there ?

Here are the channels is playmaker ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN, U and ESPN sec. Per what they said they have college football.

Went to the amazing cabin , but not allowed to touch the food until someone will charge her phone and take a video

The schedule for this week

September 11,

Total 1.5 hours , half hour orientation and almost full hours on the Jet Ski with some stops. I guess it's already depends on the group as you go in one line

Already re boarded , in Jamie , waiting for a sign from the genie for when our cabin ready.

Some numbers , Last cruise 1770 people on board , 88 are back2 back

I think the Oasis Lagoon although we did not tour all the Island , next week we check more parts

Day 7 a perfect day. We had to get up early to take our B2B test, how it went I already wrote yesterday so let's just say that I am still waiting until now to get the email with the results. It was our first visit to perfect day , strange but none of the cruises before brought us to this Island so we were excited to check it out. The first thing we done was the Jet Ski experience ,it was so much fun as the tour takes you near some Islands and most of it was done in high speed. We got to see many starfishs , both of us enjoyed it so much so we consider to take it also next week. After the tour we went to eat some taco's , nothing special but did the work. As it was very warm and humid day we decided to go to the Oasis lagoon which was quite full but still enough space . We took some drinks from the wet bar , dancing to the music (at least one of us) and swim around. The other parts of the Island was not so as crowd and the water park was almost empty. By the way Coco Cay is also the only place the crew can get off and if they do not have assignment on the ship or in the Island they can enjoy it. Around 2 PM we headed back to the ship , you can see here how hot it was and how one crew member repurpose the servicetray to fight it. See you next time

Day 6 and maybe 7 I am getting lazy so I will combine two days in one post. By the way about lazy , what about lazy river in CocoCay , maybe something that will start from the peer and will side by side with the route ? Day 6 was another sea day , lots of ship activities to choose from but we mainly were busy catching some sun (my spouse) and resting in the shade update the blog (guess who). Breakfast was at CK , I took the Mediterranean plate (including the so call Humos which is not really a morning thing , but I am sure it's the right time somewhere in the world Added to that some french toast, we asked for some vegetables but beside tomato they did not had anything. We took advantage of the suite deck again , this time it was very busy as another couple was using it. We were also the only ones who used the bar service. Again we went to enjoy some music , contributing to RCI revenue stream (or in other words playing in the casino and mainly were busy avoiding the stokers (aka Park West) who called me every few hours to remind me I have free money to use). Lunch was in the WJ (no reservations are needeed although they recommend to do). Surprise Surprise the had lobster tails

Just came back from a ship night tour. The team is preparing the ship for you and started with the turn around clean ups. It's ready !

Just one more night , it's really happening, the cruise and stars are just around the corner

It was excellent but too warm

Night 2 and 6

Morning/lunch/dinner , only for the evening you need to make reservations. Night 1 filet mignon is a must

The loft is amazing , two bathrooms cut allot of time in the evening/morning get ready. It's also close by to everything.

Has for B2B people RCL wants you to have a PCR test between cruises and organize it to be on the last day, that's make much logic however they do not want to let you to CocoCay until you get the results. In other words only if you are tested you are at risk , not sure I understand the logic behind it . Maybe they gave someone from the IT department to come up with that policy. Anyway we secheduled the testing to be at 7:40 am so we will have enough time before they let people go to the Island ( they promised 1 hour results) testing was quick without any queues or any expedition trying to find treasures in our brains. We went back to the room and catch some WJ breakfast. Back to the room waiting for the results (8:40) no results , 9 am nothing 9:30 nothing I can already start to hear Something g CoCay song . Decided to go down there and ask , they checked and told me it's ready , it's negative and we are ok/ clear to go) 9:45 went down to the gangway and when scanning the card they told us we need to wait for the results. Now I could continue and argue and meet at the end the only officer that speaks my original language but thought better to skip it. Went again to the testing location , they checked again and told me all OK and sent one of the officer to escort us out . That time it worked. First time for us on Coco Cay

We have a winner , yes the testing between cruise more about this thrilled activity to come.