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Just checking in from Allure, used iHealth proctored test to board of 4/22 without a problem!  The test credentials were looked at twice, for about 5 seconds each.  While there was no CLIA number on this particular test results page, it just appears that they are scanning for "NEGATIVE" and a valid date.

More notes on boarding:

• The at-port COVID testing people looked VERY bored and excited for the opportunity to find a possible person to test — so I don't think there would have been any issue if for whatever reason my test had been rejected and I needed an impromptu result at the port, even though I know the cruise line says you must have an appointment in advance.  (I know this because I went into the wrong door when my cab dropped me off and walked right into the area where they were doing it.)
• While I did not arrive until a few minutes before my appointed time of 2:00, there did not appear to be anyone checking people's boarding times at all in spite of multiple messages received not to come before our appointed time.  Maybe this is something that by 2:00 they no longer care about.
• I don't believe they looked at my vax card other than what I scanned into the app for pre-check-in.
• Bag search seemed very cursory as well — kinda regretted not throwing a couple of bottles of booze in my backpack; it did not seem like anyone would have known or cared but I could be wrong.

Just checking in from Allure, used iHealth proctored test to board of 4/22 without a problem!  The test credentials were looked at twice, for about 5 seconds each.  While there was no CLIA number on this particular test results page, it just appears that they are scanning for "NEGATIVE" and a valid date.

More notes on boarding:

• The at-port COVID testing people looked VERY bored and excited for the opportunity to find a possible person to test — so I don't think there would have been any issue if for whatever reason my test had been rejected and I needed an impromptu result at the port, even though I know the cruise line says you must have an appointment in advance.  (I know this because I went into the wrong door when my cab dropped me off and walked right into the area where they were doing it.)
• While I did not arrive until a few minutes before my appointed time of 2:00, there did not appear to be anyone checking people's boarding times at all in spite of multiple messages received not to come before our appointed time.  Maybe this is something that by 2:00 they no longer care about.
• I don't believe they looked at my vax card other than what I scanned into the app for pre-check-in.
• Bag search seemed very cursory as well — kinda regretted not throwing a couple of bottles of booze in my backpack; it did not seem like anyone would have known or cared but I could be wrong.

Just checking in from Allure, used iHealth proctored test to board of 4/22 without a problem!  The test credentials were looked at twice, for about 5 seconds each.  While there was no CLIA number on this particular test results page, it just appears that they are scanning for "NEGATIVE" and a valid date.

More notes on boarding:

• The at-port COVID testing people looked VERY bored and excited for the opportunity to find a possible person to test — so I don't think there would have been any issue if for whatever reason my test had been rejected and I needed an impromptu result at the port, even though I know the cruise line says you must have an appointment in advance.  (I know this because I went into the wrong door when my cab dropped me off and walked right into the area where they were doing it.)
• While I did not arrive until a few minutes before my appointed time of 2:00, there did not appear to be anyone checking people's boarding times at all in spite of multiple messages received not to come before our appointed time.  Maybe this is something that by 2:00 they no longer care about.
• I don't believe they looked at my vax card other than what I scanned into the app for pre-check-in.
• Bag search seemed very cursory as well — kinda regretted not throwing a couple of bottles of booze in my backpack; it did not seem like anyone would have known or cared but I could be wrong.

Anyone have a bit better answer here?  What kind of coffee drinks are available specifically and where specifically can you get them other than at the Starbucks locations?

on this cruise as well.  45 y/o single GWM traveling with several mostly not-single gay friends

I did -- although not that much. I was told it was fine as long as it was in its unopened, original packaging.

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30s GWM here traveling solo this weekend. I know it's last minute, but is anyone else coming?

GWM, 3rd cruise, 1st Carnival cruise, 1st solo cruise.

Any GLBTQIA sailing? =)

I didn't see any mention of ice cream, especially RCCL's homemade, different flavored ice cream served every night in the MDR.

 

Has ice cream been dropped from the dessert menus?

I can't remember if it was on the menus, and I'd be surprised if it were "homemade", but we had a few ice-cream-oholics in our group and there was generally a different ice cream, sherbet, and jello every night. They were all very basic flavors...chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, pistachio, lemon sherbet, pineapple sherbet...

What were the everyday choices? Was a New York Strip steak one of them?

New York Strip (Best meat entree I had, but to me it still needed a good bit of steak sauce.)

Grilled Chicken

Pasta Pomodoro

Sliders (These were actually really good, I thought!)

Might be another that I'm forgetting. You should be able to find some of the menus that have been posted already.

The "hot pockets" jkstrap references are more commonly known as "Jamaican Beef Patties" although they do come in other varieties than beef and in Grand Cayman they do leave out the "Jamaican" part. =)

You are right about that line getting back on the tender; I thought I was going to be sick...the longest line I have stood in a very long time. It did move fairly quickly, but it was SO hot and it was in the middle of a concrete oasis (which IMO most of Grand Cayman seemed to be) so I had to duck out at one point to get some bottled water. At that point, though, people are pretty easy-going about people saving places in line and whatnot -- after all, what's one more person getting ahead of you in a line of 500 people? Our Atlantis Submarines excursion left us with just 15 minutes to get back for the "last tender" so you can imagine my horrification turning the corner and seeing what I think at that time was probably closer to 800-900 people in line. Of course once you get there you quickly realize that they're not going to be leaving 800 people on shore so at that point you can relax a little.

Anyway, back to the patties. A friend and I stopped at that same patty shack earlier in the afternoon. The lady talked on her cell phone for nearly the whole time we were in front of her -- and to make matters worse she was not a multi-tasker so we pretty much had to stand there are stare at her for 3-4 minutes while she wrapped up her cell phone conversation.

She offered a few different flavors of patty including a seafood patty that I had never seen before. I got that and a spicy sausage pastry of some kind that was quite delicious -- it was basically just the patty "pie crust" sort of thing wrapped around a spicy polish sausage kind of a thing. The seafood patty was OK...kindof like a pastry filled with crabcake stuffing. Got a few pieces of shell in there and that grossed me out a little.

Also had a hand-shaken lemonade which was good. And all of it much better than a Hot Pocket! ;P

Disgusting? A quick look at a thesaurus provides the following terms: revolting, repulsive, sickening, ghastly, sordid, horrible and nauseating.

 

You might want to cancel your cruise.

Yeah. I've been quite critical of the food but I don't recall anything that was even close to "disgusting".

I'll add the sugar free key line pie is good, just don't sample a piece with sugar at the same time. By itself as a dessert I found it very good.

I had the "real" KLP for dessert on the last night and it was some of the worst I have ever had -- only had a few bites and left the rest of it. It was WAY too dense and way too sweet.

Me, too! I love Eggs Benedict, and had it almost every morning (mostly in the MDR) on our Bahamian cruise on the Enchantment this past January. Just had to ask for it.

Confused about the talk of having to ask for Eggs Benedict. I only had breakfast in the MDR twice but Eggs Benedict was on the menu (and was the best breakfast available all week, both times!) in addition to a few special Benedicts that popped up during the week (I had a Smoked Salmon Benedict one day and I heard about at least one other that I don't remember right now).

Honestly, it would really be the only reason to GO to the MDR for breakfast. I was pretty disappointed that the options there weren't a little more special/different than what was available in WJ but with just 1-2 exceptions it really wasn't.