Easy Dream Vacations

Our first full day on the Carnival Valor was a day at sea.  We started it with breakfast at the buffet.  The breakfast buffet had a nice selection including an omelet station.  The Carnival Valor offers a sit down breakfast in the Washington Dining room, breakfast items at the Lido deck grills as well as breakfast at the main buffet, Rosie’s Restaurant. 

                                                                                    

After breakfast we headed to the Lido deck for some sun, fun and relaxation.    The sun was warm and felt great after leaving the frigid temperatures of Wisconsin.  The bloody marys and drink of the day were flowing and it looks as though everyone was enjoy the day.  A rain shower did chase everyone in for a time, but the sun fought back.

 

Lunch took us to the burger grill and deli.  The deli offers a number of sandwiches and wraps and is open from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m.  One disappointment that has surfaced is the dissaperance of the steak sandwiches at the burger grill.  It seems as though the economy has taken its toll on that sandwich.  Overall service on the Valor has been good, we have noticed that at times it seems to take longer than normal to get your order once your drink order has been placed.  The ship has been very clean, we did have a few issues with cabins being properly cleaned upon embarkation but the room stewards were wuick to resolve them.  There have been some complaints about rooms smelling like smoke, as it seems that smoking is allowed in state rooms.

 

 Our day at sea also brought us our first formal night as well as the captains reception and cocktail party     The party offered us plenty of the usually drinks (on the captains tab) as well as a few hot hor devourers.  And few is the proper work as the hor devourers were not very plentiful during the reception.   Our formal dinner offered lobster, prime rib as well as other entrees.

 

After dinner we took in the main show and with a surprise it was a new show.  It seems that on many of our previous cruises the show did not change from ship to ship.  So to have a new show offered was wonderful and we all seemed to enjoy it.  We had hoped to sit in on the late night comedy show but as we neared the Eagles Lounge we were sad to hear that the lounge was full.  Why the show was not in the main theatre was a question we all wondered.  We spent some time on the promenade deck people watching and having some good discussions.  We also were very entertained by some of the Carnival staff that stopped by and amused us with some magic tricks. 

 

   Our evening ended in the disco, we spent some time enjoying the music, dancing and laughing.  Morning will come early, we will be in Grand Cayman and want to spend some quality beach time at the port so it was a short night for some of us.   Others danced on into the early morning.

 

 

  

 As usual the towel animals have been a delight as we turn in for the night.