Spring Break on Splendor with Family of 12!

Loved reading your long, informative, well-written, rambling Review.....awesome. You come from a big, happy family, and your great attitude and positivity toward all of them really shines. I can see why you're the carnivaladdix, for sure! Thanks for entertaining and educating us!

 

 

 

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lol Thanks!! :D I really enjoyed doing the review and so glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks for sharing your cruise with us! Loved reading about it and seeing the pictures.

Congratulations on the free cruise, that's so wonderful for you!

I was wondering what the name of the place was that you went to in Belize?

Thanks! I can't wait to go again!!

I believe it was called Kukumba Beach in Old Belize.

Great Read! Thx for sharing🛩✈⛴🌞

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So far so good. Continuing....

 

 

 

 

 

When planning this trip, we started out with 18, but due tovarious reasons, a few dropped off and we were left with 12 which was perfectas I was the one planning everything and it was hectic but fun. I'm a HUGEplanner and any time we book a cruise (and even without a booking), I'm on CC every single day readingreviews on the ship and ports. My husband thinks I'm crazy when I do that butnever complains because he knows I get valuable info from the awesome threadshere on CC We booked the cruise lastOctober, so our countdown wasn't too far, but seems like it took forever to gethere LOL About a month after booking, hubby received a Premier Casino invitewhich happened to have our sailing listed so after speaking with out TA(mother-in-law) we were able to switch to that rate which saved us a littleover $240 for our cabin and gave him $400 cash from the casino which was AWESOME! We've never been able to takeadvantage of the Premier Casino invites so hubby was too excited. More on thatlater. Anyway, I decided to have everyone meet at my home and booked a funparty bus to take us to the port so we could all arrive there at the same time.(some of our group who I wont mention have a hard time being on time so thiswas perfect lol) The bus arrived at 10:40 and we were off to the port! I hadeveryone select 11:30-12 check in time for the new staggered check in POM haswhich worked out great since the traffic was awful on the way so we arrived at12:00. Hubby and I (and our 13 & 9 YO) had priority boarding as part of thePremier Casino invite and my MIL and 19 YO had FTTF so we got on prettyquickly. Everyone was able to get on the ship about 20 minutes after which waspretty sweet. I do have to admit that the check in was a bit unorganized. Whenwe got upstairs, we had to go to the counter and was told that our boys werenot checked in. Huh? Apparently whenwe first showed our boarding passes and birth certificates, they didn't scan our boys in. So long story short, we got them checked in and werefinally on our way to the gangway. I’m always both nervous and excited all inone when walking onto the ship lol I don’t think that’ll ever go away no matterhow many cruises I go on. I did miss the infamous DING when you first board butit’s ok. We are on vacation!!

 

 

 

 

 

Day 1 – Sail Away Day!

 

We went to our cabins which were ready and dropped off thefew bags we carried on and went up to Lido for lunch. Splendor doesn’t have theGuys burger or Blue Iguana but I didn’t care for the Guysburger when I had iton Glory anyway so no biggie for me. I did want to try the Tandoor which unfortunatelyI never had a chance to eat at so sorry I can’t give my opinion on that. So,the kids got hamburgers or hotdogs and fries. I always get a veggie burger andloaded fries lol I’m such a kid! The veggie burger was pretty good too! I don’trecall them offering that on any of my previous cruises so maybe it’s a newitem. Either way, it was good. I also ordered the welcome aboard drink, yummy!

 

 

 

 

 

Afterlunch, we explored the ship a bit to get familiar with the layout and whereeveryone’s cabins were since we were sort of spread out. Most of us were ondeck 7 midship which was perfect! 2 decks down to Promenade and 2 decks up toLido. My dad and his crew were on deck 9 forward which was a nice location aswell. All of the decks were beautiful to me. I’ve seen posts where people hatedall of the pink, but I liked it! I didn’t find it too much at all. The layoutwas pretty easy to figure out as well. My youngest wanted to play mini golf, so we went up and played a round with him. He's so funny because he has endless energy and wants to do everything the ship has to offer all in one day! lol Wish I had his energy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After exploring for a bit, we went to cabins to see if ourluggage had arrived. Some had and some hadn’t but no biggie. I was in no rushto unpack lol Our pre-ordered cases of water were there as well as a gift from the casino! I love gifts lol It was a cute black gift bag with 2 red and clear tumblers which were so cute! I collect cups from any place so this was right up my alley! Also had one of their many black letters we received daily listing the raffles and drawings the casino had each day. Soon it was muster time YAYYY! Not LOL This was probably thelongest muster drill EVER! And HOT! They did have these ipad devices andchecked in each cabin and anyone who was not present was supposed to meet someplace else for their own muster drill lol They gave the kids their wristbandsand then after the drill, we were off to Lido for the sail away party. That waswhen I first encountered MarQ!! Oh my gosh, can I just say thatHE.IS.AWESOME!!!! His entire team was so full of energy and enthusiasm andreally entertained us the entire trip! For me, he was the best CD I’ve seen sofar. I don’t know how they keep up such high energy like they do! It’s amazing!After spending time on Lido with the Fun Crew, my boys were very anxious to geton the slide so off we went. They must have gone down that slide a 100 times! LolIt was so fun watching them. One weird thing I noticed were these annoying blackflies EVERYWHERE!! I have never encountered anything like them and I live insouth Florida so I see all sorts of bugs, but never on a ship and never thismany! They looked like love bugs we get in Orlando, but they weren’t They didn’tbite or anything, but being that the deck was wet from the pool and slide, theywere sticking to everything and everyone! It grossed me out, but the kidscould care less lol After about an hour of sailing, they magically disappearedwhich was really nice. The crew quickly mopped up the millions of dead bugs ondeck and we never saw them again. That’s Florida for you lol

 

 

 

 

 

So, I'm having trouble uploading pics so give me some time to figure it out lol I'll get them uploaded asap!

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Are you saying that for the Muster Drill that they did not make everyone wait until every single passenger reported to be counted at the muster drill? That they released you and later held another "muster drill" for those that did not show up for the "Real" muster drill? I am trying to understand what you said!

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Yes. They did wait a little bit but after

They scanned everyone in who was there then went on with the drill. Anyone who was not accounted for had to report to a certain area to watch a video on it. Not sure where tho.

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tHANKS

Very nice photos!

Very nice photos!

Thanks!!

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