Jax

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

This is a random post about nothing….We saw a man wearing a t shirt that read “Sick of people, they are EVERYWHERE”. For some reason the phrase was made even funnier by the man that was wearing the t shirt. IYKYK 😆 I wanted to take a picture of the man but the guys wouldn’t let me. 

@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) 🤣

They should probably discontinue the chat feature if this has become the norm. The person chatting assures the guest the pre arrival requests will be in the room. And you realize upon arrival that nothing was done.  🙁 So silly. FWIW the Hilton FLL Beach Resort manages this feature very well! You will be happy. 

That has been our experience with the chat feature via the Bonvoy app as well since covid.
Many on HM since November have reported seeing that. I have not seen that yet with our OY sailing.
 

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.  

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. 

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.  

Others have reported seeing those messages but AFAIK they do not (yet?) appear for all ships/sailings.

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

I know. Who doesn’t like to walk along a pier with carnival music, lights, rides, games and food. 

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. 😆

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

I know. Who doesn’t like to walk along a pier with carnival music, lights, rides, games and food. 

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

I know. Who doesn’t like to walk along a pier with carnival music, lights, rides, games and food. 

Oooh, I need to remember that acronym! 
 
Yeah I don’t get it either.  News reports here mention the star of Texas is displayed on the bow as a symbol of gratitude to guests sailing from Texas who made them the #1 cruise line in Galveston. It says hundreds flocked to Galveston to see her arrival tonight and departure tomorrow.  Hopefully we will be around to see all the hype. 

As we would say ... GITCC! That's G-I-T-Double C
Going in the Comment Card!

I don't get the connection, but Carnival is now sponsoring/partnering with the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, and the Jubilee includes a huge star of Texas,i believe at her bow? 
Maybe Royal will don a Giant Jersey Tomato decal for ships ported in NJ someday ....

In other news, we watched Carnival Jubilee’s arrival. Lots of people were watching and cheering.  There seems to be some local excitement about its arrival. I don’t blame them knowing that 6000 passengers will be boosting local tourism.  It looks like Carnival’s terminal needs some upgrading. 

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. 😆