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"Live" From Harmony of the Seas. September 15-22, 2019 -Eastern Itinerary


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9 hours ago, Ren1216 said:

I've been away from the boards for a long while, starting to peek around again as I've just booked my family group of 9 on an upcoming Harmony sailing.  Some things have changed over the last few years!  I've read through your LIVE thread and truly enjoyed it.  Thank You for for all the time and effort you've put into this.  Clearly, it's an enjoyable read for many, but it's also an invaluable source of information for those like me in the planning phase.  The pictures are fantastic!  I'll be watching for more as I see you've paused (hopefully just a pause) your narrative at Coco Cay.  Glad you're ok after what transpired on Day 1!


Thanks. You will have an amazing cruise on Harmony. This is one of my most favorite ships. I’ll surely be filling in more our amazing week on Harmony later this week. 
 

6 hours ago, Sea Dog said:

Holy crap! What a story. I'm glad you are ok. Thank goodness you were around people who cared for you. So happy you had a great trip.

 

Thanks Sea Dog!

 

5 hours ago, Lionesss said:

Curious 

 

did they call an

 

ALPHA ALPHA ALPHA? 
 

asking for a friend 

🙂 


No Alapha was called for me. Sadly one was called for someone else and a member from our roll call lost  a love one during this cruise. 😞

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54 minutes ago, MrFunInTheSun said:

No Alapha was called for me. Sadly one was called for someone else and a member from our roll call lost  a love one during this cruise. 😞

 

I am sorry to hear that one of the members of your roll call lost a loved one during your cruise. My sympathies go out to that roll call member and their family. 

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5 hours ago, sellwingri said:

Not sure why but I didn’t hear any Alpha calls on this cruise.  We did see an ambulance at the pier as soon as we returned to Port Canaveral.  So sorry to hear that someone passed away.

 

 

  I am pretty sure it was around 1:30am I remember eveything in our cabin clicked off, and came back on.   Then I saw the post from the group that was still at the bar and heard in the common spaces. 

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September 16th

 

When I awoke that next morning fairly early at 7:30am we were already docked at the beautiful Coco Cay...

It was my hopes to have been up earlier for us docking but I had failed at this attempt. Made a quick lap to get some welcome pictures of Coco Cay, then made my way to Johnny Rockets.

 

This day there were not any plans made really for Coco Cay. I had my breakfast and as I was getting done my friends and their family that were also on the cruise that I had sailed with a couple years ago on Harmony had arrived at Johnny Rockets. It was great to see them, I saw them briefly the day before, so I had moved over to there table and enjoyed more coffee and catching up with them.  While I was there with them I was communicating with Patty about heading out to Coco Cay to check it out and snap some pictures. At 9am Patty and I headed off the ship to check things out, we ran into a few of our other new friends from our roll call and got some great pictures. Got a Coco Loco before 10am. 9:42am to be exact. 🙂 Everyone must get one if they dock in Coco Cay! 🙂

 

They really thought of everything at Coco Cay, the island didn't suffer any damage from the hurricanes, however a storm rolled thru the night before and knocked over a palm tree, as we were walking by island staff were shoring it up so that it wouldn't injure anyone.

 

Ran into more members of our wonderful roll call group, chatted and caught up then said our goodbyes that we'd catch them later in the day back on the ship. Around 10:30am we decided it was time to head back to the ship. As we were headed back to the ship we noticed some extremely mean looking clouds with pellets of sunshine in them not far off. At 10:38 as we were more than halfway down the pier those pellets of sunshine started to hit the pier and us, we began to walk a tad faster is more sunshine started to hit us. At 10:41 we just walked up the ramp and into to check in and boarding area and the heavens let loose and it was officially a MOIST DAY AT COCO CAY. Whew we timed that right. Right behind us were our other friends Nancy and Alex, we got a new welcome back on the ship picture with them and my daily hug from Nancy. After we got past security we parted our ways for awhile, I then made my way to the Solarium and found one of the covered pods. Boy did it rain for quite awhile. I tried to nap, but that didn't work out well. I did snap a picture of my steps off/on ship and walking around the island, it showed me at 4,946 steps at 2.15 miles. We pretty much hit all aspects of the island, not very big as we know. Hard to believe there is so much in a small area. Around 12:30 the moistness dried up and the sun, not sun pellets pushed thru.  It was then time to take a stroll around the ship on the upper decks running into others from our roll call I hadn't seen since the night before at our dinner at Hibachi. The pools around the ship were pretty sparse, so this is a good day to get some ship pool time if you don't care about going on the island. Around 1:30 it was about time to eat again so I blew the Food Horn for my Unlimited Dining Package friends and called an impromptu meeting at Sabor.

 

At exactly 2:01pm we were seated in Sabor, we were the first there. Our group started out with four of us and before we left there were 15 of us there, others filtered there way in between 2-3pm, we had to keep extending our table. Lets just say Sabor knew us all quite well as we spent a lot of time there. Guacamole was our friend. At 5pm quite a few of us met up at the stairway by the bionic bar for a group picture. We were told the ship photographers would be open at 5, then told it was 7 because it was a port day. Anyways we ended up not being able to get the ship photographer picture but got some good ones with our phones. Pictures came out nice and we got about 30 of us from our roll call into our picture. Not to bad considering.

 

By 5:30 Harmony was underway headed off for a wonderful night and day at sea. The sun was shining and we were in for an amazing evening and sunset, thought I missed the sunset. Dinner that night was at 150 Central Park, however before dinner I had spent time at the Casino and was doing fairly well. Think there were four or five of us that gathered there that night. After dinner we were summoned to our Uber at Rising Tide Bar. It started out with six of us and as the evening went on more our group got bigger and bigger. Lots of very important topics were discussed and inappropriate conversations throughout the course of the evening. Espresso & dirty martin's were rolling around. We closed down the Rising Tide Bar around 1:30 am then we made our way to the Casino. Didn't make it back to my room until after 4am. Wait, what? How'd that happen?

 

What an amazing Day Two on the beautiful Harmony of the Seas...

 

 

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September 17th

 

It was 9am and I was soon down in Central Park. Wait, what? I was up and walking around at 9am, I didn't go to sleep until after 4am. Seemed to have skipped breakfast that day, but at 9:15am I made my way to Dazzles for the cruise critic meet and mingle. My guess is we had about 50 people there. Majority of the gifts were for a free in room movie, a few bags and maybe a couple bottles of wine. Cruise Director Dennis spoke for quite a while and said they read everything on cruise critic and they will chime in if people say wrong things. He also said the ships are only going to get bigger. 🙂  Got my daily hug from Nancy which brightened my day and ran into a few other friends from our roll call there. My ticket was pulled, actually was the first one pulled and won a free in room movie that I never used. 🙂 Not really sure I was ever in my room long enough to watch any TV, let alone a movie. In retrospect now I'm glad I didn't win a Royal Up bid considering the little time I was in my room. Throughout all this time, I still was being optimistically careful after my BP spike from two days before so as late as I was up the day and night before I never drank that much nor even got a buzz, so I was still being extra cautious, but I didn't let it dampen my fun. Captain Johnny honored us at the top tier party, I really only went as I wanted to know the amount of each level on the ship. Patty joined me and we both enjoyed a watered down Bloody Mary. 🙂

 

Once that was over, it was time to stroll around the ship. It was a beautiful day at sea. Lunch was at Chops that day precisely at Noon. Lauren and Robert joined me at Chops, however we were on a very tight schedule as at 1:30 we had the Slot Pull and at 3pm we had our Bar Hop/poker run. We sat down at 12:08pm and got our appetizer at 1:00pm. When we first sat down we told our very nice waiter that we had someplace to be at 1:30pm. At 1:13pm I got my Jumbo shrimp, it was about 1:30 and we had to go. We told the waiter to take our cards and ring us up, we had to go. We said, don't worry about our steaks, we'll be back that night and order new ones. He was very apologetic. We all still tipped him as this snafu wasn't his fault.

 

We bolted out and made our way LATE to the Casino for the Slot Pull. We had about 50 folks for our slot pull, we basically didn't win a lot of money, but we all put in $15 and got back $13. 🙂 After the slot pull was over and before the Bar Hop/Poker Run was about to begin a few of us made our own mini slot pull with our $13 left.  It was then time for our Bar Hop/Poker Run, we had about 20 of us. We had lots of fun starting at the Casino Bar then we moved along Boot & Bonnet, Schooner Bar.. well Schooner Bar, this is were we defiantly made our mark on the ship as we left the Schooner Bar. 🙂 At 4:25pm we made our way out of the Schooner Bar but we took the back exit where the door is closed, it takes you down those spiral stairs. Well one problem with that at 4pm in the afternoon, at the bottom of those stairs was a photographer taking pictures of people on them. Remember earlier I said there were about 20 of us on this bar hop. Yeah, we made a couple on those stairs by accident a little upset. By the time our train was moving to Boleros it was to late. The rest of the group was quite far ahead of me, and just when they thought we all passed there comes me strolling along, saying sorry, pardon me of course. 🙂

 

Once we made our way to Boleros more fun and inappropriate conversations were made, we gained a few more folks that joined in later on the hop. We got a nice group picture on the dance floor with about 30 of us at that time. Once we left Boleros we hit up On Air Bar and ended at Sabor Tequila Bar.  All and all a great Bar Hop and Poker Run ending around 5:45pm. Just in time for us all to run back to our rooms and go to dinner.  Dinner that night was at Chops at 6:30 with Lauren, Robert and Sherry. We had the same waiter we had for lunch and he more than made up for us for our lunch. We later learned that the cook at Chops was sick that day and caused the issue there earlier that day and they had to get someone to fill in.

 

Dinner ended by 9pm, however my other friends Deborah and Richard had just sat down over at 150 Central and I had just heard from Patty that the water show she was going to was cancelled because of the seas. I told her I was headed to 150 Central Park and to come and join Deborah, Richard and I. So Patty and I crashed Deborah and Richards Party and ordered some food there. Of course while I was there had to have a cucumber martini. 🙂 After dinner number 2 that night the horn had blown and our Uber was yet calling us. By 10:30 we all had begun to congregate at the Rising Tide Bar with my first espresso martini at 10:46. Our favorite waiter Merton was taking good care of us. Deborah kept asking Merton if he would let her drive our Uber but he kept declining, we said she was good and not even drinking. She was sad. Espresso Martinis turned into Dirty Martini's. Yup, you guessed it we closed down the Rising Tide Bar 1:30pm and made our way to the Casino. We were good that night, only about 15 of us overtook the Rising Tide Bar before the casino. I'm guessing it may have been an early night to bed that night as my last picture was at 1:45am, thought I really can't confirm that. 🙂

 

What an amazing Day Three on the beautiful Harmony of the Seas...

 

Next up St Thomas.

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