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Karen led us down the hall to another room to check out.

 

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All I can say is Wow! I really need to win the lottery so I can stay here.

 

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Sooo... I left off with Up next….Best room view EVER!

 

It was pretty obvious to Karen that we were all Disney lovers. Who else schedules a work trip on a Disney cruise? LOL. Throughout the tour we all had mentioned our love of Disney as well.

 

We now were led into the Royal Tower to tour another room. Karen said she just knew we were going to love this room and before anything we had to take a look at the view…so we did and LOVE we did!

 

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This room faced the other way and she pointed out how pretty much all rooms had some sort of fantastic view. The downside to this view for me is that if I was staying here I would be sad not to be on the Disney ship. LOL. But who am I kidding…this place was wonderful too!

 

You still had fabulous resort views too.

 

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It really is like paradise when you can see all of this and a DCL ship in the background.

 

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Again, Karen pointed out different things on the property. Down below the not so lazy river.

 

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Over yonder is the dolphin area.

 

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Those towers in the distance are even more expensive, being the Reef and Cove Towers I believe.

 

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Yeah it was hard not to go back and look at our ship in the distance.

 

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I zoomed in on the dolphin area and I could see a few bob up.

 

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The down side to Atlantis is that their rooms only hold 4. For a bigger party you really have to get 2 rooms.

 

Another look outside before we left.

 

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And we moved on again. I don’t think I got the room number shot for this room.

 

 

Up next…..WOW! I need to win the lottery!

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Ok...deja vue...

Now I am posting the ones I accidently posted before...I really wish Cruise critic would allow us to edit. Oh well.

 

 

 

Karen led us down the hall to another room to check out.

 

25922459961_d82a52c279_z.jpgatlantis272 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

All I can say is Wow! I really need to win the lottery so I can stay here.

 

25384662314_3216d78b95_z.jpgatlantis273 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

25716816860_44a5652483_z.jpgatlantis274 by Jenseib, on Flickr

 

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Karen then took us out to the balcony and this was stunning. Huge balcony with fabulous views.

 

The bridge suite.

 

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And we asked her about how to book that and actually that is booked through the casino. I have no clue why, but I thought that was interesting. Lisa mentioned she heard it was the Ohprah suite or the Michael Jackson suite and Karen says it has had many names over the years after certain stars that have stay there a lot. I thought the best name for it would be the Jennifer suite….and yes I would bring my friends too!

 

Those are the Beach Towers off in the distance.

 

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We stood out on the balcony for quite some time chatting with Karen and just enjoying the views.

 

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Trying to be artsy.

 

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We had Karen take a picture of us.

 

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And then we took a picture of Karen.

 

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And our tour was done…..actually Karen was going to take us through the Dig as part of the tour, but we told her we had gone through already this morning and our plans were to go through the Shark tunnel next and we said we were find doing it on our own. Had we known that was part of the tour, we could have actually scheduled it earlier and not bought the Dig tour for ourselves. But we did get a discount and with the fabulous tour we got from Karen we didn’t mind. I mean she gave us one of the best resort tours I have ever been on. She was so knowledgeable and thorough…and nice too. This ending up being so much more than I expected and we were all so happy to have chosen to do this today.

 

We said our goodbyes and headed off. It’s kind of funny as Ellen and I were looking up something for Atlantis the other day and we found a picture of Karen and her info….and it was an “I know her” moment! Hahaha.

 

We headed down to the shark area next so we could walk underneath the sharks.

 

Lots of activity going on today.

 

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We headed down to see the sharks and fishies!

 

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And then we saw the funniest thing. I call these the nemo fish. They are like the ones from the movie where when they were talked to, they all formed shapes to answer the questions. These guys swam over as we were standing there talking. After a bit I noticed they were still there but swimming in a circle….over and over and over.

 

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We just started cracking up.

 

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And a video of them.

 

 

They were still swimming that circle when we moved on too.

 

We found some more lobsters!

 

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We surfaced again and took a look at the rays.

 

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And moved on. It was time to go but we took pictures as we walked.

 

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I think I see the backside of water!

 

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And then back into the lovely lobby of the Coral Tower.

 

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We then found a taxi…and just so you know, the guys out front are very helpful at getting one for you…and off we went. Ellen and I planned to go to Van Breugels for some Chowder. This was a small bar that served food and I believe Ellen found it on some culinary tour she did years ago and has come back a few times since. The other girls wanted to go back to the ship. Ellen asked the driver if he knew where it was and he said he never heard of it. Ellen said it would be fine to just drop us off at the port area as it wasn’t a far walk. We took a more winding way back and all of a sudden he stopped….right in front of Van Breugels. He had been lying! Haha. We got out and said goodbye to the girls and headed in.

 

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We sat down at the bar and Ellen asked if the girl she knew and loved was working and she came down and they did some bonding. Ellen said we would like some chowder but they didn’t have any today. I get the feeling this is the kind of place that cooks what they want when they want. LOL. So we said ok and ordered a drink. We would just eat on the ship. After a bit they told us to not leave as they had a surprise for us.

 

Out they came with this plate….looks good doesn’t it.

 

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And it was…except that it was deep fried GATOR! And no matter how tasty it was, I had a hard time getting around that fact. Hahaha. I did eat quite a bit of it though and had to keep telling my brain to stop thinking about the fact that it was gator.

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I discovered there was free wifi here and Ellen and I then got on our phones and communicated with the outside world. We found out that the new Royal Caribbean ship had to go back to dock after going through a storm and there was a lot of damage. Ellen and Brook were sailing a short cruise on this ship in about a month or so, so we were hoping the damage wasn’t too bad and it would soon get back to tip top shape.

 

After I had sent some emails, posted pictures on facebook and I even texted Claire via iphones we settled up our bill. I tried to pay for my half and once again, Ellen paid for it all. I tried to hand her money and she wouldn’t take it. It was so nice of her but not needed at all. Maybe she felt sorry for me because I had bought 2 Dooney purses the night before and now she thinks I am broke? LOL.

 

Ellen was finishing up her drink so I walked outside for a few minutes and texted Claire some more. If I stayed right up near the building I still had free wifi.

 

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Ellen came out then and we walked back to the ship.

 

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