“Live” from the Oosterdam - Mexican Riviera - 12/21

[SLOTheta]

On 12/21/2019 at 7:11 PM, TheJurea said:

Thank you so much! I bet you’re correct and they are all the same.

That is a perfect edge for my decorating for our 40th anniversary.

I am looking forward to any review of the slots, they are my favorite sea day activity.

 

Good Luck, win big !

 

 

The first night, we had a bit of success. Left the casino up $200. But, gave it all back and much more on the sea day. But, it was a lot of fun 

[SLOTheta]

First night dinner in the MDR was great. We were assigned Table 70.

 

We decided to get the 4 bottle wine package for $119. Ordered the French Rose and Bordeux. Both pretty good for being young wines. 

 

 I ordered the tuna ceviche for my appetizer and salmon for my entree. The salmon has been good before, but this time it was dry and due to my onion allergy, there wasn’t a good sauce to use. I asked for the eggplant bucatini. It was quite good. Had the butterscotch sundae dessert. Yummy!

 

Spent a few hours that evening in the casino. The $5 drinks were such a deal! Select wine, beer, bubbly and mixed drinks. I ordered glass of bubbly. It was on the sweeter side, but for $5, I couldn’t complain. When we were on the Koningsdam this summer, there was a late night happy hour, buy 1 get one for $1. They only have the 4pm HH for this cruise 

 

Spent a couple of hours in the casino. Lots of fun and the dueling piano guys were quite good. The last 2 dueling pianos were not great. 

[TheJurea]

Great pictures!

Thanks for the slots info and pictures also. I’m glad that the slots are at least give and take, instead of just take. 😊

 

 

[SLOTheta]

2 hours ago, TheJurea said:

Great pictures!

Thanks for the slots info and pictures also. I’m glad that the slots are at least give and take, instead of just take. 😊

 

 

 

It was definitely nice to get small wins on just about every machine. Even though we gave it back, it’s nice to hit the bonus and feel like you are up (for a short while). 

Edited December 23, 2019 by SLOTheta

[SLOTheta]

Sunday was our sea day. I pre-ordered my MDR lunch due to my onion allergy. The tuna poke and carbonara were delicious. We were able to have our wine steward bring down our rose from our dinner, it was nice to have rose with lunch. 

 

After lunch, we gambled a little and my husband participated in the beer tasting for $15.95. He enjoyed the beers and nibbles.

 

At 6:45pm, we joined the captain and his officers for the Captains toast. We were given a glass of sparkling. It was on the sweet side, but still a nice gesture. Captain was quite humorous and seemed like a nice guy. 

 

After the roast, Post Modern Juke Box played. The singers were incredibly talented, but the arrangements were truly horrible. I love musicals and shows, this was an unfortunate production since the singers could do so much more. 

 

The gala night menu seemed to have been made for me. Absolutely my favorites: escargot, duck and truffle risotto. All delicious. We had the 8pm seating. I would say 90% were dresses in at least cocktail attire, or nicer than normal dress. Most of the men wore suits, a handful of tuxes. I saw many beautiful gowns and lots of pretty cocktail dresses. I went with Mexico tropical chic. I have my more formal cocktail dress for Christmas Eve, our 2nd gala night. 

 

The holiday display was really pretty and great for photoa 

[Krazy Kruizers]

Just got caught up on your wonderful reports and great pictures.

 

Maybe you will have some more lucky times in the casino.

[Nymich]

Following along as we will be back on the Oosterdam in March!   Have fun!

[SLOTheta]

Yesterday was our first stop - Cabo San Lucas. It was a mess with tenders. We docked at 9am. It was tender tickets until about 12:30pm. We waited until it was open tender. I didn’t want wait in the bar. Preferred waiting until open tender.

 

After we landed in the Marina, we walked along the marina towards Medrano beach. We were going to walk all the way there, but as we left the craziness, a boat hawker flagged us down. $15/pp to take us to the arch and lovers beach. We offered $10 each. The runner found a boat, it was King of the Rock. Driver took us on a tour, showed us pirates cove, the arch and dropped us off at Lovers beach. We stoped for a moment where he fed three bread in the water and a swarm of fish came up next to our boat. 

 

We asked him to come back in 1.5 hours (3pm) the other family wanted a ride to medrano. We hung out on the beach, no resources, except a guy selling $5 beers. Hubby went into the water and checked out divorce beach (the other side).

 

As 3pm neared, we moved closer to the water. Our water taxi, King of the Rock showed up right at 3pm. On our way back, a sea lion jumped on the ship next to us. Seemed like he wanted a snack!

 

Took us back to the port in a snap. Tipped him $5. Super nice guy.

 

We had a hankering for tacos and wanted into town. It’s very much like San Diego, including the prices. Found Taco Fiesta. It was $40 for tacos, guacamole and 2 drinks. Not the cheapest, but tasty. Walked back to station #4 for HAL. 

 

Spent more time in the casino. Really tight machines, so we went to see the illusionist, Leon. Pretty entertaining and good audience participation.

 

We enjoyed ourselves at the orange party in the Koningsdam where they had fun desserts and lots of balloons. The party wasn’t as entertaining this time 😭

 

Retire early at 11pm and was greeted to a rhino towel animal 

 

 

 

[oakridger]

Thanks for the great pictures and posts.  It's bringing back excellent memories as I just got off Oosterdam two weeks ago!  Continue having a great cruise.

 

Merry Christmas,

~Nancy

[erewhon]

Thanks for sharing your super photos.

[DeeniEncinitas]

SLOTheta,

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR DH🎁🎄🎁🥂

You both looked stunning in the photo next to the Christmas tree 🎄.

Im up early starting to prepare our start to Christmas breakfast quiche with champagne and peaches. Family and friends make Christmas special.

Take care

Denise😊

 

[Cajuntraveler]

Thanks for sharing your pictures and cruise experiences! Hubby and I will be on the Oosterdam in March.

Merry Christmas!

[CabinBoy2020]

On 12/23/2019 at 1:20 PM, SLOTheta said:

First night dinner in the MDR was great. We were assigned Table 70.

 

We decided to get the 4 bottle wine package for $119. Ordered the French Rose and Bordeux. Both pretty good for being young wines. 

 

 I ordered the tuna ceviche for my appetizer and salmon for my entree. The salmon has been good before, but this time it was dry and due to my onion allergy, there wasn’t a good sauce to use. I asked for the eggplant bucatini. It was quite good. Had the butterscotch sundae dessert. Yummy!

 

Spent a few hours that evening in the casino. The $5 drinks were such a deal! Select wine, beer, bubbly and mixed drinks. I ordered glass of bubbly. It was on the sweeter side, but for $5, I couldn’t complain. When we were on the Koningsdam this summer, there was a late night happy hour, buy 1 get one for $1. They only have the 4pm HH for this cruise 

 

Spent a couple of hours in the casino. Lots of fun and the dueling piano guys were quite good. The last 2 dueling pianos were not great. 

 

Small world! I was at this same table on a B2B Dec 7 - Dec 21.  I liked the location and all the servers plus there was a lovely couple to chat with across the aisle.  Say hi to Celso!  Hope you continue to have a great cruise.

[Cajuntraveler]

We were on the Eurodam last week in a signature suite and were delighted to find a king size bed in our cabin even though HALs web site says the cabins have a queen bed.  We will be in a Sig. Suite on the Oosterdam in March and  I wonder if they also have king size beds.  I would really appreciate it if you could find out the bed size in the signature suites on deck 6. Thanks and have a great cruise.

[Lido deck main]

Looks like you two are having a great time.  Great photos. Thanks for sharing.

[Copper10-8]

On 12/24/2019 at 9:16 AM, SLOTheta said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You've got the former "King of the toots" (Westerdam Port Everglades, FL), Capt. Rens van Eerten as your captain; Great character/funny guy! 

 

Really enjoying your pics and review! Keep up the great work and keep her warm for us; boarding this Sat when you disembark, for her New Year's cruise and looking forward to seeing Post Modern Jukebox

[VennDiagram]

sorry ... deleted

 

Edited December 25, 2019 by VennDiagram

[VennDiagram]

5 minutes ago, VennDiagram said:

sorry ... deleted

 

 

I had posted a pic of the Oosterdam arriving in PV, but it was taken by a friend, and I didn't get permission from him to post it, so decided  I should "walk the walk" in regard to IP  rights 😉

[SLOTheta]

5 hours ago, CabinForOne said:

 

Small world! I was at this same table on a B2B Dec 7 - Dec 21.  I liked the location and all the servers plus there was a lovely couple to chat with across the aisle.  Say hi to Celso!  Hope you continue to have a great cruise.

Celso has been a great wine steward! The two tables around us have been for open seating guests. Last night, the couple left in a huff. Not sure why!

[SLOTheta]

2 hours ago, Copper10-8 said:

 

You've got the former "King of the toots" (Westerdam Port Everglades, FL), Capt. Rens van Eerten as your captain; Great character/funny guy! 

 

Really enjoying your pics and review! Keep up the great work and keep her warm for us; boarding this Sat when you disembark, for her New Year's cruise and looking forward to seeing Post Modern Jukebox

Captain has been quite entertaining on stage and on the intercom. 

 

Hopefully enjoy the PMJ. The singers were great, but the song arrangements were really hard to get into. I would say 25% of people left after the 3rd song because it was so strange....it might have just been the song selection for the evening. 

[SLOTheta]

5 hours ago, Cajuntraveler said:

We were on the Eurodam last week in a signature suite and were delighted to find a king size bed in our cabin even though HALs web site says the cabins have a queen bed.  We will be in a Sig. Suite on the Oosterdam in March and  I wonder if they also have king size beds.  I would really appreciate it if you could find out the bed size in the signature suites on deck 6. Thanks and have a great cruise.

 

I can call the reception and ask. Do you know what room you’ll be in? Our bed is a pretty good size. Not sure, but it fits my 6’7” hubby and me just fine 

[Cajuntraveler]

12 minutes ago, SLOTheta said:

 

I can call the reception and ask. Do you know what room you’ll be in? Our bed is a pretty good size. Not sure, but it fits my 6’7” hubby and me just fine 

 

How kind of you to offer to find this info for me! We will be in cabin 6094.  The picture you attached of your cabin looks like a king size bed.  If our cabin has a queen, we have to separate the beds or I won't have room to sleep (LOL).

[ellbelle]

7 hours ago, Cajuntraveler said:

We were on the Eurodam last week in a signature suite and were delighted to find a king size bed in our cabin even though HALs web site says the cabins have a queen bed.  We will be in a Sig. Suite on the Oosterdam in March and  I wonder if they also have king size beds.  I would really appreciate it if you could find out the bed size in the signature suites on deck 6. Thanks and have a great cruise.

The bed is the same as the Eurodam (two singles pushed together). We felt the Oosterdam Signature Suite was roomier than the Eurodam.  I will attempt to post pictures, hopefully I’ll do it correctly. This cabin is 6100, we were also in 6104 and was identical.

Edited December 25, 2019 by ellbelle
Pics didn’t post

[Cajuntraveler]

9 minutes ago, ellbelle said:

 

Thank you so much for the info and pictures.   We were in a Sig. Ste. on the Oosterdam a couple of years ago and I agree that the Oosterdam SS is bigger than the Eurodam.  We were very pleased with the Eurodam cabin even though it was somewhat smaller.   Our Oosterdam SS had a queen size bed that we separated into two very narrow beds.  I'm very happy to see that they have upgraded to a king size.  Thank you and Merry Christmas!

 

 

 

 

10 minutes ago, ellbelle said:

 

 

 

[SLOTheta]

Our second port stop was in Mazatlán. We were able to walk off the ship and into town. As we exited the ship, there were several  retired American volunteer guides wearing blue shirts to show us the way. We decided to walk into the central part of time by following the blue line. From there, we walked along the malacon and hailed a Pulmonias into the Golden zone where the nicer beaches are.

 

We walked along the beach and found a beach umbrella guy to set up a chair and umbrella for us. We were in front of Joe’s Oyster bar and had a waiter to serve us. He first wanted $10, but we said we wouldn’t only be there for about an hour and would order. He lowered his price to $5.

 

We ordered from the nice waiter - 4 beers, 1 Paloma and 3 shrimp tacos. Beers were buy 1 get 1. Total was around $25, which was a much better deal than the day before in Cabo. Kept the beers on ice in a bucket.

 

We done usually buy anything from the beach vendors, but one very nice gentleman came by with football palm tree steins. We snagged a perfect gift for our Packers best friend. A great deal at $10 (he originally wanted $18).

 

The water was nice and the beach wasn’t too crowded. We ended up staying for 2 hours. We flagged another spiffy looking pulmonias to take us back to the port for $10 (Inc tip). 

 

What a nice day day on the beach in Mazatlán