Day 9
We arrived early at Catalina Island and if you wanted to go ashore; you had to get a tender. They weren’t very clear about how often the tenders would return to the ship and, as we didn’t want to be there all day, we missed it. We found out afterwards that they basically run backwards and forwards all day, so at least we know for any future cruises. We spent most of the day in the solarium (adults only) and soaked up a few rays. Since we booked this cruise, I had wanted to go on at least one of the water slides and Dave came with me on the two-person one. It was fun with many ups and downs, and round and abouts, and I’d recommend giving it a go.
We had a couple of drinks each and some food from the Taco Bar for me and Windjammer for Dave and chilled out all day. After a shower, we decided on a bit of a bar crawl. We started in the pub, the Copper and Clover, and moved on to Schooner Bar where there was a lovely bartender called Merton from Jamaica but also a very miserable lady! She’d got my back up the first night when she was just downright rude. I appreciate that they are all on long contracts, and are away from home, but come on, aren’t you supposed to enhance the guest experience?! The next stop was Boleros, lovely bartenders there and a couple of Ginger Coolers and Kraken and cokes later and it was dinner time. We got chatting to a couple who were on their fifth cruise and they were really friendly. She was from Utah and I think he was from somewhere else. I couldn’t work out their relationship though…..!
After dinner, we went for a gamble and finally, Dave won a hand pay, putting him up for the cruise part of the trip. For anyone who is from the UK and was wondering, they sort all the tax out for you so you don’t pay any. Even though Dave has an ITIN, they didn’t need it. They didn’t even want to see his passport. Basically, they ask for your room number and because your passport details are on there, they can see you are from the UK and pay you out in full.
It was a late night tonight and because we had to wait for the payout of the hand pay, we missed the Showgirls show we had wanted to see!
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