Bahamas 2019 Day 4

D4: Sea Day

We started our last full day with a sit-down breakfast in the MDR. From there we went to Morning Trivia where we tied with another team. We actually kept trying to lose the tie-breaker by letting the other team answer first since we had enough keychains already, but in the end we got four more(!) which we gladly gave to some kids sitting next to us.

We wandered the ship a bit more looking for the (supposed) souvenir glassware sale that was said to be on the Promenade, but no luck. Going outside we decided to go find the helipad, which we’ve never done before on other ships. We picked what looked like a “secret” stairway tucked up near the front of Deck 4 and actually were successful, so we can now cross “helipad” off our informal checklist.

We then tried something called “A Royal Mystery” in the Star Lounge. Forming up into a team of 6, each team was given a packet of information/clues/puzzles and we had to figure out who the guilty person or people were from our list of suspects. Overall, there were about 7 different puzzles that we had to solve. We managed to solve all but the final one. We actually got the answer partially correct, but only totally by luck. Two other teams in the room did get the answer and took home (just) bragging rights.

On the way from our lunch at WJ, we found our souvenir glassware on sale just outside the WJ entrance, so we were able to purchase two more RCCL hurricane glasses to add to our barware collection. We (sadly) broke one of ours last year so the two we just bought will bring us to 5 total glasses. Sure, we could have bought a sixth, but that will just have to wait for our next cruise!

Back in the room just after lunch we found the various “so you’re going home tomorrow” information waiting for us. More importantly we had an email from Delta that it was time to check into our flight and select our entrée for tomorrow, so took care of that and then spent about an hour on our balcony relaxing prior to our 230P Escape Room reservation that we’d rescheduled back on Day 2.

There were 13 of us for the room. Production values were better than I expected, with unlocking and openings being accompanied by sound and lighting effects, and a few clever puzzles. We succeeded, although benefited from hints given by the host (who stays in the room with you). At $20 each its actually a pretty good bargain!

The rest of the afternoon was spent, once again, relaxing on the outside of Deck 4 (with another Coco Loco, each) reading. We even skipped Harry Potter trivia, figuring it would be crowded given all the kids on board – and we frankly thought that we’d contend for the win, and we didn’t want to keep stealing the spotlight.

As we finished up our final dinner, we realized a couple of differences in the MDR this time around. First, there was a more overt push by the MDR staff to get you to buy specialty dining, even going so far as to offer you an instant discount to move your current night’s meal to one of the other venues. (Jamie’s, specifically. I assume it wasn’t selling well.) Second, no warning at the last meal that dessert may be delayed due to the normal staff parade. Now we were among the early diners and were out the door by around 710P, so maybe that was still to come? Finally – a small thing, but one I missed – the waiter no longer ran a crumb-scraper along the tablecloth before dessert.

We enjoyed about a 30 minute respite in our room after the meal where - as before – I got caught up on these notes, then headed down for what we expected to be one final drink before heading over to the theater for the farewell show, which this time featured a juggler in addition to the normal appearance by the singers and dancers. (CD Ricky explained that the 4 day cruises are designed to be something like a “sampler platter”, cramming lots of stuff normally spread out over 7 days into 4. Part of this meant that the farewell show included a guest act.) The juggler was pretty standard – not a single trick that we hadn’t already seen a zillion times before.

Our last activity was to head to the Star Lounge for the “Perfect Couple” show. We thought this was going to be the Love and Marriage game show, but instead it was 4 couples competing in silly tasks (stand face-to-face, put an apple between your belly buttons, and then roll it to one person’s mouth without using hands; roll this cold lemon up the man’s pant leg, across his crotch, and down the other, etc.) where the worst-scoring couple would get knocked out. Whole thing took about 30 minutes and was sort of “meh”.

Back in the cabin, we (sigh) packed up and went to bed.