LIVE from Regal NYE Cruise 27DEC-07JAN

[HelloKittysMum]

On 12/24/2023 at 1:28 PM, kruisin_kt said:

I’m Beth’s sister Katy and I’ll also be contributing live from the Regal! I live in LA, but I’m home in Oklahoma for Christmas with the family. I am doing my PhD in artificial intelligence, with a focus on ethics and fairness in large language models. I just passed my qualifying exam, so this PhD CANDIDATE(!!!) is also very ready for a vacation. 

 

My part time doctorate (graduated this year at 57 after life in industry, teaching and various other things) was on research ethics in SubSaharan Africa (my participants were TNE students in Zambia and Malawi).  Maybe we could grab a coffee (cocktail) one day and chat.

 

 

Edited December 27, 2023 by HelloKittysMum
Incompetence

[bethfelk]

Good morning everyone and happy cruise day! We ended up getting into our hotel around midnight last night so I pretty much just crashed. My stomach is still not at full strength but getting better slowly I think. Starting this morning with the breakfast of champions: 

[bethfelk]

Uber from rental car return to port was successful, amazing that our driver fit 4 adults and our 14? bags in his Toyota Highlander. In line now but it appears terminal hasn’t opened yet. We don’t normally get here this early

[bethfelk]

[helenb]

11 minutes ago, bethfelk said:

Uber from rental car return to port was successful, amazing that our driver fit 4 adults and our 14? bags in his Toyota Highlander. In line now but it appears terminal hasn’t opened yet. We don’t normally get here this early

Where are you guys? We’re in chute 2 outside the terminal.

[bethfelk]

Line started moving at 10:30 exactly, I am impressed 

[bethfelk]

At 10:42 we are in the terminal waiting in green lane 

[bethfelk]

We are onboard at 11:20. Process was extremely smooth

[CruzeQueen2]

18 minutes ago, bethfelk said:

We are onboard at 11:20. Process was extremely smooth

@bethfelk and @HelloKittysMum Bon voyage to you all! Thanks for taking us along. 

[Belle2002]

Good luck to all on this cruise just got off and it was the worst princess cruise ever especially if you elite you will notice the changes the food was awful

[RNRcruisers]

1 hour ago, bethfelk said:

We are onboard at 11:20. Process was extremely smooth

 

Good to know. We board Regal in February and I was wondering how boarding was going lately. Enjoy your cruise!

 

[bethfelk]

First meal onboard at Allegro dining room, the beef tenderloin. Very nice

[bethfelk]

Patter and buffet themes for anyone interested:

[helenb]

We boarded very quickly as well. Barely had time to sit in the elite lounge! Just waiting now to get far enough from Galveston to use our drink packages.

Edited December 27, 2023 by helenb

[bethfelk]

Sailaway! We started moving about 4:15 I think 

[2and2]

39 minutes ago, helenb said:

We boarded very quickly as well. Barely had time to sit in the elite lounge! Just waiting now to get far enough from Galveston to use our drink packages.

Let us know how long it takes from pushing off the dock, to drink time if you can . 

[redtop101]

24 minutes ago, 2and2 said:

Let us know how long it takes from pushing off the dock, to drink time if you can . 

Just pushing away at 4.45 pm. Could be a while before I get my Plus drinks at dinner 

[helenb]

We just sat down to dinner and waiters confirmed no drink packages yet.

 

We have 3 people in our cabin, all of us with soda packages. The first 2 passengers each got a $30 ‘group amenities credit’.

[helenb]

The bars opened for package use at 6:30 pm.

[sunsetme]

25 minutes ago, helenb said:

The bars opened for package use at 6:30 pm.

thanks!!

 

[helenb]

Also, no Coke Zero… only Diet Coke.

[sunsetme]

anyone in the pools? How cold is it?

[luvseaside]

15 hours ago, helenb said:

The bars opened for package use at 6:30 pm.

Appreciate the info!  We are on Regal in a month and I specifically booked dinner for after 7 p.m. on the first night for this reason. We are also bringing on our allotted two bottles of wine to drink in the meantime.

[Wishing on a star]

Can anyone tell us who the Princess 'party' Band is onboard?

That first meal looks pretty good!  (they have changed the menus up a bit, first night menu was not the greatest when we last cruised Regal..  that is one night we skipped the MDR!)

We love the Regal,  and I am looking forward to reading your updates!

[bethfelk]

Apologize for the lack of updates, cursed cruise continued for us last night but things seem to be looking up now. We had a nice dining room breakfast and now playing cards in good spirits. Looking forward to the meetup here in a bit!