Cruisin and Boozin Posted September 9, 2022 Report Posted September 9, 2022 We will be a party of 4 this time. It will be hubby and I my sister Renee and her better half Vithana. Celebrations: Vithana: retirement Cruisin and Boozin: birthday Cabin: Aqua theater suite deck 8 Itinerary: Oct 1: Ft. Lauderdale Oct 2: Sea day Oct 3: Labadee Oct 4: Sea day Oct 5: Oranjestad Aruba Oct 6: Willemstad Curaçao Oct 7: Sea day Oct 8: Sea day Oct 9: Ft Lauderdale and travel day(sad day) Travel We will be driving. It will take us 2 days. Stopping first night in Lake City, Florida. Second night we will be in Ft Lauderdale. We will be using Best Western hotel chain this trip. On the way home we again will drive to Lake City,Florida. Last day of driving on to drop Renee and Vithana off at their house. About us This will be Vithana’s first cruise ever. Having said that we just want him to be wowed. This will be Renee’s 4th star class cruise and our (hubby and I ) 8th star class sailing. Star class info The star class questionnaire never came. 22 Days till we sail no email from a genie as of yet. I have been in contact with both my travel agent and Royal Caribbean and still nothing has been done. Even though we haven’t heard from a genie we are super excited. None us have been to Aruba or Curaçao so this should be fun. ellcee, CravingaCruise, DJsMrs and 3 others 6 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted September 13, 2022 Author Report Posted September 13, 2022 Today is 19 days away. Still no email from genie. I had travel agent to contact royal again today they said give it till Thursday and call back if we haven’t heard from the genie. Well I can’t wait so I took it upon myself to reach out to the concierge by email and with in an hour they replied that I soon should hear from a genie. Fingers crossed WAAAYTOOO and CravingaCruise 2 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted September 13, 2022 Author Report Posted September 13, 2022 Update the genie is out of bottle! We have heard from Smitha and she will be leaving for vacation so we will have genie ……Romina! CravingaCruise, ellcee, WAAAYTOOO and 3 others 5 1 Quote
nikken79 Posted September 15, 2022 Report Posted September 15, 2022 I can't wait to follow along. We were on Symphony in June and it was amazing. We will be Star Class again on Odyssey Transatlantic 31 October. Can't wait. CravingaCruise, Cruisin and Boozin and WAAAYTOOO 2 1 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted September 20, 2022 Author Report Posted September 20, 2022 Excursions: Picture Aruba 2:15pm Beauties of Curaçao 10am Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted September 26, 2022 Author Report Posted September 26, 2022 Well where do I began? Let’s just say we thought all was well not having to worry with pre cruise testing. Turns out that was nothing. Up pops hurricane Ian. Now I have new things to worry about. Looks like over night stay on Thursday will now be changed because we don’t want to be in the path of that bad boy! Just hope driving on Friday in Florida to get to Ft. Lauderdale is clear. Watching James van Fleet very intently. Yesiamthere6, WAAAYTOOO, FloatyBoaty and 1 other 1 2 1 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted September 28, 2022 Author Report Posted September 28, 2022 The ladies have completed our nails. Yesiamthere6, WAAAYTOOO and Big Tule 2 1 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted September 30, 2022 Author Report Posted September 30, 2022 We have arrived in Ft. Lauderdale. No issues with weather in traveling. Next step ….tomorrow is ship day! Sweety, KristiZ, WAAAYTOOO and 3 others 5 1 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 1, 2022 Author Report Posted October 1, 2022 Sweety and wannabecruiseexpert 2 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 1, 2022 Author Report Posted October 1, 2022 Old Heidelberg in Ft. Lauderdale was dinner tonight and where the above pictures are from. PPPJJ-GCVAB and Yesiamthere6 2 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 1, 2022 Author Report Posted October 1, 2022 It’s boarding day. We are so ready to get aboard the Allure of seas.. more later Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 1, 2022 Author Report Posted October 1, 2022 We are board and in our suite. MaryS, Dan Curtis, KristiZ and 9 others 10 2 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 1, 2022 Author Report Posted October 1, 2022 The crew are mask free as of today!!! PPPJJ-GCVAB, Skigoofy, Dan Curtis and 2 others 2 2 1 Quote
WAAAYTOOO Posted October 1, 2022 Report Posted October 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Cruisin and Boozin said: 1 hour ago, Cruisin and Boozin said: The crew are mask free as of today!!! Yippee ! Quote
melmar02 Posted October 1, 2022 Report Posted October 1, 2022 I'm so excited having Allure B2B aqua theater live blogs thanks to you and CravingaCruise! Have a great trip! Cruisin and Boozin 1 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 2, 2022 Author Report Posted October 2, 2022 Saturday was great. The day started out with boarding we arrived by 9:30 which was an hour before our boarding time. Zipped right away to the waiting area for our genie. We never had to show our boarding passes or covid cards. During checkin they scanned only our passports. This is our 5th cruise since restart and the fastest easiest so far. lunch: We had lunch in coastal kitchen. Then was our sail away toast . Below picture of sisters toastingDinner was in MDR Jamaican pork chop Sister says it wasn’t good escargot…very good Crab cakes were the best. Sorry no picture of Prime rib but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I’ll try to get better with pictures. We watched Ocean-aria the Aqua show from our balcony. It just didn’t hold a candle to Oasis Aqua Show. Yesiamthere6, Sweety, Skigoofy and 1 other 4 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 2, 2022 Author Report Posted October 2, 2022 Sunday 10-2-22 sitting in a cabana in suite sun deck. The ocean is so smooth it feels like we are sitting still. Lunch today will be Izumi sushi and 150 Central Park tonight for dinner. Skigoofy, Yesiamthere6 and WAAAYTOOO 2 1 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 3, 2022 Author Report Posted October 3, 2022 Sunday lunch Izumi ellcee, DJsMrs, Big Tule and 2 others 5 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 3, 2022 Author Report Posted October 3, 2022 Dinner Sunday nightbest bread on ship scallops lobster thermidor this was the worst thermidor we have ever had. 3 small pieces barely any lobster mostly mushrooms Lamb Wellington fried cheesecake Yesiamthere6, WAAAYTOOO, Skigoofy and 2 others 5 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 3, 2022 Author Report Posted October 3, 2022 Monday 10-3-22 We are in Labadee today! WAAAYTOOO, Skigoofy and PPPJJ-GCVAB 3 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 3, 2022 Author Report Posted October 3, 2022 Labadee was fantastic! Great weather awesome meal at barefoot beach! When we returned to ship we found this:wow genie Romina can really make things special . Above and beyond the call of duty ellcee, Sweety, sammy79 and 4 others 6 1 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 3, 2022 Author Report Posted October 3, 2022 Special update: We were able to get more information as to why we never had heard from any of the genies or received the questionnaire and the problem was that Royal didn’t have my correct email . I just would like to make clear it was never anything the genies had done. I now understand if that happens again how to connect before sailing. WAAAYTOOO, Yesiamthere6 and Skigoofy 3 Quote
MattG Posted October 4, 2022 Report Posted October 4, 2022 Having fun following you! Thank you for your live blog! Quick question: how tall is the space under the bed? That is, from the floor to the bottom of the bed? Any way to measure or hold up something to scale? Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 4, 2022 Author Report Posted October 4, 2022 @MattG 6 inches approximately. MattG 1 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 4, 2022 Author Report Posted October 4, 2022 Dinner 10/3/22 Coastal kitchen: filet night filet was so tender you really didn’t need a knife!sides: Escargot And then i was surprised with a song And cake to celebrate my birthday. The entire crew and even other patrons joined in to sing . I was very impressed!! Red velvet cake Romina our genie is very sneaky with the celebrations and I loved it so much! Yesiamthere6, Sweety, WAAAYTOOO and 3 others 4 1 1 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 4, 2022 Author Report Posted October 4, 2022 10/4/22 our morning wake view From our balcony 2nd sea day. Dan Curtis, ellcee and Robert M 3 Quote
WAAAYTOOO Posted October 4, 2022 Report Posted October 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Cruisin and Boozin said: Red velvet cake Somebody get a napkin for @Sweetyso she doesn't drool everywhere. ellcee, Sweety and Big Tule 2 1 Quote
Sweety Posted October 4, 2022 Report Posted October 4, 2022 3 hours ago, WAAAYTOOO said: Somebody get a napkin for @Sweetyso she doesn't drool everywhere. I need a slice now. We are having "spirit week" for homecoming. Be still my nerves. WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 5, 2022 Author Report Posted October 5, 2022 10/4/22 continued lunch we had Giovanni’s dinner-we had Samba Grill We enjoyed Samba. Filet Mignon is wonderful, that was my choice because I love a good filet! Others who ate lamb said it was very good.Our server was one of the best So today was our galley tour and bridge tour. helipad from bridge our sweet genie Romina giving our tour! captains chair Skigoofy, Big Tule, Yesiamthere6 and 1 other 4 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 5, 2022 Author Report Posted October 5, 2022 Day 5 Aruba back on ship.Port wonderful here. Here is a picture of the wonderful Allure of the seas. Then an airplane about to land but not in the ocean lol KristiZ 1 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 5, 2022 Author Report Posted October 5, 2022 Lunch in Coastal Kitchen: We had a special lunch made from India. AshleyDillo, Big Tule, Sweety and 3 others 3 2 1 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 6, 2022 Author Report Posted October 6, 2022 Pictures of Aruba cashew tree the great rock formation with a baboon face MaryS and MamaShark 2 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 6, 2022 Author Report Posted October 6, 2022 Dinner Chops Big Tule 1 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 7, 2022 Author Report Posted October 7, 2022 10/6/22 Our excursion today was Beauties of Curaçao. Of course we were on a bus but it was raining. So please cause pictures with rain drops. naked chicken Nena Sanchez gallery now random excursion pictures MaryS, WAAAYTOOO and MamaShark 3 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 7, 2022 Author Report Posted October 7, 2022 Chef’s Table Allure has the best location for the venue. It has an awesome view. Our server was a magician and artist. We highly recommend Chefs table. On a scale of 1-10 I put it at a 15! Yesiamthere6, Skigoofy and WAAAYTOOO 3 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 7, 2022 Author Report Posted October 7, 2022 Our suite sun deck bartender Romeo Apple mimosa so happy right now WAAAYTOOO and Yesiamthere6 2 Quote
Cruisin and Boozin Posted October 7, 2022 Author Report Posted October 7, 2022 Officially Diamond Plus Ampurp85, MamaShark, asquared17 and 4 others 5 1 1 Quote
Ampurp85 Posted October 7, 2022 Report Posted October 7, 2022 Ooooh so they are giving the luggage tag. Quote
asquared17 Posted October 8, 2022 Report Posted October 8, 2022 everything looks great!! congrats on achieving diamond plus!! Cruisin and Boozin 1 Quote
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