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This week in Sabatinis has Altfuno I think was the spelling, as he is in charge. Victor,  Beny and Yulita have been serving. Ana was there first day and not seen her since. All the service has been great as always in our experiences

Looks like we will be backing into St Kitts. Great view from the AFT balcony. 

Morning wake show with a rainbow, arriving into St. Kitts. 

We we arrived back later in the evening last night and didn’t feel like a long meal

in CC so just grabbed somethings quick to eat. Will try to check on the things in CC tonight and post back 

Waiting around to exit the ship for the excursion and took a couple more pictures of the interactive displays. These are the AFT stairwells. 

Things seem even to be working pretty well with the medallion. Internet has a few problems now and then to get connected, but fast when online. 

4 hours ago, CineGraphic said:

 

Gotcha.....if you haven’t already, refare the trip as it’s now part of the 3 for free sale. Glad to hear that you like he new and improved CB....it’s been years since we’ve been on her.

We actually booked under that once a year promotion the big online TA has and worked out well at this point. We got the ultimate beverage package, prepaid gratuities, one specialty dinner, and I think we ended up with a $200 obc before it was all said and done. Not found anything to match so far, unless we wanted to drop perks to save money. After this time onboard and seeing the changes, we are back to leaning towards that cruise as new places we have wanted to go 

5 minutes ago, geocruiser said:

Thank you for taking the time to post.  Do you know who is your head waiter?  I will be on Caribbean Princess in Feb, just wondering if I will run into any of them that I know.

We will try to find out tonight as in CC dining. We are already looking for to our 2/23/19 cruise ourselves as it will be our 35 anniversary that week 😀💕

Arriving into St. Thomas a couple of hours early due to medical emergency. Second one this trip as three hours after departing Ft. Lauderdale, had to turn back to meet up with coast guard for a medi-vac. Hope all are doing well. 

Dinner menu for tonight, along with arrival shot into port. 

David

7 minutes ago, CineGraphic said:

It’s odd that they claim that the mattress does not have any springs, as they are advertised as having wrapped springs for better support.

 

BTW....are you still planning on sailing up to Canada next July!? I know you were considering cancelling when the itinerary changed.

Hey - We are still thinking about it, just not sure as falls real close to a motorcycle trip we have started planning in September to the Colorado Rockies. We also wanted to see if we liked the changes they made on the CB, and we do like what we are seeing. 

Last night was a little improvement with the brand new mattress . It still seems softer than those of a couple of years ago to us. At least there was no sore backs this morning as we both agreed a little better. I wonder if they just have a shorter life based on the construction and wonder just how old those were that were removed. 

I know they advertised to sell these beds and wonder how they compare to these we are sleeping on now. We just can’t imagine these foam mattresses being that expensive or luxurious. 

For Sunday morning reading with the wake show:

10 hours ago, lhsail said:

Do you happen to know if the new wine list has been implemented in the dining room?  If not, no biggie. Don't like hearing about soft beds. We are also on the 11/25 sailing and DH will not be happy. 

We will try to look tonight if we go to the MDR. Any idea what new wines might be on there if it is the new list?

11 hours ago, Colo Cruiser said:

Is Romeo your Stewart? 

 

Paul was the HW in Club Class last month, not sure if he is still there.  

We have Christian as the room steward. He is doing a great job. 

Ok, one last picture to close the evening. Waiting on room service for dinner so we can enjoy the sunset 😀

If anyone wants to join us for dinner tonight on the balcony, here is our selections from the MDR. We will leave the balcony light on for you (taken from another thread)

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For those who are having cruise withdrawal syndrome, and just like to see what is currently going on, here is todays patter. We are relaxing on the balcony with an adult beverage, watching the afternoon wake show 😀

Not sure if there were any pictures posted of the medallion displays. A few here in the aft stairs area that show the new carpet and the two interactive displays. 

Well, the room steward just came in after that post and discussed the bed. This is the new bed we have on here as he said the are doing away with those built with springs. He offered to go get two new ones and I said OK. Sure enough, they were the same thing. Yes, they are new as date stamped October 2018. He said they can flip them over if you want a little firmer as has two sides. As the pictures show, one side is just a thin mesh covering the foam and the other side has a thin padded cover. I guess you can add a topper to this, just not seeing how it could make it much firmer when the under lying support is just foam. I think this may explain why several have posted they were really soft, and in some of my earlier mattress checks, they were firm, is they may have been old, new stock. Anyway, that is what I found out and going to try and add four pictures, then off to the casino to donate to the crews retirement fund😀

We did club class last night and it was good. I will try and find out head waiter later this week. Extra entree last night was spaghetti. Tonight is formal night and we did not bring formal wear, and our decision not to go. We will call room service and order from the MDR menu, and have our own balcony dining 😀

Today is a sea and after a while, I am going to try and get to the bottom of the mattress issue. I thought by now, they were all suppose to be swapped out on the CB.  This mattress is really soft, and after looking at the mattress topper selection I posted earlier,   I wanted to see what we had as figured we had the soft version and wanted a firmer one. The first day we boarded, they had a cut away of a mattress sample with a topper somewhere on promenade. Didn’t pay much attention as figured it was a sales pitch.  Tried to find it a few minutes ago after breakfast and no joy. So, in the same fashion I did in other reviews, I started stripping down the bed, looking for tags. What we found, was on the end, was the Princess Luxury Bed label.  I decided to grab a corner and could easily fold it over in half, and was thinking, this can not have springs in it. Since the stitching was loose on the edge, I pulled it back to look at the inside, and it is nothing more than eight inches of solid foam rubber. Not memory foam, the basic light brown foam that flexes back as soon as you take the pressure off it. No wonder we are sinking into it, plus there is no real topper, just a half inch or so of a thicker mattress pad. Certainly don’t want to add the toppers from the selection in the card they left.  

We were on the second cruise, post dry dock of the Coral a couple of years ago, and I took that bed down, taking pictures of it as it was new.  If Cinegraphic is reading, I believe he book marked it.  It was nothing like this one and pretty firm. We liked it. 

In February 2017, we were here on the CB in a window suite, and also had a new mattress we thought was firm enough, although a little different from the one on the Coral, just based on labeling. 

So, I am going to catch the room steward and just ask him to see if knows, since he changes the beds, and also says to ask him about the toppers and pillows. If he is not sure, then will get with hotel manger and ask what’s going on..

Sorry if font is large. Typing in notes on iPad and copying/pasting here to keep from burning minutes. Can’t seem to adjust here and don’t want to spend time trying. 

The P/E/S party is filling up Skywalkers in about 20 minutes. Even with the extra staff, the are still averaging 20-25 minutes to get drink orders filled. If we go on the nights we see something we want to snack on, we will just grab a drink on the way up. About half of them clear out after 45 minutes, and might just wait until after the rush. Last nights drink special was some margarita. The snacks this voyage. 

I did determine after reading the front of the card the mattress topper and pillows are for full suites only, so for those who may not have seen it. 

David

Just got back from the IC with a big cup of coffee for me and my bride.  

We we are enjoying our version of the wake show 😀💕

We are in D736 - St. Thomas Suite. 

Not it sure about buying the extra internet minutes yet. I may buy more after our loyalty minutes run out. 

It was not available until 1:00pm, per what we were told when boarding. That being said, we hung out in a bar until that time, as only had our backpack and not an issue. We went a little after that time and it was ready. 

Heading at to the P/E/S party in a few minutes and it was good last night with four bartenders, at least four drink servers, and two servers standing at the food area full time. Most we have seen in a while, and hope is a new trend.  Service is continuing to be good everywhere so far. 

Current traditional is 5:30pm and 7:45pm in the Palm dining room. The Island and Coral are showing anytime.