It can be fairly difficult to consider even for me, but cruising is back again, and I am established to go on the first Royal Caribbean cruise in North The usa due to the fact March 2020.
Royal Caribbean introduced in March 2021 that Journey of the Seas would start sailing from The Bahamas, and I right away had to soar at the opportunity to go on a cruise ship that would be capable to sail.
This 7-night time cruise will commence and finish in Nassau, Bahamas so that usually means we would have to fly to The Bahamas to board the ship.
I normally advocate flying into a metropolis at the very least one day early to guard on your own versus any travel delays. Furthermore, holiday starts off before!
Luckily, it is a quite limited flight from Orlando to Nassau, clocking in at just beneath an hour flight time.
Ahead of traveling to The Bahamas, everyone need to attain a overall health visa. At first, the health and fitness visa expected assessments for everyone, but they relaxed principles for the thoroughly vaccinated.
Little ones 11 and beneath will not will need a exam possibly, so it was genuinely just filling out an on line type and spending a $40 for each human being cost that consists of mandatory travel coverage even though you are in The Bahamas.
You can fill it out on line two weeks in advance, and they approve it all really darn swiftly.
With our paperwork all established, we headed to the airport for our early morning flight from Orlando.
This was our initial flight considering that the global well being disaster began, and it felt fairly a lot the exact as ahead of, albeit with masks on in the airport and airplane.
Our flight was total, and we took off on time.
A limited 54 minutes afterwards and we arrived in Nassau.
The arrival system is fairly easy, with the additional prerequisite you have to fill out normal immigration system as properly as your Bahamas health visa type.
Strains ended up shorter, and we have been on our way to our lodge.
For the a person evening in advance of the cruise, I booked the Sandyport Seashore Vacation resort due to the fact they experienced fairly priced suites (compared to some other inns in Nassau) which are ideal on a beach inlet.
The vacation resort is a bit dated, but normally exactly as marketed: a suite area that you can wander right from your patio to the seaside.
The total day there have been pretty couple other friends around (I think lots of opted to go to other very well-known beaches), and we went amongst the seashore and pool.
For the duration of the afternoon, Royal Caribbean opened up the wellbeing questionairre form, which is carried out by using the Royal Caribbean app and will save you time in the cruise terminal afterwards.
There are a number of retailers and dining establishments you can walk to all over the hotel, so we decided to retain it simple and consume at a close by cafe, Twisted Lime.
The Bahamas is nonetheless using their Covid-19 precautions very critically. There is a curfew soon after 10pm, and masks have to be worn just about everywhere. Moreover, you cannot dine indoors unless of course all people is fully vaccinated.
At the Twisted Lime, they had a great dockside set up where by we could consume outdoor and appreciate usual American and seafood dishes.
Immediately after supper we started out holiday off with ice cream!
Tomorrow is the huge working day, and we get to eventually get onboard Journey of the Seas and conclusion the North American cruise drought.
Look at out my are living site tomorrow below, as properly as a couple of are living broadcasts on Fb and YouTube.
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