Seaside 12.08.18 with mom live-ish

[CoffeeGoddess]

Sooo, I decided to post after all.  I probably won't be as prolific as my other reviews but I do want to hit a few things so why not do a live-ish review until I get too irritated with posting.

 

First off, do NOT get to Yacht Club early if you need a wheelchair.  I was eventually able to get mom situated but she wound up standing for longer then I would have liked.  Now I  have food so will post some pics shortly.

[CoffeeGoddess]

We had a little bit of time the VIP lounge before boarding and then mom led the way when we boarded.

 

I was able to get her walker from the room since both that and the scooter from Special Needs at Sea had been delivered already.  I was also able to book the pre-purchased massage times right in the Yacht Club as well.

 

We had lunch there and Ryan for our waiter.  Right now we're having dinner and he's once again our waiter and I think we will stick with him.

 

 

Sushi maki appetizer.  Mom had the nicsisioe howeverthehellyouspellit salad.

 

And Ryan heard me talking about the dessert cheese and brought us out a small plate of it as a starter.  Sooo good.

 

[jvsnana]

Following along!  Loved your other reviews...please don't get irritated with posting

We will be on Seaside in January in the YC, (first time on MSC as we usually sail with NCL) so I will sail along with you on this cruise to learn all I can!

Have a wonderful cruise with your Mom.

 

[jules815]

Following along.

 

Enjoy your cruise with your mom.  🙂

 

 

[CoffeeGoddess]

Let's see if shrinking the photo size helps with uploading.

Yeah, they upload faster now but it's just another step.  I really miss being able to use Tapatalk.

 

Rissotto

 

 

Beef dish for mum.

 

 

Veal snichtizel for me.

 

[CoffeeGoddess]

I'm going to get the apple crumble and then mom and I will go down to Venchi for dessert drinks.  I  already had a great one there, the La Poire which was excellent.

 

Cripes even Instagram photos are taking forever to upload.

 

Edited December 9, 2018 by CoffeeGoddess

[jules815]

2 minutes ago, CoffeeGoddess said:

I'm going to get the apple crumble and then mom and I will go down to Venchi for dessert drinks.  I  already had a great one there, the La Poirire which was excellent.

 

Cripes even Instagram photos are taking forever to upload.

 

I didn't realize they had other drinks at Venchi that weren't chocolate.  That looks yummy!

 

 

[CoffeeGoddess]

Our bartender at Venchi this morning wasn't kidding when he said it "exploded" down there after dinner.  A lot of people hanging down here and we're waiting to put in a drink order with a server.

[CoffeeGoddess]

I can confirm the dinner buffet is pretty lackluster.   If you're not looking for pizza, pasta, hot dogs, and hamburgers or some cold cuts or salad you will be disappointed.   On the plus side the pizza is good and the mashed potatoes are real since they have lumps. Good sop-up-the-alcohol food.

 

Speaking of, here's the Chocolate Martini no 2 I had. It was fantastic.

 

 

I don't have a picture of mom's hot chocolate because she tore into it as soon as it hit the table.

[CoffeeGoddess]

One last cocktail before bed.  A Blackberry Mist from the Wine and Cocktails bar by all the specialty restaurants.  Sadly they don't have the smoke for the smoked cocktails so it's missing the lavender smoke but still good.

 

 

Then there's this guy. Dressed in Santa pajamas and handing out candy in the buffet. And no, I don't think he was staff.

 

 

I've been taking pics of drink menus so I'll post them tomorrow after I charge my phone.

[DMH15]

Enjoy your cruise with your mom.   Would give anything for one more with mine. 

 

Happy travels. 

[CoffeeGoddess]

We're up and at breakfast. I forgot how long it takes mom to get ready in the morning but at least I had the espresso machine.

 

The CC meet and greet is at 10am today and the YC cocktail hour at 11am.

 

I had eggs, hashbrowns, and bacon while mom got gravlox and a bagel. No pics of mom's because she tuck right into it.

 

[CoffeeGoddess]

Here's the menu for the Welcome/Wine and Cocktails bar on 16 by the specialty restaurants.

 

 

 

 

[CoffeeGoddess]

Meet and greet was really nice. The officers were in a recieving line when we came in; drinks and canapes were free flowing. The introduction and Captain's speech was short and then people were invited up for a group photo with the captain.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They certainly weren't stingy with the drinks, I wound up with three of them.

Edited December 9, 2018 by CoffeeGoddess

[CoffeeGoddess]

The YC cocktail hour is very pleasant. They have a pianist and violinist playing and the butlers bringing drinks around.

 

Oh, and we've made friends with another mother-daughter traveling pair from Australia. They are a delight.

[CoffeeGoddess]

After shopping with mom and lunch at the pool grill I'm down in the Topsail Lounge chilling, resizing photos, drinking, and hopefully reading after this post.

 

Here's the Topsail Menu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Magnelasagne]

Thanks for the live-ish reports:) 

top sail lounge(and the cigar bar) is that only for the YC? 

 

[CoffeeGoddess]

16 minutes ago, Magnelasagne said:

Thanks for the live-ish reports:) 

top sail lounge(and the cigar bar) is that only for the YC? 

 

 

Topsail Lounge is only for the Yacht Club.   I'm sure there is somewhere else on board you can purchase cigars because there isn't a specific cigar bar up here.

[CoffeeGoddess]

I'm posting to my Instagram for a lot of other photos and keeping what's on here mostly menu stuff since uploading is so slow. It's goddessocoffee if you want to view pics there.

[mizzoufinal4]

Is there no wines listed on the topsail menu that are included?

[xcell]

For YC -- are those drinks on the menu free? Or is there a dollar value you can order?

 

I was specifically looking at the Japanese whiskey. 

 

[kevinrobedm]

In the YC anything with a price on the menu was "extra" anything without a price was free (included).  They did have quite a large selection of premium liquors and wines but once you left the YC you could only get what each of the bars had at their locations.

[CoffeeGoddess]

18 minutes ago, mizzoufinal4 said:

Is there no wines listed on the topsail menu that are included?

 

Whoops, looks like I missed that page. Yes, there are and here they are:

 

[Até]

 It's interesting that Connoisseur's Selection by the bottle is the same pricing, but by the glass and shot pricing went up.  Encouraging people to buy Premium Plus in YC?  Could you ask if there will be a special upgrade price for YC to Premium Plus, or would it be the same as Premium to Premium Plus at $17pp/d?

 

Old YC drink prices for reference:

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2501896-yacht-club-dining-room-menu/?tab=comments#comment-53947588

 

[CoffeeGoddess]

33 minutes ago, Até said:

 It's interesting that Connoisseur's Selection by the bottle is the same pricing, but by the glass and shot pricing went up.  Encouraging people to buy Premium Plus in YC?  Could you ask if there will be a special upgrade price for YC to Premium Plus, or would it be the same as Premium to Premium Plus at $17pp/d?

 

 

You just reminded me, the bartender in the YC did ask if I wanted to upgrade to Premium Plus when I was asking him what I could still get under the old program and he said it was around $16 or $17 per day to do it. He was going to get me the actual cost but then we went to lunch and I've been happy with what I've had so haven't asked again.

 

Everything so far my mom and I have gotten has been free.