Start of Fun Fun School Holiday: Voyager of the Sea

It had been a long, long time since we took a cruise holiday; we just to visit Star Virgo until the kids came along and we found confining to a ship painful and boring. While adults love to chill and do nothing when possible, kids get bored and grumpy in the same scenario.

There was so much rave about Royal Carribean cruises. My colleague frequents those cruise liners and was all praises. I have always wanted to go on one but found them too expensive. For the same budget, I could fly somewhere neighbouring. I was told that the trick is the roadshows, where there would be discounts and perks with early booking. We found one such with the Voyager of the Seas - the kids sail free! We paid about $1.6k for our family of 4 for a 3D3N cruise in an inner stateroom.

The plan was to take half day leave on Friday bcos leave is so precious to Daddy Lim now. The kids were having fitness fiesta in school and had normal dismissal time. We snatched them right after school and headed to the Marina Cruise Center. My brother's family and Popo headed to the cruise before us.

We were all excited when we spotted the huge cruise! It was waiting for us! Woohoo.

My brother's family and Popo were already on the cruise while we were still on our way. They said that there was no Q in the immigration and check-in was a breeze.

We just had to take these iconic pictures. Yes, the kids were still in their school uniform.

I was hoping to breeze through the custom too but we were met with huge lines. Sob. At the same time, we saw many Indians in the Q. Sorry, I am probably racist; I dislike how they lack personal space awareness and general manners. The family behind us in the Q was talking so loudly and standing so close to us, constantly bumping into my bag. Seriously, I don't understand Tamil/ Hindu and am not interested in what you were talking about. It was probably an hour later before we finally enter the cruise.

Our room was ready. Though there was no window or balcony, it had a huge king size bed and 2 bunk beds. The king size bed took up most of the space in the room but no complaints.

We were all raving to go, go, go, only to find that there weren't that many program for the rest of the evening. There was some Madagascar parade but the kids were surprising not keen. That was the 1st and last parade the entire crusie. They weren't even keen to take pictures with the mascots.

We did had a nice sit down dinner. The table was set up specifically for our group. Unfortunately the restaurant was super packed the 1st day and the dinner took 2 freaking hours! We had to keep the kids from getting bored and noisy. 

For the rest of the time, we were exploring the ship and plenty of pictures.

The highlight of the day must be the magic show at 9.30pm and the ice skating show at 10.30pm. By the middle of the show, the 2 youngest kids had drifted off to lala land. 

We didn't hit the bed until midnight. I was told by that same colleague that the interesting activities only happened in the night. 

Mummy Lim