🦙Live from Utopia 🦙- Sailing with Daryl 🦙8/2-8/5 🏰with bonus feature of a week at Disney Parks post cruise🏰

[Ozark_Kid]

Oooooops. Utopia went 1st.  😳 

[harryfat1]

5 hours ago, h20skibum said:

My California grandson is on his tour of bathroom art. 

 

 

I can’t believe that with as many times as we have sailed, my wife was never aware of these. I guess the women’s rooms don’t have art. 

 

We Californians have a special appreciation for men's restrooms...

 

Nice to see the Oasis class bathrooms still have interesting artwork to keep you occupied instead of staring at a blank wall.

 

They had interesting artwork on the Allure as well

 

Enjoy your cruise.  Hopefully, the storm approaching Florida will have no impact on your vacation

 

 

 

 

 

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[helen haywood]

2 hours ago, h20skibum said:

It is hard sailing with grandkids.  It is 4:00 and this is my first drink

 

That looks like iced Pepto Bismol…I’m hoping it’s not!

[BonTexasNY]

3 hours ago, h20skibum said:

I didn’t realize that Daryl snuck some friends aboard

 

He's such a risk taker!

Looking forward to more of his cruise shenanigans and more pictures of your awesome grands enjoying cruise life.

[SteelCityCruiser10]

On 7/31/2024 at 10:21 AM, h20skibum said:

Buckle up, as Daryl explores the latest ship in Royal’s fleet.  He is so excited to be the first of his kind onboard.  

 

 

A LIVE like no other. 

Been a long work week but finally catching up and following!!  Have a spectacular cruise!  cheers 🍻 

[SteelCityCruiser10]

On 7/31/2024 at 12:12 PM, h20skibum said:

We were sailing on this…..

 

 

No, that isn’t the Titanic, but the SS Norway.   The largest cruise ship in the world at the time, but no comparison to Utopia.  

Oh how far have we come from this to Utopia 😱

[SteelCityCruiser10]

On 8/1/2024 at 7:51 AM, h20skibum said:

Pittsburgh airport has been undergoing a major construction project that makes things a real mess getting in and out. 

 

When we flew back from California a couple months ago, we noticed how often one of the off site shuttles came by as we waited four our hotel shuttle. So we decided to give Fast Park and Relax a try when we traveled to Myrtle Beach.  I was surprised how quick and easy this was, and it was half the cost of airport parking.  We pre booked our parking reservation.   For anyone flying from Pittsburgh, I highly recommend them. 
 

The kids were amused that the driver’s name was Ricky. 

PIT is a disaster zone right now!  Park & Fly is a great recommendation or at minimum pre reserve parking.  Especially for extended (cheapo) parking.

[SteelCityCruiser10]

On 8/1/2024 at 10:59 AM, Sea Dog said:

I love AirTags they give me peace of mind. I remember being in Miami waiting for the luggage on the carousel. My first bag showed up early but it seemed like forever before my second bag showed up. I would have been worried that the bag did not make it but my phone showed the bag was in baggage area close to me. Finally it came out on carousel.

I will never forget having to show the Air Canada agent my iphone so I could

tell THEM exactly where my lost bags were at the Toronto airport.  Thx to my air tags.  

[h20skibum]

5 hours ago, Ozark_Kid said:

What deck will you be on during the sail away.  They are zooming in on Adventure. 

We were on deck 15 when they started sail away, then we all moved to our balcony.  We were on the port side, so you wouldn’t have seen us. 
 

 

[h20skibum]

4 hours ago, Ozark_Kid said:

Oooooops. Utopia went 1st.  😳 

Yeah, Utopia had to get her fat butt out of the way to leave room for Adventure and Disney Wish to get out. 

[h20skibum]

3 hours ago, harryfat1 said:

We Californians have a special appreciation for men's restrooms...

Thanks for dropping in Harry. I will have to catch up on your thread later.  That artwork is always interesting. 

 

My grandson has been going by the motto of “Never pass us an opportunity “

 

Some more artwork. 

 

 

You just have to find them unoccupied to take the photos, so you don’t have someone wondering why you are filming I. The men’s room.  
 

Told my grandson he should do a review on men’s rooms. 🤣🤣

 

[h20skibum]

3 hours ago, helen haywood said:

That looks like iced Pepto Bismol…I’m hoping it’s not!

I was going to say it was late enough in the day that I didn’t remember that drink, but then I remembered it was supposed to be a Lime and Coconut. 
 

They must have a new recipe, because it isn’t like any I remember. 

[Ozark_Kid]

9 minutes ago, h20skibum said:

Yeah, Utopia had to get her fat butt out of the way to leave room for Adventure and Disney Wish to get out. 

Have the kids tried the Abyss yet?

[h20skibum]

3 hours ago, BonTexasNY said:

He's such a risk taker!

Looking forward to more of his cruise shenanigans and more pictures of your awesome grands enjoying cruise life.

Yeah, the kids have been busy hiding ducks in some not so hard to find places. 
 

 

They are disappointed they haven’t found any yet. 

[h20skibum]

27 minutes ago, SteelCityCruiser10 said:

PIT is a disaster zone right now!  Park & Fly is a great recommendation or at minimum pre reserve parking.  Especially for extended (cheapo) parking.

Hi Mark.  Thanks for following.  I think Park and Fly is my new favorite.  
 

 

[SteelCityCruiser10]

2 minutes ago, h20skibum said:

Hi Mark.  Thanks for following.  I think Park and Fly is my new favorite.  
 

 

I don’t blame you!! I am so disenchanted with flying at the moment that we are driving to FL for family vacation next Friday.  Of course i’ll be stopping in nashville and doing some bourbon hunting along the way in KY.  🥃

[h20skibum]

8 minutes ago, Ozark_Kid said:

Have the kids tried the Abyss yet?

Hi John. Yeah, my one grandson and his dad did the express slide from deck 16 to deck 6.  They said it was fun. 
 

Haven’t convinced any of them to do the zip line yet.  My granddaughter says she would, but she doesn’t weigh enough.  She is definitely the daredevil of the bunch. 

[h20skibum]

So how about a copy of the 3 day cruise compass before I continue?

 

cruisecompassU1.pdf

I still love that you can save these pdf versions instead of taking a picture with your phone.  
 

We did get a paper copy for day two, but the other two cabins didn’t.  Must be we crossed that age appropriate threshold. 

 

Edited August 3 by h20skibum

[h20skibum]

As we were exploring the ship with so, and looking for our third lunch of the day, we ended up in Solarium Bistro. 
 

There choices were better than a normal cruise.  Must be leftovers from the inaugural. 

 

 

 

[#55worktoplay]

Well I’m late to the party but looking forward to following Darryl and his gang. 
 

Thanks, enjoy!

 

Happy Anniversary🎉

Edited August 3 by #55worktoplay

[h20skibum]

Found a lighthouse for @Ocean Boy

 

 

Yeah, you can climb this one.   
 

And slide down. 

[h20skibum]

I am not sure what the fascination with monkeys is on this ship. 

 

Guess more research is needed. 

 

[h20skibum]

It appears that D+ gives you a couple more amenities 

 

 

Since we turned D+ on the last cruise, we just got our pins on this one.  
 

These ones we got on this cruise look so cheap.  I was hoping for ones with the two chips. 

[h20skibum]

Dinner tonight was the MDR.  We had our standard of prime rib and cheese cake. 

 

 

The kids were glad we didn’t have to wait on a bill. 

 

[h20skibum]

Not exactly a second dinner, but the kids wanted to check out the Windjammer restaurant. 
 

What a huge improvement over the other Oasis class ships.   A few photos from there. 
 

Donuts, anyone?
 

and more donuts

 

Deserts!  Everyone’s favorites

 

 

They even had @A&L_Ont Andrew’s favorites 🤣