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“Into the Unknown” … Independence OTS (Holiday sailing) – 12/29/2018-1/3/2019


Lovetocruise2002

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Good morning! Day 4: Falmouth, Jamaica

Back in the Diamond Lounge again this morning as I write this. It’s a beautiful day in Falmouth today, sunny and in the 80s, but we are staying on board. No one in my family is up and moving yet so just enjoying some quiet time to myself. 

Last night’s activities were fun. Gives you that Time’s Square feel without the freezing cold weather, which is perfect for me.

Not sure what our plans are for today. Likely just more pool time. Yesterday Hubby took some photos around the pool deck and just sent them to me late last night. Here is Indy’s pool deck.

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Pool Scope: https://www.pscp.tv/w/bvt4HjF4TlFhYVJPT2V3UWJ8MVprS3prV3pRV3ZHdrygn8-6oov_zGwnnBXgdEJJSZUgV6AdTLdMhjLP70mU

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Fish & Ships:

According to @mpoole3, this replaces a juice bar. On my own for these photos too ?

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I don’t plan on eating here. I cannot bring myself to pay an extra $9-10 for this type of food. And if it’s anything like MDR Fish&Chips, it’s not going to be great.

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17 minutes ago, Lovetocruise2002 said:

Still here in the Diamond lounge and listening to interesting conversations. Apparently @melski94 and I are not the only ones who think that MDR service takes forever. Some unhappy Diamond members here. ??

So much for my post cruise survey!  

The craziest thing about Indy was the reservation line was like that the entire week.  On most ships, after night 1 it settles down but it was interesting with the photo booth set up and the line would wrap towards the women's bathroom.  We just gave up and ate in the WJ and you know I hate the WJ.  Good thing you'll be in Giovani's tonight!

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11 minutes ago, Susie said:

Great scope ?

Look just like lovely Freedom OTS I went and look like  just a few changes (amped)

First Freedom Class ship for me so I cannot compare. But while speaking to @CHRIS WONG (he works on board) he mentioned that most changes were to the sports/pool deck and the new staterooms on Deck 11/12.

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6 minutes ago, Lovetocruise2002 said:

First Freedom Class ship for me so I cannot compare. But while speaking to @CHRIS WONG (he works on board) he mentioned that most changes were to the sports/pool deck and the new staterooms on Deck 11/12.

We are on this Cruise as well and I think that the pool deck is fantastic.  We have not sailed in Indy before, so I can’t speak to what is new or not new but the three area setup we think works really well 

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22 minutes ago, Floski said:

Still awesome!

 

Does Playmakers offer only the two available espn Caribbean channels or is more like a real sports bar?

 

 

Very much like a “real” sports bar Full line up of games.  On Sunday that had at least 5 different NFL games on at the same time 

it was also packed, and a ton of fun    A great addition  in my opinion 

 

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2 minutes ago, Joe01 said:

Being a Brit, Fish & Ships is a good idea for the British market but I think for the sailings out of Florida, they should replace it. And looking at your photo, it is way too expensive.

Happy New Year - loving the blog so far.

Thanks for following @Joe01! And for the record, Jamie (CD) and Daniel are great. I have not ever had the pleasure of sailing with Abe or Marc yet, but my favourites so far are (in order): Tim (?still sad that he is gone), Hugo, Jamie, and Clo.

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After some drinks in the Diamond Lounge, I literally stumbled my way back to the stateroom to meet my family for dinner. I was worried that I accidentally had too many Cosmos but it was actually the ship that was rocking like crazy! The motion is really bad tonight. Worse so far during whole sailing. I took some Gravol before dinner, so did D12, but unfortunately while that took away the nausea, the combination of Cosmos and Gravol made for a very sleepy meal at Giovanni’s.

Giovanni’s menu:

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Soup of the day: Lentil soup

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Gamberetti Alla Ligure

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Pork Belly

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Carbonara

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Filet Mignon

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Desert here is served off a tray. You pick whatever you want.

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This is what we missed from the MDR.

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Giovanni’s was good. Way better than eating in the MDR. I was fighting to stay awake so that was the only negative to the meal. 

A few things to note here. I know from these boards that there are many Giovanni’s fans out there. We came to a unanimous desision that we prefer Jamie’s over Giovanni’s. There was nothing at Giovanni’s that really stood out. Second thing is that for @Matt and all others who have not tried Coastal Kitchen given the opportunity, you need to try it! The filet that I had tonight was ok, but the filet at CK on night one still trumps it by a long shot! No comparison, in flavour and in quality. We have yet to try Chops. Will be doing that on Harmony but so far it is still #teamCK for us.

We are now settled in the Royal Theater waiting for Once Upon A Time. The ship is swaying so much it makes me appreciate what these actors/actresses do even more.

 

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