Live - One Way Voyage(r), Boston to San Juan 10/30

[Momof3gurlz]

50 minutes ago, mo&fran said:

I looked at some weather stations on St Thomas , and it showed some pretty heavy rain fall rates and like 40mph wind gusts. Our weather guys are predicting we may get some of that next week.  Weather service is not currently looking at any tropical systems. 

The pictures don’t really capture it,  just torrential rain with those strong wind gusts.  That lasted for about 30 minutes or so in the downtown area.  Light rain has continued all afternoon with heavy fog over the hills.  
The forecast is looking good for San Juan tomorrow 🙂🌤️.

[mo&fran]

1 minute ago, Momof3gurlz said:

The pictures don’t really capture it,  just torrential rain with those strong wind gusts.  That lasted for about 30 minutes or so in the downtown area.  Light rain has continued all afternoon with heavy fog over the hills.  
The forecast is looking good for San Juan tomorrow 🙂🌤️.

As long as that system keeps moving, the radar showed it raining there also.

It expected to be here next week.

We're leaving on Explorer tomorrow, Coco Cay Monday, then west to Falmouth and Grand Cayman.

[bobmacliberty]

21 hours ago, Td6462 said:

If you have any insight.... I still can't upload photos. I can now post text only. I've cleared all cookies, restarted my phone and am using Chrome.  

At the end of the photo upload I just get (server error -200). 

Next week is island hopping every day and really was looking forward to sharing photos with the group. 

The only successful photo upload was cruise port boston on embarkation day.

 

Guessing here, but have you tried uploading from different places on the ship?  It may just be that you have a really poor connection to the ship's Wi-Fi.

[bobmacliberty]

20 hours ago, Momof3gurlz said:

So this is how St Thomas day is going 😕.  We gave up and got back on the ship, both of us completely soaked from the hips down.  Even though we had rain ponchos, the wind kept blowing them up.  I feel bad for those that had fun excursions planned today. 

 

 

That stinks.  

[Momof3gurlz]

Last night’s dinner in the MDR. 

 

Coconut shrimp appetizer 

 

Roasted beet salad

 

We both had prime rib (sorry, I cut into it before remembering the picture)

We also had the apple blossom again for dessert. 
it was back to the R bar after dinner where we again met up with Td6462 and chatted for a while.  After he left, the bar staff got up to some shenanigans, pouring rainbow shots, tiered martinis and Jaeger bombs for the bar.  

 

 

 

We’re off the ship now, enjoying San Juan, the weather is sunny & hot.   I’ll have more pictures to upload later today along with my final thoughts.  

[Momof3gurlz]

I was up early this morning to check-in for our flight tomorrow morning at 6am on Southwest.  We were already in port and once the sun came up, this was our view, looking out towards Condado and Old San Juan.

 

 We did self walk-off at 8:30 am and breezed right through.  Once outside the port building, you are kind of rushed by taxi drivers and your guides but they’re not pushy, a simple “no thank you” and they walk on to the next person.  I had ordered an Uber XL which was 7 minutes away and only $10.33.  The street our hotel is on is closed to vehicles, they’re laying an all new brickwork.  It’s a pain for Uber or taxi service because they have to drop you at the nearest intersection.  But it’s a short walk and if your room is on the street side a bonus is it should be pretty quiet.  The hotel is so charming.  Check- in isn’t until 4pm ( we were there before 9 am), but they held our bags.  My plan was to go to Cafe Mallorca for breakfast but they’re closed on Sundays.  The hotel has a ver small restaurant in their lobby so we ate there and it was quite good.  The name of it is Cafe Mimosa, so naturally….

 

Next we set out exploring.  Not many shops were open, so we headed to the Paseo de la Princesa and started walking along the edge of the water towards el Morro.  

 

 

 

 

 

Along the way we came across many groups of the famous “gatos” (cats).

 

We finally reached the end.  It was almost a 3 mile walk with a beautiful sights and a nice view at the end.  We’ve toured both el Morro and San Cristobal previously, so after that it was time for a refreshing drink at Barrachina. 

 

More to come later. 

Edited November 6, 2022 by Momof3gurlz

[Sea Dog]

3 minutes ago, Momof3gurlz said:

The hotel has a ver small restaurant in their lobby so we ate there and it was quite good.

 

I'm glad you ate there. I forgot to tell you their food is really good. We ate breakfast there twice and loved it. Did you get up to the little bar in the hotel?

[Ocean Boy]

I love Old San Juan and really like seeing your pictures.

 

 

 

[Td6462]

4 hours ago, bobmacliberty said:

 

Guessing here, but have you tried uploading from different places on the ship?  It may just be that you have a really poor connection to the ship's Wi-Fi.

Yes, I have tried all over the ship. I was able to upload text after again clearing all cookies per the directions possible after only I had connected to 4G in St. Thomas. At this point I'm certain it's a CC server issue. I don't know what the issue is but I can upload to another Royal cruise board with no issue. I'm currently on 5G in San Juan and still have the same problem. 

[Luckynana]

@Momof3gurlzBeautiful pictures of Old San Juan, Debbie!   Sorry St. Thomas' weather was so rainy.  Thank you for taking us along on your cruise!!  Safe travels tomorrow!✈️

[Ocean Boy]

Can't believe the cruise is already over.

[Momof3gurlz]

2 hours ago, Ocean Boy said:

Can't believe the cruise is already over.

Tell me about it!  I really wish we could’ve booked next week too.  If it wasn’t for our youngest turning 30 next week we would have. 

[Momof3gurlz]

We’re currently waiting for a table at Raices.  I hate to say this but our experience at Hotel Casablanca hasn’t been the greatest.  We went back there around 3 pm, tired from walking and the heat.  Figured we would just wait in the lobby for our room to be ready.  We let them know we were there and sat and enjoyed the a.c.  
It got very busy with checkins at 4 pm, with everyone getting their room keys right away. Around 4 :15 we checked with the desk and were told our room “ wasn’t quite ready”.  Around 4:30 we were given a room that was — disappointing to say the least.  I had booked a balcony queen room that offered “ beautiful views”.  The room was not clean.  Dirty floors and the clincher was someone’s dirty washcloth hanging in the shower.  I went down to the lobby to complain and they gave us another room, same lousy view but it’s clean. 

 

filthy, stained lampshade

 

[Ocean Boy]

19 minutes ago, Momof3gurlz said:

Tell me about it!  I really wish we could’ve booked next week too.  If it wasn’t for our youngest turning 30 next week we would have. 

Ya could have brought her with you... problem solved.😊

[Sea Dog]

10 minutes ago, Momof3gurlz said:

We’re currently waiting for a table at Raices.  I hate to say this but our experience at Hotel Casablanca hasn’t been the greatest.  We went back there around 3 pm, tired from walking and the heat.  Figured we would just wait in the lobby for our room to be ready.  We let them know we were there and sat and enjoyed the a.c.  
It got very busy with checkins at 4 pm, with everyone getting their room keys right away. Around 4 :15 we checked with the desk and were told our room “ wasn’t quite ready”.  Around 4:30 we were given a room that was — disappointing to say the least.  I had booked a balcony queen room that offered “ beautiful views”.  The room was not clean.  Dirty floors and the clincher was someone’s dirty washcloth hanging in the shower.  I went down to the lobby to complain and they gave us another room, same lousy view but it’s clean. 

 

filthy, stained lampshade

 

 

Oh no! I'm so sorry. That room is unacceptable. I feel bad because I recommended that hotel and praised it very highly. Granted our views were about the same but better in the higher floors. Sounds like they were not prepared for everyone. I hope your meal at Raices will be good. 

Edited November 6, 2022 by Sea Dog

[Ocean Boy]

13 minutes ago, Momof3gurlz said:

 

filthy, stained lampshade

 

 

Disappointing view and that lamp shade is gross! How do you even get stains like that?

[Momof3gurlz]

13 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said:

Ya could have brought her with you... problem solved.😊

She would’ve loved that!

[Momof3gurlz]

13 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:

 

Oh no! I'm so sorry. That room is unacceptable. I feel bad because I recommended that hotel and praised it very highly. Granted our views were about the same but better in the higher floors. Sounds like they were not prepared for everyone. I hope your meal at Raices will be good. 

No worries Greg!  It was on my short list to begin with.  It gets so many great reviews, this can’t possibly be the norm.  The replacement room is much better. still the same lousy view brut we’ll be checking out at 4:15 am so it isn’t a big deal.  

[Sea Dog]

15 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said:

Disappointing view and that lamp shade is gross! How do you even get stains like that?

Almost looks like water stains.

[Momof3gurlz]

22 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said:

Disappointing view and that lamp shade is gross! How do you even get stains like that?

I’d rather not know 🫣

[Momof3gurlz]

Diner at Raices was excellent.  I had Skirt Steak, Andy had paella.  Earlier this evening we realized that we met 36 years ago tonight, so we toasted ourselves at dinner. 

 

The streets of Old San Juan are so pretty at night. I took these on our walk to the restaurant. 

 

 

Tomorrow is a very early wake-up.  We arranged for a taxi to pick us up at 4.30 am, I hope he shows up!

I hope to be able to post my final thoughts and a few more random ship photo’s tomorrow also.  Sorry for all the typos today, I was tired and posting on the run.  

Edited November 7, 2022 by Momof3gurlz

[Sea Dog]

So happy you had a greAt meal at Raices. Congratulations on your anniversary.

[Sunshine3601]

1 hour ago, Ocean Boy said:

Disappointing view and that lamp shade is gross! How do you even get stains like that?

I looked at that and thought the same then thought maybe someone spilled a drink on it.  ??

[Ocean Boy]

4 minutes ago, Sunshine3601 said:

I looked at that and thought the same then thought maybe someone spilled a drink on it.  ??

Gross no matter how it happened.

[Sunshine3601]

HI Deb and Andy,   Happy first meeting Anniversary🥰

I have really enjoyed your review and beautiful photos.

Thank you for taking us on your cruise.

I definitely have to try a ciarpiarini (spelling) on my next cruise.

Safe travels home tomorrow.

 

Edited November 7, 2022 by Sunshine3601