Cruise Semi-Live? Navigator July 28th -7Nts

[cruiser52forever]

Great entertaining review!.  Thank you!

[topanga49er]

It was an amazing review!  Question: did you notice the "amped" areas of the ship?  Did they also amp some cabins?

 

thank you.

[JK805]

They did amp some cabins, or rather added some during the amplification. I got one of the new ones on my last sailing, and actually booked that one again for my B2B at the end of the month. 
 

Unfortunately, I don’t know where they’re all listed, if anywhere. 

[JK805]

On 8/2/2023 at 5:17 AM, SportsFanatic said:

Thank you so much! We dont cruise until January. 

@SportsFanatic I forgot to reply after my cruise a couple weeks ago, but remembered since I’m leaving on my next one tomorrow! I really only went to Schooner on Navigator last time (found some great bartenders who took real good care of us), but Schooner had Makers. It just was underneath and not on display on top. So it’s definitely available (at least as of now).

[SportsFanatic]

On 9/25/2023 at 2:38 AM, JK805 said:

@SportsFanatic I forgot to reply after my cruise a couple weeks ago, but remembered since I’m leaving on my next one tomorrow! I really only went to Schooner on Navigator last time (found some great bartenders who took real good care of us), but Schooner had Makers. It just was underneath and not on display on top. So it’s definitely available (at least as of now).

Thanks so much for checking.  Have fun on your next cruise !!

[aubreyc1988]

On 7/27/2023 at 10:50 PM, Awjeez317 said:

Well here we go.

 

This is my first attempt at a live cruise review/update/word-TikTok ever….so obviously it has to start with the obligatory statement of a writer‘s insecurity that I may be terrible at this and you should forgive me. So…

 

I may be terrible at this.

 

Please forgive me. 

 

I am writing this from the Hilton Long Beach in Cali (a nice hotel super close to the cruise port with a pool!), where the only thing that can stop the vision of my perfect upcoming cruise is the dense smog covering this massive city within a city within a city. 

 

I would speak the typical “not so hot take” and say I don’t like LA because of the traffic and the issues and the problems and the issues on top of issues. But honestly. All I hate is LAX. I haven’t spent enough time here or seen NEARLY enough to form an opinion about the city. 

 

LAX however. Is the worst. I hate any airport in which i have to take a shuttle to get to an Uber/Lyft. My father would call it a “communist plot.”

 

LAX is the worst. 

 

Well. Flying out on Wednesday from the east coast at 6pm with a connecting flight to Charlotte and then to LAX is the worst. 

 

Well….flight delays are the worst. 

 

Well…pilot shortages that cause the delays are the worst. 

 

No, finally getting on your LAX bound flight only to find that the cabin is 87 degrees is the worst. 

 

No no, getting to your hotel three hours late and at 2 am PST when you live on EST (that’s 5am people!) is the worst. 

 

Actually, I should check myself. DH would probably tell me to “Get on the Relaxy Taxi” — a statement he has probably said to dozens of people on embarkation day who are more determined to find the things they dislike about the ship than enjoy the fact that THEY ARE NOT WORKING or THEY ARE NOT AT HOME and are — in fact — ON A VACATION. 

 

So Relaxy Taxi here I come. 

 

Tomorrow I get on the Navigator of the Seas. It is a seven night cruise to three places I have never been to.  Cabo, Puerto Vallarta, and Mazatlan. I’m also extremely excited to see this newly amped ship. This is the first Voyager class ship that has been Amped so I’m quite intrigued. 

 

I got the Dining package…because honestly when you do it once….you kind of can’t NOT do it. When I checked the app Chops was $63 a person for one meal! The package is a steal at that rate. PLUS I don’t have to find out if I like or hate the new menu in the main dining room. Better than a drink package in my mind. Also the five drinks from DP benefits help. 

 

And casino drinks help too. 

 

Casino losses do not. 

 

I guess it’s a wash. 

 

DH is busy with his business at home so I am venturing out solo (double points! If only I could book a suite it would be triple!). 

 

One would think…why in the %!*& would anyone get on a cruise to Mexico at the end of July???

 

Well, when I landed here…its was 15 degrees cooler than where I left from. So……yeah….we broke the planet. 

 

I am pretty sure I will have a small amount of TKA though. Tiny Kid Aversion. It may drive me to the Solarium more than I think, but luckily the Voyager class has an open air Solarium that is actually adult only.

 

(Nothing against kids at ALL! I just don’t have any of my own….sooooooooo…..yeah.) 

 

I say it is a SEMI Live update because honestly, I will try with all my might to update this everyday and also post some photos. But if I stray….don’t be mad at me. IM ON A CRUISE. I’ll update it all eventually when I get home. 

 

But if I stray…don’t be mad at me. IM BACK AT WORK PEOPLE. 

 

More tomorrow. I think. Yeah….

 

Definitely more tomorrow…probably. 

 

thanks for the review, fellow DINK here 😄 Will be going on Navigator in 10 days for a short three day! And yes, we did break the planet. I am excited about getting away from Dallas heat though

Edited September 26, 2023 by aubreyc1988