Malibu Club Casino Review

Hi all this is my review of the Adventure of the Seas trip from 12 to 19, first off some disclaimers, first time cruise traveler, and English is not my first language. I post this with the hope that it will help you if you are a virgin cruise as I was. Day 1 San Juan Puerto Rico: First we left from San Juan Puerto Rico, you have to check on what part you are leaving because there are two places where ships dock but nowhere on my documentation mention where it was. As soon as you get close to the ship you can really take it all in, it’s a behemoth at 14 floors tall. First thing is that you can go into the ship from way early but the best time for us and from what the bag handlers told us, it was at 4pm, there was no line and we got in very quickly. Once in we went to find our room we were on deck 7 interior, you get a person in charge of your state room he’s the one that will clean it up and help you with any trouble like getting an extra pillow or as on my case he saw us get in and went an got the bags to our room. The ship has everything and even more, mini golf, hot tubs, shows at night, trivia’s, gym, movies, etc. Your best bet to see the events is to check the Navigation Compass that they print late afternoon for the next day and put a mark or something on the events or thing you want to try out, like the ice ring is not open the whole time only selected dates and hours or if you want you can go to the casino section and they will have bonus hours,. If you go outside your room with out it there are touchscreen maps that will show you what is going on at that moment on the ship and how to get there.
Day 2 Saint Martin: For this we took the excursion from the ship that goes to see one of the most dangerous airports the planes come and go at mere meters from the sea, and the tourists love to wait for a huge plain to take off and hang for dear life from the fence, while we were there we saw a couple of iPads and cell phones that weren’t grabbed tight smash at the rocks between the sea and the fence. We got this excursion from the Royal Caribbean because we didn’t saw anyone that went as early and as close as them according to some locals outside port. It takes you in a catamaran around the island just checking the sights and then you get to about 200 meter from the place where the planes lift off and the beach is full with huge rocks so you don’t get near the beach but they provide, snorkels, floating noodles and vests and they will mention every time a plane is coming in or leaving. Also they have free wifi on the catamaran. Day 3 St. Kitts: As soon as you get out you will be intercepted by guys with green monkeys (they will put the monkey on you and later will ask you for money) , on that one we decided to make a beach day so we took a cab that took us to Carambola Beach Club, try to get early because that’s the same beach club the ship sends some excursions and if you don’t get there early you can easily get shade and a bed very cheap compared to the rate of the ship. If you want to try I saw the workers and cabs there getting some criolle chicken with rice very good (not on the menu I had to talk to them about getting this) and you try real local food.
Day 4 Antigua: For this we took the ship expedition to http://www.stingraycityantigua.com/ its great, half hour to get to the base and after a short intro and instructions they take you a boat to a place a bit on the middle of nowhere when you get down the boat they come :D, around 12-20 Stingrays come at you like puppies and you can pet them, swim around them, they even become a little pushier and they strike at you with their bodies to get your attention waiting for some food provided by the tour operators, great photos if your camera can go underwater.
Day 5 St. Lucia: We took an outside tour (heritage tours) that took us around the island, but the road is long and with so many curves that even if the sights are beautiful people get restless. We arrived at La Soufriere where you do a small-guided tour and then you have the opportunity to go in a hot tub with this mud and the heated natural water. I urge you to take that opportunity all the other persons on the tour didn’t want to go in and it feels great. But take into account they said it only takes 3.5 hours and it took us 4 hours to come and go and we had to cut it for fear of traffic coming back so the ship wouldn’t leave without us.
Day 6 Barbados: We took a beach day here again a taxy to Malibu Beach Club and rent chairs, its way cheaper than the same excursion with the ship, also if you add 20-10 dollars they take you to swim with turtles very close to the beach club. Day 7 at sea: Take care to enjoy all the ship has to offer, just note that this is the last days of events and they will try to get you to go to some of those like art auction, we tough it will take 10-30 min but it was more like 1 or 1.5 hour.
Notes (tips and tricks): You have to setup a credit card as the whole ship works without any cash you just charge it to your room with the key car, the only place that takes cash are the casino machines. The guys who sold me the package told us some drinks were included but in reality those drinks you can only get on 3 places of the ship the café at deck 5, the dinner rooms (open only at afternoon) and the buffet place at deck 11. So if you want to get anything else you will have to pay an extra, if you are a drinker (alcohol or sodas) sing up for those before hand or at the moment you get in. Buying souvenirs for the family on the ship do it on day 6 you will be at sea all day and they will have a huge sale with lots of stuff very cheap at afternoon. If you like the photos they take of you when you get inside and outside the ship and at dinners an events too, you have an option to buy them before hand, if I had know of this I would have do it, even if you don’t pre-buy them (https://www.mycruisephotos.com) after the 10th photo its way cheaper to get them all digital an print at home. It will save you almost one excursion or more. If you cant live without Internet connection pre-buy the plan but imho I would go with out and dc from life and office.
So thats it, if you want to ask anything just drop a line in here.