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Dinner - Room Service from the APP We decided to enjoy dinner in the room tonight. I was SUPER impressed with the speed and quality. This has been the best APP order experience of this cruise. Until tonight, we had about 50% success. One time, our order was just ‘cancelled’ without explanation. Another time, it added 4 items to our order and changed our location to deck 5, rather than deck 16. Tonight, it was about 20 minutes from order to delivery. The dessert (chocolate cake and cheesecake) were probably the best we had on the cruise - very moist chocolate cake! TIP: If you order in the APP, be prepared to stay in the same location for at least 30 minutes. If you are in a busy location (like the Marketplace), you may never see your order. In our experience, it is best to go to a bar if it is close by.
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TIP: Free desserts with Plus package: I had read that you can only get the “premium desserts” for free at the gelato bar. I asked twice during the cruise, and was told I could order ANY choice of gelato for the free desserts. So, you can get the premium desserts listed, OR the regular gelato desserts for free - 2 per day. (I only had 2 the whole cruise… just too much good food 😄) The Premium Desserts: The Regular Gelato Options: I loved the Salted Caramel. The Amaretto was good too, but it had some icy pieces. Also featured in this picture is the mango sorbet.
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TIP: This one I got from right here at CC. Bring some painters’ tape to cover the sensor on the “nightlight” by the bathroom. It really is VERY bright and would have woken me up at night. We only adapted the tip a bit by creatively packing our painters’ tape. We wrapped some around our spray bottle of rubbing alcohol… easier to pack.
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The Wake View at “Full Speed”: While we were at lunch, the captain announced that there would be a medical evacuation by helicopter. The ship was going at full speed to get closer to Key West for the Coast Guard to perform the evacuation. This is the view from our balcony before we were asked to leave. The aft balconies and cabins were all evacuated for about 2.5 hours. The Coast Guard did an amazing, quick job of safely evacuating the patient. IMG_4113.mov
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Lunch at Gigi’s: We decided to have our second ‘free’ lunch at Gigi’s. We got there right around 11 and easily got seated. The food was way too much. We opted to only order the pizza and still had about half left over. The pizza was excellent- worth an up-charge if it had not been included in the plus package. Vegetarian Pizza - excellent! Hawaiian Pizza - excellent!
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@JGmf Hopefully, you are all packed and ready for the cruise tomorrow! We did not have many kids at all on this cruise. I only saw one kid in the aft pool, but I did not spend much time there. I did get two photos today - one around 2:15 and one around 4:50 PM. The pool is always quite crowded when I passed it. Overall, the kids on this cruise were very well mannered and we had no concerns. This was probably the lowest number of kids we ever cruised with… maybe that is a Princess thing 😄
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TIP: Learn a few expressions in Spanish before visiting Costa Maya and Cozumel. One of our favorite expressions is, “lo siento”. When vendors try to sell things to you, just say ‘lo siento’ (I am sorry). They will respect that and not be pushy. I also say, “No necesito nada, gracias.” (I don’t need anything, thank you) We took 3 years of Spanish together as a family and now enjoy visiting Mexico. The locals really appreciate our efforts to converse in Spanish. 🙂 Zipline Experience Anyone? If anyone has done this excursion/ zipline/ ropes course/ water park experience, please report back. I would like to know if it is worth the price…
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The Port: I heard the port being referred to as a ‘resort’ experience by our cruise director. It is a bit of a stretch - yes, there is a pool and a ‘beach’ area with loungers, but no real ocean experience. There is a small space to swim with dolphins as part of an excursion. I would say it is worth walking around the port one time, but don’t set your expectations too high. 🙂 The dolphins: Part of the pool area, as seen from the ship: ”The beach”, which really consists of some loungers, sand, and hammocks: Quite guarded security - I have not seen this before in Costa Maya: TIP: There is a tram for those we have difficulty walking the long pier: