Live B2B on Voyager from Boston part 2 -11/6-11/13 San Juan Island Hop

[Td6462]

After many technical difficulties we seemed to have resolved the photo upload issues. I will attempt to resize my photos and start from where @Momof3gurlz departed Sunday morning. I hope you will enjoy!

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Our second leg began with our consecutive cruiser letter.

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All 168 B2B cruisers gathered in the Star Lounge at 9:15 AM. On board staff gave us our new Seapass cards and asked us to have a seat.Coffee, tea and pastries were provided for everyone to enjoy. Roughly 40 minutes passed and CBP boarded the vessel.

We were asked to line up and scan off the ship with our old cards and circle around and reenter the Star lounge. Upon reentry CBP checked our passports and we needed to sit back down. After all Pax were completed we then returned to a line and scanned on the ship with our new cards.

We were then free to roam about the ship.

[Td6462]

Our stops this week.

Embarkation - San Juan 

Day 2 - St.Thomas 

Day 3 - St. Croix

Day 4 - St. Maarten 

Day 5 - St. Lucia 

Day 6 - Barbados

Day 7 - St. Kitts

Day 8 - San Juan 

 

We have snorkeling excursions scheduled each day this week and I am excited to share all the photos this week!

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During the 2 hours I ran around the basically empty ship and took photos of everything I thought would be interesting. 

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This is the menu from our "blended" Key and B2B lunch.

[Sunshine3601]

Busy itinerary with some of my favorites.   I hope you have smooth seas with sunny skies.

Glad to hear you got the technical issues resolved.  Last week sounded frustrating.

I love when you have the ship near empty on turnover day.

Look forward to your cruise.😃

[Td6462]

The first night's dinner was definitely challenging. When we arrived for our 6PM seating in the MDR we found another couple sitting at our assigned table. The staff tried to seat us at 2 other tables but they also had been occupied by other guests unexpectedly. We chose to go to the Windjammer. Upon arrival at the Windjammer we were shocked to find a line that stretched toe to heel out the door. It seemed everyone on the ship went at the very same time.

We decided to leave as there was no room to even walk in the venue. 

When we went back it appeared a tornado had gone through the entire place. There were no less than 75 tables heaped with dishes. 

We ended up clearing and wiping our own table.

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11 minutes ago, Sunshine3601 said:

Busy itinerary with some of my favorites.   I hope you have smooth seas with sunny skies.

Glad to hear you got the technical issues resolved.  Last week sounded frustrating.

I love when you have the ship near empty on turnover day.

Look forward to your cruise.😃

Thank you so much!  We are currently in the most beautiful lighting storm. It's amazing! The week looks a bit soggy. I'm certain we'll make the best of it.

[Td6462]

Today was a beautiful day in St. Thomas. The weather held for rhe entire day and while it was very humid it was really nice to have some sun.

Our shore excursion to St. John "Trunk bay beach and snorkel" was canceled for operational issues so we walked around down town today.

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Un requested both the Windjammer manager and the deck 5 MDR maitre d had advised the food and beverage director of last nights events and our experience. 

He was kind enough to trest us to dinner at Chops with his sincere apologies. 

[JamesEM]

Following along, the itinerary looks great. 

[Sunshine3601]

That was very nice the F&B Director acknowledged the diner issue and you were able to enjoy Chops for free😃

Sorry your excursion was cancelled.   

 

[Ocean Boy]

That is quite the packed itinerary. I've never been on a cruise without at least one sea day.

 

 

[Momof3gurlz]

Just found this thread and I’m happy to follow along.  Great pictures you posted, so glad you were able to get the issue resolved.  Too bad that excursion was cancelled, but what a beautiful weather day you had in St Thomas. That was also great that management acknowledged the previous nights problems and treated you to a nice dinner.  

[clochette]

looking forward to following you, and what bad luck at dinner the windjammer does look like a tornado went through.

[Td6462]

To spite the forecast today ended up being a fantastic day! We did the Buck Island snorkeling tour in St. Croix. It was a 40 minute ride over to the other side of the island. We then boarded a Coast Guard inspected vessel and got on our way! Our tour operator was great and made sure everyone was accommodated. While the operator did an excellent job with the time allocated i do wish we had one more hour to explore....

[Td6462]

Our table was ready and available tonight for dinner in the MDR.  We have new servers this week so they don't know our families groove. We connected so well with last weeks servers and I find it hard to adjust "be patient" while our new servers learn what we need. This is especially hard as our 4 year old can see our server's from last week in the dining room. 

The repeat of last week's menu makes our choices easier this week. 

Our service team today was definitely mis matched. 

Tomorrow is a new day!

[perfect match]

How was the snorkeling on your St Croix tour? Any underwater pictures? 🐠🐡🐟

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6 hours ago, perfect match said:

How was the snorkeling on your St Croix tour? Any underwater pictures? 🐠🐡🐟

The snorkeling was nice. There was a decent amount of marine life. It is sad that the coral is in rough shape.

I would say it was about the same as Roatan.

My apologies on the underwater photos. I forgot the underwater camera in our room. I also didn't bring a method to transfer from the camera to CC on our trip.

[Td6462]

The day started with breakfast in the Windjammer and we went first thing at 6:45. It was very easy to get everything we wanted with no lines and no waiting. We had a snorkeling excursion scheduled for today. We lined up at 8:15 on the dock but were advised due to nicole passing it had created low visibility conditions and we may not be able to see much so we canceled and brought our gear back to our cabin. 

We decided to head into town and do the touristy thing and sit on the beach for the morning.

We took the water taxi ($7 round trip PP) from the pier and then pushed past the "beach chair special" guys and walked down the beach a ways.  Near the end we found a very nice man cleaning up seaweed. We chatted for a few minutes about how the environment has changed and how they have to clean everything up every day. The pile he had cleaned up this morning just from his section was up to my waist (I'm 6'4"). It was actually sort of shocking! After chatting we continued on but quickly turned around and asked if his chairs were open. 

Absolutely no pressure or pushing. He said two for $20 with the umbrella. 

I would highly recommend this spot. 

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After our beach time we walked around and explored. We took a few photos.

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Grandeur was in port with us today.

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@Sea Dog I noticed this in a shop and had to take a photo!

Edited November 9, 2022 by Td6462
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