Periscoping LIVE from Harmony - October 7, 2017!

[LuCruise]

Following along. I remember your previous review so looking forward to this one. Looks amazing so far. How amazing that Royal can help with your mom's medical condition and thus she can still travel.

Ship looks amazing. Would love to hear what you think of the Boardwalk balcony and the view. We booked one on Symphony for the first time.

Enjoy your cruise. Thanks for taking us along.

 

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[LuCruise]

P.S. - Love those photos of you and your mom. :-)

[pharaoh]

Through Dialysis at Sea, do you have to pick from a few select dates for cruises, or do you have a lot of options?

 

 

 

My FIL is on dialysis, and has only ever had it done at a different site one time in 14 years, so it may be moot... but I think that a cruise would be the perfect vacation because he can easily go to the cabin and rest vs a "traditional" vacation of spending a lot of time outside of a hotel with no real place to rest.

 

 

 

The reason you gave in your second paragraph is the exact reason we love dialysis at Sea. A traditional or land vacation would be rough on my mom because she NEEDS a good 4-6 hours of rest after her dialysis. Thankfully she only has to go twice a week so she still has plenty of time for other things. But having the clinic right there and being able to get her something to eat directly after, and then being able to have a good nap really is a wonderful luxury for someone on dialysis.

 

If you look on their website, you can choose any of the dates they’re sailing. They do have quite a lot of options of itineraries and ships, but of course they do not have EVERYTHING. Right now I think they only offer RCI and Celebrity. They’re also pretty good about adding new ships.

 

Definitely look into it!

 

 

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[pharaoh]

Following along. I remember your previous review so looking forward to this one. Looks amazing so far. How amazing that Royal can help with your mom's medical condition and thus she can still travel.

Ship looks amazing. Would love to hear what you think of the Boardwalk balcony and the view. We booked one on Symphony for the first time.

Enjoy your cruise. Thanks for taking us along.

 

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I really like the boardwalk balcony. I thought that we might miss seeing the ocean, because the accessible balconies are a lot closer to the entrance of the boardwalk rather than towards the aquatheatre, but we can see it just fine from our balcony, even with the giant Abyss slide! I’ll try to take a few more photos for reference.

 

 

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[pharaoh]

So yesterday was very relaxing. We decided not to get off in Nassau, even though we unusually had more time there. We left port at 4:30. Usually we leave Nassau around 2???? So this was different.

 

I spent the day roaming around, taking photos, shopping, and napping lol!

 

It was our first formal night on this sailing so Mom and I took some photos on our balcony.

 

 

 

We had a 7:00pm reservation at 150 Central Park. We have done this restaurant on Allure in 2015 and I remember really enjoying it. But I was underwhelmed this evening. Nothing was BAD (other than the bread rolls, which were much too hard), but nothing was a WOW experience either.

 

I had the veal bolognese agnolotti starter, and the scallops. The starter was very yummy and the scallops were perfectly cooked. Mom had the lobster gnocchi starter and also had the scallops. She said the lobster was over cooked but enjoyed the scallops.

 

We got our entrees around 7:45 and then placed our dessert order around 8:05, and didn’t actually get the desserts until nearly 8:40, so service slowed down A LOT. It just took forever. Probably would not return to 150 CP on this ship.

 

Also, on Allure we got some cute keepsake menus with our names on them. But we didn’t get that here on Harmony. [emoji30][emoji30][emoji30] oh well!

 

After that we went to the finish that lyric game, and after Mom went to bed I played around in the casino for a little bit.

 

I put $50 in this machine because it had unicorns on it. I got back $146. So UNICORN MAGIC IS REAL, NON BELIEVERS!

 

 

 

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[LuCruise]

I really like the boardwalk balcony. I thought that we might miss seeing the ocean, because the accessible balconies are a lot closer to the entrance of the boardwalk rather than towards the aquatheatre, but we can see it just fine from our balcony, even with the giant Abyss slide! I’ll try to take a few more photos for reference.

 

 

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Thanks so much for getting back to me. Great to hear that you can still see when further from the Aquatheatre side. We actually selected about half way down on purpose to limit the late night noise (e.g. from movies). Would love to see photos if you can. Thanks.

[lauraodonnell86]

Loving this live thread! You are doing a great job! I recognize your name from some Periscopes that I follow :) Have a wonderful cruise!

[knon24]

You and your mom look beautiful! Good to know about 150. It wasn't on our list of must try's anyway and now I feel better about that. Do you have any other specialty dining planned? I might have to try my luck on the unicorn myself. ;)

[A&L_Ont]

Celeisse, I'm glad to see that you and your mom have made it on board safe and sound. If you see any issues from our sailing blame Maureen. :')

[saltycat]

Hi Celine,

Enjoying your review! We spent the day at the Margaritaville resort after getting off the Harmony last month while waiting for a late flight. What a fun place! I have been trying to book it for pre cruise stays but it is totally booked... as far out as Oct 2018! How far in advance do you book your stay there?

Thanks in advance

Kathy

[pharaoh]

For those who asked about the view from the accessible boardwalk balcony, I have some crappy unedited photos. [emoji847]

 

This is the view from our balcony on deck 14. The room is 14305. That platform above us is the landing for the zip line so we get to cheer for people all day. [emoji23]

 

 

This is the room. We keep the scooter next to the sofa but you can easily put it next to the vanity where the outlets are for charging it up. There’s plenty of room.

 

I love the extra window. The curtains don’t pull on the small window, so we have them clipped to the side with a towel clip [emoji23]

 

 

 

And the balcony

 

 

 

 

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[pharaoh]

Loving this live thread! You are doing a great job! I recognize your name from some Periscopes that I follow :) Have a wonderful cruise!

 

 

 

Thank you!! We’re having a great time!

 

 

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[pharaoh]

You and your mom look beautiful! Good to know about 150. It wasn't on our list of must try's anyway and now I feel better about that. Do you have any other specialty dining planned? I might have to try my luck on the unicorn myself. ;)

 

 

 

Hahah I think 150 is worth a try, but I enjoyed it a lot more on Allure than I did last night on Harmony.

 

Yes we have three other specialty dining reservations this week! Tonight we are going to Wonderland, which I’m VERY excited about! I feel like I have been waiting years to try this, ever since it was announced on Quantum. [emoji51][emoji51][emoji51]

 

Tomorrow we have Jamie’s Italian booked, and then the Izumi Hibachi on Thursday night. We did Izumi on Allure before and loved it.

 

 

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[pharaoh]

Celeisse, I'm glad to see that you and your mom have made it on board safe and sound. If you see any issues from our sailing blame Maureen. :')

 

 

 

Thanks Andrew!

 

Literally the first thing I did when I got on board was order a Pina Colada and the bartender told me “we don’t have it on board yet.... the last cruise cleaned us out!”

 

HMMMMMM [emoji848][emoji848][emoji848][emoji848]

 

 

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[pharaoh]

Hi Celine,

Enjoying your review! We spent the day at the Margaritaville resort after getting off the Harmony last month while waiting for a late flight. What a fun place! I have been trying to book it for pre cruise stays but it is totally booked... as far out as Oct 2018! How far in advance do you book your stay there?

Thanks in advance

Kathy

 

 

 

Thank you! Marg is great, I’ve stayed there three times now. It DOES book out far in advance. I booked my October stay back in March. If you have trouble booking directly, try the travel sites and they might have some availability. Good luck!

 

 

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[pharaoh]

I dragged Mom to the bridge wing this morning. She’s really living her best life.

 

 

 

Today we had our CC M&M. It was not well attended because we didn’t get the invites in our room. Someone from the roll call had to call guest services and ask about it, and then posted in the roll call the time and date. But I’m sure lots of people never got the info.

 

After the M&M we did a quick little suite tour instead of a full blown cabin crawl. We saw a grand suite, a crown loft suite, and Andrew’s famous corner crown loft suite.

 

 

I’ve only ever seen that view on Periscope so it was exciting to see it in person! I could have stayed forever but we had to retreat back to our peasant cabin. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

 

We also had our roll call Slot Pull which was a lot of fun. I think we won around $90 but decided to keep playing until we got a jackpot. It never happened but a lot of fun was had by all!

 

Post hotdog boardwalk shot:

 

 

We all have our vices and a daily iced matcha green tea latte is mine.

 

 

 

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[knon24]

You take beautiful pictures. I'm going to need to brush up on my photography skills.

[A&L_Ont]

Celeisse you made it through my haunts??? LOL! I should have hide a note for you to find.

[LuCruise]

Thanks for posting stateroom photos. Nice size room (as it should be) and great view.

Neat that you attended a cabin crawl too.

 

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[pharaoh]

Oh my God you guys. Last night was THE BEST. We went to Wonderland and I saw The Fine Line. Both were beyond words.

 

So, first, Wonderland. I am not a foodie and I do not know anything that I ate despite our wonderful server’s explanations, so I have the menu for reference and I will explain our experience the best I can.

 

 

 

First off, our server Juma was so good. He explained everything in great detail, and was attentive without hovering. We let him choose all of our appetizers and we chose our entrees. He brought us lots of seafood appetizers since we said we like seafood.

 

The five appetizers we had were:

 

Tomato Water (Sun)

Oceanic Citrus (Ice)

Crispy Crab Cones (Ice)

Buffalo Chicken Eggs (Fire)

Shrimp Kataifi (Fire)

 

Everything was excellent but if I had to choose I think the Oceanic Citrus was my absolute fave. They came served in little limes, and I could have eaten 20. OMG. The crispy crab cones were a close second.

 

For our entrees, I ordered the Terroir Beef with Stone Potatoes, and my mom ordered the Halibut cooked in Clear Paper. Both were very, very good. The sauce that came with the halibut really made the meal. My beef was tender and delicious and the Stone potatoes were so cool! They were hard on the outside but soft and yummy on the inside. Also I’ve never seen a GREY potato.

 

For dessert we had The World, and the Forbidden Apple. The World is the only thing I wasn’t obsessed with, because I don’t like peanut butter. But the forbidden apple was AMAZING! It came with a side of yogurt ice cream which was light, refreshing, and so tasty.

 

I cannot recommend Wonderland enough. We were ROLLING out of there in a food coma and we both looooooved it!

 

 

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[lauraodonnell86]

Now I'm hungry!! Sounds delish!

[pharaoh]

The Fine Line just continued our awesome night. Mom was in a legit food coma so I went by myself to the show. I sat up in the third row and off to the side. I was definitely in the splash zone. [emoji30][emoji23][emoji30]

 

My favorite thing about the show was probably the soundtrack. I knew and loved every song in my youth so it was super nostalgic in addition to being beautiful. I loved everything about it!

 

Towards the end when the fountains start going off, there was a group of young kids who kept trying to jump into the fountains, and one very stressed out production guy had to come out and tell them to sit down [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] awww. Kids love nothing more than getting drenched [emoji23]

 

 

 

 

If you follow me on Instagram (link in my signature below) I’m sure you saw my 3,000 Instagram stories of this show so enjoy. [emoji23]

 

 

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[pharaoh]

Central Park is one of my fav areas on Oasis class ships.

 

 

 

 

My current situation:

 

 

 

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[pharaoh]

You take beautiful pictures. I'm going to need to brush up on my photography skills.

 

 

 

Thank you! I truly can’t take any credit, my iPhone does all the work. I just press the buttons. [emoji23]

 

 

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[pharaoh]

I keep trying the famous roast beef sandwich at Park Cafe, but I give up. I’m just not a fan. This time I had it with the au jus and spicy mustard. It was alright.

 

But it made for a nice photo!

 

 

 

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