Sky Observation Lounge
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| We do the quizzes perched on our seats right up at the bar. It's a good place to get our free drinks too! |
These photos were taken just as the two daily afternoon quizzes in here ended, so it was quite busy. We won our second quiz just before these pics were taken, sharing the highest marks with a few other teams of two. Believe it or not, the subject once again was 'musicals' and also believe it or not, this time we both contributed to the answers. Our prizes? A pack of Celebrity Cruises playing cards each, much sought after on the open market, we understand!
Mast Grill and Mast Bar
Mast Bar on the left and Mast Grill (hot dogs, burgers etc plus chips during the main part of the day) on the right
Oceanview Cafe
The main cafeteria of the ship but, as always not as we know cafeterias! It's open 24/7, but only for drinks during the night and breakfast starts at 6.30am with some basics and then builds up the offer till 11.30am when that ends and lunch starts. The main dining room is open for breakfast and lunch as usual, though we haven't ventured in there for either.
The breakfast offer is probably the best yet with endless fruit and healthy options on offer, as well as cereals - including bite-size shredded wheat, English cooked breakfast, American cooked breakfast, Asian breakfast, an egg station for whatever eggs you'd like, pancakes, cold meats and cheeses, smoked salmon - you name it they offer it!
Lunch brings an offer of many different hot meals plus salad bars, pizza bar. There's also a sushi bar, two carveries (today it's beef and pork) a stir fry station and today there's also a chocolate fountain in full swing.
Of course the ship has endless numbers of 'slaves', mainly from the Philippines, Mauritius, Goa and eastern Europe. In fact they probably have more on here for this size of ship than we've seen elsewhere. The hierarchy remains the same however, with the lowest class of jobs being done by those from the third world, the middle managers coming from the slightly better off countries and the officers being very white European/US etc. That said, the staff all seem particularly happy and we've noticed that the managers in such as the Oceanview and the main restaurant aren't afraid to get stuck in and help out at busy times.
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| Bar for alcoholic drinks and better quality coffees including spirit and liqueur coffees |
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| Just an example - cakes as lunch desserts |
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| Drinks station - tea, coffee, fruit juices, water etc |
The Oceanview Bar is our favourite haunt for an al fresco breakfast and a buffet lunch. The overhang is useful for when we get the odd rain shower. At lunchtime the two main stalwarts who run the bar are tireless women from the Philippines - Ruth and Rosemarie who endlessly move round the tables collecting empties and satisfying the apparently insatiable Aussie appetite for ever more beers and cocktails
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| People can make a place look untidy! |
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| A rather serious looking Ruth takes yet another set of orders from those with free drinks packages (and that seems to be most of the passengers!) |
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