First, let me apologize for taking so long to get this last day of our Allure trip online. As we did a year ago on our New England trip, we came home sick. It appears we got the flu. Kathleen had been fighting it for a few days but I came down with a full blown case on the last night. Basically coughed the entire night, fever, aches and pains…you know the drill. We were supposed to do a Miami food tour once we got off the ship but we had to bag that and beg our buddy Mike to let us come back to his place and just collapse for the day before we flew home at 6:30 Sunday night. He’s such a great guy—he quickly said, “Come on up!” So we did. Thanks Mike!

At any rate, once we got back to Redmond, I have just been wiped out and not in the mood to put this  post together. But eventually I have to kick myself in the butt and do something, so here goes.

When I last posted, we were in Nassau, Bahamas and had decided to stay on the ship. Why? Because it was 1) hotter than hell, 2) we had been there twice before, 3) since we are not beach/snorkeling/gambling people, there is not much to do and 4) there were five (YES, FIVE) ships in that day for a total of more than 14,000 people who were going to have to get off the ship and go through one little building to get on and off the island. So we stayed onboard and I took the day to take a bunch of photos of the ship with hardly anyone in them (which I will include with my last Allure post in a couple of days) and a few of Nassau from the ship (below).

One more post about this trip and and that will wind it up. In the next couple of days I will sum up the trip, give you some recommendations and tell you our general impressions of Allure of the Seas and show you pics from the rest of the ship. I only showed the inside of staterooms on our first day. These will be the public areas. Watch for it! Now, here are some pics.

Nassau, Bahamas photos (taken from the deck of Allure)

Small lighthouse at the end of the protecting jetty

Wanted to show you how the port works. We get off the ship at midships…

Once you have walked to the front of the ship, you walk past four other ships while mixing into their crowds.

Then you get to the building you can see at the top and everyone goes through there. Crazy!

You can see the Royal Caribbean ship on the other side of the Disney ship and the one closest to us is a Carnival ship. You can’t see the other Carnival ship on the other side of the other Royal ship. Total of more than 14,000 people,

I was told this home has been like since a past hurricane. Sad.

Atlantis: Nassau’s claim to fame and a huge casino and much, much more…and really expensive.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.—Elvis Presley