JessyCruises

I am onboard now and was very confused 😂 I am working in the solarium and have noise cancelling headphones in. I had my head down staring at my computer and thought that it was weird that it felt like we were moving and that could not be right because sail away was hours away. Sure enough I finally looking up eventually and I could no longer see the Manhattan skyline. I can now though so it looks like we are back at the terminal, or almost there. Hopefully this does not hold you guys up to much!!

So I have been working away on a chair in the Solarium. I am also listening to an audio book with my Bose noise cancelling headphones on Quiet so cannot really hear the announcements. I heard the captain sound the horn awhile ago (can't miss that) and the ship started to chug a little while later. It felt like we were moving, but I thought "That cannot be right" because sail away is not for hours and continued working. Sure enough I look up 30 minutes later and we are no longer where we were and were in motion. Apparently there was a big container ship that needed to get out and could not get around us so we had to move in order to make room. We are pulling back into the terminal now. Hopefully this does not delay folk's embarkation too long!

I know they have 0 Crown Royal. We have been onboard since 6/5 and not one bar has had any!

I forgot to mention that I hosted a few more Slot pulls last week. I had a $20 one of Day 2 at noon. We had 56 partipants and we each walked away with $27. On Day 2 at 3:30, I held a $50 one. We had 16 paticpants and we walked about with $92 each thanks to a nice $1148 Gold Spin hit by one of the partipants. I decided to throw in another $50 pull on Wednesday. We had 11 participants and we landed a big ole goose egg as we played until we hit $0. Maybe we should have stopped on Saturday, but it was still fun! 🤣

Thanks! Yes this is our last cruise of this set. We are back for another couple of B3Bs on 8/21/22 out of Bayonne and then again 11/13/22 out of Miami. Those are the last cruises we have booked at the moment and the last of our Covid rebookings. We need to start planning again 🙂

I got out, but it wasn't pretty 🤣

Looking forward to seeing you again! I think we were on the Odyssey together last summer as well?

We got Burnt Ends, the 1/2 Chicken, and Ribs. For sides we got baked beans and Mac & Cheese. For dessert I asked for cornbread instead of the Brookie or Banana dream. It was all very good but we ate way too much and did not even finish it all! I think my favourite was the chicken. The rub is very good!

We moved to a Central Park Balcony on the 17th. I had heard about the extended balconies on some of them and knew 11229 was one of them so I snapped it up when I saw it was available at booking. I was then able to get it for the 2th too. This balcony is huge as part of it is in front of what I assume is a storage space. There is a bit of noise from the area in the morning – I assume it is where they either store the cleaning trolleys or is where the luggage elevators are. Either way it does not matter to us as we have to get up early to work anyway so it did not prevent us from sleeping. We are on deck 11 and can hear the music from the pool deck which can be annoying when on a conference call but is not too bad most times. We have the same cabin this week as well as the one next to it so we should have an even bigger balcony if our cabin steward is able to open the divider to us. The cabins are not adjoining once again but we will take the double pts (actually 4x) and probably use it for our suitcases 😊 The part with the 2 loungers is the extra space. I think it is actually bigger than the "regular" part.

Other than that, we had a great cruise last week. I took a 1/2 day for Coco Cay and we had a great day on the beach. We were in port with the Enchantment and it felt incredibly busy. We usually have no issue finding a chair behind the pool bar in the more shaded area but there were no chairs to be had anywhere near Oasis Lagoon and it took us quite awhile to find a couple in the shade on the beach. I think we ended up at Chill Beach in front of the buffet area. I listened to my audio book and dozed. It was lovely. I will say it is always shocking to see how much bigger the Oasis class is compared to other ships. I have been on the Empress once but other wise have not been on anything smaller with RCL than the Freedom class. Lately we have been on either Quantum or Oasis class. I really need to get out there and try the other classes!

The turn over day last week (6/17/22) was a bit of a poop show. They had a big problem getting the B2Bers cards to work and several of us had to wait in the theatre while they printed us new cards. We continued to have card issues throughout the day and had to have our cards replaced 2-3 times each on Day 1. We ended up having to wait almost 2 hours that evening to get into our cabin because either the cards failed or the door lock had an issue, we were not really able to get an answer on what the final cause was. Throughout the week we had a couple challenges that we have never really experienced before. For some reason, we kept getting calls that there was no credit card tied to our account even though I gave it at check in on the B2b day. I assume the issue was tied to the card problems on Day 1. I checked the app and sure enough it said we were both cash. I went to guest services again and they could not figure out what was going on as they could see my card attached. I continued to get a few calls over the next day or so until they eventually fixed whatever the issue was. The most annoying thing was tied to the laundry. We sent laundry away early in the week and got it free as normal. We sent our second bag later in the week and they charged us $24.99. Guest services tried to tell my husband that D+ only qualify for $10 off and that "it is what it is" and we should not have gotten the bag free earlier in the week so he should consider himself lucky. He pointed out that we have gotten at least 1 free bag of laundry each week since boarding on the 5th and on just about every cruise since being D+, so that must be alot of luck. He gave up and came to find me. I immediately looked at the pic I had taken of the D+ letter we got in the cabin at boarding to make sure the coupons had not changed and it still listed the free bag. Sure enough it was. I went to guest services and spoke to the person working the line. He took my cabin number, saw I was D+, said we were right and he would fix it. The next morning it was still not fixed so Paul went down again. The rep I had spoken to did not do anything to clear the charge. Guest Services again tried to tell Paul again that we do not qualify for the free bag. He eventually spoke to someone who knew the D+ benefits and they fixed it. In the end it was about 24 hours from his first trip to the desk to when it was finally resolved. Annoying but glad it was finally resolved. We ended up getting a couple bottles of wine sent to our cabin over the week. I assume it was related to these issues we had. I am not really a merlot drinker but I never turn down free booze so I will take them home and add them to the wine rack for guests or cooking 🙂

I want to send a huge apology to those that were following along that I have not posted in so long!! I got super busy with work and then in the evenings was having difficulties getting onto Cruise Critics so I kind of gave up for a bit. I promise to do better this week!

Time for some Jellicle Cats! I could not get a reservation in advance but was able to find a great seat in the orchestra. Helps to be solo 🙂. The theatre looks to be pretty full. Hopefully it stays that way!!

Day 6 Cruise Compass

While on Cocoa Cay I participated in a conference call from a hammock on the beach. I could get used to this 🙂

I found Zoboomafoo on the wall in the hallway leading from Entertainment Place to the Casino. Is he just a Canadian thing? 😂😂

It’s “Perfect Day” to take the afternoon off work and spend some time poolside at Coco Cay!!

Day 5 cruise compass

I forget what they are called too! I have not been on Harmony yet and I don’t remember if there were on Symphony. It has been a couple years since I was on her

Please be sure to check out Ventzi playing piano in the Schooner Bar - he is amazing!! https://www.facebook.com/88Keys2Happiness

Fun fact - just learned from Darko at the casino bar (who is amazing by the way) that they no longer serve shots at Coco Cay. I think he also said they don’t serve drinks on the rocks there. It has to have a mixer. Something obviously happened!

This is what they have in casino bar. I will try to get pics at a few different bars. is that the Jose Cuervo you were looking for?

I think we might be going to Port Side BBQ later this week! Plan is to just get one 3 cut and share. It is really too much food for one person. I was curious if they allowed the D+ BOGO here and at Playmakers but was told no because they are a la carte only

Some photos I took around the ship after dinner as we were preparing for sail away from Nassau Flowers in the solarium

Spotted on Oasis at the Lime & Coconut - the new biodegradable “plastic” straws!! So much better that those cardboard ones!!