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Disembarkation day.

It was still raining.

The view of Shanghai Baoshan cruise terminal, from our balcony.

Another view from the balcony.

We got off the ship and saw this poster in the walkway to the terminal.

The poster, in Mandarin, is basically saying that the Voyager of the Seas is the largest ship in Asia.

It is within top 10 in the world in terms of size.

Capacity of 3840 pax.

310 m long.

1.5 times the size of an aircraft carrier.

3 times the length of a football field

7 times the passenger capacity of A380.

You can see from the way Royal Caribbean in China markets the ship - the bigger the better!

Dessert.

Quite amazing how much we eat on a cruise, compared to when we are back on land! Cruise to eat!

The risotto main.

When at Portofino, you can only order one main each. However, if you ask, they would usually let you order a main portion of pasta or risotto to share too!

The famous seafood skewer.

This was the beef.

The anti-pasti.

Olive oil dip at Portofino. Goes very well with the bread.

Risotto starter. Good stuff.

This was an awesome review. I appreciate your taking the time post all of the photos.

Glad you liked it.

Day 1 - for dinner, my wife and I went to Portofino. It was really good. We first had Portofino on the Brilliance in 2011. So this is our second time.

This time round, we had the coupons from the Platinum C&A booklet which gave us complimentary speciality coffee in any speciality restaurant.

Before we end, let me rewind back to Day 1, when we just boarded the ship.

Oh how excited we were!

The Windjammer desserts just make me hungry.

On a cruise, I eat tons of veggies. Oh how fresh they look!

Please re-board the ship asap and don´t stop this picture review...! This can´t possibly come to an end here... :-)))

 

As said before, thank you so much for taking the time. This is by far the best I have seen on cruisecritic in 6 years, which way too often is all about gossip and bashing others that have a different opinion.

You have also been a great ambassador here for Singapore..! ;-)

 

This is how this site should be! Balanced yet personal. Thank you !

In Dec 2012, we sail on the Voyager again! I shall take even more pictures.

This time, I can be an ambassador for Australia & New Zealand.

what is the spoken language on the show and such?

For this cruise, the cruise Director was Gordon from UK. So he spoke in English. All the evening shows we watched were in English. The Royal Caribbean singers and dancers definitely sang in English.

Thanks for all the information.

Yes, I am so looking forward to achieving Diamond C&A status so that we can use the Diamond lounge!

Yups, we are very close to Shanghai now.

Sailed 2071nm since we left Singapore.

Day 8 dinner was also the performance night for the MDR staff. Desserts were served after the song. They sang 2 songs, one in Italian, the other in Mandarin Chinese.

You can see all passengers with their cameras ready.

The singers!!

Desserts

Panna Cotta

Tiramisu!

Sweet and sour pork.

Lamb Shank with rosemary.

Dinner. Our last dinner for the cruise. Sob.

The club Manager (a guy called No-Hair Pierre) told me that there were fewer than 300 kids on this cruise. I think only a small fraction went to Kids club. At the talent show, there were probably about 50 to 70 kids, max.

Kids who performed got a very nice medal.

3 young girls doing the hula-hoop. Really cute.

The cutest solo performer was a 4 year old Australian white girl who sang, by herself, twinkle twinkle little stars in mandarin! Awesome. Pity I didn't take a picture of her.

Kids' club time. They held the Talent Show on Day 8 afternoon. We can see that the kids had a really fun time. A lot of rapport between the kids and the Youth staff.

This was some play put up the a group of boys.

Another short play put up by a group of girls. The ring leader was this 11-year old (the tall girl)

Dessert time!

The crepes are a deadly combination when it comes to calories!!

At home, on a day-to-day basis, we don't eat desserts at all, other than cut fruits. I am missing the cruise already.

The beef was good too.

Back to lunch. These mini chicken burgers were good. Kids loved them.

Back to the art auction, this piece was rather interesting. Art on metal. However, it was rather expensive. I don't think anybody bought it.

We had lunch in the MDR. They use Deck 3 dining room. On sea days, it gets rather busy.

For some reason, we decided to attend an art auction on the last day at sea. They offered free champagne. You could drink 2 or 3 if you wanted.

Many pieces were not sold. But there were some pieces sold, below $1,000. I noticed usually there was just one bid.

One guy (I believe he was South Korean) actually bought a piece for USD6,300!!