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Europe Here We Come! Vision of the Seas July 29,2019: 12 day Mediterranean/Greek Isles


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32 minutes ago, NC350 said:

Loving this review! Can't wait to read more. I'm a converted to Royal girl after a B2B Rhapdody of the Seas Greece / Croatia cruise and want to take our kids back! Getting some great ideas .... 

I'm glad!!   We are scheduled to go on rhapsody next spring break for a western Caribbean cruise... Hoping we can take it as my husband hasnt sailed out of Tampa and we've never been on her.  However, the Europe bug has us bad and we might try to go to England, Scotland and Ireland next summer... Money with a kid in college (and one just done and one in 2 years) is beginning to run out lol!!! Jane

 

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1 hour ago, mom2mybugs said:

We leave for the boat in about an hour!  I have to figure out there whole cab thing before then lol!  Jane

Have a fabulous cruise!

Hope you don't have to wait for too long to sail away - the harbour is long and narrow and we had to wait for about 30mins for a 'gap' in the harbour traffic. It's a nice sail away if other cruise ships are in though because you get to sail right next to them. 

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2 hours ago, hayley_bopp said:

Have a fabulous cruise!

Hope you don't have to wait for too long to sail away - the harbour is long and narrow and we had to wait for about 30mins for a 'gap' in the harbour traffic. It's a nice sail away if other cruise ships are in though because you get to sail right next to them. 

Hayley you have been such a wealth of knowledge!  Thank you so much!! Jane

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We are on board!  We waited almost longer for the cab then we did too board the ship.  We used the cabify app... No Uber here in Barcelona.  The driver was a bit crazy because traffic here is fast and busy!  I was stressing because this was the latest Ive ever gotten to the port.  Didn't need to worry though!!  We pulled right up to terminal B with no wait.  No porter needed as we walked 10 feet to the cart where the nice porter loaded our luggage.  We had expedited arrival but it wouldn't have mattered because nobody was there at 1045.  We literally walked through security and on to the ship.. LESS than ten minutes!!!   By 1105 I was making our dining reservations... Got everything we wanted including chops night 2 formal night 630.  By 1115 had lava flow with kraken (well training bartender so first drink turned out to be a Miami vice actually) and eating in the windjammer!

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The windjammer want crowded and the food was typical fare... Food Temp was warm and everything seemed fresh.  We were offered there STRONGEST Bahama Mama welcome drinks I've ever had! 

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It's now 1245 and be we are in the solarium waiting for the room to be available!  Book in hand I am relaxing!! Oh, and so excited... The solarium roof is OPEN!!!!!!   Happy happy happy!  

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More later!  I will see how the voom is (can't tell if I'm still on data or voom) for periscoping.  A lot of those may end up replays for people with the time change!  Jane

 

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So our room is very cool!  I just scoped it but unlike @Lovetocruise2002 I have no idea how to link it here!  We are in a spacious family oceanview or something like that ..4032!    What I hear is that we were fortunate because we only have 3 people and they often make you have 4 or 5.  We booked the week after the rooms opened up and it is going to be so nice to have all that room!! Here are a few pics!

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For sure the paintings have been refreshed since 2015.  Everything seems very neat and clean so far on the ship.  I may need to nap in my solarium chair ...    Jane

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58 minutes ago, Lovetocruise2002 said:

Looks like you are off to a great start Jane!  Any luck with the Lavender tonic yet?

Nope... We didn't hang in the schooner bar tonight!!   For @JLMoran and anyone keeping track, the drink count....hmmmm....I might have lost count.  Miami vice (that should have been a lava flow), insanely strong Bahama Mama, blue Hawaiian, at Germaine and champagne, 2 glasses of wine and 2 shots of amaretto.  Whoever (and I'm so sorry I can't remember) suggested white mocha coffee and adding amaretto... Amazing!!! So good.  Anyway team drink pkg made out today for sure.  In other news, on allure in March and majesty in June, a glass of Oberon Cabernet was 15.  It is $18/glass on this ship.  Crazy ridiculous :(. I will miss it!!!  Jane

 

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Ok... While I wait the 20 mins for the teenager to make curfew I can update the day!!   We didn't get our luggage until after muster drill and sailaway so we couldn't really unpack.  Here are some pics:

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We did my time dining... The food was really pretty good... Best prime rib in a while!  I forgot to take pics until Madison reminded me I was the worst blogger ever... So I took dessert pics!  I even forgot to snap the menu!

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After dinner we came back and I unpacked.  It is incredible how much for we have!  We definitely could stay in this room with more kids.  Then we headed to the headline show.  It was a shadow show where they did hand s
hadow shapes on the screen.  I didn't take my camera out early enough... It was actually really good, hokey as it sounds!  I missed pics of the animals but here are some singers!

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I can't remember all of them, but it was fun.  The people who come in late, walk down the middle aisles talk during the show, and basically are rude as heck just kill me!  Visions rows at least have tons of leg room so you can let all these people in and out several times!!  Argh.. 

After the show we hit cafe latte-tudes and then schooner for the amaretto for the ☕ and then to bed.  

Update on the teenager... She made it back 1 minute late and apparently meet a group of 7 high school girls who all speak English.  She is very happy and meeting everyone at 10 tomorrow after everyone's formal night!  Huge load off my mind.

   Tomorrow is Cannes.  The plan is to sleep in, eat, take the tender after the initial rush is all over, shop and then hit the public beach.  Looking forward to a very laid back day because many of our other excursions start before 7am!!

   Oh... And I forgot to ask for my robe!  Gotta do that tomorrow...I mean today!  Jane

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3 minutes ago, Fairlynew said:

Sorry about the wine price.  Probably has to do with location more than ship.   When we cruised out of Southampton this fall, we laughed at the Europeans drinking the fancy import Budlight.   

Then our son spent the fall in Bremen, home to Becks, and we teased him about drinking that cheap domestic swill

I think you are right but ugh... the Kendall Jackson is still cheap lol!!  Jane

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On 7/30/2019 at 7:10 PM, ChefSpencer said:

@mom2mybugs Our favorite post dessert dessert while cruising with the deluxe beverage package is a small scoop of vanilla ice cream, a shot of espresso, and a shot of baileys. Our table in the main dinning room had them every night.... Man I miss being on a cruise ?  The trip looks awesome so far! 

Oh yum....just yum!  Jane

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