Soloing the Caribbean: Live from the Regal - 22 Jan to 05 Feb 2017

[HappyMe_]

Thank you for taking time to write this blog. Informative and entertaining.

 

 

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[A1Mema]

I'm boarding on the 5th and would love to know the movies that are available in your cabin on the TV on demand!!

 

Dottie

[Croptop]

You haven't mentioned the casino--any insight on the names of the casino pit bosses or others there? I usually get to know them pretty well. In fact, my cruise in March is a freebie, thanks to Princess Casinos!

 

I'm not much of a gambler so I don't even set foot in the casinos so I can't really offer much in the way of an opinion on them nor have I met any of the pit bosses. Sorry.

[Kenosha Cruiser]

Croptop, thanks for posting the rest of the Patters. I see one morning Princess had a lecture on pirate life and pirate ports in the Caribbean. By chance did you make this lecture in the Princess Theater?

 

Looking forward to following along again this week, Darlene and I are both enjoying your daily postings. Love your style of writing, you know how to relax and have fun.

 

Cheers - Ken & Darlene

Edited January 29, 2017 by Kenosha Cruiser

[Croptop]

I'm boarding on the 5th and would love to know the movies that are available in your cabin on the TV on demand!!

 

The following movies will be shown on MUTS (and then become available on the stateroom On Demand movies):

 

Jason Bourne

Florence Foster Jenkins

Ben Hur (2016)

Jurassic World

Ant Man

Sing Street

Keeping Up With The Jonses

 

The following are already available on demand:

 

Action:

 

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice

Captain America: Civl War

Central Intelligence

Deadpool

Everest

Fury

Independence Day 2

London Has Fallen

Risen

Run All Night

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Suicide Squad

The 5th Wave

The Divergent Series: Allegiant

The Huntsman: Winter's War

Warcraft

X-Men: Apocalypse

 

Comedy:

 

A Royal Night Out

Absolutely Fabulous

Burnt

Captain Fantastic

Dad's Army (2106)

Dear Eleanor

Elvis & Nixon

Hail Caesar

Hello, My Name is Doris

How to Be Single

Maggie's Plan

Mother's Day

My Bakery in Brooklyn

Sisters

The Boss

The Hollars

The Intern

The Nice Guys

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Youth

 

Drama:

 

A Beautiful Now

A Hologram for the King

Approaching the Unknown

Band of Robbers

Dare to Be Wild

Demolition

Fathers and Daughters

Genius

High-Rise

Ithaca

Legend (2015)

Me Before You

Miles Ahead

Money Monster

Our Little Sister

The Dresser

The Infiltrator

The Martian

 

Family:

 

Avin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip

Blinky Bill the Movie

Capture the Flag

Despicable Me 2

Get Squirrely

Ice Age: Collision Course

Inside Out

Kubo and the Two Strings

Maya the Bee Movie

Minions

Norm of the North

Open Season: Scared Silly

Pete's Dragon

Ratchet & Clank

The Angry Birds Movie

The BFG

The Good Dinosaur

The Jungle Book

The Wild Life

Zootopia

 

Princess Pix:

 

2001: A Space Odyssey

Avatar

Cocoon

Dirty Dancing

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Forrest Gump

Galaxy Quest

Gladiator

Good Will Hunting

Grease

Groundhog Day

It Can Happen to You

Kingsmen: The Secret Service

Mamma Mia!

Mary Poppins

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Mrs. Doubtfire

One Fine Day

Overboard (LOL!)

Pillow Talk

Pirates of the Caribbean (LOL!)

Saving Mr. Banks

Skyfall

Star Trek Into Darkness

The Amazing Spider-man

The Blind Side

The Devil Wears Prada

The Englishman Who When Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

The Pink Panther

The Princess Bride

The World's Fastest Indian

Top Gun

True Lies

 

Romance:

 

Aloha

Austenland

Begin Again

Brooklyn

Cinderella

Elsa and Fred

Endless Love

High Strung

Kate and Leopold

Laggies

Love, Rosie

Maggie's Plan

Magic in the Moonlight

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

One Fine Day

Undertaking Betty

Song One

The Age of Adaline

The Best of Me

The Grand Seduction

The Longest Ride

The Proposal

The Rewrite

[Croptop]

I see one morning Princess had a lecture on pirate life and pirate ports in the Caribbean. By chance did you make this lecture in the Princess Theater?

 

I did not make it to those lectures. Perhaps this week if they are repeated.

Edited January 29, 2017 by Croptop

[Cruise Lover Kathy]

You are an amazing writer! Thanks for giving us all the info we need (boarding on 2-5) and smiles as well. Reading this next week will get me ready for our adventure.

I am amazed at the list of available movies! How can I sit on our balcony and watch the oldie Pillow Talk at the same time?

[Steelers36]

BON VOYAGE!

 

 

 

 

There isn't much point in posting these because they are real time and do not stay the way they were when you originally posted the picture.

[Daniel1313]

Hey John ( Crop Top ), Did they offer the fish and chips lunch in the Church hill lounge?

 

Thanks

[Sunchaser46]

I'm really enjoying your reports! We are on the same itinerary as you (reverse order) March 12-26th... if you can, please let us know how the tendering goes in Princess Cays and Grand Cayman?

 

Enjoy the 2nd half of your cruise!!

[Colo Cruiser]

There isn't much point in posting these because they are real time and do not stay the way they were when you originally posted the picture.

 

 

 

Not trying to post them to stay the same. Hence the "live cam".

That's the idea.

[Croptop]

Hey John ( Crop Top ), Did they offer the fish and chips lunch in the Church hill lounge?

 

I don't recall seeing a fish & chips lunch being offered last week but I wasn't being super attentive for it either. I'll keep an eye peeled for it this week.

[Candycrusher]

They did offer a free Pub lunch, but not sure if it was fish and chips.

[Daniel1313]

I don't recall seeing a fish & chips lunch being offered last week but I wasn't being super attentive for it either. I'll keep an eye peeled for it this week.

 

Thanks...

[ar1950]

Not trying to post them to stay the same. Hence the "live cam".

That's the idea.

 

Steelers36 may have a point. Seems redundant since the Princess site already does that. Pretty much out of context the next day when reading the thread (or later at night when seeing a totally black picture). :confused:

[Steelers36]

Steelers36 may have a point. Seems redundant since the Princess site already does that. Pretty much out of context the next day when reading the thread (or later at night when seeing a totally black picture). :confused:

 

Yeah, but if Keith enjoys it, I guess he is free to post it. But, yes it gets out of context quickly relative to the posting - it even becomes a totally different cruise.

[ar1950]

Yeah, but if Keith enjoys it, I guess he is free to post it. But, yes it gets out of context quickly relative to the posting - it even becomes a totally different cruise.

 

Fine for Keith. However, I'm reading a review of someplace I will probably never be able to get to and what do I see? Not what I would like to. Just a sea scene or a black screen. What I would have appreciated was a static picture of that particular port or location. I can always go to Princess.com and see the bridge cams, but, I don't make it on the site often enough to see the places that I would like to see. Static pictures would be much better. Just sayin'.....:D

[caribill]

I see one morning Princess had a lecture on pirate life and pirate ports in the Caribbean.

 

Maybe it is about Diamonds International.

[A1Mema]

THANK YOU!!!!!

 

Dottie

[Croptop]

Considering the conditions yesterday (cold and rainy all day) and the fact that there were 8 ships in port, the turnaround seemed to go quite smoothly. Port Everglades managed to get rid of all of the departing passengers, bring in all the new ones, resupply a bunch of ships AND keep the power on in all of the terminals. Bravo!

 

Of the 500+ In Transit passengers, fewer than 100 actually went ashore. The rest of us piled into the Princess Theatre and sat for just a little under 45 minutes while we waited for the ship passenger count to zero out. Once that happened, we were all filed out past a couple of Customs agents who looked at our passports and our cruise cards and sent us on our way. We had been instructed to fill out a Customs Declaration card and have it with us but I'm not sure why since the Customs agent didn't even look at it when I filed past. Oh well. I guess I've got my Customs Declaration card filled out and ready for when I disembark at the end of this week.

 

At just a little before 1600hrs, we thrust away from the pier and departed third in line behind Celebrity Silhouette and our sister ship, the Royal Princess and the HAL Koningsdam in our wake.

 

Given the rain and cold, the celebratory sailaway deck party was... er... subdued. And in the Piazza.

 

On the bright side, if you wanted a lounge chair by the pool, you could take your pick!

 

When the PES lounge opened at 1700hrs it quickly filled to standing room only. Honestly, I have never seen a PES lounge that packed before. Either there are a lot of Platinums and Elite on board for this sailing or everyone just wanted to hang out in the lounge because of the rain.

 

Per my promise, I opted to be sociable and dine with others so I gamely allowed myself to be seated at an 8-top and ended up having a nice dinner with six other people. The menu was the same as the sailaway menu from last week but I'm the type of guy who cooks a flat of chicken breasts and makes a pot of rice and then has the same meal each night of the week so a 7-day rotation on the dinner menu doesn't bother me in the slightest bit.

 

Given the conditions, I assumed that the welcome aboard show would be extremely well attended so I opted to stay way from the public venues for the evening and just retired to my cabin to watch a movie or two and doze.

 

Coming up next: A beach day at Princess Cays... maybe

[Croptop]

Today's Patter:

[Kenosha Cruiser]

John (Croptop), you mentioned that a 100 passengers staying on for the second week with you left the ship to do stuff. Since these folks didn't sit in the Princess Theater with you to be cleared with customs, did they have to go through the regular procedure of checking in with the new passengers arriving? This back to back thing will be new for us and we were thinking about walking off the ship once we arrive back to Ft. Lauderdale.

 

Glad to see you met some nice folks in the dinning room, did you mention to them that you were doing a live thread on cruise critic? Hope the weather is nice for you at Princess Cays.

 

Cheers - Ken & Darlene

[Mike_DeA]

Loving your review. We board on Mar 19 with 4 friends, all cruise newbies. Fortunately we were on Regal last August in the Baltic so we will he good cruise guides. Lucky enough to have had dinner with Commodore Romano. He is delightful. Also happy to see the Polonia Quartet still playing--they are excellent.

You haven't mentioned the casino--any insight on the names of the casino pit bosses or others there? I usually get to know them pretty well. In fact, my cruise in March is a freebie, thanks to Princess Casinos!

Thanks!

 

 

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Casino Host on 1/15/17 sailing was Yadza, along with another woman who was leaving by the end of January.

[Kenosha Cruiser]

Maybe it is about Diamonds International.

 

That's a good one! I should of thought that. Thanks for the laugh! :D

 

Cheers - Ken & Darlene

[lindy sails]

John (Croptop), you mentioned that a 100 passengers staying on for the second week with you left the ship to do stuff. Since these folks didn't sit in the Princess Theater with you to be cleared with customs, did they have to go through the regular procedure of checking in with the new passengers arriving? This back to back thing will be new for us and we were thinking about walking off the ship once we arrive back to Ft. Lauderdale.

 

 

 

Glad to see you met some nice folks in the dinning room, did you mention to them that you were doing a live thread on cruise critic? Hope the weather is nice for you at Princess Cays.

 

 

 

Cheers - Ken & Darlene

 

 

When we were on the Regal B2B,

they continued to page passengers to the theatre. They did a good job rounding everyone up. No B2B passenger leave the ship before it is completed. It was a very quick process. We lined up by rows as they started with the front row and checked our documents before we exited. We were in and out in 30 minutes. You can then go directly to the gang way and leave the ship. Princess had this down to a science. Looking forward to your review!

 

 

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