Lovetocruise2002

February 3-10 (Enchantment) - Western Caribbean

July 28th- August 4th (Oasis, Western Meditteranean)
October 12-19 (Explorer, greece and Adriatic) 

YOLO booked it!  😀  🇪🇸  🇫🇷  🇮🇹
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Allure, 5/11/25... Western Mediterranean
Book Later reservation from Next Cruise burning a hole in my pocket. I've never been across the Atlantic so this is a bucket list item for me! We'll see how the airfare works out... worst case scenario, I'll just lose my $200 reduced deposit.
Will be our second time on Allure (was hoping for Symphony to return). Hopefully, at worst she'll be all cleaned up and shiny after her drydock, at best she'll be amplified! 🙂

November 10th 2023 Ovation of the seas...... also January 27th 2024 Brilliance of the seas

September 10-19, 2025
Independence of the Seas 
9-nights round trip from Southampton to Spain and Portugal 
 

Anthem of the Seas - February 17, 2024
Symphony of the Seas - June 21, 2024

We're just gonna miss you on Utopia.  We are on 9-16-24.

Independence Nov 6, 2023
Symphony May 16, 2024
Utopia Sept 9, 2024
Voyager Dec 28, 2024

Voyager  12/27/2023
Voyager   2/29/2024
Harmony 11/3/2024

Allure of the Seas sailing December 8th, 2023! 🥳
 
 

Wonder of the Seas
December 3, 2023
Family cruise with Hubby, BIL, SIL and a couple more!!

Icon of the Seas Inaugural sailing (Jan 27, 2024)!

Here are some random photos from curaçao. Sorry don’t think I got any at the aloe Vera farm. My wife probably did so I will try and get some later. 

Let’s back track a little to yesterday. So in Curaçao we had a private tour guide. I found her on tours by locals. I was struggling to find options of things to do as I had waited to book something, but obviously it was just meant that I found Faraday on this site. She was awesome and we had such a blast. It only ended up being 6 of us instead of 8, as my Aunt was sick so crazy Uncle stayed on the ship with her. Kind of a bummer as they would have loved it. 
 
we started with driving around looking at some historic buildings as she filled us in on some of the history of the island. We then went to the Aloe Vera farm as my wife is totally into all that healthy stuff. Even I ate, yes I said ate; some Aloe Vera.  My wife grows this at home at eats it routinely but I had never tried it as that seemed weird. But it wasn’t that bad, and supposedly really healthy for you.  
 
we then went to a park, which sorry I forgot the name of, which just has some great views and opportunities for pictures  
we then went and saw some sea turtles at a beach  
 
after that it was lunch time  at Jaanchies  this was such a cool place and the owner was absolutely amazing. I got a few food pictures that I will post, but I ate Iguana folks. Yes you heard that right, Iguana. I’m not a very adventurous person when it comes to food, but between our guide and the owner of the restaurant giving a recommendation for it I felt I had to try it. Probably not something I would ever look to eat again, but it wasn’t bad. Just tasted like chicken. 
 
She then took us to her favorite beach which just again had some amazing views. 
 
While all of it was fun, the funniest thing was on our drive back to the ship. So we had the guide and driver up front in this 12 passenger van, and then the 6 of us in back. So full disclosure, we weren’t wearing any seat belts, but don’t tell anyone. So we are driving on this hilly road that goes up and down a few times and my father in law says go faster go faster like a little 5 year old kid. So the driver it’s the gas a little bit going up this hill. Well we come to the top and just on the other side of the hill some not so smart tourist thought it would be a great idea to stop in the middle of the road on the down side of a hill to take a picture. So our driver has to slam on his breaks. Well, my father in law was sitting in a seat that didn’t have any seat directly in from of him as that was the row people got out of the van and he went sliding right out of his seat onto the floor. Thankfully he was ok, but everyone just started busting up laughing, including him. The guide and driver couldn’t stop cracking up. 
 
anyways, if anyone is going to Curaçao and looking for a private tour I highly recommend Faraday. 

A lot of adventure of the last couple of days. I’m now relaxing on the balcony as we just pulled away from Aruba. Such a beautiful island. 

Meanwhile, the website says booking starts December 6th, lol. Nice job Royal!

No tips, but I noticed that you have a lot of question marks. I like to use Ride Guru (https://ride.guru/) to estimate ride share costs. It's not going to be exact, but it gives you a good estimate to go by.

I imagine the CD could decide on 270.
 
Here is a pool deck video from Mitch on Odyssey.  So there is hope.
https://www.facebook.com/CruiseDirectorMitch/videos/happy-new-years-2022-from-odyssey-of-the-seasbahamas-nassau-odysseyoftheseas-roy/1562873297390900/
 
 
 
 

Esplanade.  
The crowd and crush is part of the experience.  Look at NYC and Times Square - packed wall to wall bodies on NYE.   

Oh I know, it’s a big mess of broken Champaign bottles and confetti. It gets really crazy! Good question re: venue on Odyssey. I don’t think the music hall is big enough but that would be my choice on that ship. You guys will have an amazing time. 

Fair warning, there's a whole lot of chatter in the groupme group lol
Careful what you ask for 🤣

Fair warning, there's a whole lot of chatter in the groupme group lol
Careful what you ask for 🤣

This pricing MUST be for the overwater cabanas at Coco Cay. Another typo from the IT department. 😂Seriously, I will always upsize my happy meal but this is going slightly overboard. I think we will watch the promenade movie unfold at midnight while standing. 

All my credits from 11/8 showed back up on my card within a few days. However, on 11/17 I made another purchase/refund, and that one refund is still missing. I reached out to Royal over FB over the weekend and they said that, "The refund is in process, but funds have not been disbursed yet." Then I asked them what sort of timeline I was looking at for funds to come back to me. They responded back with, "7-10 business days". That was on Sunday 11/26. I will unfortunately have to follow up with them again if I don't see it in 7-10 business days. So annoying.

All my credits from 11/8 showed back up on my card within a few days. However, on 11/17 I made another purchase/refund, and that one refund is still missing. I reached out to Royal over FB over the weekend and they said that, "The refund is in process, but funds have not been disbursed yet." Then I asked them what sort of timeline I was looking at for funds to come back to me. They responded back with, "7-10 business days". That was on Sunday 11/26. I will unfortunately have to follow up with them again if I don't see it in 7-10 business days. So annoying.