MY VALOR ADVENTURE!!! review complete with lots of Pictures, 5/18 sailing

[poppadevan]

Deck 7, all the way forward. But don't tell anyone it's a "SECRET".

 

 

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[skidawg79]

ST THOMAS CONT.

Once back on the ship, we watched sail away from our balcony and got ready for dinner. Tonight was our first night at our table for traditional dining. We went for the early dining for two reasons. We were hoping to get up early every day to explore the ports which meant earlier to bed than usual. Secondly, after long days in the port I know if we had extra time before dinner we would end up falling asleep. Now I’m usually good for the 20 min rally nap and then I’m ready to go, Emily on the other hand is like waking a hibernating bear, you better watch your fingers if you wake her up from a nap (I mean that in the nicest possible way Em! But she would be the first to agree with me haha).

I’ll get the whole dining experience out right away, we thoroughly enjoyed it! Our waiters were awesome, the head waiter had a sarcastic personality which fit in perfectly with Emily and I. We were able to joke around with him and he was able to joke around with us right back. The food as always is a very subjective thing. Overall I thought the food was very good. There were things I thought could have been better (frog legs were kind of bland, but maybe that’s the way they were supposed to be), but we were always able to find something on the menu that we liked. Desert wise, I did like the Chocolate Melting Cake, but if you get the chance, try the Bitter and Blanc ….amazing. We were looking forward to having a table where we could meet other people, but ended up in a booth by ourselves. There was supposed to be a single or another couple joining us, but they ended up going to a different table. In retrospect, it was a great thing we had our quiet time at dinner, because the rest of the trip turned out to be anything but quiet time....yes im talking to you hecklers that found my review and said it sucked!!

Here is a pic of the Washington Dining room.

Next up… Crazy Sea day!

[olcar]

Need more........!!

[skidawg79]

Sorry for the lack of updates. Decided to take a last min camping trip this weekend, so no wifi. I'll be back on tomorrow night.

[vecchioni27]

And that's why this review sucks. You can't even finish it! Haha :) maybe no one sat with you cause they knew you were trouble!? That other couple probably went and sat with a stranger they called friends just to ditch you! Ok I'm being harsh haha you two were great people and would cruise with you any day! Keep the review going! Loving it!

 

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Edited May 31, 2014 by vecchioni27

[Tennessee Rose]

Ok, skidawg, I've now wasted an hour of my time this morning (not really :D)! Friends have already booked this very cruise earlier this morning and I'm trying to get it booked also for a friend and myself. For this fall--November.

 

So, I'm torn between 2 cabins---interior on Lido, or interior/walkway at front (secret deck). I've stayed in the Lido type before, but not the walkway ones. So I decided to come to CC to try to see pics of these cabins on Valor, and ran across your review of the very same cruise! And here it is an hour later and I still don't know what I'm going to choose! But I'm thoroughly enjoying your review and your great sense of humor. And your wonderful pictures!

 

Yes. Subscribing! Can't wait for the rest of your review! :)

[Skywench]

We getting on the Valor October 19th, also spending 2 full days before the cruise in Old San Juan.

 

Russ :cool:

 

We'll be on the Valor on Oct 19th too. First time on the Valor, but I think this will be my 6th time doing a southern Caribbean itinerary and 5th time sailing from San Juan.

[Bases5]

Great review, I am enjoying it very much.

We have sailed out of San Juan several times on different itinerary and personally think it one of the best ports

 

We are doing the valor later this year and looking forward to reading your other island stops.

We have also been to St Thomas many times and have done many beach days. Funny thing is we have never been to Megan's. That's what we were going to do this time, Now you have me worried it might not be a good choice.

[gooscar]

We'll be on the Valor on Oct 19th too. First time on the Valor, but I think this will be my 6th time doing a southern Caribbean itinerary and 5th time sailing from San Juan.

 

See you onboard! (Guessing you are on the roll call page)

Russ :cool:

[Skywench]

See you onboard! (Guessing you are on the roll call page)

Russ :cool:

 

I made a post or two a week or so ago on the roll call. I booked this while on the Legend a couple of weeks ago. Even though I've been to all these ports before, I still love to read how others enjoyed their cruises and see their pics.

[skidawg79]

SEA DAY!

Ok, I’m back…. I should be able to post a few tonight.

So I forgot to mention that we had a late night at the casino the night after St. Thomas, so we took full advantage of our one sea day and slept until about 9am, that is sleeping in for me these days. We got up and looked outside and it looked like it was going to be a beautiful day.

 

We went to the see day brunch, had steak and eggs. The steak was good, but the eggs are a little to be desired on a cruise ship. Throughout the cruise, the omelets were ok, but don’t get the scrambled eggs. I believe they are powdered eggs and just don’t measure up to regular eggs. Anyway, I got my bloody mary and the sea day officially started.

Next was the slot pull! I had joined our sailings roll call on Cruise Critic and screen name Normal1 had coordinated a bunch of us meeting at the Casino Bar and donating…yes donating…$15 dollars. We had 24 people, so there was a good amount of money in the pot. The idea was to find a $1 slot machine and put all the money in, everybody take 5 spins at max bet and cash out when everyone had their turn. DHoskins from our roll call was in charge of finding the machine since he is from Vegas. Well after looking looooonnggg and hard to find the perfect machine, he finally found it, the machine we were going to win our jackpot! We almost put the money in and someone yelled out, “Hey that’s a quarter machine!” I’m glad we brought the high rollers from Vegas! Haha So another search started and we found a $1 machine, entered all the money in, after all 24 people took their 5 spins…we ended up getting about $9 back each. Well the gambleholics that we are, we couldn’t stop there, so we took what we won from the $1 machine and went back to the quarter machine because after all, that was going to be the lucky one right? Not so much, we ended up getting $8 back each. After collecting our money, 8 of us put our winnings on the roulette table on black….it came up red…. Should have taken that as a foreshadow for the rest of the trip.

During the slot pull we made friends with most of the people that participated and they ended up being a big part of the cruise. Following our debacle on the roulette table we all made it up to the aft pool, sat at the bar and the day started to take shape. Before long, pretty much the entire aft pool area knew one another and their names (Thanks Shasta). One thing that I loved from this cruise, is that there were people from all over the country. We met people from California, Texas, Minnesota, Maryland, Iowa, Idaho, Nevada, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and pretty much everywhere in between. A family from Louisiana brought their Bose speakers down, Emily gave them her ipod and everyone seemed to be having a great time, I know we were. I have a ton of pictures form this day, and they all have other people in them. I don’t want to post them without their permission. I believe some of you are following along in the review, so if you give me the OK I’ll post a few.

The night brought another great dinner, more failed attempts at Blackjack and a great comedy show. I’ll get to the second set of comedians later in the review, but the first set of comedians were really good. Then went to bed because tomorrow is Barbados!!!

[skidawg79]

Sorry! having problems with photobucket...ill try to repost the pics I already posted!

[babsee101]

I was so excited to stumble upon your review and am loving it so far, though I have to admit that I was a little sad that the pictures are not displaying. Hopefully, an error that can be fixed that without too much trouble.

 

Thanks for the taking the time to put it together. :)

[cruzmax]

Loving the review - we will be on this cruise end of June.

If I may ask, were your return flights same day as cruise returned? We always do self assist with luggage; do you recall what time people started getting off the ship?

Thanks!

[skidawg79]

Sorry guys, couldn't edit the posts to get the pics back, so I started a new thread. Follow along here....

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?p=42953738&posted=1#post42953738

 

reposting all the previous posts with pictures so they will all be on one thread. Thanks again!