LIVE— Norwaylady goes b2b on Sil 27.March to 10.April in the Caribbean

[sunviking90]

19 hours ago, Norwaylady said:

That feeling🤩 

When you can put on shorts, sandals and t-shirt…..🥰🥰🥰

 

We took it slow this morning. (Since I was awake 05.30😝) 

So around 8.00 we were ready to go for a walk on the beach. 

Beautiful 23c and perfect breeze for walking. 

From our hotel to Publix Sunny Isle Beach it’s around 1,8km each way. So we walked by the ocean and picked up some breakfast fruit and beverage. 

Then we walked back to our location and had a picnic on the sun loungers on the beach. Just taking it slow and relaxing 😎 

 

 

NewPort Beach resort is partly renovated. The building has new balconies and balcony doors. Inside is not renovated.

It’s time for an inside renovation. 

As of now the pool deck is under renovation. So it’s closed for the public. And it’s work in visual progress. 

The pool deck has a decent size. (We are overlooking it from our balcony) and a large pool area. 

So it will probably be a nice area when they finish the renovation. 

 

After some hours in the sun, we were “finished” for today’s sun exposure…. Remember, we are milk white after a long winter! 

So no need to be a pink panther on our first full day☀️🔥☀️

 

 

Mr was ready for a beer😅 So he “parked” Norwaylady for relaxing mode in the room and went for a walk. According to google maps, there are a beer store near by….

Guess what😝 He did find the beer store…

So a happy camper sat on the balcony enjoying the view and breeze.

 

After some down time, Mr was ready for dinner hunt. 

 

Tonight’s dinner is shopped at Publix😅 They have lots of good options.

 A nice walk in the afternoon are never wrong😎

So salad it is👍🏻. (We are just not into fine dining today❤️🙈😂 ) 

It has been “electric” for work and other things since January started🤪🤪 

So today it’s just a lazy day. (You see, those sea days….. they are very welcome) 

 

Tomorrow it’s boarding day⚓️❤️

We have check in time 13.30-14. (We always get a late slot. We prefer to arrive late. So the crazy gangway rush is finished when we arrive) 

Fingers crossed that boarding will go smooth and that it will not be as crazy as in Vancouver… (remember we stood in line for 2h for security and immigration😵‍💫) 

 

Yes Vancouver suffers from being only a “seasonal” cruise port and the requirement to clear US Customs before boarding. They also seem to be using a lot of the convention centre areas as terminal waiting rooms now. We live here, and are never sure where to go! Still the best place to start your Alaska cruise though!

I love following your trip reports Norwaylady! I was in Norway years ago when I was 18 (my sister married a Norwegian) and would love to go back.

Edited March 27, 2023 by sunviking90

[Norwaylady]

So, lunch buffet closed 14.30. 

We arrived 14.20 and it was still full selection and service. 

It was plenty to choose from. 

 

Mrs Club Soda has arrived😂😂😂😅

 

We had some salat and nachos on the outdoor terrace. 

Dessert is now in Sunset Bar🥂🍹

 

 

Von Voyage⚓️ 

 

I forgot to pack my CC beads😔 

[hcat]

Bon Voyage...

you both look great in cruise mode!

[Norwaylady]

2 hours ago, sunviking90 said:

Yes Vancouver suffers from being only a “seasonal” cruise port and the requirement to clear US Customs before boarding. They also seem to be using a lot of the convention centre areas as terminal waiting rooms now. We live here, and are never sure where to go! Still the best place to start your Alaska cruise though!

I love following your trip reports Norwaylady! I was in Norway years ago when I was 18 (my sister married a Norwegian) and would love to go back.

We really enjoyed Vancouver❤️  despite the awful boarding process. 
Canada 🇨🇦 is great 🥰 

We are hungry for more Alaska adventure. 
We want to try earlier in the season…

And we want to go further north. 
 

You are more then welcome to Oslo or the Norwegian fjords🇳🇴 

[Norwaylady]

Beautiful sail away ☀️🫶🏻 Sun is shining and we are happy campers❤️

Crew is on, walk around in Sunset and they pay attention to details. 

If they keep this spirit during our cruise, it’s excellent. 
 

 

Really like the Sunset renovation. More seating and some shade😊

 

🤪😂😅🤪 Profiling, putting people in a box….

Yes, I said something about it on my last live and someone asked why we always carry our official wedding documents. 

Our CC and fb had planned for a meet & greet in Sunset for sail away🥂🙌🏻⚓️😎 

Yes, you know the drill🥳😝🍹☀️

 

Well, I forgot my cc blue beads at home. 

So I approached the group and asked if this was the cc 🎉 party….

Yep, I know I don’t fit the profile😝

“ Darling, can we help you? We are having a meeting…” 

I said sorry and walked on.

 

This is Mr on a field trip…. Bringing his kid🤣🤣🤣

 

 

#Thankyouforfishfreshairandmountainwalks

 

At 16.45 it was time to go downstairs to see if the suitcases had arrived. 

So we could unpack and get ready for dining & show.

Lucky 🍀 us, the suitcases were waiting for us🥰 (aka Norwaylady, so I could unpack)

 

I did a speed test on the WiFi in our stateroom. This is by the balcony door. 

 

 

 

[dlh015]

Whew...can't believe I've missed almost 4 pages of your posts!!  Suddenly, there you were!! But I managed to wade thru...as always, great pics.

 

Now I will sit back and enjoy *your* ride!!  Thanks for sharing!!

[Norwaylady]

Around 18.45 it was time to go for tonight’s show. 

The Edge effect

 

Before the show, they had a video of Mike cruise director “flying” around the ship and be a world class seller of specialty dining. 

This took 7.mins😵‍💫🤪😝 not my cup of tea for classy….. 

 

But, the show tonight was good. It’s a Capella. Good mixture of songs and easy going entertainment. 

We headed straight from the show to dinner. We were able to get a table asap and had a great service team. 

Pankaj & Mangal did an excellent start of the cruise. Uday made sure Mr had wine for his dinner. 

So all in all, a good start of service and kitchen❤️🙌🏻👍🏻

 

We had:

Shrimp Luis

 

Coconut soup 

 

Beetroot salad

 

Jerk spiced chicken 

Crème brûlée 

 

Banana blueberry crumble 

 

Sleep well and god night from Sil😴

[Norwaylady]

Rise & Shine 😎

 

Mr is sleeping and I’m early bird…. 05.30😅 

WiFi is very functional, so no problems reading and downloading the newspaper in bed🤓 Perfect 👍🏻 

 

At 7.00 it was time for coffee. So I went downstairs to collect it from Al Bacio.

???? Where’s everyone? 

Empty, no line and 3 smiles from the crew😁😁😁 

Normally it’s packed and lined up…

 

So I ordered to lattes and went upstairs to wake up Mr and enjoy our balcony before we decide what we want for breakfast. 

(The crew in Al Bacio & I started on perfect track, coffee was perfect;) 

 

Todays program: 

 

 

Edited March 28, 2023 by Norwaylady

[countess5]

I see the Senior Officers Reception is 7:45 Pm on Silhouette as it was on Reflection, just don’t get that time.

 

Try the mixology event, we attended twice, once would have been enough, but would be interested how it’s done on Sil. I am sure if it was a beer tasting there would be no question Mr, would want to attend! 😂

 

Enjoy the sail today! 

 

Cheers! 

[Barwick Cruiser]

Sounds like you’re having a great start to your cruise, glad it’s all going well. I noticed that you have a new Podium speaker from our cruise in February, the topics so far def sound more interesting. Cruise director David is so great, we really enjoyed his participation in many events and his general good humour..very approachable too. If they have the archery try to sign up, was a lot of fun and I won a deck of celebrity cards 🃏. Not much I know but we love to play lol. Cheers! 🥂 🍻 

[Norwaylady]

Today’s breakfast was Captain’s Club in Tuscan. 

We were greeted by CC hostess Alejandra (my Mexican name sister;) 

 

We had a lovely table by the window. I really like this view🤩

Extremely happy for table service🥰🥰

Friendly crew and good atmosphere. 

Cc breakfast menu: 

 

 

We went for the sharing plate. It’s something for everyone…. 

 

Mr had a Bellini to kick off the day😝 I kept to OJ😂😂 (08.00 it’s too early for me🤪 I know…. It’s always 5’o clock somewhere….) 

 

 

CC hostess was walking from table to table to have a small chat, checking in that everything was all good. 

And to remind everyone that wine tasting takes place today at 11.00😅 

 

Mr wanted to take part in the CC wine tasting. 

 

 

So Mr went to wine tasting and Norwaylady took a walk on deck. 

Chair hogs were out and about😝 

 

One thing I dislike is the retreat deck… I can’t walk my full route and have all the stairs. But walking track and Sunset route is okay. 

The fun thing about walking around, is that I can have a look of my fellow passengers… what are they reading and are there any Norwegian books😁

I detected 4 Norwegian readers on deck. So that means we are at least 6 Norwegians onboard🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴

 

After walking for 1,5h Mr arrived on deck. He was on the hunt of me and some water.  

His plan further today was to attend the beyond the podium at noon. So I rehydrated by him before he went off to the speaker and I went to change to swimming clothes and just taking it easy on deck. 
 

 

Mr has just arrived back from beyond the podium. It wasn’t bad or good was his answer… 

He enjoyed Milos on Eclipse more.

 

For the first time of all our cruises, I do have a special request. Not like a specific table or something “typical”.
So I dropped of the request in an envelope at the concierge/CC on my way to the walk outside. Fingers crossed they will accept it🙏🏻

[Norwaylady]

4 hours ago, countess5 said:

I see the Senior Officers Reception is 7:45 Pm on Silhouette as it was on Reflection, just don’t get that time.

 

Try the mixology event, we attended twice, once would have been enough, but would be interested how it’s done on Sil. I am sure if it was a beer tasting there would be no question Mr, would want to attend! 😂

 

Enjoy the sail today! 

 

Cheers! 

For us, the time is not a big problem. We always eat late. So normally we go to dinner around 20.30-21. But I do understand those eating early. It’s a conflict. 
When they have the event in the evening, it will be a conflict for someone…. It’s hard to please everyone🙄 

 

I think Mr is tempted to try the Mixology event…🍹 So we will probably attend😝

Crew is very friendly and nothing to complain about🥰 So we are up to a great start😇

 

[Bo1953]

21 minutes ago, Norwaylady said:

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Mr wanted to take part in the CC wine tasting. 

 

 

So Mr went to wine tasting and Norwaylady took a walk on deck. 

Chair hogs were out and about😝 

 

Ms. NL, I trust these photos are not how Mr. NL finished the wine tasting... LOL

 

Cheers, thank you and bon voyage

[cruise wizard]

Quick question about the CC breakfast - do they have flavored yogurt available? I didn't see it on the menu's. My wife loves mixed berries and fruit yogurt.

 

Thanks

[TeaBag]

I am also enjoying your review very much.  I don't understand why you think you are "underdogs" or not priority, when you're from Norway and Elite.  Such a beautiful country and soooo expensive!  When DH worked there for a week and I was enjoying myself looking around, I could hardly afford to eat!!  The price of a Whopper was out of sight!

We sailed the Norway Intensive last July on Azamara and really enjoyed everything we saw.  However, we were disappointed not to sail into Gerainger or dock in Bergen which was our Captain's home.  We took an excursion to Gerainger as it was a must see for us.  Beautiful place.

I hope you really enjoy Silhouette.  It's our favourite Celebrity ship.  if you can, check out the Lawn Club Grill.

Bon Voyage.

[boxkite]

Norwaylady, following along on your wonderful cruise, Mr looks very relaxed!

 

Thanks for taking the time to post.

[Norwaylady]

11 minutes ago, TeaBag said:

I am also enjoying your review very much.  I don't understand why you think you are "underdogs" or not priority, when you're from Norway and Elite.  Such a beautiful country and soooo expensive!  

Very happy you liked Norway on AZ. Captain Johannes is perfect on a Norway cruise🇳🇴 AZ has often very good sailings in Norway. 

What I mean in “underdog” is that we are never in majority in guest country.

And when it comes to MoveUp, the US market has the offer sendt out several weeks before the Nordic market, if it’s offered. 
For this b2b, we were not offered at all. But we know us guests received it several weeks before the sailing from the roll call. 
 

When it’s days you celebrate in US/UK/ national days etc. They will make some sort of celebration. Either by decor on the ship, in the buffets, notice in the cruise compass etc. 

This doesn’t apply to Scandinavian national days, even when we sailed in Scandinavia on the national day. And it was over 200 Norwegian guests onboard. I don’t expect bell’s & whistles in big numbers. But it would be nice if they did something, since we were there…

 

Guests from the Nordic has not been able to participate in PowerUp points. So when other guests had the chance of making more captain’s club points. We can’t participate. 
The Easter competition they have going on now, are not for guests from the Nordic. 

I will not be angry or upset, it’s just how it is😎 

Happy Cruising⚓️🌴⚓️

[Barwick Cruiser]

You have such a great attitude! But, what is this Easter competition they’re having that not all guests can participate? That doesn’t sound fair at all and I’ve never heard of an onboard contest that not all passengers could participate in 😠 

 

Have to agree about your comment re the podium speaker, your current speaker is different than the one we had but it’s tough to compete with Milos or Brent 😅

[Lastdance]

I am enjoying all of your detailed information, especially seen through your eyes.  The Silly will always have great memories for us; we met two wonderful couples that we love to be with when cruising.  Our cruise was in the Adriatic.

[Norwaylady]

At 16.00 it was time to walk down to our cabin. 

Canapés had arrived. 

 

No stress is the deal. 

 

So it was time for a shower and a little Power Nap before show & dinner. 

 

Tonight is evening chic. So it’s captain’s welcome party in grand foyer at 20.00.

So time to dress up and have fun🥳

 

Tonight’s show is Cosmopolitan. It’s a production show. So it’s exciting to hear and see what the cast of Silly has to offer🎶🎶

Captain had a senior officer presentation before the show.

 

Oohhh, something was not on track for tonight’s show😬 So after the presentation it was a few minutes waiting…

Tonight’s show was technically very good. The acrobatic part was great. Singers was good. But it’s lacking in the thread of the show. So not the preforming. 

Just a bit boring. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the show and before dinner it was officers meeting in the grand foyer. I have never on any cruises seen so many officers “scared out”😅 nice touch to see the entire line😇

 

At 20.20 we decided it was time for dinner… we have select dining. 

So we checked in and hostess decided that we arrived at the same time as yesterday…. So we will move you to fixed seating 20.30 downstairs. 

Okey, we always goes to dinner around 20.15-20.45 ish… so we will survive.

 

Well, we are now assigned to a table for 2 downstairs. 

Waiters and Somalier is okay. Vincent Somalier did an excellent job. I Kadek & Kheshav is probably okay , but we will test them a bit more. Before we will say yes or good. 

But we are neighbours to a French couple that doesn’t speak English… and a us couple that are probably my age, but they are definitely on spring break. And they found it perfectly fine to watch tv on their phone loudly during dinner🙄🫡🫥 

And we are seated strangely due to a pole. So if the other guests lean’s back, his in our dinner plate… 

So really not impressed by the hostess choice of table😔

We are really not happy or impressed by this decision of her. 

 

For dinner tonight we had:

Corn soup

Salad

 

Shrimp pasta 

 

Lamb

 

Ice cream 

 

Strawberry soup panna cotta 

 

[Georgia_Peaches]

12 minutes ago, Norwaylady said:

We are really not happy or impressed by this decision of her. 

Seems like it’s time to ask for your original table back. Guests watching tv on their phone at dinner is not acceptable. 
 

you both look great for chic night!

[Norwaylady]

after dinner, we needed to drown our sorrows…

 

The live band was on I grand foyer, so we decided on a cosmopolitan in passport bar. 

I have to say, live music is really on par on this cruise. Lots of live music and in all locations. So happy for this🥰 

[Norwaylady]

Today are we docking at 09.00 in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic 

We have a shore excursion booked via X. 

Time for some action! 

 

Our tour is Off-road Dominican adventure Polaris PZR. Meeting time 09.15. 

 

Mr wanted breakfast in Tuscan. So I can’t say no to his request😘 

So off we will go at 08.00. 
 

Al Bacio was smiling and friendly at 06.30. Coffee is perfect🥰

 

❄️❄️❄️ really sorry to see in the Norwegian news that it had arrived more snow during the morning❄️❄️❄️ 

 

Balcony coffee in light clothes😁😝 

 

Can’t please them all😝

 

Today’s cruise compass 

 

 

[LIMPIT]

And they found it perfectly fine to watch tv on their phone loudly during dinner

 

That is so rude, one of my pet hates, no consideration for other guests.

[countess5]

You definitely need to go and have your table moved. They should have no issue changing your table.

We had lunch yesterday with some cruising friends we are going to Japan with in 2024 and Barbie had our table moved 3 times. Get what you want! 

 

You are there for two weeks and that just won’t work.

 

Cheers!