⭐Live Allure TA 🚢 March 1, 2020 - Time to rub the lamp 🧞

[3CatsInMA]

What time is it for you now?

[John&LaLa]

54 minutes ago, jagsfan said:

Are you getting chocolates on your pillow?

i ask because I don’t recall getting them my last few Royal cruises. 

Cleaning out a drawer, I ran across a Ziplock bag of a dozen little square chocolates wrapped in silver with the Royal Caribbean logo. 

Surprise!

I guess I hid them from myself. 

Now I’m wondering how old they were. 

They went out in the garbage, but were probably fine to eat. 

 

No pillow chocolates, but I do have an awesome down pillow. 

 

Best beds we've had in forever

[RFerrington]

1 hour ago, John&LaLa said:

 

Best beds we've had in forever

Yes, the beds are awesome, aren’t they ?

[Ukigirl]

Looks like you’ve had good weather just by looking at the cruise compass, how is it now? Are people in the pool?

[truffles2]

Not many in the pools even tho it is warmer than I was anticipating 

[twangster]

Day 5 Update

 

Our great weather continues.  Temps still around 68° in sunny skies.

 

New course.  Staff Captain said they don't like some weather ahead of us so we are giving up on the great circle route and changing course.

 

 

[Pratique]

22 minutes ago, twangster said:

New course.  Staff Captain said they don't like some weather ahead of us so we are giving up on the great circle route and changing course.

Rhumb line. Point and shoot.

[twangster]

9 minutes ago, Pratique said:

Rhumb line. Point and shoot.

 

Rhumb line would have a bearing of 87°.  We are running on a heading of 90° hugging the 34th parallel so I suspect they are going due East to stay under some weather that was projected to be in our path.  At some point we'll need to turn more Northerly.

[blueboys24]

Not sure if Im correct but i understand the ship is going into drydock when you get to europe. my question is if this is the case do you notice any difference in service or things available on board to be less or is there no difference. the reason im asking is im considering a transatlantic next year on harmony and she goes into drydock after she gets to europe next year. thanks in advance and loving your review.

[twangster]

7 minutes ago, blueboys24 said:

Not sure if Im correct but i understand the ship is going into drydock when you get to europe. my question is if this is the case do you notice any difference in service or things available on board to be less or is there no difference. the reason im asking is im considering a transatlantic next year on harmony and she goes into drydock after she gets to europe next year. thanks in advance and loving your review.

 

From my perspective the ship is 100%.  Someone mentioned seeing contractors board in Florida but I haven't seen them.

[truffles2]

1 hour ago, twangster said:

Day 5 Update

 

Our great weather continues.  Temps still around 68° in sunny skies.

 

New course.  Staff Captain said they don't like some weather ahead of us so we are giving up on the great circle route and changing course.

 

 

the zig zag in the course was when we slowed for them to work on the stacks....just curious as to why it showed up like that. Anyone know?

[A&L_Ont]

1 minute ago, truffles2 said:

the zig zag in the course was when we slowed for them to work on the stacks....just curious as to why it showed up like that. Anyone know?

 

I would guess so the crew working on the stacks has the least amount of wind working against them.

[twangster]

3 minutes ago, truffles2 said:

the zig zag in the course was when we slowed for them to work on the stacks....just curious as to why it showed up like that. Anyone know?

 

They slowed and changed course.  This minimized any winds across the upper decks so workers could walk around near the stacks without having to deal with strong winds.  

 

Much like a helicopter evac they pick a speed and heading to create the desired effective wind across the deck.

Edited March 5, 2020 by twangster

[truffles2]

No, I mean why did it show on the course tracking as the zigzag

 

i.e. I know why they slowed but don’t know why it caused the change in the graph

Edited March 5, 2020 by truffles2

[Teeara]

1 hour ago, twangster said:

Day 5 Update

 

Our great weather continues.  Temps still around 68° in sunny skies.

 

New course.  Staff Captain said they don't like some weather ahead of us so we are giving up on the great circle route and changing course.

 

 

There is a coastal storm going up the eastern seaboard that is going to connect with a storm coming down from the Great Lakes off the coast of New England.  We're expecting about an inch of snow in Boston from the storm, so I expect that is what you are trying to avoid.  Pretty good size storm going up the coast.

[Sea Dog]

6 minutes ago, truffles2 said:

just curious as to why it showed up like that. Anyone know?

I figured the Captain was playing that drinking game with John.

[Pratique]

The zig zag is to prevent soot from falling into the pool when they blow out the stacks. It's based on wind direction at the time.

 

(At least on the Symphony TA that was the given reason for the course deviation.)

Edited March 5, 2020 by Pratique

[jagsfan]

On 3/3/2020 at 7:25 AM, A&L_Ont said:

There’s a game that the “sensitive” should not play.  Wish I was there last night. 

 

On 3/3/2020 at 2:01 AM, John&LaLa said:

2am, spent the evening drinking Tito's and playing Cards Against Humanity.  Good times

First time I ever heard of that game was as a question (answer)on Jeopardy. 

This is the second time. 

It sounds scary!

[twangster]

3 minutes ago, truffles2 said:

No, I mean why did it show on the course tracking as the zigzag

 

i.e. I know why they slowed but don’t know why it caused the change in the graph

 

They didn't just slow down.  They slowed down plus they changed course.  The ship turned to match the wind direction.  It was nearly imperceptible.  I didn't have sun on my balcony and then I did.  Once they fixed the metal on the stack we turned back to pick up our original route.  At that point I lost sun on my balcony.   

[truffles2]

Ah ha, I see now. Didn’t realize we had actually changed course. Thanks all. 

[jagsfan]

On 3/3/2020 at 7:52 PM, John&LaLa said:

 

Do they still make newspapers

Hey, don’t you read Florida Today? 

It’s a pretty good newspaper. 

[Snit13]

16 hours ago, Andy C said:

Loving this review and all those cocktails!  Brought a smile to my face.  

And a pain to your head !!!!  All drinks looked awesome but my limit would be 1 a day.

[jagsfan]

7 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

No pillow chocolates, but I do have an awesome down pillow. 

 

Best beds we've had in forever

On a long cruise, that’s worth paying  for. 

[John&LaLa]

3 hours ago, blueboys24 said:

Not sure if Im correct but i understand the ship is going into drydock when you get to europe. my question is if this is the case do you notice any difference in service or things available on board to be less or is there no difference. the reason im asking is im considering a transatlantic next year on harmony and she goes into drydock after she gets to europe next year. thanks in advance and loving your review.

 

Allure drydock will be much more extensive than Harmony's 

[John&LaLa]

2 hours ago, Snit13 said:

And a pain to your head !!!!  All drinks looked awesome but my limit would be 1 a day.

 

I'm truly not cut out for this STAR life, especially 12 days