A cruise from Singapore 🇸🇬

[little britain]

The 340+ toiletries are a different brand.

The jar in the shower is the usual Salt and Breeze. 

 

[little britain]

11 hours ago, wolfcathorse said:

Please verify who the captain is for me!

Captain Flemming 

[little britain]

It’s a sea day… so shopping day!
Shoes, coats, jeans… 👖… never seen so many brands for sale on a ship! 
Armani X

Bally 

Cocinelle

Hilfiger

Largerfeld

Marc Jacobs

Kate

Coach

 

 

 

 

Edited February 16 by little britain

[little britain]

Gold Dining on D16 and the Balcony outside at front of ship

 

 

[little britain]

We popped into cafe 270 for lunch: it serves a far wider selection than usual, such as noodles 🍜 and various sausage in pastry flavours.

 

Whilst there the new cast were doing a run through of Silk Road. Complete with aerial artists!! Even as a dry run it was an amazing show. Apparently the new cast start on 21st and it will be the first time aerial acts will be back after Covid 👏 

 

 

 

 

 

[little britain]

Have just heard that as of next cruise ( typical) the $25 off specialty dining will be valid on board Spectrum… not against at Chefs table or the Teppanyaki 

[little britain]

We had a fabulous dinner in Gold on our final night. Possibly one of the best tender steaks 🥩 I’ve ever had!
 

The final nights show was Effectors. I’ve seen this before on Odyssey but I felt the show and vocals were very weak almost as if it was mimed. No orchestra. 
 

We ended with a final drink in Music Hall where the band Rhythmocracy were excellent. 
 

I’ll give our final thoughts tomorrow. 
 

drones…

 

[mil76]

13 hours ago, little britain said:

It’s a sea day… so shopping day!
Shoes, coats, jeans… 👖… never seen so many brands for sale on a ship! 
Armani X

Bally 

Cocinelle

Hilfiger

Largerfeld

Marc Jacobs

Kate

Coach

One thing they definitely DON'T have is any of the T-shirts you see on Caribbean/Mexico/Alaska cruises.  We asked if they had any Royal Caribbean T-shirts for the ports we visited, and we got a very snotty "if you wanted a T-shirt, you should have bought one while you were off the ship" response.  🥶

[sgmn]

Thanks for keeping us entertained and informed these last few weeks on your Aussie/NZ/Far East adventure.

Have you disembarked now? Safe travels home 

[little britain]

3 hours ago, sgmn said:

Thanks for keeping us entertained and informed these last few weeks on your Aussie/NZ/Far East adventure.

Have you disembarked now? Safe travels home 

Disembarked and now in Singapore for 3 nights  - I hope some of it will be useful! 

Edited February 17 by little britain

[Ethanol95]

On 2/12/2024 at 8:38 PM, little britain said:

Sorry, diamonds aren’t able to dine in Silver.  D+ can only dine there on a sail by sail basis depending upon numbers. The cut off is around 20 D+ will be allowed in.

 

The WJ is very different to usual with some amazing joints of meat and food flavours.

The Hotpot place at the back is complimentary apart from if you order lobster etc. but it’s reservations needed.

 

We are going for Sichuan Red tomorrow- it is either ALC or they do set menu for $45pp but we got offered 20% off which softens the blow a bit! 

Last time I was on, Diamond and Diamond + were allowed to use the silver lounge and dine in the Silver Dining. Pinnacle members are given the Gold Lounge and Gold Dining. Unless that has changed since one year ago then that is very saddening. 

[little britain]

9 hours ago, Ethanol95 said:

Last time I was on, Diamond and Diamond + were allowed to use the silver lounge and dine in the Silver Dining. Pinnacle members are given the Gold Lounge and Gold Dining. Unless that has changed since one year ago then that is very saddening. 

The sign outside Silver said Star/SkySea/pinnacle and when I specifically asked the host she said about the 20 cut off.  
Gold and Silver dining were never more than 50% full whenever we were in there. The Silver lounge for drinks never had more than 3 other groups in there! 

[Crism]

We are having this issue this cruise. Diamond Plus cannot dine in Silver, and it's practically empty. Giant oversight on behalf of onboard management, and we're trying to fight it.

[bonsai3s]

2 hours ago, Crism said:

We are having this issue this cruise. Diamond Plus cannot dine in Silver, and it's practically empty. Giant oversight on behalf of onboard management, and we're trying to fight it.

 

If the HD is Mike Rasmussen.. speak to him...he's a nice guy...and a comedian.

[little britain]

Last glimpse of Spectrum 

[little britain]

4 hours ago, bonsai3s said:

 

If the HD is Mike Rasmussen.. speak to him...he's a nice guy...and a comedian.

I spoke with the Captain who was pretty visible walking around, but had no visibility of who the HD or F&B guys were 

[little britain]

Absolutely the last glimpse of Spectrum from my hotel pool!

 

[little britain]

Random Singapore photos: 

more new year celebrations 

temple in Chinatown 

Indian temple in Chinatown 

flower dome

Chihuly in cloud forest dome

sky walk trees

little India area

peranakan houses 

view from 51st floor over to Marina bay Sands and incoming plane 

[little britain]

I realised I never did my closing thoughts on cruising from Singapore.

 

It really is a different cultural experience - yes all announcements are in English first but you get used to all signage/menus etc being in 2 languages, and many of the menus also include photos of the food.

 

The ship is possibly the most beautiful RCI ship in the fleet.  She is stunning and in immaculate condition - she is going for a dry dock in April but she certainly does not need new furnishings!

 

The main demographic onboard is very Oriental Asian - large family groups from Grandma to babies.  Their experience of the cruise appears to cram as much in as possible - we joked that they saw the Cruise Compass as a 'to do list'... shows etc were always packed.  

 

The ship is lacking in bars - on deck 4 there is no pub, there is no bar in the Boleros area and the Music Hall bar upstairs is much smaller  because the whole area behind the bar (where the pool tables and the high window tables usually are) do not exist as that area is boxed off as a high rollers casino area.  The westerners congregated in Schooner Bar or Vintages.  

 

The specialty restaurants are expensive and when we ate in Sichuan Red we were the only table apart from the Captain!  There is no Solarium buffet so the WJ was always very busy as was 270 cafe.  The large groups used to command any available space to eat near 270 including the Next Cruise desks!  

 

The Gold area is very nice but it is disappointing that the menu never changes.

We actually preferred the Silver area - but again no bar - the waiters had to go outside - navigate the red rope that cut off the chairs and use the Solarium bar to get our drinks.

 

We found that the staff on board were mostly Chinese, very enthusiastic but their command of English was not the best.

 

We did not go to the MDR so cannot comment.  The MDR menu was definitely enhanced from the usual offerings though.

 

There were always plenty of chairs around the pools.

Having a non smoking casino was heaven. Needless to say it was very busy.

I don't know why there was no live band.  

 

We would definitely cruise Spectrum again but only on a longer cruise which attracts more westerners.  

[sgmn]

1 hour ago, little britain said:

I realised I never did my closing thoughts on cruising from Singapore.

 

It really is a different cultural experience - yes all announcements are in English first but you get used to all signage/menus etc being in 2 languages, and many of the menus also include photos of the food.

 

The ship is possibly the most beautiful RCI ship in the fleet.  She is stunning and in immaculate condition - she is going for a dry dock in April but she certainly does not need new furnishings!

 

The main demographic onboard is very Oriental Asian - large family groups from Grandma to babies.  Their experience of the cruise appears to cram as much in as possible - we joked that they saw the Cruise Compass as a 'to do list'... shows etc were always packed.  

 

The ship is lacking in bars - on deck 4 there is no pub, there is no bar in the Boleros area and the Music Hall bar upstairs is much smaller  because the whole area behind the bar (where the pool tables and the high window tables usually are) do not exist as that area is boxed off as a high rollers casino area.  The westerners congregated in Schooner Bar or Vintages.  

 

The specialty restaurants are expensive and when we ate in Sichuan Red we were the only table apart from the Captain!  There is no Solarium buffet so the WJ was always very busy as was 270 cafe.  The large groups used to command any available space to eat near 270 including the Next Cruise desks!  

 

The Gold area is very nice but it is disappointing that the menu never changes.

We actually preferred the Silver area - but again no bar - the waiters had to go outside - navigate the red rope that cut off the chairs and use the Solarium bar to get our drinks.

 

We found that the staff on board were mostly Chinese, very enthusiastic but their command of English was not the best.

 

We did not go to the MDR so cannot comment.  The MDR menu was definitely enhanced from the usual offerings though.

 

There were always plenty of chairs around the pools.

Having a non smoking casino was heaven. Needless to say it was very busy.

I don't know why there was no live band.  

 

We would definitely cruise Spectrum again but only on a longer cruise which attracts more westerners.  

We were on two cruises after you. Just home today so recovering from the grueling flight and doing laundry!

Our four night was full with over 5000 and nearly 1000 children on board. School holidays in Malaysia and lots of multi generational families. 

Entertainment was good. Loved 'Silk Road' 

Agree ship is stunning with great art. 

Happy with the food in MDR.  I had prebooked 'my time' to fit around our port plans but once on board there was a letter stating they had booked us a set time of 6.45 and the table number and time was printed on our stateroom card 🤷‍♀️

 

Focus seems to be on 'extras' . Seemed to be more 'pay for' restaurants which seemed mostly empty. Had to pay for North Star and I-fly even the shorter version of North Star was $20. 

Casino always busy, the two times we visited we came out on top so all good 👍 

Found the bars to be quiet. 

Missed that there wasn't an available to all Solarium restaurant (it was the silver lounge/restaurant for suites and Pinnacles).

 

Thanks for your info on what is a not often reviewed ship

 

Edited March 2 by sgmn