Live on Odyssey - January 29, 2022 - 8 Night Southern Caribbean 🚢

[BecciBoo]

Again, thx John, you and Twangster are sure helping me endure my long 11 month wait until our Odyssey!

[nhraformula00]

56 minutes ago, BecciBoo said:

Thank God, we are not prone to motion sickness so never had the problem except one time on the old Splendor of the Seas.  The rolling and rockin didn't bother us, but Todd had to lead me down the hallway with my eyes closed and holding my nose shut because of the barf in the floor...isch, I know TMI, but Henry was doing overtime on that cruise.  People at breakfast the next morning were all saying how they'd never cruise again!  Funny.

That's funny that some think just because it was rough sailing that they would never do it again. We have been on 21 cruises so far and once back about 20 years ago on a smaller Carnival ship there were 20-25 foot seas for one day. It was rough, but sometimes the weather does not cooperate. We were fine, but a lot of people were not liking it.

[BonnieJB]

Hello!  We are on the Feb. 26 sailing and will be following your adventures.  Thank you so much for posting.  We are trying to decipher all of the abbreviations that are used and have figured out most of them but what does LA stand for?  We are D+ but haven't booked suites.  We usually visit the Diamond Lounge for cocktail hour. 

Have a great cruise!

Bonnie and Dave

[lwuest]

On 1/28/2022 at 8:09 PM, LATTELOVE said:

Thank you.

I'm working on changing it, just can't find a place closed by.

I'll keep on trying other options.

Yes, I'm doing the same thing trying to find a testing spot in Ft. Lauderdale.  Our ship leaves one the 13th, we arrive in FT. Lauderdale on the 11th so test must be done on the 11th or 12th.  What I've seen so far is that a test can only be booked out 3 days in advance.

[John&LaLa]

8 minutes ago, BonnieJB said:

Hello!  We are on the Feb. 26 sailing and will be following your adventures.  Thank you so much for posting.  We are trying to decipher all of the abbreviations that are used and have figured out most of them but what does LA stand for?  We are D+ but haven't booked suites.  We usually visit the Diamond Lounge for cocktail hour. 

Have a great cruise!

Bonnie and Dave

 

LA is Loyalty Ambassador.

 

His name is Alan

[John&LaLa]

Got my check mark for bumper cars✔

 

It was fun. We got a long ride.

 

Waited about 3 rotations in line. Sanitizing between riders slows down the turnaround rate

Edited January 30, 2022 by John&LaLa

[Maitaivegas]

Just now, John&LaLa said:

Got my check mark for bumper cars✔

 

It was fun. We got a long ride.

I love bumper cars but my L2-L4 doesn’t like them lol.

[John&LaLa]

1 minute ago, Maitaivegas said:

I love bumper cars but my L2-L4 doesn’t like them lol.

 

There were some jolts. I tried to avoid head on collisions. My tactic was to do donuts, then sideswipe Laura

[At Sea At Peace]

15 minutes ago, lwuest said:

Yes, I'm doing the same thing trying to find a testing spot in Ft. Lauderdale.  Our ship leaves one the 13th, we arrive in FT. Lauderdale on the 11th so test must be done on the 11th or 12th.  What I've seen so far is that a test can only be booked out 3 days in advance.

 

I don't know if this helps, but the CVS really near the Port is quite active in testing for cruisers (although we have not done so directly) and they offer the 'same day Rapid Testing Results' per their website (and they are a cruise partner with certain lines).

 

https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/clinic-locator/fl/fortlauderdale/specialty/covid-19-testing-3285.html

 

 

[BonnieJB]

3 minutes ago, John&LaLa said:

 

There were some jolts. I tried to avoid head on collisions. My tactic was to do donuts, then sideswipe Laura

We went on the bumper cars on another cruise and after standing in line for three rotations, when it was my turn my car ran out of battery juice immediately and my car just sat there...grrrrrr.

[lwuest]

14 minutes ago, At Sea At Peace said:

 

I don't know if this helps, but the CVS really near the Port is quite active in testing for cruisers (although we have not done so directly) and they offer the 'same day Rapid Testing Results' per their website (and they are a cruise partner with certain lines).

 

https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/clinic-locator/fl/fortlauderdale/specialty/covid-19-testing-3285.html

 

 

Thank you so much!!!!

[Sunshine3601]

17 hours ago, Jimbo said:

Here is my go round with  IFly.....My wife was filming it and couldn't stop laughing at me.  🙂

https://fb.watch/aRyChvNZaK/

 

You did good!   I chickened out on our last sailing on Anthem.    Maybe I will do on our March sailing when we have our son and fiance with us as they really want to do it. 

[At Sea At Peace]

18 hours ago, Jimbo said:

Here is my go round with  IFly.....My wife was filming it and couldn't stop laughing at me.  🙂

https://fb.watch/aRyChvNZaK/

 

 

You did really good.  👍

 

I used to 'attempt' to do the Flow Rider on the board and the only one in the grandstand laughing loudly and unabashed and filming was my wife.  😲

 

Then I anticipated revenge on the iFly (she wouldn't do Flow Rider at all).  She doesn't work out, have any tone, etc. and didn't even want to do it.  Said she had been having bad dreams about it for weeks.  Then, she was picked first, was calm, collected and aired balanced, beautiful and long.  🙁

 

I did awful.  Too tense.  Bounced around in there like an popcorn in an air popper.  🤕  Got better as we did it over and over as there were no lines at all.

[John&LaLa]

1 hour ago, BonnieJB said:

We went on the bumper cars on another cruise and after standing in line for three rotations, when it was my turn my car ran out of battery juice immediately and my car just sat there...grrrrrr.

 

That kinda happened to us. I'm slow, so I got last car and ot was dead. Had to go back and wait another round

[island lady]

3 hours ago, crewsweeper said:

So royal is now your "retirement  home"?😁 Glad you can continue to cruise!! And BTW it was 23 this morning in NW Florida.  So be happy with 46 yesterday!

 

LOL...yeah, and no driving required.  😄   Happy to have sold the "land yacht", though we had many wonderful memories of it.  

 

Yikes.  It took 2 years for our outside plants/palms to look healthy again after the last bad freeze in 2020.  Now...this one is worse.  Will be tending some brown plants when we get home.  😞 

[island lady]

3 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

This is in the SL, they may have a similar on in DL, I haven't visited yet. Obviously need to be at least Diamond in C&A to use DL

 

This one was very nice.  JS and higher have a Lavazo espresso machine in room. Made a decent lungo yesterday

 

 

 

Ahh...happy someone uses those.  One of the first things I do is to remove the whole lot, tray and all, to some corner of the cabin.  Takes up too much room on the counter, and we don't use it.  Spoiled on the lounge Lattes.  😉 

[island lady]

3 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

DL has the same espresso machine as SL

 

I was shocked it was self serve at 11 am this morning.  😮 

[clochette]

9 minutes ago, island lady said:

 

I was shocked it was self serve at 11 am this morning.  😮 

we were on the Anthem a couple of weeks ago, and the coffee machine in the DL was self serve the 11 days we were on board

[John&LaLa]

4 minutes ago, clochette said:

we were on the Anthem a couple of weeks ago, and the coffee machine in the DL was self serve the 11 days we were on board

 

SL is self serve as well. 7am till 8:30pm

[LATTELOVE]

3 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

DL has the same espresso machine as SL

Nice!! Looking forward to the espresso 

next month.!!  

[BonnieJB]

38 minutes ago, At Sea At Peace said:

 

You did really good.  👍

 

I used to 'attempt' to do the Flow Rider on the board and the only one in the grandstand laughing loudly and unabashed and filming was my wife.  😲

 

Then I anticipated revenge on the iFly (she wouldn't do Flow Rider at all).  She doesn't work out, have any tone, etc. and didn't even want to do it.  Said she had been having bad dreams about it for weeks.  Then, she was picked first, was calm, collected and aired balanced, beautiful and long.  🙁

 

I did awful.  Too tense.  Bounced around in there like an popcorn in an air popper.  🤕  Got better as we did it over and over as there were no lines at all.

We did this about 7 years ago.  I was so terrified I would end up on my back on the floor.  However, thankfully we both did OK and nothing humiliating happened so we consider it a WIN!

[LATTELOVE]

1 hour ago, At Sea At Peace said:

 

I don't know if this helps, but the CVS really near the Port is quite active in testing for cruisers (although we have not done so directly) and they offer the 'same day Rapid Testing Results' per their website (and they are a cruise partner with certain lines).

 

https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/clinic-locator/fl/fortlauderdale/specialty/covid-19-testing-3285.html

 

 

Thank you.  Very helpful!

[Sea Dog]

1 hour ago, John&LaLa said:

My tactic was to do donuts, then sideswipe Laura

 

Could that be considered as domestic violence? 😉

[LATTELOVE]

2 hours ago, lwuest said:

Yes, I'm doing the same thing trying to find a testing spot in Ft. Lauderdale.  Our ship leaves one the 13th, we arrive in FT. Lauderdale on the 11th so test must be done on the 11th or 12th.  What I've seen so far is that a test can only be booked out 3 days in advance.

I know, Royal Caribbean's website says 2 days in advance.  That's what got me

nervous with CVS PCR test, It says it could take up to 3 days for results back.

But we found a local clinic that can do it with  the 24 hours results back, I would have

to wait 4 days before the cruise to book the appointment.  Fingers crossed for this one.

[ILCTCRUISER]

8 minutes ago, LATTELOVE said:

I know, Royal Caribbean's website says 2 days in advance.  That's what got me

nervous with CVS PCR test, It says it could take up to 3 days for results back.

But we found a local clinic that can do it with  the 24 hours results back, I would have

to wait 4 days before the cruise to book the appointment.  Fingers crossed for this one.

You want the Abbot IDNow test.  It’s a rapid PCR test.  Last time we took it we had the results about 15 minutes later.