Today we woke up early and had breakfast at the hotel. Then we went back to the room to grab our luggage and drive the literal 4 minutes it took to get to Port Canaveral.
If you don’t know, I’m a vacation consultant/travel agent/travel advisor and I work for Expedia Cruises. I was incredibly lucky to be invited, along with my plus one (CSP), on this complimentary 3 night preview cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas. CSP & I are v excited to board the largest cruise ship in the world!
First, because of my recent foot surgery, and being in my medical boot, we had to pick up a rental scooter for the cruise. Walking in this boot is not easy and I knew I’d never be able to traverse the giant Star of the Seas, so I rented an electric mobility scooter from Scootaround. Scootaround made it v easy to pick up my scooter at the Royal Caribbean cruise terminal. The representative showed me how to work the scooter (I did watch the instructional video ahead of time), we signed for it, and we were off to check in! It took me a few minutes to get used to driving the scooter, as I’d never driven one before.
We went into the Royal Caribbean cruise terminal and went through security. Then, upon seeing my scooter, a representative directed us to check in with a rep standing off to the left with an iPad. That nice man checked our boarding passes and passports and sent us to board the ship in record time! In fact, we went from parking the car at 11 am, to picking up the scooter (11:08), to our room (11:27) in less than 30 minutes!
We were a bit overwhelmed when we first boarded the ship.
It’s like being dropped off in a huge shopping mall filled with bars and restaurants that is under a water park but on top of a hotel…oh, and it floats! We happened to run into my BDM (business development manager) for Royal Caribbean, Mechelle at the elevators. She told us our rooms were ready so we made a bee line to go drop off our stuff.
Our room is huge! It’s a Central Park Infinite Balcony room on deck 11. Room #11611. It’s also ADA Accessible. It’s HUGE!!!
Our SeaPass cards were waiting for us on our room number sign. You use your SeaPass card to open your room door and to pay for things on the ship. It has your room number, dining time for dinner, and table number as well.
After dropping off our backpacks in our room and checking out the swag that was left for us on our bed (hats, water bottles, and a Back to the Future duck),
we made our way to our muster station to get checked in. We watched the safety video before going to the muster station, so checking in there took mere moments. Easy peasy!
We were hungry by now so we went to the Aquadome Market for lunch. I had chicken Pad Thai from Mai Thai, and a salted caramel crepe from Creme de la Crepe for dessert. SO yummy!
The Aquadome Market is a food market with a drink station and different food stalls. You have Mai Thai, Feta Mediterranean, Pig Out BBQ, Creme de la Crepe, and La Cocinita.
Up next, we tour the ship!
Bless Your Heart 