Day 3 Boarding the Big Ship

After a 2 hour rainy taxi ride we finally made it to the sunny ship! Check in did not take nearly as long as expected the cue was about 30 minutes. Once on board Mark and I checked out our state room with balcony and American outlets. Realizing that we would not be able to use our new family air loom we quickly left the boat in pursuit of a European extension chord and European to American converter. We hit Staples (Yes, the office supply store) but no luck there, Boots the local drug store who sold us a European to American converter, and IKEA (Yes, the Swedish Furniture store we have at the Broadway Mall) where we bought an European extension chord! Mark rigged the room to accommodate all our electronics and even duck taped the wires to the floor so neither of us trip and fall over them!

The next debacle was with the television set, a Samsung. It came equipped with a VGA port and HDMI port, of course Mark brought those cables with us so we could connect the lap top to the TV and watch Movies or Television Shows, but apparently the TV is set up in hotel mode so while it connects we can not set it to display! Mark has spoken to almost everyone on board and we can’t get them to change this for us. Royal Caribbean claims it is a safety feature so they can alert us through the TV if something is going on. Mark is more than pissed. If anyone can tell us how to take the TV out of Hotel mode we would be grateful…maybe call Samsung directly and ask them or do a Google search and send us the link. At least they offered us 3 free TV rental movies worth $12.95 each!

Our first dinner was OK we both had Chilean Sea Bass, but we were still hungry a few hours later. The only options on board to eat again at 11:30 pm were cookies, tea sandwiches, pizza, and room service. We ordered room service. Johnny Rockets and Ben & Jerry’s closes at 11:30 and both have a nominal charge as does room service between Midnight and 5 AM. Before dinner we did see a glimpse of the onboard show, the comedian was not all that funny but the on board orchestra was decent. We also saw the ship parade with the costumes and light show.