After a quick trip to the airport and then an Uber ride to the terminal we met our friends outside the boarding area at 10:00am. Soon afterwards we were allowed in and went through security and the “wellness” check-in areas. Both went smoothly and we had a short wait until we were allowed to board the ship.
The Celebrity Silhouette is one of the larger ships in the
Celebrity fleet, but not the largest.
Its capacity is 2,886 and we are sailing with only 1,200 on board. Masks had not been required for our New Years
cruise, then they were required as the virus spread and last week, the mask
restrictions were taken off for all guests.
The crew still are required to wear their masks.
As is tradition, we met Barb and Tim on the back of the ship
for lunch and catching up. It is always
fun to cruise with them.
Later we went to a casino meet ‘n greet to meet our casino
host. She was a dealer several years ago
on our cruise from Dubai to Singapore and is very nice.
The casino manager was the assistant manger on that cruise
also. It is always nice to see people we
have sailed with before in the casino.
We then unpacked and got ready for dinner.
We are in a class called Aqua so there is a small intimate dining
room just for the guests in that cabin class.
The next cabin class above Aqua is the suites class and they also have a
private dining room, separate from ours.
At a minimum the suites cost a couple of thousand dollars each. For this cruise, the top suites are about
$12,000 and they are full!!
We usually go to the theater production first and then a
late dinner; however, there was only 1 show tonight and that was at 9pm so we
went to dinner at 7:15.
Dinner was excellent and then we went to the show where a
comedian preformed who was outstanding – one of the best we have seen
After the show we went to the casino for our first session
where Barb didn’t plan and Ed lost a little.
At about 10:30pm, all of a sudden, we were surprised by our
friends from New York, Jeff and Vera who had booked this cruise sometime ago
and didn’t tell us – what a great surprise.
Also, that gave us 5 at the table for blackjack.
At busy day and tomorrow Nassau in the Bahamas.
Nite from the Atlantic Ocean.
