Itchy&Scratchy

it could have been something your TA did for you, not Princess.

I would not get a Plus package for a teen. We will be traveling with a 13 yo in a month, and we are not getting him a Plus or a Premier package in addition to ours. His grats will be charged to our room. When he joins us in a specialty rest, his meal will also be charged to our room.

I believe it was open during regular breakfast. Sometimes I showed up right at 10 and they still made my eggs for me.

DH started feeling sick yesterday and by today he was full blown sick. I've just tested him and sure enough, he has covid. I feel like I am probably coming down with it as well. Great. Just great. Right in time for my birthday.... 😞 There were a lot of Typhoid Marys on the cruise. Adults were coughing into their hands and sometimes without even covering up. On the last night, there were two of them sitting behind us in the theater...

there were no sugar added desserts. I do not recall any sugar FREE ones.

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Day 8

Day 7

Day 6

Day 5

Day 4

Day 3

Day 2

Day 1, embarkation

How about some dailies real quick before I continue talking about food? We'll start off with some teen club activities. Sometimes we got a little schedule note and sometimes we didn't. Didn't matter much because our kid doesn't really care for any kind of kid's or teen clubs. Also, some Select member discounts:

The crew at the buffet were always so friendly, greeting everyone, wishing everyone bon appetit and a good day. They were working very hard. Also, coffee/tea service was provided - we didn't use it, but the coffee/tea cart person was constantly walking around offering both. In general we were pretty happy with the buffet. It also had wonderful ice cream selections which varied slightly from day to day, and delicious soft serve. The ice cream flavors included basic ones like vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry, and some fancier ones like praline, rum raisin, and sorbets and frozen yogurts like vanilla-lychee, vanilla-cherry, mango, passionfruit, kiwi, etc. Both my DH and DS love soft serve and had it many times throughout the day, but I usually save my calories for other carbs. I must say, however, that on this voyage I had quite a bit of vanilla soft serve, and it was definitely worth it. Very smooth and creamy. There was a self serve soft serve (lol) station next to the Mast Grill, but it had one flavor a day. Sometimes it was chocolate, and sometimes - vanilla. We didn't try out any bars on Reflection, since we don't really drink, drinks were expensive and we didn't have any packages.

that's exactly where the snorkeling is. 🙂Behind the rocks on the very first beach on your left - Chill Island. more info here: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/308-private-islands/

Sea day lunch, day 8 They had shrimp with sauce, not self-serve, so the lady was giving out 5 shrimp at a time. Also, a mushroom risotto which was also very good and much less salty than the MDR dinner version the night before. There were many different cakes that day in the dessert section. And a white chocolate fondue station with pieces of cake and fruit. These menus were on every table at the buffet. If you didn't want a drink service, you were supposed to lay them down flat on the table.

Dinner on day 7

Yay! I am so glad you like my photos. 🙂 By the way, lunch on day 3 had baby back ribs, and I must say - they were very good! I wasn't planning on eating a lunch, but I really liked them, and so did my husband. continued: 3rd day dinner buffet I thought these were beets, but no - cabbage.

3rd day lunch (also a sea day): All the desserts were great, and we also had the spring rolls (good).

Easter buffet lunch: Same day, late lunch when only sandwiches, pizza and desserts are served:

I decided to be a bit less of a glutton on this cruise, so instead of loading on carbs every morning, I enjoyed a made to order omelets (they were grrrrreat!) and also tried some poached eggs. The egg station with premade poached and eggs benedict also made omelets, but, according to my husband, they didn't double the cheese per his request. He eventually started going to the station where I got my omelets (the opposite end of the buffet) and finally got them the way he likes them. Our kid, on the other hand, decided to adopt a carb-full life on this cruise, and instead of his reasonable breakfasts with fruit and protein, he went all out on the carb consumption. Mixing cereals, eating all the baked goods, etc. Not a shred of protein or anything remotely healthy. Sigh. Kids these days...

2nd day breakfast (Easter morning): Breads were usually good and varied: the gluten free seeded bread roll in the middle was unexpectedly savory. I enjoyed one almost every morning. Waffles were pretty good: Herring was identical to the Vita herring in wine sauce. Lots of fruits: There were two bacon and hashbrown stations. One always had overfried hashbrowns but great crispy bacon, and the other station had just right hashbrowns and floppy bacon. We liked chocolate filled croissants. Usually, there was one breakfast dessert which varied every day, and a bunch that stayed the same. Muesli toppings, also somewhat varied daily:

Boarding day dinner buffet... And a quick disclaimer: I don't usually take food pics at the buffet, but since this was our very first X cruise, and I saw a lot of people on this board also planning on trying X for the first time, so I went a bit crazy with snapping the photos. However, I wasn't the woman who was live streaming herself ordering and then eating her breakfast at the buffet... We didn't like the noodles: Super friendly staff! Vegetarian/Vegan section: