Mar 2001 Cruise - Sovereign of the Seas - Bahamas

March 29 - April 1, 2001
A short second cruise for Shelley and me, which pretty much taught us that we didn't like short cruises. It seemed like most of the trip was spent embarking or debarking.

Our Room

This is our room, number 4579 on the main deck. We had an inside cabin (cat L), and they packed them in very tightly when they designed this ship. The whole cabin is something like 8 by 15 feet (119 sf), including the bathroom and closet. It wasn't much fun climbing over each other to get dressed, or even to get out of bed in the night, but the rest of the time it was alright.

Departure

It was raining most of the day on Thursday when we left. By evening it settled down to a drizzle, but it still wasn't very nice for being outside. These are photos of the pool area on the ship, taken during a lull in the rain.

These are some of the sights as we left Port Canaveral. We followed two other cruise ships out: the Disney Wonder and the Carnival Fantasy. All three of us were bound for Nassau.

Around the Ship

We figured we'd try to take more pictures of us this trip. These were taken during that lull in the rain the first night, looking forward over the pool and hot tub area. We're standing on the deck above the sign that I photographed earlier.

These photos are from some of the areas inside the ship. There is a multi-story atrium area in the middle of the ship, with a pair of glass elevators and curved staircases all around.

Nassau, Bahamas

In Nassau, we took a walk around the town. It wasn't very interesting, mostly tons of shops trying to sell us junk or overpriced, duty-free stuff we didn't need. We wandered back to the ship and went swimming in the pool while everyone else was out and about.

Docks at Nassau

Nassau is a very popular place, it seems. Ours was one of seven cruise ships to dock there on Friday. I took pictures of each of them so we could look up the other itineraries when we got home.

Formal Pictures

Friday night was the formal dinner night. We got dressed up and had our pictures taken. Here are all three of the photos that we bought from RCI.

Saturday was spent at RCI's private island, which they call CoCo Cay. The rest of the world calls it Little Stirrup Cay, and it is right next to NCL's island, Great Stirrup Cay. We took the film camera out to the island, so the remaining pictures will be added after we get them developed and scanned.

On Sunday, we returned to Port Canaveral early in the morning and took the shuttle back to Orlando. We spent the afternoon roaming around MGM Studios and Epcot before catching our flight back home that night. We didn't bother with either camera that day, as we have plenty of Disney photos already.