Almost live from Ecstasy

[BlerkOne]

2 hours ago, Joe817 said:

Enjoying the pics Blerk! Keep up the good work! 👍

 

 

[BlerkOne]

Per John Heald - we should find out next month.

 

 

Tea time is popular on board with some of you but because of the continuing staff shortages the whole industry is suffering from ( we hope the US State Department will be able to get back on track issuing Visas for our crew to come to the USA and get on the ships) we have had to stop tea time on cruises of 6 days or less. ... So when you have less staff somethings have to change and I this case it is tea time. We will continue with tea time on 7 day and longer cruises where we can spread the hours out more and where we may have more crew and as soon as possible we will return tea time to the whole fleet again.

[BlerkOne]

Forgot where I was, maybe Cozumel?

 

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Oops that was premature randomness

 

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Was supposed to see starfish, but El Cielo was closed because of weather

 

Then I messed up the settings on the underwater camera about midway through.. Oh well. I think I can fix those later when I have time and maybe less laziness.

[Joe817]

Loving the pics! 👍

[BlerkOne]

Progreso/Merida

 

 

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Wow. No Baked Alaska for desert tonight. I guess there are still a little concerned.

 

 

[Jamman54]

17 hours ago, BlerkOne said:

Wow. No Baked Alaska for desert tonight. I guess there are still a little concerned.

 

 

 

Wow, I remember that. Back in 1998 I believe.....

[peteandpris]

Great review, thank you.

 

[BlerkOne]

On 4/16/2022 at 2:25 PM, peteandpris said:

Great review, thank you.

 

You're welcome!

[Frank12]

Thanks for all the great pics. Haven't sailed the Ecstasy in many moons.

[BlerkOne]

2 hours ago, Frank12 said:

Thanks for all the great pics. Haven't sailed the Ecstasy in many moons.

If you want to again, there aren't going to be many moons left to try.

[BlerkOne]

Let's see what else?

 

The P/D reunion was a different format than what I was expecting. It was all you could guzzle and you could request drinks of your choice. I chose Grey Goose martinis and I think had 3 or 4 in the 30 or 40 minutes I was at the party. No additional drink coupon was added to your S&S card. I got free drinks in the casino, but purchased one at Alchemy just to verify that no free drink was added. I took one for the team because that's the kind of person I am!

[BlerkOne]

These started getting foggy - I guess too much wind and humidity and who knows what

 

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The poor soap dish tried to hang on, but failed....

 

 

 

 

 

[mz-s]

That poor soap dish only had a few months to go.

 

I miss the shows with real backdrops, not the big LED displays of the newer ships.

 

Is there any Ecstasy branded merch left in the fun shops onboard?

[BlerkOne]

1 minute ago, mz-s said:

Is there any Ecstasy branded merch left in the fun shops onboard?

Surprisingly, yes. Tee shirts, hats, coffee mugs (that just had the name in block letters, no picture). Ship models, probably more. Plus a ship load of 50th Birthday merchandise.

[ninjacat123]

Thank you @BlerkOne for the review and the great pics!  Looks like there were plenty of chairs for sunning.  I'm taking my grown up two DDs on Ecstasy the end of May and we are very excited!  Hope our soap dish holds up😃