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4 of them will be delivered Saturday

Thanks for letting me know, it's been fixed now... caused by a last minute change that I didn't test 😞
Thanks for the feedback, wasn't user error but mine 😛 That's been fixed now and shows all ships. 🙂

This is probably user error but I only see 10 ships listed? I scrolled within the module, but it only shows the first 10 ships in the fleet alphabetically. Adventure - Icon, thus any ship starting with a letter farther into in the alphabet than “I" is not on the chart at all. What am I missing? 
Oops, edited to add: If I search in the field for “Oasis," all of the data populates! But it’s not seen in the chart unless I filter by things only found on Oasis class or searched for specifically. Using Safari and Chrome on MacOS.

ah; i'll try that
 

This has been a long time coming, but it's finally available!
Filter what items are on which ship! Just select the tick box and you'll only see ships with those items. Eg. Select Starbucks and you'll only see ships with one onboard.



  Next up is easier access to compare between different suites and The Key.

THIS IS AMAZING
I'm seeing a bug; when I attempt to filter by speciality restaurants there are no results. Complimentary restaurants and other categories work as expected. Tried on Safari and Firefox in Mac OS

Windjammer for Breakfast. Corned beef hash, 2 eggs over medium hash browns and bacon to start this partial sea day.
This is one of my typical morning meals aboard. I have had some variation of it every cruise. 
The best thing about breakfast on a cruise is I don't have to cook it or clean up. Now if I can just convince them to start the pizza ovens at 5 AM!
 

Ok…about the 🎶 music 🎵.  Now, I am a pre vintage (according to @asquared17) born in the mid 50’s.  Have always loved 50’s and early 60’s music.  Early 70’s we’re my high school years so 70’s are quite reminiscent for me!  My Sirius XM was always on SoulTown….love that channel!  But a few weeks ago my awesome 12 yr old grandson switched the channel to 70’s on 7.   I am now reliving my disco days lol 😜 💿 dancing 🕺🏼 💃 and bopping to the music in my car!
Hopefully Symphony will have me dancing down the promenade and pool areas 😆 

And now as of Jan 2024 they've dropped Emerald from the list and Diamond is the first one to get a pin.

We finally picked up our Platinum and Emerald pins this month on Wonder as I mentioned above... not ship specific.
We'll never wear them, but hey we earned them! LOL! 🤣

Day 7: St Lucia 

Another early day with room service breakfast followed by excursion. 
Interestingly, Freewinds was in port with us this AM. It’s a Scientology retreat ship  for high level folks. I don’t know about you, but I’ve watched my share of Leah Remini TV shows exposing Scientology and this was pretty neat to see. 

Our excursion was West Coast Catamaran Cruise. There were soo many people shoved on to this double decker catamaran. First we headed to Pigeon Point, then turned around towards Soufriere and the Pitons. The first swim/snorkel stop was plagued with aggressive locals trying to sell us refrigerator magnets, wood carvings, and coconut milk. They did not allow us to jump off the catamaran to swim. Everyone had to use the forward fold down stairs. That was a huge mess and so slow. We continued to the Pitons.

Our second swim stop at the base of the Pitons was a bit more relaxing. Lunch was served onboard. It was tasty. There was enough left over for folks to have seconds if they wanted. 



Ultimately, it was probably the best way to see the pitons. I’ve heard that driving there in a bus is kinda unpleasant and not as great a view. 
Jamie’s for dinner tonight. 

Risotto Rosso
Penne vodka arrabbiata
Chicken Parmesan 
Followed by sweets at the Patisserie.
Cookies & Cream cupcake
Carrot Cake 
No show or evening entertainment tonight. We were tired. Another excursion tomorrow at St Kitts. 

Well I have checked out my cubby and for the first time ever in an interior cabin, I find it a cozy spot for just me. Two would not be bad as long as they were very friendly. 
 
wandered a bit and had some pizza for lunch. Maybe a steak in the MDR for dinner. Since I am solo i got shifted from early seating to My Time. Not a big deal but to my experience My Time has been a mess since restart. Guess Ill find out if it has improved! 
 
next stop though is the meet up for the Face Book group and Sail Away. Then later I am gonna go cook in the Solarium hot tubs!

so....I'm guessing the germaphobe in you doesn't do the 5 second rule? lol..

Goodnight all…it’s been a great voyage! Final thoughts coming tomorrow. 
 

Okay, final thoughts, rambling, and wrap ups.
Overall, this was a great time. I will sail again with my mother despite all her flaws.........🤣😭
I hate to say but the Publix sub and meal from San Juan, were the best of all the food I had on this experience. 
Going forward I may not get the UDP. I can thank Wonder for saving me the money. At $300+ per sailing the quality of food doesn't make the extra cost worth it. Plus, I am D+ and can use the BOGO and a 3night if I want to do any specialty dining. I plan to incorporate room service to supplement on nights that I don't like the MDR menus.
I don't think I will use the laundry perk again. I don't wear perfume but I like my clothes to smell a certain way. The clothes were clean and smell industrial, worse once anything hit them (when I went through the casino the shirt I had on took in the smoke and I wanted to vomit from the smell). They also ruined my brother's white shirt and shorts. They are dingy as if they didn't wash them with whites. 
There is no ship I won't sail again: but Wonder is my favorite and I sadly spent most of Allure comparing her to Wonder, which was the cleanest of them all. Even though the crew looked less happy on Wonder, they still were amazing, and I think they truly make the cruise. However......
I can't say that any of my room attendants were spectacular. Despite tipping a little something at the beginning, I felt like it was always surface stuff done. I know that at most, the three rooms I stayed in were vacuumed once during my stay.  And I(we) am the type that cleans up before someone comes to clean. 
There is a clear difference, sorry not sorry, in the way solo guest are treated. I felt it hard on Allure and it really turned me off......granted that could have just been the "shorty on an Oasis class" aspect. But it was difficult to enjoy. Plus, my brother is awesome, so I don't think I will cruise solo in the near future.......in my own room, YES.
If you want to board all willy nilly, PC is for you. They never checked boarding times and they didn't care about beverage limits. They just want to get you on and off the ship. On both Wonder and Allure, it wasn't even 10:30am when we completed muster. 
The casino was horrible across all three ships. Considering how much I played, never more than I would pay for a cruise, I didn't come out ahead in any aspect, which was a first for me. I hit a couple of smaller jackpots, but machines were constantly breaking down and/or occupied. And the selection of machines wasn't that great. 
Cleanliness was a major issue on most ships, and I missed waving at crew members as they cleaned the rails, wiped the glass and made they ship beautiful. 
The weather was not great. It was rainy and windy plus cold for most of the time. It was better than my weather at home, but not nearly hot enough for my brother. 
Parents continue to believe that the ship is their babysitter. More than once I waited to make sure that ambling children, who were alone, found their way back to their parents. 
Popcorn and hot chocolate/coffee is clutch for ice shows.......switch it for any drinks when it comes to any other entertainment. I know people are like how you can bring food on a cruise?????....... but the lack of pretzels, popcorn and chips are noticeable when you are sailing for more than 7 days......or even if you aren't. 
I want to thank all of you for reading my blog, your kind words concerning our "good looks"🤣 and the feedback/stories in general. My and my brother's next cruise is in 98 days...........

I'm sorry...I can't All that luggage!!!
You would be horrified sailing with me, one back pack & one carry on size roller. If it doesn't fit it doesn't come. 
I don't think @Ampurp85 had that much for her S2S2S! 
Have the BEST sailing & thanks for bringing us along...again!
🤩
 

I call any flight from Orlando that needs the big plane a Disney flight.......and it was full of families coming from Disney.
But that's mostly what were on there. It was the 3x3 configuration, so 9 seats in each row. When I changed flights the only aisle seat was 39D......and nobody sat in E or F.it was a great flight because the tiny humans were knocked out or watching TV.  Chicago is 🥶.
I will post final thoughts after I get settled.

Ooh what's a Disney flight? And why would it go to Chicago? Do they have their own airline I’ve somehow missed seeing?

Heated pool, and it’s adult only. 

Typical for us to ask for the Cruise Compass and a couple of extra towels every day. We are generally pleased with the response.
Last cruise was a B2B for two weeks and by the end of the cruise I think we had 7  towel animals lined up.
Our cabin attendant received a nice tip.
 

Regardless, Icon looks ugly imo, like I get she's supposed to be the latest and greatest. But she actually doesn't look nice. I daresay even the Radiance class ships look prettier.

Couple of shorty comments
The internet has been exceptional on LIB on this cruise.  Having said that, note:
1.  We are midship and not waaay out on any extreme end of the ship
2.  We have not strayed far from the coast of FL
3.  Our weather has been good
 
Something unique (for us, anyway) happened to us last night at dinner.  It was our first meal in the MDR on this cruise, having utilized our BOGO in specialties the first 2 nights.  We have MTD 7:00 rez.  When we got to the dining room the line was LONG - all the way past the elevators.  Ugh.  We hit the back of the line with everyone else.  It looked like line was starting to ,move - a good sign.  Suddenly a Maitr’d came up to us and asked us to follow him.  He took us around that long line, directly to the check-in kiosk…we probably bypassed at least 50-75 people in front of us.  He told us that we are to never stand in line and to proceed directly to the kiosk for priority seating.  I guess it pays to wear your Pinn planks to dinner.
Now….I would never actually do that on my own.  Being escorted is one thing - heading to the front of the line on my own ?  Negative.
I did notice a sign that I had missed earlier that directed Suite guests to a separate line so it seems like LIB has a unique policy for handling Suites and Pinns.  This used to be the way the ships handled MTD but I haven’t seen it used in a long time.
At any rate, it was a nice surprise.

My boarding day JOY !!!
 
YIPPEE !!!!  I scored a Royal Flush on Ultimate Texas Hold 'Em on the first night !  This is only the second time I have ever had one.  Dan has NEVER had one.   According to the internet (must be true, then) the odds of getting a RF on UTH is 649,739-to-1.  Here's the truly interesting part.  The LAST time I had a RF in UTH was ALSO on LIB a few years back !  I guess this must be my lucky ship !
The payout on this baby was ~$5500.  I was playing minimum bets.
I have a photo which I will try and upload.  I am having trouble toggling between browser windows so I will try later.  Yippee !!  Here it is.  

I'm surprised it starts at 14 - are there a lot of teens on your sailing? When we did Allure, it started at 12.

This library does not look cozy to me at all. I could not curl up with a good book feeling like the other side of the room is staring at me. The furniture is nice, but it looks like a boardroom sans table and speakerphone.

Okay jumping ahead to today St Kitts-  I am on a Celebrity excursion scenic railway tour and not even half way the train is having a “malfunction”.  We’ve been sitting here for more than 30 minutes.  On the plus side the is a great breeze and we’re in the shades and free drinks 🍹