Adventure Repositioning - 5/5/2018 – Live of Periscope and Cruise Critic

[TimeToGetNauti]

Man, I wish I could live the Suite life.

[PH8]

You're not naming names,are you??:o:o:o

 

 

Seriously, it was such a great cruise. One that I will never forget!!

[mpoole3]

You're not naming names,are you??:o:o:o

 

 

Seriously, it was such a great cruise. One that I will never forget!!

 

I sure hope not, or we are in trouble!!

[PH8]

I sure hope not, or we are in trouble!!

No kidding!!🙄🙄🙄🙄

[Kcjarvis]

Best filet of the cruise

 

 

 

Capt Shawn made some remarks about buying extra snow shovels to shovel the gandway in NJ hahahha

 

 

12pm Pub Crawl

 

 

which lasted until the headliner show

 

 

Then to the VCL to dance the evening away... Did I miss dinner???? Bed time 3:48am UGH!!!!!

 

[Kcjarvis]

You're not naming names,are you??:o:o:o

 

 

 

The names have been changed to protect the guilty

[Kcjarvis]

Day 4 Sea day 2 - 1st drink of the day - Peach Margo

 

 

Slot Pull at 12pm - Buy in $25, we won $19

 

 

Then to the Suite Lounge to do some work

 

 

Caribbean Night in the Windjammer

 

 

 

[Kcjarvis]

80's Dance Party

 

 

Then The Quest!!!!!! Team Number 1 Captains!!!!!

 

 

And the winners are???????

 

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[Kcjarvis]

Day 5 Sea day 3

 

 

 

Gold Card Breakfast

 

 

 

Nobody but the lifeguards at the pool

 

[Kcjarvis]

Cabin Crawl at 12pm

 

Ocean view

 

 

Balcony for 3

 

 

Promenade

 

 

Aft Cabin

 

 

Royal Suite

 

 

[Kcjarvis]

And then the fog came

 

 

 

Quest Victory Celebration in my cabin with the Kool Kids

 

 

 

Then dinner at Giovanni's

 

[Kcjarvis]

Pork belly

 

 

Filet

 

 

Back to the cabin to pack

 

 

Fog everywhere

 

 

[Kcjarvis]

VZ Bridge inbound

 

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[Kcjarvis]

 

 

 

 

Coming alongside

 

 

 

Welcome home Adventure!!! Sadly, my cruise is over and I had to work that day. Grabbed an Uber to Newark Airport for a rental car, and was sitting in my office at 8:40am

[loving2cruise]

Thank you for sharing your cruise. I enjoyed reading it, and enjoyed the pics/videos too.

 

Cruising on the Adventure in 4 more days, can't wait! :-)

[PH8]

So glad to be a Kool Kid!👍👍👍

[ScottVV]

Man, I wish I could live the Suite life.

 

I was thinking the same thing.. Now I see how the "Other" half lives lol.... Enjoy!

[MACE]

Welcome back. We were on the cruise before yours and just down the hallway in stateroom #1340

 

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[Kcjarvis]

New stickers in the cabin

 

 

New garbage can in bathroom

 

 

 

[Kcjarvis]

Summary

 

Cabin – The Grand Suite was in great condition

 

 

Suite Attendant – Very Good – Jackie did a great job cleaning up from all the parties I had. He received a nice tip in addition to the pre-paid.

 

 

Cruise Director – Fair -Chris???? – Did a nice job with The Quest, but I never saw him, heard his announcements or his last name.

 

 

Concierge – Hugo – No Grade – Did a great job filling in for the sick Sucel. I didn’t need any of his services

 

 

Diamond Concierge – Chris D – OK – I received no Diamond Plus welcome letter, tour sign-up sheets, cookies or my 3 welcome gifts. I guess my status is really Pre-Gold like the website says. When I complained, Chris sent a bottle of champagne to the cabin. Nice Touch

 

Internet Service – Very Good – Best non O3B Voom service Ihave ever had - Periscope, Skype video, iMessage, Facetime, Good client vpn andMobile Iron VPN worked. Netflix, Hulu,YouTube and Slingbox worked after 30 seconds of buffering.

 

 

Food – (Subjective) – Mixed – Great job with the Caribbean night in the Windjammer. Slow service and average food in Chops. Great service and great food in Giovanni’s - Bring back the Veal Chop and the old mud pie!!!!!!

 

 

Room service – Very Good – Took 45 mins to arrive, but thequality and taste was very good

 

 

Luggage Delivery – My suitcase didn’t arrive by 8pm, so I went down to security. When I got down there my bag and 300 other bags were just sitting there. When I inquired, the security guy said,” Take it, there are no restricted items in it.” I responded,” then why wasn’t it delivered to my cabin?” His response – Blank Stare

 

 

Bar Service – Bars are woefully understaffed with all of the drink packages. Impossible to get a drink in the VCL at nights

 

 

Misc - Fresh out of dry dock, I was surprised at how manyelevator buttons were not working.

 

 

Crew shout outs – Freddy in Giovanni’s, The Sky Bar Team and Kendrick in the Suite Lounge

 

 

Special Shout outs – The Kool Kids – Michael, Laura, LauraLee, Tom, Kathy, Cookingyo, BigDawgRon ,Kelly, Claire, Hannah, Jodi and Dan, and Shenita, Cruise Bae, Twang Ster, Angel and the Ski Family

 

 

Conclusion:

This was one of the best cruises I’ve been on due to the pre cruise roll calls and ………… However, this was not one of the best cruises from a crew execution perspective. Bad luggage delivery, No welcome gifts, slow service in Chops and having to send my filet back is all due to bad management of the hard working crew. I would not be surprised if Adventure receives some bad CC reviews from the demanding North East cruisers at the beginning of the summer season, but I’m sure the staff will rise to occasion and bring Adventure up to Anthem standards.

 

 

Total score 83%

 

Another good vacation, I remain loyal to Royal. Thank you for reading and watching on Periscope.

 

Stay Thirsty My Friends

 

 

 

"This is Ken Jarvis and I approve this review, you know how we end these things….

 

RKSister...BOOM!!!!!!!!"

[Kcjarvis]

The WIFI was brutal on this ship. Not only was it slow and prone to drops, I couldn't log into my C&A account while onboard. As soon as I turned on 4G in Bayonne I could log in.

 

Sorry to hear - that wasn't my experience. Guess I was hogging all the bandwidth

[Kcjarvis]

 

Then The Quest!!!!!! Team Number 2 Captains!!!!!

 

 

 

FACT CHECK - TEAM 2 Captains - The winning team!!!!!!!

[Big_G]

Sorry to hear - that wasn't my experience. Guess I was hogging all the bandwidth

You did a great job so I'll give you a pass. [emoji16]

 

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[geekjason]

Sorry to hear - that wasn't my experience. Guess I was hogging all the bandwidth

 

I also had no issues with Voom. Was able to take care of a few client issues while away.

 

Also go Team 2!

[mpoole3]

I made the kool kids list!?!? Outstanding live blog review Mr. Jarvis! I feel like I was in that grand suite more than my own cabin!