As we mentioned, there are many public rooms throughout the ship to enjoy during our time on the Crystal Serenity. Some of the public areas on board the Crystal Serenity include:
The Main Dining Room along with the Silk Road and Prego Specialty Restaurants, The Bistro, The Lido Café, The Trident Grill & Ice Cream Bar, Tastes and the Vintage Room.
Silk Road serves wonderfully prepared Japanese Cuisine. In addition to table service, there is
a sushi bar offering the opportunity for passengers to watch the sushi chefs work their magic preparing scrumptious and delectable sushi and sashimi.
Prego serves outstanding Italian Cuisine, in a beautifully decorated restaurant. In addition to regular menu items, each evening features some specialties from the chef.
The Bistro is another popular venue providing late morning and afternoon snacks along with various coffees, teas and other beverages. Guests will visit Bistro to get a beverage to go on their way to various daytime activities or they will choose to stay for a beverage and/or light snack while they enjoy conversations with others or just to view the scenery or to read from one of the tables.
The Lido Café provides a very nice variety of buffet style breakfasts and lunches. From time to time there will be themed lunches served in this café.
The Trident Grill serves a late risers breakfast and also lunch. Lunch includes items such as burgers, hot dogs and tuna melts. There is also an ice cream/frozen yogurt counter.
Tastes is yet another dining venue providing table side service where one can enjoy a late risers breakfast or a lunch daily. Dinner is also served on selected evenings throughout each voyage and the attire for breakfast, lunch and dinner is casual.
The Vintage Room can be booked for parties or by individuals who, in turn, are seated with other passengers, for a very special dining experience. Each dinner course is paired with a special wine. There is a cover charge for the dinner. Thank goodness guests only have to walk back to their room and not worry about driving home after enjoying this dining experience.
Two swimming pools and two outdoor whirlpools are available for use along with a beautiful wrap-around promenade deck which can be used for walking or jogging. There is also shuffleboard, table tennis, two full size paddle tennis courts, and even a golf driving range and putting green.
A fitness center that has a nice variety of exercise equipment including tread mills, elliptical and stair master machines, stationary bikes, along with free weights and several different weight lifting machines. There is also an exercise studio which provides yoga, Pilate's and other low and high impact exercise classes. We try to utilize the fitness center each day of the voyage and you will be hearing more about this throughout the voyage. A spa is available which provides various services from massages, to facials and other treatments along with a salon offering hair cuts and hair coloring along with other hair treatments. There are also complimentary sauna and steam rooms.
A cinema room that can accommodate approximately 200 guests and is used to show movies each afternoon and evening and is also used for selected lectures, and religious services.
A casino where passengers can play various games of chance including blackjack, craps, poker and roulette along with slot and video poker machines.
Several lounges are available throughout the ship where drinks are served and many of these lounges provide live music for listening and dancing pleasure each and every evening. A computer facility offers plenty of computers for passengers use along with a variety of computer related training classes covering many interesting topics. Those taking the full World Cruise even have the opportunity to take a college accredited computer course.
A library providing fiction and non-fiction books and various reference books, DVDs, Cd's, board games, audio tapes and some magazines and newspapers. An extensive medical center is staffed with a full time doctor and several registered nurses.
Three shops which carry an assortment of jewelry, sundries and clothing. There is also a trunk show store which is changed once per voyage featuring designer jewelry of a particular jeweler who is on board to answer questions about the jewelry. On some sailings the jewelry featured is representative of an area of the world in which the ship is sailing. There is a photo shop displaying and selling pictures taken by the ship photographers during the course of the cruise and also performs other photo related services and carries some items for sale such as cameras, batteries and photo albums.
The main lobby level includes reception and concierge desks providing various services similar to those available at a full service Hotel. A cruise sales consultant desk is nearby offering assistance for booking future cruises allowing passengers to take advantage of receiving on board booking discounts for all cruises booked during their voyage. There is also a shore excursion area which facilitates the booking of group and private shore excursions and has information about the various ports of call. There is also a Crystal Society desk providing assistance for those passengers who have previously sailed with Crystal. Several other public rooms are available throughout the ship that are used for a variety of activities such as bingo, trivia, religious services, lectures, bridge, memoir writing, music classes, choir, art classes, and many other activities that are scheduled throughout the day.
There is also an excellent variety of entertainment including elaborate shows featuring singing and dancing, vocalists, musicians and comedians. We plan to share a great deal of information with you about the various shipboard activities throughout the course of our World Cruise adventure.
We arrive in Miami on December 30 where we will spend a few days until it is time to board the ship on January 4 for the seven day voyage. The World Cruise commences on the evening of January 10 with a Bon Voyage Gala at a hotel in Miami and passengers will board the ship the following day on January 11. Since we will already be on the Crystal Serenity we will be unable to attend the Gala. However, we believe there will be a special dinner for those World Cruise passengers already on board the ship.
Some passengers will sail the entire world cruise, while others will sail on one or more of the seven individual voyages.
There are several passengers who we know from previous World Cruises and other sailings with Crystal Cruises who will be on this sailing and we look forward to sailing with them again. At the same time, we look forward to meeting fellow passenger's who we have not yet sailed with before. We also look forward to seeing and spending time with the friendly crew, many of whom we have come to know so very well from our previous cruises. We plan to post again a day or so before we begin this adventure.
Stay tuned....
OUR THOUGHT FOR THE DAY....
“Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.”
Keith and Anne Marie
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