Year 5, Day 86, “Living the Dream”. Friday, 7/25/2025 DAY 9 of 29 day Florida, Caribbean, SeaWorld and Disney World trip. – Day 7 of 6 night Adventure of the Seas Western Caribbean and Perfect Day – Day 1 of 3 night Perfect Day Getaway Cruise on Jewel of the seas. Departed Adventure of the seas in Port Canaveral and drove to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We are back into Port Canaveral early.
A last quick Windjammer buffet breakfast with yuk in my coffee. We are ready to get off this ship and head to the next cruise adventure on Jewel of the Seas.
We headed off the ship. Good bye Adventure of the Seas.
At 8:10am we are on the road.
Our boarding time today is noon in Fort Lauderdale. The app shows our departure delayed until 7pm due to Bow Thruster maintenance being performed today. Divers were in the water all day working on them.
In order to enter Port Everglades you must show your passport and your set sail pass. Of course we picked the wrong lane. It took at least 20 minutes to get through the gate.
We dropped off our luggage,
parked our car, received a parking ticket and pulled into the garage. At Port Everglades you pay for your parking at the end of the cruise. We are parked on the 4th floor of the garage. From our parking spot we can see our ship, Jewel of the Seas waiting for us to board.
We left our parking ticket in our car. We found that you pay for your parking at machines when entering the garage. The machines are located at ground level when you get off the ship.
We boarded, had lunch, and walked around the ship
Found the kids pool on deck 12 aft. Here are the hours for that pool.
We booked a guaranteed balcony stateroom and were assigned accessible stateroom (handicap room) number 7614. The room is huge with a large balcony with a nice view.
When we booked this cruise Steve said I don’t want to go on Jewel if they have shower curtains. We watched lots of videos and there were shower doors. Yup they gave us a handicap room and there is a shower curtain. Then we find out that you cannot lock the door from anyone who has a key. All rooms we have ever been in have another lock from inside. Anyone can come in our room with a card. There is even a sign in this room that says to double lock your door. Amazing!!!
We finish dinner at 7:15 pm. Then we head to guest services. We try to talk to them about another room if possible.
What a lousy design of a ship. A band is playing in the middle of the room. We are almost screaming at guest services so they can hear us. We are told to come back at 8:30pm.
What liability they have if someone enters our room during the night. YIKES. I am so disappointed today with Royal Caribbean. Our ship departed at exactly 7pm. So far since boarding this ship, we have met so many nice people. However, we are not pleased with our room. The people seem friendlier and more open to conversations than they were on the Adventure of the Seas. Tonight is white night.
At 9:30pm we get a call that they have another balcony room we can move into. We are now in 7600. Video will follow tomorrow. This room is super small. However, this stay is a three-nighter. We move to another room for the back-to-back four-nighter. Oh and we have a shower door. We can double lock our door and head to bed. Good Night-sweet dreams. Here are our thoughts on the Adventure of the Seas. It was a six-night Western Caribbean and Perfect Day cruise. We departed this morning from Port Canaveral.
Parking :
- Quick and convenient in the garage
- Six night cruise cost was $127.00 paid when you park
Boarding:
- Completed all check in information and uploaded pictures and pasports prior to arrival at port
- Quick and easy at the Port
- Watched safety video on app in parking garage before we left the car
- Checked in at our muster station as soon as we boarded
Room:
- Cleaned everyday
- We made the bed and the stateroom attendant only remade it one night
- Never offered robes or upgraded amenities for being diamond plus
- Pleasant and nice attendant
- There was a leak in our room and maintenance came quickly
- Good hot shower
Food
- Excellent this trip. The Arancini was excellent along with the Chicken Parm. The Chicken Cordon Bleu was wonderful. Very tender moist chicken and the mashed potatoes were great. This ship does have great food.
- All servers were the best
- Pizza was ok
- Windjammer Buffet was very crowded most of the time. The burgers were very good.
- Washing hands is enforced in the buffet, but sanitation is ignored in the Dining room
Casino
- Tight but not that awful
- Wasn’t Smoky
Next cruise
- Was very pushy about applying for the Royal Caribbean Visa. We walked out after we already planned on booking two cruises.
Crown Lounge
- Very nice
- Good coffee
- Good food
- Great concierge
Ports
- CocoCay
- Super crowded
- Good Buffet lunch
- Water was warm with lots of seaweed
- Jelly Fish in water
- Falmouth Jamaica
- The Ultimate Bamboo Rafting Experience excursion was the best excursion we have ever done. Highly, highly recommend. Only bad part were the seat belts in the van were not usable
- Nassau, Bahamas
- Very crowded and it was hot
- Ship
- Clean
- Pool was very crowded with lots of Children (normal for a short cruise in the summer)
- Crew
- Pleasant
Dinner Menu Day 1 – Welcome Aboard:
Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking.
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