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OK, at 10:45, time to go to our favorite place – you guessed it, back to 270 for the biggest dance party on RCI, the 70s’ Dance Party. We have never missed this event since we have been sailing with RCI. The whole family loves this event. If you don’t like the '70s dance party, come back in 2 days as I have tons of videos and pictures from this event since it’s our favorite event on any sailing next to the belly flop. 20231229_230042.mp4
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There was supposed to be a guest performer at 10 PM tonight for the late seating. However, at dinner time, the cruise director made an unusual announcement over the PA system saying the 10 PM show had been canceled (no explanation given) but apparently, he performed for the earlier seating so something must have happened to him during/after the first show that he couldn’t perform for the second show. OK, no formal entertainment so we just walked around and took some pictures. As tonight was the lifeboat drill, they still had the green lights all over the hallway as if there was an actual emergency. I have never seen these lights lid up before
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As it’s 8 PM, time for dinner at the MDR. Typically I associate the lobster night with the second formal night but for this sailing, they had the formal night on day 6 and the lobster night is on day 7. Since this Loabter night, EVERYONE from our section showed up. On some nights, these are empty tables but not tonight as they have the cooking staff do their one circle around the dining area. As I mentioned previously, I missed the traditional MDR from Voyager/Freedom/Oasis class ships where they would just have everyone by the staircase. In the Odyssey, it's hard to figure out where everyone is - finally found them at the front entrance on the lower deck 20231229_204051.mp4
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As we are close to wrapping up the cruise, people have also decided on whatever souvenir they wanted to buy as many waited until the last port to see what that port had to offer before making the final decision on what to buy from the ship. Today must be “family day” as many people were visiting the uncle in prison upstairs as well as visiting crazy aunt (aka shopping) with long lines downstairs.
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More trip reporting: ++++++++++ OK, returned the towels. Back to the cabin for a shower and back to the Royal Esplanade at 7 PM to see a big group of people visiting the uncle in prison. This is typical of Holiday season travels with large groups. Speaking of visiting uncle in prison, that was where we went as we needed to select all our pictures by the next day as the cruise was coming to an end. Looking at the crowd at the photo gallery, you can see a lot of people have the same thought as this was the biggest crowd I have seen in the area since the cruise started. By the next day, there will be even more people visiting their uncle in prison
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In my haste to upload the Labadee pictures last night, I forgot to give my impressions of Labadee. We are slightly jaded in this being our third visit to the place. If it’s your first time visiting, be sure to check out the other parts of the port that we didn’t cover here. I like Labadee in that you can spend nothing and still have a great day. Unlike a typical Caribbean island stop where you have to pay for a taxi to take you to/from a beach, pay for the beach loungers/umbrellas, and then drinks and a meal. The entire day could have cost us $200 when adding up the various items I listed but for Labadee, it cost us nothing. Besides, you have the convenience of getting off the ship whenever and coming back to the ship on our schedule (as long as it's before the All Aboard deadline). So even though you don’t see any Mayan ruins (Costa Maya) or historical forts (San Juan) at Labadee, you will still have a fun time and not have to pay additional money for the experience. We have never been to CocoCay so the next RCI Caribbean cruise, I hope that future sailing is on the itinerary for a new beach day experience.
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I think you just need to find the first opening on the left after you walk off the pier and into the plaza area of Labadee. If all else fails, ask one of the workers nearby at the entrance to the trail. Just walk up and take a picture and walk back down the same way and it will save you a little time if you don't want to walk the entire loop
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Wow. Very nice. Thanks for sharing. I think you have better photo opt by sailing in the Fall/Winter timeframe when they change out of daylight savings and the sun sets early by 5 PM. The nighttime photo of the Statue of Liberty looks better than in bright sunlight during the daytime. I need to do a nighttime harbor cruise around NYC when we visit in August to see the skyline. Hopefully, the water isn’t too rough as I’m pretty sensitive to ship movements.
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After a beach day, the hardest working staff is Little Henry from the clean-up crew as everyone inevitably drags back some sort of sand from the beach. Speaking of the beach, time to go up to the pool deck upstairs to return the beach towels as I didn’t see any return tent walking up the pier similar to the two previous ports. RCI will charge you like $20/towel if you don’t return the beach towels
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After a while, the fam went back up but I stayed so I could show where our balcony is relative to the lower deck There are our cabins A different perspective from the balcony. There's hardly anyone walking this far Aft. I think I saw less than 10 passengers walking the entire cruise. More workers walking than guests down on deck 5 near the Aft section
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Thanks for the shout-out. I don't consider myself to be a king of spreadsheets. Just someone who's 9.2 on the anal scale that needs a visual aid to help organize things. Here's my Odyssey of the Seas planner from last December. Off the top, I can't find the Excel version only the PDF version but you get the idea. Color-coded by similar types of activities. If you are high on the anal scale, you can even track the color of your clothes/socks/underwear colors in your spreadsheet...🤪 Odyssey Planner.pdf