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Zooming in to the beach area where we will be later

While waiting for them to watch the video and waiting their turn, I went outside and took some pictures of the ship and Labadee Guys cleaning the deck I always get nervous whenever I put the phone over the edge to take pictures. The hand/arm gets tingly as one slip of the hand will go my expensive phone and all the pictures I took of the entire vacation...

Then your group sits and watches a video with the instructor and learns few basic safety measures. As the wind tunnel is super noisy, there’s no way you can talk inside so it’s hand gesture such that if you feel you are not feeling great with that much wind on your body, you give the instructor the hand signal and he will immediately take you out of there so you don’t suffer needlessly. After the video, time to come back and find a helmet that fits Then you sit and wait for the group ahead of you to be done

OK, so after clearing the medical questioning and being weighed, they find the blue uniform that fits your height and you put that on and sit in the waiting room for your event’s start time. They have to weigh each person to know how much air to pump through to keep you up in the air

So at check-in for the iFly, they ask various medical questions like if you had surgery before as well as weighting each person since they need to know how much force they need for the air to blow out. The next group after us came in later and when the workers found out one of the guys had surgery, they tried to persuade him not to do the iFly thing by saying that the force to lift him up in the air was like folding a playing card and it’s a lot of force to bear on any surgical areas that might cause some discomfort. Thus if you are interested in the iFly but have some medical issues from the past, it’s best to go to the iFly area on day 1 to talk to the staff about your medical condition before signing up. I assume if you cancel at your appointment time due to a medical reason, they won’t charge you for a “no show” fee. I think they charge you around $20 if you book an appointment but don’t show up but if they convinced you not to participate due to your health issues, I would hope they don’t charge you for it.

There are so many events on the daily compass that you can easily miss an event. I heard about this event pre-cruise so I had it marked as something I wanted to see

View of our balcony OK. Enough walking around. Time to go back to the cabin at 8 AM and wake up the fam. Instead of going to Windjammer, we headed to the iFly area before the 9 AM appointment time as the boys wanted to partake in the iFly experience. No, neither my wife nor I even thought about doing it. I would pull some muscle within 10 seconds that I didn't know I possessed...

The Jetski workers getting an early run in the morning Today is the lifeboat drill day for crew members. This dude had one too many drinks last night 🤪

Oh, the other day I tried to explain the double set of doors between the inside of the ship to the outside. Not sure if I made sense but this picture explains it better. As the Odyssey is officially docked at Labadee at 7 AM, which is earlier than some other RCI ships docked at Labadee, people started getting off the ship early. Looking down at the pier, you see people already off the ship at 7:55

Outside of the 270 area, they have folks that can help you with any Internet-related issues. That’s also the only place on the ship I saw a USB cable for passengers to use. Leave a comment below if you see other places on the ship that have a USB cable. Yes, it works as I tried to plug it into my phone and it charges. So if somehow you are out walking about the ship and you are down to below 10% on your cell phone and you are too far away from your cabin to recharge, come here for an emergency charge Same Giovanni where we ate yesterday

It’s our 3rd time visiting Labadee so it’s nothing new to us. This was why we selected today to do the iFly experience as we had excursions at Curacao and Aruba so Laabdee was the only other time we could do the complimentary fly without paying extra But that’s all later. First thing first – y’all know the routine by now. Obligatory morning photo of 270 at 7:30 My breakfast this morning with coffee and a view of Labadee through the glass window

Day 7: Labadee Labdee is our 3rd and final port. Quick background in case people are not familiar with this stop – this is an RCCL private port. Some people want to call it a private island but then there will be people higher than me on the anal scale on CC that will correct you within 3 minutes – "but it’s a peninsula, not an island..." Yeah, yeah, whatever. Go soak your head. The entire Labadee area might be a peninsula but it’s part of Haiti, which is an island. Just like if you are a pimple on the butt of the dog, you are still part of the dog. Side note - y'all didn’t think it s possible to have an anal score of 9.3+ or higher, did you? 🤪 Anyway, call Laabdee whatever, it’s a port that is exclusive for RCCL ships. And yes, that includes RCI and Celebrity cruise ships. The lunch on the island is included as part of the cruise fare – similar to if you are eating at Windjammer back on the ship. If you have a drinks package, that works at the port as well.

Haha, music preference is even more subjective than food. We all like songs for various reasons. This woman has made a career on YouTube in making parody videos. She has regular parody videos out. Here's another version of the same Queen song:

Last picture of the night at 11:44 PM as we are headed for Labadee, our final port. Let’s end the night with a parody song for the Cat and Queen fans: This concludes day 6 of the cruise ++++++++ Thanks to everyone still hanging around reading this. We are heading down the home stretch with a couple more cruise days left +++++++++

After the Showgirls, they have the “Quest Show” at 11 PM at Seaplex. Here is where I miss the Voyager/Freedom class ships in that they had the Quest games at Studio B where lazy people like yours truly can sit. At the SeaPlex, you have to stand to either participate or stand and watch from above. As I had been up since 6:30 in the morning, I was getting a little tired and didn’t want to stand for the entire program so my wife and the boys went downstairs to participate in the Quest game. I stayed long enough to take a couple of pictures and left to go back to the cabin while they competed

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After dinner, they have “Showgirl” at the main theater. It was around 90% similar to the “Showgirl” we saw on the Navigator just 4 months before so it was a "Meh" experience for us. I’m surprised RCI recycles dance shows between various ships as I thought each had different shows but I guess these non-marquee shows can repeat. 20231228_222741.mp4

As with all events that start at 7 PM, it ended by 7:50 so people could meander over to MDR afterward French night tonight and the second formal night

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They can be in portrait or landscape mode. Separate or together

So done with showering and guess what, back to 270 again. As I said, it’s our favorite part of the ship, and being on the Aft of deck 6 meant very easy access via the secret door The “show” tonight isn’t a show per se, it’s more of a demonstration of the technology of the 270 theater. The event is technically called "the 270 Experience” with Ricky, the cruise director, explaining the various aspects of the 270 theater. I think he said the cost to build the theater was around $34 million. They have 6 robotic arms that hold the big screens together and they move independently but the screen never hit or touch each other during any performance. Then they played various demo videos to showcase what they could do technologically with the 270 theater area. The last video is specially made just for the 270 show as they placed a dancer inside a water cube to move/dance and you can see each of the 6 screens is displaying different videos If you like technology, I rate it as a “don’t miss” event as it’s very cool to watch. At the very beginning of the trip report, I mentioned that we value the 3 E’s. This event checks off all the boxes in that it’s entertaining as well as enriching in learning about how the new technology works on top of seeing 6 independent robotic arms move but they never crash into one another. Kicking things off is the Star Wars music 20231228_191317.mp4 6 screens controlled by the Robotic Arms