Rogueperson's **Live** Adventure of the Seas B2B Bermuda (maybe) and Canada. September 24 - October 8, 2022

[Rogueperson]

8 minutes ago, Luckynana said:

Have you sailed away yet??  I'm probably too late...

Yes, two hours ago.  Too late for what?

[Luckynana]

To watch the sail away on the webcam😁. 

[Rogueperson]

29 minutes ago, Luckynana said:

To watch the sail away on the webcam😁. 

if i saw your answer i would sat Enchanted Princess is leaving NYC at 6, but that’s almost an hour ago now

Edited September 24, 2022 by Rogueperson

[FionaMG]

Glad to see you got away ok Rogue. Have a fabulous time! 😊

[Luckynana]

1 hour ago, Rogueperson said:

if i saw your answer i would sat Enchanted Princess is leaving NYC at 6, but that’s almost an hour ago now

Aw, thanks, Rogue!  Have a great cruise!!!

[Rogueperson]

Tonight’s dinner was Izumi’s.  

 

Menu

 

 

I did not take a picture of everything.  Some things weren’t photogenic like seaweed salad and sashimi.

 

i got this.  Baked Snow crab & Salmon roll

 

 

Wife got Champagne Lobster Roll

 

And dessert was mochi.

 

 

For some reason our meal came staggered.  Her food would come first, then mine, then she got all her large dishes.  Than mine came out staggered.  It was odd.

 

I’ve been to Izumi several times.  I really want to like it.  I love sushi.  But the food here is just not inspiring.  The quality is nothing special.  Not compared to Chops or Giovanni’s.   We’ve given it many chances and it just doesn’t do it for us.  Kinda glad this is the only time we’re eating here this cruise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 25, 2022 by Rogueperson

[Jimbo]

21 minutes ago, Rogueperson said:

Tonight’s dinner was Izumi’s.  

 

Menu

 

 

I did not take a picture of everything.  Some things weren’t photogenic like seaweed salad and sashimi.

 

i got this.  Baked Snow crab & Salmon roll

 

 

Wife got Champagne Lobster Roll

 

And dessert was mochi.

 

 

For some reason our meal came staggered.  Her food would come first, then mine, then she got all her large dishes.  Than mine came out staggered.  It was odd.

 

I’ve been to Izumi several times.  I really want to like it.  I love sushi.  But the food here is just not inspiring.  The quality is nothing special.  Not compared to Chops or Giovanni’s.   We’ve given it many chances and it just doesn’t do it for us.  Kinda glad this is the only time we’re eating here this cruise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think just a lot of people who go here have bad sushi at home. So they seem thrilled with Izumi.

[Rogueperson]

Day 1 random musings.

 

All in all, a successful embarkation.  We’re on our original itinerary notwithstanding Fiona.

 

Random images.

 

 

 

Magic Marvin.  So far so good.

 

 

The band

 

 

Welcome aboard show featuring Michelle Balan.  She was ok.

 

 

Random art

 

 

And just to remind us what day it is.

 

Also, this is the snacks they left in my room.  

 

 

This is all they gave me.

 

Even though i spent the night in Newark and embarkation was a breeze.  I’m still beat.  I’m not going to make the hush party.  I usually love it.  But food coma from Izumi rears ots

ugly head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rogueperson]

I’m useless without coffee.  My regular readers would know about my various coffee fouls.

 

First morning, I screw up.  

 

 

Most of the coffee fell on my menu and it was salvageable.  I brought the bag of coffee with me so I wouldn’t accidentally spill.  I still did.  at least spilling doesn’t mean i have no coffee now.

 

More to come as i get caffeinated.

 

 

[kathy49]

2 hours ago, Rogueperson said:

I’m useless without coffee.  My regular readers would know about my various coffee fouls.

 

First morning, I screw up.  

 

 

Most of the coffee fell on my menu and it was salvageable.  I brought the bag of coffee with me so I wouldn’t accidentally spill.  I still did.  at least spilling doesn’t mean i have no coffee now.

 

More to come as i get caffeinated.

 

 

curious what all of that is? It seems like you are in dining room. They do not have coffee.  I do something like that when traveling and like that early morning coffee in room before going to breakfast. Just curious...thanks enjoy your first hand info from the ship.

[Rogueperson]

1 hour ago, kathy49 said:

curious what all of that is? It seems like you are in dining room. They do not have coffee.  I do something like that when traveling and like that early morning coffee in room before going to breakfast. Just curious...thanks enjoy your first hand info from the ship.

 

I am a coffee snob.  So earlier, I posted the picture of my coffee stash.  I bring an aeropress with me to make my own coffee because i feel that al cruises have subpar coffee.

 

I should note that the spill above happened because my hot water not arrived and I was explaining to the table next to me how I normally spill.  Seriously!!!

[Rogueperson]

This was my internet speed today.  It isn’t that bad considering.

 

 

This morning it timed out and was worse, but it seems to have leveled

out.

 

 

[kathy49]

18 minutes ago, Rogueperson said:

 

I am a coffee snob.  So earlier, I posted the picture of my coffee stash.  I bring an aeropress with me to make my own coffee because i feel that al cruises have subpar coffee.

 

I should note that the spill above happened because my hot water not arrived and I was explaining to the table next to me how I normally spill.  Seriously!!!

Hum...I agree most coffee not up to my standards...will check out aeropress. Thanks.

[joyandjerry]

Thanks for your time and efforts! Jerry and I are sailing out of Baltimore 30 September for Bermuda, then B2B Canada/NE. Any mention of the COVID tests for Canada for B2B cruisers? Fingers crossed, regs will expire 30 September. DEspite being vaxed and double boosted, we got COVID on a Bermuda cruise in May, although we were not taking precautions on the ship. Does RCCL still have sanitizer and masks in the room? We are bringing N95 masks.

[Rogueperson]

1 hour ago, joyandjerry said:

Thanks for your time and efforts! Jerry and I are sailing out of Baltimore 30 September for Bermuda, then B2B Canada/NE. Any mention of the COVID tests for Canada for B2B cruisers? Fingers crossed, regs will expire 30 September. DEspite being vaxed and double boosted, we got COVID on a Bermuda cruise in May, although we were not taking precautions on the ship. Does RCCL still have sanitizer and masks in the room? We are bringing N95 masks.

 

I talked to guest services.  They will take care of all requirements for Canada they say, it including the required testing.  They said tomorrow.  I was worried because check in was checked out and I had not completed that portion of it.  They said that will be taken care of at the same time.

 

Masks are in rooms, but i do not believe i saw sanitizer.

Edited September 25, 2022 by Rogueperson

[joyandjerry]

2 minutes ago, Rogueperson said:

 

I talked to guest services.  They will take care of all requirements for Canada they say, it including the required testing.  They said tomorrow.  I was worried because check in was checked out and I had not completed that portion of it.  They said that will be taken care of at the same time.

 

Masks are in rooms, but i do not believe i saw sanitizer.

Thanks for the speedy reply. But just enjoy your vacay! Your cruise to Canada/NE is b4 the regs possibly change. I checked in for the second leg already. Our first B2B!

[Another_Critic]

15 minutes ago, Rogueperson said:

I was worried because check in was checked out and I had not completed that portion of it.  

I've noticed in the past that app check-in does not work when connected to the ship's wifi.  However, it does work via the website.  YMMV.  Of course, you can only complete some of the check-in process via the app.  

[Another_Critic]

Can you please post a picture of the Diamond letter with the on-board benefits? 

[Rogueperson]

1 hour ago, joyandjerry said:

Thanks for the speedy reply. But just enjoy your vacay! Your cruise to Canada/NE is b4 the regs possibly change. I checked in for the second leg already. Our first B2B!

Its my first B2B too.  

[Biker19]

1 hour ago, Rogueperson said:

This was my internet speed today.  

Normal for Stream on a non-O3B equipped ship. 

[Rogueperson]

1 hour ago, Biker19 said:

Normal for Stream on a non-O3B equipped ship. 

I’ve gotten 5 mbps on Grandeur before.  Overall not a great improvement, but on non O3B its amazing 😃

[Biker19]

3 minutes ago, Rogueperson said:

I’ve gotten 5 mbps on Grandeur before.  Overall not a great improvement, but on non O3B its amazing 😃

All ships, pending Starlink installations, are usually capped at 4Mbps down for Stream- the thing that makes the performance much better on O3B ships is not the down speed but the 3x lower latency (ping around 200ms instead of 600ms). 

Edited September 25, 2022 by Biker19

[Rogueperson]

1 hour ago, Another_Critic said:

Can you please post a picture of the Diamond letter with the on-board benefits? 

the letter is different.  Doesn’t mention much outside the 4 free drinks.

 

 

[Rogueperson]

Its Fast and Furious, cruise ship edition.  We are racing Carnival Magic to Bermuda.

 

[Rogueperson]

So far today’s been an interesting day.

 

I expected breakfast in the MDR, the only time on this leg i will eat at the MDR to get the best value.  I was confused because i thought it was an open an hour earlier, but we set our clock ahead so i lost an hour without realizing it.  Also, i went down hard last night so i was a little groggy.

 

This morning we had a brunch.  I’m not sure i’ve ever had a “brunch” on Royal ever.  It might be because we lost an hour on a sea day, but the menu had both breakfast and lunch, but nothing special really.

 

Afterwards, I made the wife coffee before our scheduled lunch at Chops and let her get caffeinated.   The loss of an hour messed me up here, but i intentionally did not eat a heavy breakfast so that helped.

 

I won’t repost copies of food I’ve aready had or menus.  But I had the mushroom soup

 

Filet Mignon.

 

Warm Chocolate cake.

the menu for is a bit small, especially when the other two specialty restaurants are not available for lunch really.  Giovanni’s was open today for lunch, but we are going for dinner the same day.  Izumi’s has sushi making class

on both sea days and not open.  I wanted to take the wife to the Sushi and Sake Lunch but its not available.  I heard they didn’t get sake delivery, but at the same time, I got my She’s a Geisha and that has sake.

 

After lunch, I just wandered aimlessly here.

 

What we found was the Taste

of the Caribbean event.  Pretty much a class on making these drinks.

 

 

 

 

 

You should known I’m an absolute lightweight on booze.  This knocked me out.  We barely made out dinner reservations at Giovanni’s.

 

Menu

 

 

 

Mozerella di Bufala

Pork Belly

Ossobucco

 

Tiramisu

I like Giovanni’s way better than Izumi’s.  Just a better flavor