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my grandson had fun playing in the water for a long time at Orient Beach
on past Grand Case and over to Marigot
Marigot traffic was AWFUL
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Orient Beach
In the places along the beach where there was no beach club, the seaweed was awful. But where there were beach clubs with lounge chairs, it had been cleaned up
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I don't usually take photos of food, but this one was interesting. It was a dessert at MDR dinner. It was called Chocolate Crisp or something like that. It was good but there was not much chocolate and it was not crispy so we could not figure out the name LOL
another towel animal
in our rented van and headed out to explore St Maarten
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Tuesday Day 4 St Maarten
We docked on the port side
Part of our family wanted to see both French and Dutch sides of St Maarten so we decided to rent a car/van for all 8 of us to go around the whole island. I had laid out a path for us with many options to see along the way. The two primary things we wanted to stop at was Orient Beach and Maho Beach. We got both of those done, other things we didn’t do in order to make sure we did not miss the big planes at Maho.
We ate early in the Windjammer then got off the ship as soon as we docked. We rented thru Hertz and their office is a short walk from the pier. From the office they gave us a shuttle ride to where the cars are maybe 2-3 minutes away. We checked out our van and piled in for our adventure. Everything went very smoothly with the rental car.
We went counterclockwise around the island, first starting up the east side and first went to Orient Beach. It was fun seeing the views as we drove along the road. You do not need a special drivers license to rent, our USA license worked. You drive on the right side of the road like in U.S. Lot of construction going on still at Orient but still many beach clubs and places to have a drink, lounge chairs, umbrellas and even wife. I did not purchase wifi on the ship so we took advantage in ports when we could just to grab a few emails.
We spent a couple hours at Orient Beach. Water was warm and waves were fun and grandson played in water a long time. Had some drinks and just relaxed. Left Orient and drove up around the north side of the island past Grand Case (had wanted to stop there but got concerned about time). Then headed back down the west side towards Marigot. Hit MAJOR BAD traffic in Marigot so did not stop and see any of the things there because we did not want to miss the big planes at Maho. It took us about an hour just to get thru Marigot which is NOT a big town!
Took the bridge across to the airport and Maho beach. Found parking ok and walked to beach and hung out there watching planes come and go. This was my FAVORITE part of the trip! I love planes and anyone who cares has seen all the YouTube videos and how awesome this is. They go RIGHT OVER your head. It is so cool. We watched the big ones arrive and a couple go, and after the big KLM jet we decided to leave.
Drove back towards pier around 2 and traffic was not that bad yet. Returned our car, process was simple, the Hertz attendant was in the car lot waiting for us so we had no wait. Did the paperwork, didn’t take long, all was good no issues. Then walked back to ship, Very fun day I am glad we did what we did
Oh – this did not affect us but on our way back to the pier from the airport, we were driving on the same bridge we had come in on. This is a two lane road (one lane going one way other lane going other way). Some car doing the other way (in towards Maho) had car get stalled on that bridge (!!) and cars were backed up forever. Not sure what they did to get that guy going again but I am very thankful we were not stuck behind him on the way to Maho!
Dinner for appetizer I ordered “cheese Sticks”. Sounds funny but they were fantastic! I think most people at our table had them. Funny part was we did not know how many came with an order – two of our family decided to split one appetizer. Well it came and there were two cheese sticks so each person had one. LOL. I also had a baby shrimp salad as my 2nd appetizer (like I always did) and it was good. I had Singapore Noodles for entrée, it was good but not my favorite so far. I had crème brele for dessert and it was good but I would have preferred it without the banana taste. My husband loved it though and I think got it every night after that. (I love chocolate anything).
This evening was fairly bumpy sailing, not so much so that any of us felt sick, but you could feel the rocking more so than other nights to this point. I sleep like a baby when the bed is gently rocking at night.
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ours was the only ship in port in St Maarten. Great point. It could have been much worse with more ships.
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I want to echo the kudos to Booptennis about this excellent and very informative review. I personally really appreciate seeing actual photos of dinner and drink menus, as well as the breakfast ones. Thank you so much for that!!! And I agree with the above, I've read some really scathing reviews of AOS and this review puts my mind at ease. One thing I was wondering about: I had read that the 2014 dry dock was supposed to replace/update carpet, cabin interiors, linens, etc but based on the review, it sounds like that didn't happen, at least not for the cabins she stayed in. My wife and I are traveling in January 2017 and my understanding is that another dry dock is scheduled for 2016 at some point. I see that Flowrider is one of the changes, but perhaps some more modernization of the interiors is on the cards as well?
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Hi, and thank you to you both for the kind comments. I will admit when it comes to cruises I am a positive person, I love cruising so little things don't bother me. The cabins we were in had colors and fabrics that were dated, some aquas and pink/salmon colors etc that reminded me of earlier years LOL. So I don't think they have been updated recently. I do not know if they will be changed in the next dry dock or not. But I did not see any obvious rips or shredded material or things like that. just worn a little and colors dated.
Our balcony chairs and table were fine.
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We will be a party of 8 on the Navigator and we've all scheduled our meal for 5:30. How many people can fit at each table? We need to call ahead of time and request that we be seated together, correct?
we just got back from our cruise, we had 8 in our family, TA linked our reservations like the other person recommended, and they had a nice round table for 8 for us. perfect.
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breakfast menu from MDR one day
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Monday Day 3 St Kitts
We made no excursion plans for St Kitts. With 5 ports we didn’t want to wear ourselves out doing something every day. We had considered the Sky Safari zip line but didn’t do it after all. So we just enjoyed the ship all day long which was nice. We had been to St Kitts before also.
We docked on the starboard side, which is where our cabins were. It was lucky for us as the Celebrity Summit was in port that same day and parked side by side with us so got some fun pictures looking over at that. It was not far from us!
Dinner had a “seafood mash” dish, again the name sounds awful they need to do a better job of naming their food but it was delicious. Dessert had key lime pie (YUM) and a chocolate crunch thingy, also good. But I love chocolate!
photo out our balcony looking straight across at Celebrity Summit parked right next to us!
here is our two ships side by side looking from above. Our ship on left, Celebrity on the right.
Washing the windows of the Windjammer
we played bingo one day. actually i played one day and some others played two days. we didnt win :mad: LOL
Sailaway and leaving Celebrity behind
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Really enjoying your review. We are leaving this Saturday, same itinerary.
I am so jealous! the cruise was wonderful and went by way too fast. I want to get back on now! so fun to have it all to look forward to!
have a great time
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The pdf files need to be 976kb or smaller. Two options in your case - rescan and compress the pdf file size (lower resolution),
or download a free pdf editing software (I use primo pdf). This software has presets that "print" the files to your desktop with "screen" or "ebook" file sizes. You can then attach the smaller pdf files to your post on Cruise Critic.
Good luck!!
i may try this also . thank you for your help
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Sorry, not familiar with Shutterfly.
i put it on Google drive and not sure i did the sharing 100% right but you can see the compass so at least it worked. gotta figure out what i want to share and what I dont want to share LOL
thank you for your help
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You would have to upload the PDF or photo to a file sharing site, such as Flickr or Google Drive, and then post a link from the file sharing site here on your CC post.
Bob, do you know if Shutterfly lets you upload pdf's? i have been using SF for sharing my photos but not sure how do to pdfs or if you can. otherwise i guess i need to get familiar with one of the other sharing sites
thank you
Betty
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THANKS GUYS! appreciate it!
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this may be hard to see as i was trying to take photo of drink menus poolside
one of the MDR dinner menus
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here is our family group on one of the panoramic stops LOL
our helpful guides
hard to see in this photo but AOS is way in the background. it was clear when we saw it in person :eek:
walked around a bit by the pier before going back on ship
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get off ship and walk into town down the street
it's just a little hard to find unless you are looking for this
photo fuzzy i was trying to take pics while riding LOL
Review: RC Adventure of the Seas Dec 19 2015
in Royal Caribbean International
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OK, i must have done something wrong on the Compass photos. I am still learning how to post pdf files. I have been using Shutterfly. I guess i need to find some help because it is different than posting photos. Thanks for the heads up that you could not access them
Anyone know what I might be doing wrong? i posted pdf's of the Compass to a shutterfly share site as "files" and tried to post the link here on cc. maybe i have not provided access, i am not sure what i need to do!