Hey everyone, it's Ken from northern Viking Explorer and this is my wife and the best travel partner ever, Andrea
Hi, it's our day 2 vlog on the Carnival Splendor
We want to tell you about our favorite things about sea days the bargains that we found that we're only available today
Also how we got free lunch in the steakhouse and it's also formal night. So to check it out
Good Morning!
It's day 2 on our cruise to the Mexican Riviera on the Carnival Splendor and we are heading to breakfast
It looks like they're selling some sort of small packages here
they're always selling stuff on these ships, but we're gonna head out past the pool and
Looks like there's a few people out here people have their towels set up
Hey, if you're looking for these clips to hold your towels down
I will put a link for Amazon down in the description below
And you can check those out and it looks like they're selling some other stuff over there
So we'll head over and check that out as well. So
It looks like we have carnival t-shirts that are two for ten. So five dollars a shirt, which if you're bringing back
Souvenirs or you want one for yourself? That's really a great bargain
Five bucks for shirt the t-shirts down in the store downstairs are twenty bucks. So it's a really good deal
Yeah
I did notice that some of the shirts are for other locations like Caribbean spots and
Some are just carnival t-shirts in general, so but lots of sizes colors
They had hoodie's up here as well. These weren't quite as well priced. They were $34.99, but still a nice hoodie
But still not quite the deal as the t-shirts
This is actually the cheapest we saw t-shirts for the whole week. So this was also another good
Bargain item. They're $10 each and five four and get one free
So again, if you want a bag or if you need to bring back things for family members great deal
So we're here in the breakfast. They've got your typical milks yogurts
cereal
Tons of fruit as well as your bacon and everything like that
I am gonna try out the omelettes this morning and I'm going to go find the oatmeal like
I do when they have nuts and all sorts of toppings dad on top, so I'm a thief and
There's this dude. That's really amazing. I'm making omelets and here he is
What you have there all of you ham and cheese
Mushrooms
Sure all have Tomatoes sir. Yes. What?
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This place
That was crazy, did you see how you put that online? Yeah, that's amazing
Today we're out here on the deck it is again it's day two and it's still cloudy out. It's late morning
But today we're gonna go for a cooking demonstration at the pinnacle steak house
We're gonna try out that waterslide tonight's formal night. And then it's the 80s pop to the max show
They've also got a few movies playing ready player one
Avengers infinity war and black panther
So we've got a busy day ahead of us
And good news the pool at the back of the ship is open
There's a lady in there exercising and people are getting into the hot tubs still tons of space out here
Boy that hot tub looks amazing, we're sure we'll have to come back later
Also, if you're looking for some fun and you like chess you can play big style chess out on the deck that's always fun and
Inside those doors, there's two ping-pong tables that you can ping pong your heart out
There are dancing lessons as well today if anyone's into that
We are gonna head down to deck five we hear there's some sails down there as well as there's a draw or a watch
So we're gonna go check that out
They've got tons of stuff on sale Invicta watches 70% off I don't really need a watch right now but
Again a good price today $10 buy four get one free. Hey, you can stock up for Christmas
There's also rings on sale
These are some great deals they have today also if you've got kids that you're bringing gifts home
There's a candy store or if you got kids on the ship. I'm sure they would love to come down here
They've got all sorts of bulk candies
Travel mugs or souvenirs for kids that you can take home as well as if you're here for a special occasion
You can order cakes. You can order flowers to your room that sort of thing and
Eat candy till your heart is contended
We don't have kids with us this time, but I'm sure we would spend a lot of time in here
And if you are here for a special occasion
You can come order those flowers and champagne with extra details that can really just go extra
All right, so here's that Invicta watch draw
Now I was really surprised generally. I thought there would be this long sales biosis
They just introduced the product and they drew the name and the guy right next to us one. Yeah, so awesome
Happy for him. That was really nice to see and a lot of money
But we never win anything if you are into specialty coffees they also have a coffee bar
The drinks range kind of in that three to six dollar range from your basic coffee or tea up to specialty coffees
this is
also an area where you can buy pastries if that's something or after they've got pastries and
Cookies little cakes that sort of thing. These are not included though, so you will need your room key -
Yeah, they do look delicious though
Mmm cookies
After eating all those cookies
you may want to go dance them off but one great thing is there's a lot of
Opportunity to dance and if you don't know how they will teach you some new moves
Yeah
There's always dancing going on on the ship whether it's down here where they're gonna teach you or up at the Lido deck
There's always dancing going on now
One of the reasons we came on this Cruise was for my birthday present and it looks like they gave me a little present
So let's head on into our room and find out what that is
It looks like there's some gift cards in here from our stateroom steward
Let's see looks like a spa gift card
For
$50 now it is only good till the 22nd
So that's only in a couple of days
So we'll have to check out what we can get with that and there is also a smile gift card for the pixels gallery
and
That one is for $12 for a photo. So we'll have to go see what we can find at that
So thank you very much carnival I do appreciate it. It was a nice gesture from you
All right, so it is just before noon and
That ladies still dancing in the pool didn't her exercises
we're about to go to the pinnacle Steakhouse on the 11th deck boards the back and
We're gonna go for a cooking demonstration and hopefully get some free lunch. I've heard it fabulous
The pinnacle Steakhouse is not included in the general
Cruising so this is a paid for restaurant. So to get in there and get to eat stuff for free is a nice treat
Yes for sure, and I am looking forward to it. I've heard great things about
These cooking demonstrations that you get to try out some amazing food
Now we are early, but I actually wish we've gotten here earlier
Because when you're sitting down
They've got lots of mushrooms here
Yeah, they've got even some lobster there we'll have to see what they're gonna cook for us today
Now you can see them but a little tricky to actually see the technique
However, they are talking it through an answering question
They were really good at answering questions
they did give us several courses just like this of
Salad there was
Macaroni and cheese the best macaroni and cheese this macaroni cheese is only served in the pitiful state
And there was also a chicken dish as well as dessert
So he's quite amazing and they talked through the whole process of making all those it was
Good, I'd say my favorite though was the macaroni and cheese and the mushroom soup with truffle oil was crazy
and here is actually
what the dishes look like that they serve as
Mmm, I gotta go back just for that mushroom soup it was it was divine
If you are coming to the pinnacle steak house
This is what the restaurant area looks like if you're early enough or you ask them their seats by the window
You can look out over the ocean. And again just a reminder that this restaurant is one that you pay for to come eat in
It is by reservation
Also, we're gonna get a little snack there is a deli
Out by the pool at the back and they have tons of different sandwiches here as well
Turkey buffalo chicken meatball BLT and more you can also get hot dogs
the menu does change slightly depending on the time of day and what day it is, so
Also, you can have an iced coffee. If you want to iced coffee hack you can make that on the show
It is definitely warming up. So we are gonna go try out this water slide
If you have kids you have to be 42 inches tall to ride the waterslide these stairs get really hot and walking
So I recommend bringing your flip-flops today because your feet are gonna feel the heat
Yeah, or you're gonna be running from shady spot to shady spot like I did
This slide actually you can get going pretty quick but if you
Sit up you do we did see people that almost stop
but if you lay down on your shoulder blades you get flying down this slide and there was some guys
Competing hooking up the biggest splash and they were going pretty quick. Here's a couple of them
It was fun we were standing around kind of cheering them on and
Yeah, there's just a lot of fun these guys were
Were there so you can see it's a fairly basic slide, but still a ton of fun out by the pool getting a sunburn
No, no, we remembered our sunscreen
We would have gotten to Sunday. It was pretty hot we did
Wear your sunscreen, yes, here's the free beverage station up in the buffet area. So you've got decaf and regular coffee machines
Hot chocolate so if you want to make that mocha hot chocolates not just for kids mix it with your coffee
Yeah teas
You've got your your iced tea and lemonade in the morning. They have more juice choices, but right now it's iced tea and lemonade
And water and ice as well as honey, if you like that in your teeth
Alright so they are introducing the captain to us it's a little kind of captain's party
So they're doing that and after that we're gonna go out for our formal night dinner
Yeah, no for sure and
They have a dance-off going on again. We said there's lots of dancing. Yeah this we're waiting for anytime dining
We're a bit early, but we're a little excited for formal night. Yeah
Formal night. It's a huge perk that often happens on CDs and
We know one of the night they'll have lobster. We're hoping it's tonight
And it is lobster night uve. I'm super excited
There's tons of other options as well that you can order remember if you really love ops
Lobster you gonna order another one? They're delicious
And we saw many people ordering multiple lobsters. So they also do a little party during the dinner and
the waiters get up and dance on the tables and just just have a
Great time bring an energy to the to the formal night dinner. Actually, they did this every night on the cruise
carnival really tries hard to engage the pole all the cruisers and you can see they
They have a lot of fun and they make the experience really fun for everybody
All right, and we are now at the 80s pop to the max show they
Just do a lot of singing and dancing and just an amazing show put on a great light Late Show as well with lasers
Lots of funds especially if you have kids they'd really enjoy this show. There's also a comedy show tonight
But we are gonna head off to bed
we've had a busy day a
Few of the things that if you're looking for on see days that we've enjoyed is there's dancing
There's health classes on board shopping and trivia tons of stuff to do on see days that we enjoy
We've also got this fun little towel dude on our bed a hippo or something and our fun times for tomorrow
So we know what's going on. Have a good night
Thank you so much for watching our day to vlog on the Carnival Splendor
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