Author: tomtravels

For our last day on the ship, we decided to start it off eating at the main dining room for breakfast. Like the dinner experience, you are seated and given your menu where you can order as much as you want. The French Toast was a popular choice. Amy also[…]

Today we visited the last port on our cruise. This time we visited the Royal Caribbean owned Labadee. Unlike other stops Labadee works as an extension of the ship. This means all the workers are employed by the cruise line and you can charge everything to your account. It’s mainly[…]

Our second port of call is San Juan, Puerto Rico. We docked early today (around 7am) and have a short day here with all aboard time of 1:30 pm. Today we slept in a little because we didn’t have anything scheduled for this port. However, since it’s a short docking,[…]

After two days of sailing we finally reached our first port of call, St. Maarten. We had booked an excursion here originally for The Race-St. Maarten (like the Amazing Race), but that got canceled about couple weeks before our sailing because of leftover hurricane damage. The kids were pretty bummed[…]

We are still sailing across the Atlantic Ocean heading towards our first port of call tomorrow, St. Maarten. Due to our delay leaving Florida the first day, our captain said he’s trying to make up time by traveling at a higher speed. Combine that with sailing into a strong head[…]

Our first full day on the cruise is a “relaxing” sea day. The thing about sea days is there’s so much available to do that you have to accept that you will miss out on something. For breakfast I convinced the family to visit the Boardwalk to try Johnny Rockets.[…]

After booking this cruise 2 years ago, today is the day we finally board the Oasis of the Seas. This will be the second time Amy and I have been on an Oasis class ship. We sailed on Oasis’s younger sister, Allure, back in 2011. This time we have the[…]