Nov 4, Allure of the Seas, Western Caribbean - A Review and Complete Pictorial Guide!

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Just found this review and am bookmarking....

[BettyPC]

Hi am on Labadee (in your review) - but I wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying this! I have nothing on my Kindle to read - so I was saving this for a few days!

 

We are on the Independence in Feb & will be stopping there! Thanks for all the great pictures and descriptions!

 

Betty

[gambee]

I'm glad you enjoyed your facial. I had the same specialist in October and, yes, he is from Pakistan. I enjoyed the treatment but felt he was a bit pushy first trying to upsell the treatment and then trying to sell me all the recommended products. I know they make their money on the products but after a relaxing treatment I don't like the hard sell.

 

That is one of the reasons I wanted to avoid the spa, fortunately for me he did not preassure me too much. I understand he had to try since my treatment was free, but I think he got the message that I was not going to spend more money. I was actually thinking of the one for the bags under the eyes, but I did not even inquire about the price.

 

 

Loving this review :D

 

Did you by any chance spot this Labadee Rhum ?

 

To be honest I do not remember and I search through my pictures and I only have the ones I posted. Sorry.

 

Thanks for the comment :)

[gambee]

Just found this review and am bookmarking....

 

 

Cool thanks

Hi am on Labadee (in your review) - but I wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying this! I have nothing on my Kindle to read - so I was saving this for a few days!

 

We are on the Independence in Feb & will be stopping there! Thanks for all the great pictures and descriptions!

 

Betty

 

Glad you're enjoying, thanks for posting :)

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Most likely the diamond store owners?

 

 

 

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Outside the gates. I have been very apprehensive of going outside the gates in Falmouth, initially I was going to go to club nas to use the free wifi, but since I bought the big package on the ship there was no need for it.

 

The only reason we went outside the gates was for review purposes. Once you exit the complex you have to cross the street, then there is a small street that you go through with lots of stores/stands on both sides. You will be asked to buy something about every 10-20 seconds in this street. A simple "no thank you" usually gets them to stop, but some keep asking. We were never harassed by masses like other people have experienced in the past. Yet saying no thank you so many times, gets old very very fast. The products they are selling are all the same as inside, maybe much cheaper?

 

At one time I did worry, one guy much larger than I am approached me and told me nice glasses. I said oh oh, not my glasses :-(. But in the end he just wanted my attention to buy one of his products. As we kept on walking a few of the locals noticed that I wanted to get rid of my coconut and they pointed me to trash bin. The streets are kept very clean, yet the buildings are in very bad shape. This is definitely a very poor town.

 

Mom, bf and I all commented that RCCL should be making sure that at least some of the money that is being injected (port fee) is going to at least painting those buildings in the main street. Another part of it should be going to educate the locals to back off a little and let the tourist breath freely. More people would go into town if they were not harassed and in return more money could be injected into the local economy. There should be some sort of education system, to help this town flourish a little.

 

I fully understand that there are a lot of people living in poverty there, but in the end unloading 6000 people into port can only help them if they allow them to help.

 

Once off that main streets we made a right and walked towards the main plaza, at that point a man followed us for about 3 minutes offering us a tour, I simply kept saying no thank you. He eventually got it. I took some pictures of the circle and then headed back. On our way back we noticed a little alley and I told my mom to use it to avoid going through that same street again. Now I realize it was not the best idea, but none the less we did it.

 

After exiting the alley we were in the other side of the market, it was much more calm. There were some ladies in chairs, but none of them harassed us to buy anything. They also had a motorcycle renting spot as well. After that we had enough, I had experienced what I needed for the review and I was ready to head back to the safety of the ship.

 

I took a few more pictures and headed towards the gates.

 

Did I felt safe in Falmouth? not really, but my circumstances are special. I am not sure anyone would truly enjoy going out the gates, there is really nothing to see, other than a very poor town. Maybe if you're looking for a bargain, I am sure you could get some great prices there. One more side note is that there is indeed a large amount of police officers around that area that we walked through. I highly doubt that anyone would try to do something foolish like stealing or such, in my case the police force being there did not add to me feeling secure.

 

All this pictures are going to be posted in sequence of the path we walked, I failed to take the camera out in the alley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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OH!!!! I did get a picture of the alley, I never noticed. Cool.

 

 

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These are back inside the complex

 

 

 

 

 

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Cleaning the balconies.

 

 

 

[RoamingRetirees]

Gambee, I can't believe you risked going outside the complex just to take pictures for all of us! You are truly amazing. Thanks for all you did to make this review so special.

 

We're doing B2B December 2 and 9. Reading your review and seeing your fabulous pix make me even more excited.

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We bought a few items.

 

I used most of the other one the day before. This one moms favorite one. Costs #17

 

cost $5

 

Cost$15

 

Also quick thing I forgot, for some odd reason I got padded when I left Jamaica, no big deal, it was pretty fast.

 

 

After our quick visit to Jamaica we were ready for lunch, so we decided to got upstairs to windjammer.

 

I took these two right before leaving the room.

 

 

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AIR FORCE ONE

 

I am so excited about this picture! I can't believe I got it :D.

 

 

Gambee:

 

My husband saw the plane and said "Barb, that was Air Force One" and I said "Righttttttttt" He said, no, the President is in Florida today ~ "Okay honey." I've now had to admit he was right - thanks a lot!

 

LOL

Barb:rolleyes:

[nursewurmy]

Gambee:

 

My husband saw the plane and said "Barb, that was Air Force One" and I said "Righttttttttt" He said, no, the President is in Florida today ~ "Okay honey." I've now had to admit he was right - thanks a lot!

 

LOL

Barb:rolleyes:

 

Yeah, my husband was stationed at the white house when he was in the army. When he saw the picture he said it was the real deal. However it is only air force 1 if president is on board. Air force 2 if vice president is on board.

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We were the first people to arrive to that side of the windjammer all the displays were untouched. If I may add this ship had some of the best french fries I have ever had, they were quite tasty. This was also the first time that I had smoke salmon in our cruise.

 

 

 

 

 

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I had a light lunch, I was feeling pretty fat after looking at some of the pictures :D. I don't think I got a picture of moms plate, but she had ribs, rice and fruit.

 

 

Remember how in Haiti RCCL allowed some of the family members in Labadee, they seem to do the same in Jamaica but this time in the ship. The family was super happy and so was the employee. That is a very nice gesture of RCCL to do for them.

 

Our view from our table

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After that we decided to go to the beach pool and enjoy the partially full ship. To our surprise there were no seats available in there, so we headed to the solarium instead., we found plenty of seats there. So we just laid there for about 30 minutes, I quickly noticed that I was getting very hot so I went and tried the solarium pool for the first time. I was very happy to notice that it was a fresh water pool. Then I went back to relax some more, both of us ended up sleeping for 1:30, I usually have a really hard time sleeping with sunlight, but I slept like a baby that day. We actually only woke up because of an announcement.

 

Plenty of seats in this pool, the beach one was the most popular one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Then we toured the solarium, pools and sundeck.

 

 

Here is a short video of the Sundeck:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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