🚢 SYMPHONY LIVE -12/16-12/24 🚢 She’s sort of like a song. 🚢

[topanga49er]

On 12/16/2023 at 9:29 PM, Dan83 said:

This was the first time flying in to PBI for a Port Everglades cruise. It went very smoothly and I won’t hesitate to do it again in the future. Overnighted at a Boynton Beach hotel. I saved enough on a one way ticket alone to more than compensate for the $80 Uber cost. Round trip for a family of 4 equals huge savings over FLL. 

Wow, I would have lost that bet.  Which airlines do you fly?  I am local to PBI and always thought that FLL was much cheaper.  Will have to check more at PBI in future...

thx

[#55worktoplay]

Very late to the party but enjoying the journey. Love that Daryl has joined. 
 

Have a great time!

[h20skibum]

I do need to get back on track, but been out enjoying the day, then off to the show soon.  
 

Meanwhile, here is today’s compass

cruisecompassDay4.pdf

 

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And here are a few things that were in our cabin that may be of interest 

 

 

 

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Stopped at the crown lounge briefly.  These were their snacks, and they didn’t look too bad. 

 

 

[Coralc]

Curious. What are the bright yellow things in the Crown Lounge? ☺️

[Ocean Boy]

20 minutes ago, Coralc said:

Curious. What are the bright yellow things in the Crown Lounge? ☺️

They look like little quiches to me.

[Dan83]

6 hours ago, topanga49er said:

Wow, I would have lost that bet.  Which airlines do you fly?  I am local to PBI and always thought that FLL was much cheaper.  Will have to check more at PBI in future...

thx

We flew Delta. I’m a little biased toward them. For these particular dates, PBI was the cheapest by far. Although last cruise FLL had the best deal. 

[Dan83]

 

Our first block delivered today. Another attempt at Hiro in 20 minutes, then I’ll try to upload some pics from Aruba. 

[h20skibum]

1 hour ago, Coralc said:

Curious. What are the bright yellow things in the Crown Lounge? ☺️

 

1 hour ago, Ocean Boy said:

They look like little quiches to me.

They were little quiches.  What a keen eye. 

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1 hour ago, Dan83 said:

Another attempt at Hiro in 20 minutes, then I’ll try to upload some pics from Aruba. 

Yeah, they rescheduled us for Hiro tonight, and it originally said it would be at 9:00.  We got there after we got out of the 1977 show at 8:50, and found they changed the time to 8:30, so it was packed and well underway.  We will try another night. 

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Aruba today.  We didn’t have any excursions booked, so one of the first things we did was seek out an optical place to repair Susan’s glasses. She had lost the nose pad to one side, and we found the ship doesn’t sell any repair kits. 
 

So we found this place, just off the ship. 

 

They were great. $4 and she was good as new. 

 

[Ocean Boy]

6 minutes ago, h20skibum said:

Yeah, they rescheduled us for Hiro tonight, and it originally said it would be at 9:00.  We got there after we got out of the 1977 show at 8:50, and found they changed the time to 8:30, so it was packed and well underway.  We will try another night. 

That is really disappointing. They should have had the time right.

[h20skibum]

Decided to walk to Eagle Beach for the afternoon.  We found a nice little beach bar along the way for some food and drink. 

 

I can confirm that the beach bar loaded rum was very good

 

We had a flatbread veggie pizza

 

 

And the views were nice. 
 

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We got one of the thatch roof umbrellas and a couple lounge chairs for $40. 
 

 

The water was warm after we got in, and the views were not bad. 
 

 

Since I saw pictures of snowmen back home, I made a sandman. 
 

 

It must have been popular, because several people stopped to take pictures. 
 

The rest of the afternoon involved relaxation. 
 

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I missed doing pictures at dinner the last couple nights, but remembered tonight.  
 

Asian pork tacos

 

Tiger shrimp

 

 

Royal chocolate cake. 
 

 

I can say that all the meals we have had so far, have been good.  The portions are smaller than in the past, but since I lost so much weight, it has been plenty. 

 

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Tonight, we had the ice show, 1977.  I thought the set and costumes were a little dark for some scenes. 

Liked the drone opening 

 

 

The Royal guards kept the theme at the beginning 

 

 

The skating was excellent 

 

 

I would be dead if I tried this wheel thing. 
 

The middle part was hard to follow, but we enjoyed the music at the end

 

 

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One thing I discovered when I went to order some drinks at schooner bar, was that I was apparently with the wrong woman. 
 

I know, I didn’t have that many drinks.  But when I pulled out Susan’s card, to order us some drinks, her name had changed to Elizabeth.  Evidently, they gave her back the wrong card when we were in the Crown lounge. So we headed off to guest services to get a new card. So now it is maybe good, but it doesn’t open our door.  Looks like I will need to make another trip in the morning. 
 

I did have them make me a Union Jack Lava Flow at Schooner bar, and they did good with it.  

 

Glad I had the recipe with me, because they didn’t have a clue. 

 

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Found the piano player tonight , too 

 

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Not necessarily in order, but I took this yesterday of the soft serve ice cream. 
 

I mean, now, it looks like they are using baby cones. 

 

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And now, for the first time ever in a cruise report. If you ever wondered what the inside of the cabin door lock looks like, here it is. 

 

I stepped out of our cabin, and found the cover had fallen off. 
 

Hmmm, wonder if I could charge Royal for my repair to put the cover back on.  Knowing them, they would probably say Daryl made it fall off. 🤣

 

[perfect match]

The beach bar you stopped at for lunch on your way to Eagle Beach 

looked good. Do you recall the name of it? Eagle Beach looks good too, and I loved your sandman! Was Daryl jealous of the time you spent building the sandman? I wondered if that is why he wasn’t in that picture.

 

Hope your door lock was fixed quickly! 

[h20skibum]

2 hours ago, perfect match said:

The beach bar you stopped at for lunch on your way to Eagle Beach 

That was the Ocean View Bar.  It is located at J.E. Irausquin Boulevard 41, Oranjestad, Aruba. It is about halfway between the ship and Eagle Beach, or about a 20 minute walk to it. 

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New day, new island.  Sailing toward Curaçao. 

 

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The cruise compass for day 5

 

cruisecompassDay5.pdf