LOS - TA - April 2-16, 2011 MIA-BCN - TRIP REPORT

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Best meal of the night - Miss Em's adult chicken dinner from the AM. I should have ordered that..

 

 

 

 

My starter.. what I orderd.. Bresaloa Carpaccio with New Baby Potatoes... what I was served, cold deli meat with potato salad. It was cold deli meat, with a scope of potato salad on top.

 

 

Pan seared Sole.. really? do you see any searing on this boxed frozen fish? It was SOGGY. UGG. The sauce and veggies were very good. I left the fish.

 

 

My husbands starter.. it was good.

 

 

My husbands main. He said it was good, not great but good.

 

 

My husbands cheese cake.. might have been really good if they had of added the cheese...

 

I gave up after my 2nd and did not bother to order anything else. The veggies did not cut is, so we went up to WJ.

 

It was NICE! Candles, Table Cloths, a nice selection of foods. I really enjoyed it.

 

Now, we did not eat alot, but I did try to get a few things in.. and get a few pix..

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Windjammer at night.. Day 2 (still!)

 

 

 

 

we then went off to a show (Miss Em was at kids club.. ) and back for our snack..

 

 

 

 

The Shrimp and Egg Salad roll that I read about.. and it IS good!

 

We had a pullman tonight, cruise compass (still no kids one) and no ice.

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Day 3 - Sea Day, M & M, Formal night.

 

 

Miss Em's WJ breakfast. She loved the shrimp and eggs.

 

Miss Em had a blast in the kids club (we got their at 11 because we did not know it opened at 9.. so we signed her in for lunch (NOTE - totally NOT worth the money on a TA Sea day). We paid the full price, for two hours care, with a drink, sandwich, and a fruit. At 12 noon, the ships time went forward for ONE hour, so Miss Em was in the kids club from 1pm to 2pm. We only did that ONCE.

 

 

Meet and Mingle

 

 

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The pool deck had a carving class, we missed most of it because we were at the M&M.

 

 

We had lunch in the MD... I was looking forward to the Tutti Salad I had read about on CC..

 

 

In the end, it was okay. Not great, not good, but just okay. But I think I felt rushed in my selections, as it was the first day at sea, dining room lunch and it was packed. I never had it again.

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My soup and salad

 

 

Davids lunch. His peanut butter pie, was REALLY good.

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I am a hobby cake decorator, so I made a quick stop by the Cupcake Cupboard..

 

 

 

 

It was cute, and they had a few things, I wanted to buy, but by the time I got around to it, they were charging VAT, so I skipped it.

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Formal night..

 

(no ice.. )

 

 

I bet these would have been really nice with that bottle of champs we got in our Romance Pkg..

 

 

 

I will never order a GOLD pkg wine again from RCCL. In fact, I will skip the wine pkg totally I think. We ended up dreading the wine. They never seemed to have our selection, we were always disappointed.. and leaving over half empty bottles on our table.. and they would just keep coming back.. night after night.. :rolleyes:

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well, really just cause I have space..

 

on a side note, Miss Em ate dinner with us in the MDR all but two nights I think? She did super well, and loved it. The waitstaff are great with kids, and she loved looking out the window at the sea. (because don't forget we don't have a children's menu for her to play with.. )

 

 

and I love this pix..

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It was a very good meal. DH and I had almost the same menu, and once again.. miss Em is back to pasta with lemon.

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Oh look things are looking up, a kids compass and ICE! It was like a lotto win! :D

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Day 4 - At Sea

 

 

Guess what? Its 7:45am, and the Cruise Compass is WRONG! There is no Dreamworks breakfast.. :mad: a very sad little girl. (more on review of dreamworks breakfast later).

 

Now, I LOVED breakfast in the MDR. LOVED it. But my Dh feels that you did not get the "same selection" as you did in WJ.. so I did not get to go often enough IMPO..

 

 

 

So much for the lack of selection.. right? LOL

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Let me show you more lack of selection..

 

 

 

 

 

needless to say, my DH has breakfast issues.. :p

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We GOT IT! WE DID IT! We saw a KIDS MENU!

 

 

Em got to play, draw color, and eat kids french toast.. (this is AFTER she ate that WHOLE plate of breakfast from the buffet.. she can really pack it in. Breakfast is her best meal of the day and she can run for HOURS on it!

 

 

I have no idea what David had, for all I know he might still be wondering around the MDR going over the lack of breakfast selections.. :rolleyes:

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Miss Em went off to kids club, David.. maybe Flow rider.. and I hit a class or two!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I met some great ladies (WAVE!) and and a blast over the new few weeks with them!

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WAHOO! It was the CC slot pull!

 

Some of the gang..

 

 

 

 

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Back to the WJ for a quick lunch.. then I picked up Miss Em from kids club.

 

 

 

Dinner in the MDR

 

 

 

 

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Sorry guys, my eyes are crossed, I am going to take a break.. and you must be sick of me by now! LOL :D

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Miss Em had soup! Something other then a fruit starter was offered to her..

 

 

My starter was great.

 

 

The steak, while it looked great - was not.

 

 

 

Cream Catalana.. it was okay.

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Had a blast with wasser nightly..

 

 

 

Gordan the CD

 

 

I think the headliners photo is a little out of date..

 

 

Next day DREAMWORKS BREAKFAST!

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A whole lot of Chocolate going on...

 

 

 

Eggs of the Day in the MDR. When you are at dreamworks, you can order off the dreamworks menu, the buffet or mdr. great selection!

 

 

Miss Em's. Way to much chocolate. All over her, her top, the table.. face.. LOL you name it!

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DH Breakfast..

 

 

Review of the Dreamworks breakfast. 7 out of 10

 

We booked three before boarding, went to two, and canceled the last one.

Now, Dreamworks is newish to Liberty, and it was a TA sailing, so not to many kids. BUT 8am, when we are changing an hour ever day is just not the right time. So many families no showed because the kids were sleeping in. I think 9am would have been a better choice, if not later.

 

Also, it was held in the back corner of the MDR. I think the private dining room off the MDR would have been perfect. More private and less disturbing to the other dining room guests.

 

When you go online to pre book the dreamworks breakfast, it shows a $0.00 charge to it. Which makes me think, they are going to charge for this sooner then later.

 

This is no disney show, and would not be worth any sort of up charge. Maybe if a Photo was included, I would pay $5.00 per person.

 

Photos - the ships photographers only came ONCE out of the two breakfasts we did. The 2nd was a no show. We canceled the last show, because in truth it was just not worth getting out of bed for.

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Sorry about this, some of the days are going to be mixed up.. I was working with two different cameras.. one did a date/time stamp, and the other did not..

 

I am off to try and sort them out.. :D

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Some photos of LOS

 

 

 

 

 

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Some shopping on board the LOS.

 

One thing that is very cool about a TA is seeing the ship transform from a Caribbean Cruise to a European Cruise. Sales were GREAT and the change over was neat to watch.