LIVE 💎 Jewel 💎 of the Seas - Southern Caribbean 1/20/24

[SteelCityCruiser10]

Boardwalk area

 

 

 

[SteelCityCruiser10]

Packing has begun and it’s so sad 😭 

I do prefer a whole few day as a last day but I will definitely not complain about going to St Maarten.

 

[SteelCityCruiser10]

Final sunset 

 

 

 

 

[SteelCityCruiser10]

Picked up the one picture we had taken in Izumi for our free picture.

 

Typically if we don’t want it or didn’t have any taken I’ll go down and buy someone who really wants theirs for them.  Recently our pics have been decent.

 

They printed it on the Giovanni’s themed frame instead of Izumi though 🤔🤔

Edited January 26 by SteelCityCruiser10

[SteelCityCruiser10]

We really have no plan for dinner.  Edna said we can’t use a D+ BOGO for Giovanni’s tonight - only day 1 or 2.  We liked our first meal there but not $90 like it.

 

Probably just hit the lounge for free drinks, then WJ and/or room service.  The MDR menu didn’t have anything we were interested in.  As you probable can tell by now if you’ve been following the whole time we aren’t foodies and are not picky at all.  Don’t get me wrong, we know when it last bad 😆 But we are content with decent pretty pedestrian food.

[Blaise]

1 hour ago, SteelCityCruiser10 said:

Next was Dutch Blonde Bar. Its upstairs and has a tremendous view.  Had a great time here.  

 

 

We had the Dutch Blonde Ale.  I think these were my favorite beers the whole trip.

 

We split the Mahi Mahi sandwich with sweet potato fries and salad.  $22 i think it was.  Sorry I almost forgot to take the pic of the food and it’s not a great pic.

 

Thanks for this update. Very encouraging. This is where I wanted to hang in the afternoon. Maybe even get some chairs out front. Hoping the beer is available out there as well.

[Sunshine3601]

11 hours ago, island lady said:

 

LOL...forgot about those cool Flamingos!  We have....Cows.  😉 

 

 

Never understood why they have cows.  ??

[Hoopster95]

1 hour ago, SteelCityCruiser10 said:

Final sunset 

 

Hey SteelCity. great to see you enjoyed your cruise 👍 A couple of long work days prevented me from getting to those Tobago pics... not enough free time. Safe travels home and thanks for the review

[SteelCityCruiser10]

23 minutes ago, Hoopster95 said:

 

Hey SteelCity. great to see you enjoyed your cruise 👍 A couple of long work days prevented me from getting to those Tobago pics... not enough free time. Safe travels home and thanks for the review

No worries, thanks for tagging along and your contributions!

[SteelCityCruiser10]

Stopped in the casino and to use the $6 promo.  Uhh yeah that was 3 hands of video blackjack.  Took me longer to reset my pin and transfer than it did to lose it.  

 

On the other hand there was someone who won $80K on a slot machine in this cruise.

[SteelCityCruiser10]

Flags parade tonight.

 

Side note - that is Jarvis in vintages in the left side of the pic.

 

 Pro tip- he’s the best bartender in the ship.

 

[SteelCityCruiser10]

We have 8:15 departure.  One of the best perks of suites is the priority escort off the ship.  We’ll meet Edna at 8:15 and walk off, grab the bags and probably Uber to the airport.  We have a flight to ATL at 12:45.  If all goes well we will be in PIT at 7:15pm.  

 

Puppies will be picked up from puppy-cation by my dad and dropped at our house so that we don’t have to wait until next day to go pick them up.

[SteelCityCruiser10]

Centrum 

 

Ive spent very little time there this cruise.  I think because in 2019 I spent a lot of time there I gravitated to somewhere different.

 

Besides I can still hear what’s going on from Vintages 🍻 😉

 

[SteelCityCruiser10]

Here’s some info on Jewel

 

 

 

[SteelCityCruiser10]

Random fact -  I am a bit of a custom knife collector & this caught my eye on the ship.

 

 

Edited January 27 by SteelCityCruiser10

[SteelCityCruiser10]

Probably a bad sign when you’re at the bar and need to set yourself an alarm on your phone in order to not forget to put your bags out for luggage pickup.  Cheers friends 🍻

[SteelCityCruiser10]

St. Maarten

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Sunshine3601]

1 hour ago, SteelCityCruiser10 said:

On the other hand there was someone who won $80K on a slot machine in this cruise.

WOW!  That's awesome.   Good thing it happened on the last night😁

[Ocean Boy]

Thanks for taking us along with you. It has been a fun thread. I'm glad you had a good week. Enjoy you final evening aboard and safe travels home tomorrow.

[SteelCityCruiser10]

26 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said:

Thanks for taking us along with you. It has been a fun thread. I'm glad you had a good week. Enjoy you final evening aboard and safe travels home tomorrow.

Thanks for following along!  Hope you have a great time on Odessey.

[SteelCityCruiser10]

Having a hard time letting go.  Still in the casino using vouchers playing roulette.  😜

 

We did manage to get the luggage outside the cabin.  🫠

[chill6x6]

I enjoyed your thread!

 

We will be aboard the Jewel March the 3rd in a GS too!

[SteelCityCruiser10]

Looks like it’s gonna be room service/solarium pizza for dinner.

 

[SteelCityCruiser10]

7 minutes ago, chill6x6 said:

I enjoyed your thread!

 

We will be aboard the Jewel March the 3rd in a GS too!

Fantastic!  You’ll love it.  I believe the concierge, Edna, is leaving in March sometime.  She’s awesome so I hope she’s still onboard for you.

[SG65CB]

8 hours ago, SteelCityCruiser10 said:

There’s some super nice yachts here that’s for certain.  Here is Faith.

 

Some crazy yachts anchored around St Maarten, including some monsters anchored in Simpson Bay. I like to Google the yacht name + "yacht", you can learn all about them including the price to charter. 

 

Faith is a $200 million yacht that costs an estimated $20 million per year to operate. It is not available for charter. It does have its own Wikipedia page.