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Suite Decorations 🎉🎓
Berty decorated the suite with a variety of pictures of us. It took us a moment to ask him “how did you find these”. Well, he was resourceful and pulled them from Facebook. 🥰
 

Room Arrival Snacks 
Apparently there is a new F&B director who felt the embarkation snacks were underwhelming so they have been replaced with these. Lindsay enjoyed.   

@SweetPea Look, matching shirts 😆

Happening now 

Happening now 

Happy cruise day!!! Enjoy the celebrations 🎄

It’s cruise day!!!!

We are in for the night. We had a pretty quiet day; walked through the shops downtown, drove to NASA and went for a drive along the coast. We’ve packed what we can. Berty will see us in the terminal at 10:15am. Lindsay will drop Reyd and I and the luggage at the terminal early, drop the rental and meet us back at the terminal. Berty confirmed Reyd and I can get ourselves and the luggage checked in and they will have Lindsay join us in the suite lounge. Weather has remained good in Galveston but the forecast calls for rain throughout the night, morning and afternoon. So we will see what happens.  Berty said it has been raining today. 
I’ll checkin with you all tomorrow!! 

After supper we headed over to Pleasure Pier for a walk around.  It was a nice walk, but definitely not worth the cost of admission. Lindsay was so annoyed he said he wasn’t giving them another cent and drove out of the parking lot through the entrance with a “do not enter”.  I am sure the people exiting properly through the exit thought it was a moment from planes trains and automobiles. 😆

🌟💫⭐️A “Starry” Christmas - Harmony Dec 24-31, 2023⭐️💫🌟

@Jax is back with a “Starry” Christmas ⭐️💫🌟
For those that have followed my blogs you know we have a habit of spending Christmas on the Seas.  This year we will be back on Harmony doing our first ever Western Caribbean cruise.  We spent last Christmas on HM and although my preference would have been to try another ship, the fact it was sailing out of Galveston was too good to pass up. Direct flights from Calgary are plentiful and considerably shorter than going to Florida so this was an added perk. Our son graduates from high school this year so future vacations/cruising are up in the air until we sort out his apprenticeship schedule at trade school and work schedule.  So there is a very real possibility we will be on a land vacation next Christmas because I have no cruises booked beyond summer 2024.  😔
We have a lot planned so let’s get started…..
 
 
 
 

IYKYK ❤️❤️

You know cruise day is close when ……
Berty sends you his what’s app number and says to start messaging him. ❤️🧞‍♂️🙌🏻
He has arranged a sailaway get together in our suite where we will celebrate Reyd and Michael’s upcoming graduation.  🎓🎓 I am praying that the rain holds off. 🤞 All remaining celebrations will be finalized once onboard.  

We are in for the night. We had a pretty quiet day; walked through the shops downtown, drove to NASA and went for a drive along the coast. We’ve packed what we can. Berty will see us in the terminal at 10:15am. Lindsay will drop Reyd and I and the luggage at the terminal early, drop the rental and meet us back at the terminal. Berty confirmed Reyd and I can get ourselves and the luggage checked in and they will have Lindsay join us in the suite lounge. Weather has remained good in Galveston but the forecast calls for rain throughout the night, morning and afternoon. So we will see what happens.  Berty said it has been raining today. 
I’ll checkin with you all tomorrow!! 

IYKYK ❤️❤️

I ❤️ it!!!

IYKYK ❤️❤️

@SweetPea Look, matching shirts 😆

Interesting. Berty mentioned that CK was packed, particularly on the 24 & 25th.  We only ever eat there on night 1 so I don’t have a sense of how busy it is throughout the week. (#blamethestarclassbubble) 🤣

You know cruise day is close when ……
Berty sends you his what’s app number and says to start messaging him. ❤️🧞‍♂️🙌🏻
He has arranged a sailaway get together in our suite where we will celebrate Reyd and Michael’s upcoming graduation.  🎓🎓 I am praying that the rain holds off. 🤞 All remaining celebrations will be finalized once onboard.  

Not sure if this is standard across the fleet but this is on the app for our sailing. 

Review of Tremont House 
From my earlier post, the room is gorgeous with many in room amenities that I love. After having stayed here a few night a few problems have popped up, some of them within the hotels control, others that aren’t.  The pre arrival requests and chat feature via the Marriott Bonvoy app were not taken care of as promised.  It has taken multiple trips to the front desk and phone calls to get bath towels for 3 guests, pillows and bedding. The light in the bathroom stopped working and they were quick to send a person from maintenance. It’s still not working but hopefully it will be soon because besides access to the toilet it isn’t really operable in its current state. The factors beyond the hotels control relate to the noise stemming from a bar directly behind the master suite in the back alley and lack of any soundproofing windows. The bar closes at 1:45am and it is very loud.  And by loud I mean loud and when the music isn’t playing we can clearly hear the hooting and hollering going on. I get it, it’s a bar and they should be allowed to operate as any bar does.  I just wish I had read this in the reviews and I would have requested a front street facing room.  Lindsay hasn’t been able to sleep in the master and has moved to the living room.  I have had to wear hearing protection. It’s fine but definitely not a restful stay we had hoped for.  I have shared my concerns with the front desk and requested a managers email (because all managers in the hotel do not work Saturday or Sunday …. Yup I can’t believe a hotel in the customer service industry has no onsite managers on weekends to address guest concerns.  Our breakfast was comped this morning and we will see what happens from here.  

I had no idea how close The Tremont House is to Carnivals terminal until Reyd told me. Picture taken from our room.  

We are in for the night. We had a pretty quiet day; walked through the shops downtown, drove to NASA and went for a drive along the coast. We’ve packed what we can. Berty will see us in the terminal at 10:15am. Lindsay will drop Reyd and I and the luggage at the terminal early, drop the rental and meet us back at the terminal. Berty confirmed Reyd and I can get ourselves and the luggage checked in and they will have Lindsay join us in the suite lounge. Weather has remained good in Galveston but the forecast calls for rain throughout the night, morning and afternoon. So we will see what happens.  Berty said it has been raining today. 
I’ll checkin with you all tomorrow!! 

There is a reason for the delay this time….

I agree. The first time I was annoyed with it was actually on our road trip from Alberta to BC back in 2021. It was at the Fairfield Inn and I just assumed it was because of what that property was. Then, after that,  twice at the Westin they were just as unresponsive.