GlassSlipper

We just took our teenagers (13 & 18) last week and we dined in Speciality restaurants.  They enjoyed it and I felt like took no longer than eating in the main dining room.  If your kids do not mind having a sit down meal each night, then they would not mind this.  I actually think it may be a bit quicker, you are seated right away because you have a reservation. 

My husband and teenagers wore shorts and button down shirts each night, seemed to be just fine. 

We just took our teenagers (13 & 18) last week and we dined in Speciality restaurants.  They enjoyed it and I felt like took no longer than eating in the main dining room.  If your kids do not mind having a sit down meal each night, then they would not mind this.  I actually think it may be a bit quicker, you are seated right away because you have a reservation. 

We took our tests at midnight last night.  I believe they are open 24 hours.  It was super quick and easy. 

We took our tests at midnight last night.  I believe they are open 24 hours.  It was super quick and easy. 

Day 6: Final Sea Day
Our final sea day, Jake and I scheduled a Swedish couples massage for 8am. After our massage, we had a light breakfast at Coastal Kitchen. It took a while but I think the food comas finally hit us. 
 
At noon, we had Hooked Seafood. I had the vodka oyster shooters, oysters, and fish and chips. We were in a hurry because Hossain scheduled us an ice cream bar in the room at 1:00. One of my favorite things on this cruise with star class has been the free ice cream at Sugar Beach. The Cookies N Cream and Tiramisu are my favorite. After ice cream the whole crew decided on a water adventure afternoon. DJ, Wayne and I went on all of the water slides and then headed to the flow rider. I am not sure how I feel about skipping the flow rider line being Star Class. It makes me feel weird cutting in front of younger kids.  When we were at the flow rider my parents took McKenzie to the baby splash zone. They said she had a great time and took lots of pictures. After we were done with water time, it was nap time. After a quick nap for McKenzie, we took her on the carousel again and walked around a bit. 
Dinner was Wonderland this night and oh my. I have no complaints whatsoever. Everything was amazing from the waiter, to the food, to the entertainment. We decided to have all the food served family style. I wish we could have gone to wonderland earlier in the week - that way we knew what snacks we wanted delivered before later. 
 
After dinner, we put McKenzie to bed. We stayed in for the evening with her. My family went to see 1977 the ice show. They said it was good. Jakes asked Hossain for a dozen of wings and a whole pizza to be delivered to the room at 10:00pm. They rang the door bell and woke McKenzie up. I was annoyed but thankfully she went right back down after a minutes or ten. 
 
It was a nice but tiring day. The week has finally caught up with me. 
 
 

Day 5… again. I spent an hour writing my last post and clicked submit reply and it vanished and is nowhere to be found. 
 
We docked St. Thomas around 7am but I unfortunately miss that. We didn’t wake up until around 8 when our drinks were delivered. We had to quickly get ready since we overslept. The whole crew went to Costal Kitchen around 845 for breakfast. I had my usual. After breakfast, Jake, McKenzie and I had headed to our excursion. The rest of the crew planned on staying on the ship since everyone had done St. Thomas before. 
 
The excursion we did was Mountain Top & Villa Botanical. The last time I was in St. Thomas, I remembered being scared to death by the crazy driver. Turns out, you didn’t truly visit St. Thomas unless you get scared to death with their crazy driving. The one thing I found interesting was that they drove on the left side of the road, yet their steering wheel was on the left as well. Our first stop was the botanical garden. It was so beautiful. Though I do not recommend the excursion/visit if you have difficulty walking or have a little little one like us. We were able to make it work with our baby carrier but I was worried of tripping because the grounds were very uneven. At the garden were parrots, peacocks, and tortoises as well as lots of native plants of course. After the gardens we headed to Mountain Top and has “The Worlds Famous Banana Daiquiri’s”. They made me wish that they had these on board. 
 
After our excursion, we headed to boardwalk for some hot dogs. Then we took McKenzie on the carousel a couple of times. After boardwalk, we went to the bionic bar for the first time which was a cool novelty. We then  met my brother for Visual Trivia: Airlines. Which, to be honest, was kind of cheating because my brother is a flight attendant. We also sat next to a pilot and joined forces. Needless to say, we dominated the competition (well they did, I was no help). After trivia, we stayed for bingo which I was NOT a fan of. $30 for 1 single game is ridiculous. $300 was the guaranteed prize and the game took like 35 minutes. 
 
After bingo we headed back to the room to get ready for bingo. We went to chops which never disappoints. I had the ribeye. I had to cut dinner short because McKenzie was done for the day and need to go to bed. Once she was down, my parents came to watch her and Jake and I went to see Hiro again, but had Hossain reserve us seats in the front. Jake really wanted to watch the show “how it was meant to be seen” and absolutely was like a kid in a candy store. I kept on looking over at his face and he was smiling/laughing ear to ear. He said that was one of the best shows he has ever seen and was glad we got seats in the front for them. We both recommend for anyone with Aquatheater seats to see the show both on your balcony and in the theater. 
 
After the show, we went to the casino for a bit, then headed to bed. It was a great day. 

That first magnet from Allan made me smile, this one just cracks me up!

Allan is great so far. He reached out to us about one month prior to sailing. Because this is not our first star, we did not have ton of questions for him. He was able to give us a dinner schedule but entertainment is not confirmed until the day prior so it is almost pointless (for us anyway) to solidify a dinner when you don’t know what time your shows are. 
 
Anyway, Allan did give us a working schedule for dinner but after we got the entertainment schedule yesterday, we have moved around our dinners. There was no trouble doing that. 
 

So happy that you made it on-board! Have a great time!  I know you didn’t do a whole pre-cruise part of this blog, but would you mind writing a little about your pre-cruise communication and planning with your Genie?  Not much detail, just wondering about it.  I think we have the same Genie in awhile and was wondering what to expect.  Have a great time!

Thanks! We will request them.  It looked so pretty and I’m thinking even better at night. 

The outdoor tables are awesome.  There is a glass wall all around them, so no wind.   I always ask for those tables.  And not as noisy as inside.

I just looked back at the 12-17 year olds. It was authorized in mid May and I think it was required in August.  So they gave a couple of months to those in the age group to be vaccinated. 

The beach club restaurant has coffee and pastries in the morning.  They should have your fridge stocked with a selection of canned sodas, beers, hard seltzers and beers that are charged to your card (or drink package).  They will have wait staff visiting you to take bar orders and also food orders.  If you want food from the Snack Shacks on the island you can order from that menu in addition to the Coco Beach Club menu.  Plan on needing to tip two cabana attendants.
They will have towels for you at the cabana, so no need to bring them from the ship.
If you have a land cabana you may be visited by some friendly fowl.  We had a rooster and a hen hang out with us for a bit during our last stay.
The island special frozen drink is called the Coco Loco and the Beach Club has an exclusive drink called the Coco Cuvee if you want to try them.
The cabanas have bluetooth audio set up, so if you don't have the wifi package on the ship or cell service in the Bahamas, you may want to preload music on your phone to be able to sync it up for listening in your cabana.

I realize that Labadee is an isolated portion of Haiti, but there is a vast difference between security to prevent petty crime/pick pocketing and security to prevent kidnapping/violence.  I don’t feel comfortable being there in it’s current state.  Not to mention there needs to be a reliable staff and with their country in chaos, that seems challenging as well. 

I realize that Labadee is an isolated portion of Haiti, but there is a vast difference between security to prevent petty crime/pick pocketing and security to prevent kidnapping/violence.  I don’t feel comfortable being there in it’s current state.  Not to mention there needs to be a reliable staff and with their country in chaos, that seems challenging as well. 

I realize that Labadee is an isolated portion of Haiti, but there is a vast difference between security to prevent petty crime/pick pocketing and security to prevent kidnapping/violence.  I don’t feel comfortable being there in it’s current state.  Not to mention there needs to be a reliable staff and with their country in chaos, that seems challenging as well. 

My 12 year old is in the Phase 3 Pfizer vaccine trial for children 12-15.  They are hopeful they the EUA will come in the next couple of months for that group.  I’m sure younger children will be longer, but they said the trials are moving along well. 

My 12 year old is in the Phase 3 Pfizer vaccine trial for children 12-15.  They are hopeful they the EUA will come in the next couple of months for that group.  I’m sure younger children will be longer, but they said the trials are moving along well. 

I had actually convinced myself I had the real thing... Had arm pain, a slight fever after the second shot. I also had a weird and sudden bout of lymphadema. That freaked me out enough to check with my normal doctor. He did a cbc workup and said I could get an antibody test to remove any doubt it was related to the vaccine, so I unblinded myself via an s-protein specific antibody test and found out I was given placebo. My kids probably gave me a little non-covid bug.
Having had the first shot now, I honestly wouldn't have been able to tell a difference. Neither of us had any symptoms, aside from mild arm pain we also had with the placebo. And, funnily enough, on the paperwork I saw that Pfizer has ammended their side effects to include transient lymphadema.
 

My 12 year old is in the Phase 3 Pfizer vaccine trial for children 12-15.  They are hopeful they the EUA will come in the next couple of months for that group.  I’m sure younger children will be longer, but they said the trials are moving along well. 

My understanding was quicker for enrollments than for the adults-I don’t think the procedures themselves are moving quicker. 

My 12 year old is in the Phase 3 Pfizer vaccine trial for children 12-15.  They are hopeful they the EUA will come in the next couple of months for that group.  I’m sure younger children will be longer, but they said the trials are moving along well. 

That is what they told me when he went for his 2nd shot last week.  I haven’t read anything official-but I was hopeful.  They said they were looking for authorization within the next few months.   They said things were moving quicker than it had for adults.  Now I’m not an expert-just what the study told us.  

My 12 year old is in the Phase 3 Pfizer vaccine trial for children 12-15.  They are hopeful they the EUA will come in the next couple of months for that group.  I’m sure younger children will be longer, but they said the trials are moving along well.