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

[h20skibum]

1 hour ago, harryfat1 said:

We are on the port side of the Odyssey. Was hoping to see the ship approach the port from our side of the ship or else I have to drag my lazy buns to the top deck on the starboard side to take pictures of the mooring line for the club.

We are on the port side also, but I also go to the top deck for pictures.  All I saw was a sunrise from our balcony 

[Another_Critic]

1 hour ago, Ocean Boy said:

Why to they call a venue located on deck 4 The Attic?🤔

It's where people on deck 3 (or below) store their junk.  🙃  

[h20skibum]

I think it was a good decision to come to Cabana beach, instead of Mambo Beach. We walked over to Mambo, which is beside cabana beach, and it was insanely packed.  Mambo was where the ship excursion went.  Better service and fewer people here. 
 

Ready to meet our taxi back.  Will have to wait to see if my snorkeling photos turned out. 

[Jimbo]

1 hour ago, Arzeena said:

Did you say something to it or ask it a question?🤣🤣

Not understanding the meaning of this post?

[Dan83]

Playa PortoMari today. We met one other family from the Symphony. The rest are locals and tourists from the Netherlands. We did one guided dive with the local dive shop. Kids took a private snorkel tour while we dove. Then I went back for a second tank. About to head back to the ship, local traffic is a mess and I don’t feel like chancing it today. 

Edited December 20, 2023 by Dan83

[Arzeena]

1 hour ago, Jimbo said:

Not understanding the meaning of this post?

Joking, just like you do on other threads.

[Arzeena]

48 minutes ago, Dan83 said:

Playa PortoMari today. We met one other family from the Symphony. The rest are locals and tourists from the Netherlands. We did one guided dive with the local dive shop. Kids took a private snorkel tour while we dove. Then I went back for a second tank. About to head back to the ship, local traffic is a mess and I don’t feel like chancing it today. 

Great choice! One of the best beaches I have ever been to! Just the ride is a bit long and expensive. Worth it.

Did you share a cab or take a private one outside the fort?

[Dan83]

1 hour ago, Arzeena said:

Great choice! One of the best beaches I have ever been to! Just the ride is a bit long and expensive. Worth it.

Did you share a cab or take a private one outside the fort?

This was our ride for today. 83% less cool than yesterday’s ride. I was planning to explore more of the island today but we went straight to PortoMari and just stayed all day. Pickup and dropoff couldn’t have been easier. Local traffic was a bit messy though. 

[Dan83]

We pulled right up to the ship to return our rental car. Highly recommend smart wheels car rental for Curaçao. We did have some trouble on the way back and pushed it a little closer than I would have liked to. We boarded with 8 minutes left before all aboard 

[#55worktoplay]

1 hour ago, Dan83 said:

We pulled right up to the ship to return our rental car. Highly recommend smart wheels car rental for Curaçao. We did have some trouble on the way back and pushed it a little closer than I would have liked to. We boarded with 8 minutes left before all aboard 

Almost those people 😀

[Luckynana]

22 hours ago, h20skibum said:

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. 
 

I must say that I was surprised to see Daryl follow you and Susan to the beach today!🤔

[LATTELOVE]

On 12/19/2023 at 7:18 PM, h20skibum said:

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

 

 

 

Very happy to see the luggage service. Royal finally caught up with Disney.

We used this service at Disney a few years back.

Very convenient. 

[Ocean Boy]

43 minutes ago, LATTELOVE said:

Very happy to see the luggage service. Royal finally caught up with Disney.

We used this service at Disney a few years back.

Very convenient. 

The luggage service is not new to RCI.

[Sunshine3601]

7 hours ago, Jimbo said:

It's sad the Natural Bridge in Aruba is no longer there.

 

It was still there when we were last in Aruba. It collapsed  On September 2nd 2005.

Nice picture of you and your Son.   Yes, it's a shame the bridge is gone.  It was wiped out a couple of months before our first visit to Aruba in 2006.

[h20skibum]

A couple of photos from snorkeling today. 
 

 

 

 

Not the clearest water or most colorful fish, but ok for where we were. 

[h20skibum]

Tonight was the first night where we didn’t really see anything we liked on the menu.  It was Mexican night.  
 

We ordered the chops filet

 

 

Started with the poblano pepper soup 

 

 

and finished with the apple cobbler 

 

[h20skibum]

We went to Private Stock Headliner Showtime in the theatre.  They were a good band, but way, way too loud.  We were all the way in the back of the balcony, and I was still getting noise level notifications. 

 

When it hit 101 db, we were already on our way out the door.  A lot of others left too, and I think it was because of the noise level.  Don’t know why Royal doesn’t keep the volume levels lower.  Maybe they have stock in hearing aid companies. 

 

[h20skibum]

1 hour ago, Luckynana said:

I must say that I was surprised to see Daryl follow you and Susan to the beach today!🤔

My son said this today. 
 

 

I told him it was probably no more questions than this guy got, checking into the hotel with his blowup. 
 

[Another_Critic]

1 hour ago, h20skibum said:

Don’t know why Royal doesn’t keep the volume levels lower.  Maybe they have stock in hearing aid companies. 

 

I've often thought that.  🙄

 

I have severe to profound hearing loss.  I've been in some of the lounges, turned off my hearing aids, and the music was still too loud at times.  ☹️

[FionaMG]

5 hours ago, h20skibum said:

Tonight was the first night where we didn’t really see anything we liked on the menu.  It was Mexican night.  
 

We ordered the chops filet

 

 

Started with the poblano pepper soup 

 

 

and finished with the apple cobbler 

 

 

Haven't encountered the Mexican menu yet but it looks awful to me. We're doing Hooked that night instead.

[FionaMG]

5 hours ago, h20skibum said:

We went to Private Stock Headliner Showtime in the theatre.  They were a good band, but way, way too loud.  We were all the way in the back of the balcony, and I was still getting noise level notifications. 

 

When it hit 101 db, we were already on our way out the door.  A lot of others left too, and I think it was because of the noise level.  Don’t know why Royal doesn’t keep the volume levels lower.  Maybe they have stock in hearing aid companies. 

 

 

I've noticed this too on all of our post-restart cruises. I mentioned it on the surveys afterwards (not that it would do much good).

[h20skibum]

5 hours ago, Another_Critic said:

I've often thought that.  🙄

 

I have severe to profound hearing loss.  I've been in some of the lounges, turned off my hearing aids, and the music was still too loud at times.  ☹️

Same here. 

 

1 hour ago, FionaMG said:

 

I've noticed this too on all of our post-restart cruises. I mentioned it on the surveys afterwards (not that it would do much good).

I have said the same on the post restart cruises. 

[h20skibum]

Day 6 cruise compass

 

cruisecompassDay6.pdf

[h20skibum]

I know it is early to think about departure, but I filled out our departure information and requested the latest time of 9-9:30.  So what do they give us?

 

 

The earliest.   Probably because we are doing self assist.  I think since they said we can depart “whenever you are ready”, we will be close to last off. 

[h20skibum]

Before we went to the beach in Curaçao, we had walked around town. A few pictures. 

Lots of Decorations 

 

 

I always like the colorful buildings

 

 

 

The Love Hearts display

 

More decorations across the bridge

 

 

 

Walked down to the Curacao sign

 

 

And the Dushi sign

 

 

Found this colorful building

 

 

and our ship

 

An elevated view as we crossed the bridge on the way to the beach