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Some dinner/dessert food porn from MDR night 1.  Pork chop (spicy) wins hands down.

pork chop

prime rib

Battered fish

kids steak (sliced by waiters)

Kids banana split

Warm hazelnut chocolate cake

No sugar added pear/blueberry cobbler 

Creme brûlée 

great service from Jose and Eddie. 
 

we will be eating mDR every night except night 7 which will be chops.

kids club was taking reservations and there are plenty of kids on board for both my 7 and 12 year old.

comedy show was good.  Worth an hour. Don’t waste time getting there early.

casino stole too much from me tonight.

caught a couple songs from Kieran and enjoyed them.

boleros was enjoyable for a few minutes as well.

This is 1104 junior suite.

@Jkaczanowski

On board since noon.  

WJ lunch, done.

Kids reservations reserved.

water slides, done.

beer in hand.

Enjoying our deck 11 JS Balcony.  Dinner at 6.

46 minutes ago, read2learn said:

Could someone on a June or July Adventure cruise with a grurantee cabin tell me when they receoved their cabin assignment? Thanks so much!!

we got ours about a week early

Tried both Kaliks and Sands, both good in their own way.  Kaliks probably has the edge for me.

DFW to NAS oversold. Anyone taking the giant vouchers to

Fly tomorrow?

Amex Centurion lounge at DFW is packed as usual.  We are on our way.

12 hours ago, Itchy&Scratchy said:

for me, AOS may also mean the Allure. All I said was - read the recent reports. I've read 2 about Adventure, and there are some restrictions for unvaxxed people.

We are on Adventure but I"ll be sure to check in to restrictions for our 7 year old who isn't Vaxxed yet.  From what I've seen so far it's probably just masks and social distancing restrictions for her.

13 hours ago, Jkaczanowski said:

We’re in 1104 on the AOS in May.  I’m having a really hard time finding pictures of those rooms, so do you mind posting some pictures when you come back?  I’d really appreciate it. 

 

Yes, planning to grab some.  I found this video of 1106 on the Indy which I think it's similar.  Looks like a great size and unique balcony.
 

Looks delicious!  Our precruise dinner was at Chilis. It hit the little ones' palette, but I'm ready for some real food.  

It looks like the DFW->NAS flight tomorrow is out of B but if we get through security early enough we might shuttle to D to the Centurion Lounge.

2 minutes ago, seabeew said:

Children can definitely walk through the solarium! 

Great, that makes it easier on us.

Royalup just moved us to an 1100’s room on the AOS which is one of 6 rooms right near the Solarium.  We have 2 kids.  Is it allowed to walk our kids through the Solarium or do we have to go up and round to get to the pool deck/windjammer?

9 minutes ago, kpauley said:

Do you remember what the minimum bid for the JS was and how much over you went?  Thanks. 

 

I wish I had screenshot it.  I don't remember, but I know it was a weak bid.  I won it at $260 per person per night.

AOS departing 7/17 and we received our royal upgrade today.  Noticed that all offers had expired except Junior Suite which still said pending, then a few minutes later the app updated the room number, then I got the email.  I'm not sure at what point my credit card was charged.

For those staying (or dining(or drinking)) at the Hilton I see a deal on their eStandby which they've told my mother can be purchased at the desk for $100 worth of food credit at $75.  That doesn't look tough to spend for even a couple people.

Also bar and restaurant menus available here.
https://www.bahamaslocal.com/showlisting/16555/Bullion_Bar.html#picViewer[Bullion]/2/

And Hilton just changed Gold and Diamond breakfast to daily credits which should be able to be used at the restaurant for dinner as well.

How is service on the Cococay Island?  

We'll see you on the flight out of DFW (our hometown) and we are also staying at the Hilton Friday.  

Sunday at Cococay we have a Chill Island Cabana. 

Monday I anticipate setting up base at the pool and some of us have Thrill tickets.

In Cozumel we are doing Playa Mia.  I haven't seen any information on how it's doing post COVID so we'll post experiences there.

Grand Bahamas we are using as another ship day.

Our flight out on Saturday back to DFW is late so we have day passes at the Hilton to use their beach/pool which we probably won't have an opportunity to do on the front end of the trip.

See you on board.

I put “Cruise port” under address, and it took it. 

Is there any limitation on bringing mix on board?  In Texas we have Bloody Revolution which IMHO beats Zing Zang and some of the other mass market mixes.  This is a good idea and might actually save a couple bucks.

Will be on board in a week and looking for the best spot for a bloody mary on board.  When we were on the Allure a couple years ago they were making them out of the english pub each morning and I found those to be the best.  Any opinions?

Our 7/17 Adventure Cabanas (chill beach, pool cabanas and thrill waterpark) have been $499 all week.  Before July they had been $999 for at least 6 weeks.  No drops to the crazy prices for Beach Club cabanas though.

We are doing CVS.  They are quoting 1-3 days in our area and "free" tests.

Someone from our July 17 group confirmed that they had swapped the Freedom itinerary that weekend so they will be at CocoCay while we are boarding and in Nassau our first day of CocoCay.  Not sure if this is also applicable to your cruise.

We are flying in from Dallas as well on Friday, staying at the Hilton.  What time did you finish check-in?  We’ll have 3 adults 2 kiddos.  Would you have done something different for dinner or did you feel the value was there?