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Thank you so much USCG Teacher! Your comments and great description of your experience at Blue Lagoon is extremely helpful Much appreciated!

Hello cruisers I will be going on Oasis to Nassau and we arrive around 2:00 p.m. and I am considering the Deluxe Blue Lagoon. I am curious it anyone has gone to the Blue Lagoon later in the day and if so approximately what time they arrived. It is listed as a 5 hour excursion which means you are at the boat by 7:00 p.m. but I wanted to hear other cruiser's experience. Also, and I realize that this seems silly but are the ferries that go out fairly smooth rides. I am traveling with someone elderly who is fine on a big ship but on a smaller boat she might have seasickness issues. Yes, she does take Dramamine. From what I can tell on the videos that I have seen on YouTube it looks fairly smooth. The ferries remind me of the ones that New Yorkers take to go to Fire Island which are very smooth and comfortable. Any thoughts/advise/experience would be helpful. Thank you in advance

Thank you Wordell1. Your response makes sense and is very helpful.

I am going on a cruise on Oasis later in the late spring/summer, which I can't wait for. The new dining menus look great. Lots of choices. I do have a question/thought about the various nightly menu theme. I am booked with Chops and Giovanni's table. I really enjoy Chops and Giovanni's will be a first time for us. I was on Anthem and went to Jamie Oliver's Table and I assume that this will be similar. I have always noticed that you can, in the main dinning room order, for an extra charge, a steak from Chops. No issue with that. However, now that there is an "Italian" night that is part of the main dinning cruise package, why should one pay extra for Giovanni's? I am not looking to change or cancel my desired reservations with Giovanni mind you. I am just wondering if others have had the same thoughts that I have. I LOVE the Windjammer and the main dinning room. I also love having a special experience at one of the specialty restaurants. When I am on vacation in some special city like Paris, I would want to go to a budget friendly cafe one day but another day I would want to be wowed at great restaurant. So for me, the available RC dining variety is just simply amazing. Sometimes I feel that there are not enough cruising days to do everything that is offered on these wonderful ships. My first cruise was Enchantment of the Seas back around 2006 or 2007. There when you went to Chops, they would bring out a tray with all the various cuts of meat and you would choose which cut you wanted. Also it was the time of very TALL desserts! If you had a cheese cake the slice was huge and wrapped in spun sugar making it look like the Chrysler building on a plate. Once again, an experience. Now with these mega ships in order to meet the demands menus and presentations have been changed, but luckily up to now, luckily, the quality has not. Specialty dining is just that, an opportunity to have a culinary experience that is not available in the normal inclusive dining room(s). Do you feel that the theming of the dining room might make you not want to do a specialty restaurant? I am curious what other's thought are on this.