Prohibition party on allure

[Kiwi_mum]

Once for the first cruise and then for our back-to-back cruise so that we can do it with our CC friends.

 

Always do everything once - that way if you like it, you can do it again :D

[reney313]

Any recent experiences? I haven't heard many people talk about it in reviews lately?

[lavaboop]

Here's what I read about it from our roll call thread, it must be fairly new because I don't recall hearing much about it. Looking forward to it though!

 

Every fifth night in the Jazz on 4 lounge in Entertainment Place. Passengers are invited to don their favorite Jazz Age outfit and step back in time. This event is only open to passengers 21 and older

and has

a cover charge of $35, which includes entertainment, appetizers, alcoholic beverages.

Special Event –a “special” event limited to 50 people but he really

could not talk about it, the cost would be $35 per person and then he gave an extension number to call after saying that “I probably should not have mentioned this”.

We must wear the pin (provided) on our lapel and we are to tell no one the password unless asked.

A crew member dressed like a gangster opens the crew door,

looks at our lapel pin and asks for the password. When we reply

he lets us in and gives us $200 bucks in “old money” and a racing form.

Bear in mind that there are only 50 of us in this line and it is causing

quite a stir as everyone walking by is asking “what is going on” and the

crew keeps them moving along if they are not wearing a lapel pin.

We are escorted into the jazz club through the back hallways and

when we enter the club we see that it has been redecorated to be

a speakeasy of days gone by… we are at a prohibition party!

There are showgirl “flappers”, gangsters, old time press photographers,

a jazz band and an old time radio broadcasting horse races

(you use your $200 to bet on the races during the band breaks).

You are greeted with gin “shots” presented in egg cups,

all of the Hendricks’s gin drinks are served up in coffee cups and saucers and everybody stays in character for the entire 2.5 hours.

There is an MC keeping us in line till Mr. Gold arrives.

Appetizers are delivered to your couch, drinks keep flowing, the show continues and dancers keep at it until Mr. Gold arrives.

Of course there is more but that is for you to find out!

You will get great pictures from this and suffice it to say that you

will know when it is over (have you ever been raided?

Keystone cops?).

Anthony (Jumpin’ Joe) puts on a bar flair show that you will not believe.

The staff made it work by staying in character for days.

I think there may be about 12 cruise critic people, so far,

 

It's only on the Allure as it is tied into the Chicago these, Oasis has Hairspray.

 

It is under specialty dining and won't show up when your dining & show reservations open up. Ours showed up about 60? days out, listed as Prohibition Party under dining options.

 

BonVoyage

Dawna

With so many people on the Allure, and the party limits, I guess you have to book early!