Booked our cruise vacation on the Royal Caribbean to Penang and KL in Jun during a roadshow. For balcony class and above promo, one kid travel for free with every 2 paying adults. This cruise experience was worth every bit of the $$.
12 Dec 2008: Preparing to board the ship at 11 am. Arrived at the Cruise centre at 10 am to check in our luggage and clear the immigration. Picture of the ship taken from Singapore Cruise Centre
Can u see the rock wall?? I did not try rock climbing… hee hee but it does looks interesting
Side view of the cruise ship
We can’t go to the room yet as our luggage had yet to be sent to the room. So we were ushered to the pool side cafe for lunch first.
Picture of the pool area
Did not managed to take much food pics cos we were too hungry…. only managed to take a few shots.
The mashed potatoes were very very delicious.
Hubby had the roasted beef with mashed potatoes and hash brown.
Desserts… oh my I am spoilt for choice. There’s so many to choose from.
The buffet offered a wide selection of bread, salads, mains, desserts, fruits and soups. My parents loved all the fresh plums, mangos, guavas, berries etc.
I like this low fat sugar free lemon cheese cake. The lychee cake (the white and pink cake) is delicious too. Hubby loved the choc swiss roll
Brownie and a nice choc chip cookie. It’s huge and it’s nicer than the ones we had at Famous Amos. The cookie selections are wide too. So many diff types of cookies to choose from.
I love the jelly. It’s soft and not too sweet.
okie.. time to go to our room… here’s the foyer area. See the glass lifts
Passage area leading to the rooms
Games Room and the Library
The Foyer area is on deck 4 where the piano lounge is. The library and games room are on deck 7 where we are staying.
Dressing table. There’s a safe, a fridge and coffee & tea making facilities available in the room. There’s a comp monitor that screens cartoons and shows. They just finished screening the movie Mamma Mia when we just got into the room. Managed to catch the last part of the show only
There’s a phone in every room. It’s just like any hotel room. I really loved my room
Here’s the toilet and shower area
Shower area. It is separated from the toilet area via a shower curtain
We had dinner at the Romeo & Juliet Dining Room. The 1st night of sailing was the Fine Dining Night. Ladies are to come dressed in evening dresses while men comes in suits and tux.
We bought a tux for our kid
. He looked really suave dressed in a tux.
Romeo & Juliet Dining room are spilt into 2 decks. We were assigned a table in deck 4. Every table are assigned a head waiter, waiter and asst waiter to serve you throughout your entire stay on the cruise. Very very excellent service.
Staircase leading to deck 5 of the dining room
if you dun have a tux .. u can always rent it. They offered tux rental service on board too. I think cos it’s their 1st sailing from Asia, they are very very lenient with pple who are not dressed up. I see some Singaporeans coming in in jeans and t-shirt. Sigh. But there are quite a number who dressed to the theme. I dolled up my mom too. She was thrilled
There’s casino and jackpot machines too.. more pics on that to follow later
Here’s the menu for the Appetisters and Soups
We ordered the Sweet Corn Soup and Lobster Bisque.
See all the cultery on the table and the different types of glasses. That’s the butter dish in the centre
Beautiful flower in a vase. The wine menu is behind the pepper container. We took the wine package where you can select any 5 wines from the menu for the price of USD123. The price comes to USD147.95 after including gratuities (which is their service charge)
We opened a bottle of Shiraz to go with our dinner that night. Hubby order a tenderloin while I had Grilled Sea Bass. I loved the wine. Very nice.
Hubby had the Fillet of Beef
I had the Golden Sea Bass. The sea bass was so soft and juicy. I really loved this main alot.
The waiter ordered this dish for us to try. He highly recommended this and said we could share and taste this duck dish amongst ourselves. My kid loved this dish alot cos the meat was very very tender and succulent.
The service by the waiter and his asst was exellent too.
Dessert Menu
Cherries Jubilee. We did not ordered this but the waiter brought it to us for tasting. He said it’s very very delicious. Indeed it is. The cherries were juicy and it’s not sweet at all. The vanilla ice cream complements this cherries very well.
Low Fat Double Strawberry Cheesecake. It tasted really nice and fluffy. Very soft and not too sweet. Yummy.
Sugar-Free Coconut Vanilla Layer Cake. This cake is very delicious as well. Being sugar-free, it allows diabetics to enjoy this dessert as well.
Sugar Free Choc Ice Cream and Lime Sorbert
After a sumptious dinner, we took a stroll on the top deck of the ship to enjoy the night breeze and scenery while waiting for the musical to start at 1030pm at the grand theatre.
The pool looks so beautiful at night
More pool side pics
To be continued … …
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