Princesses of the Caribbean P&O Arvia February 2024. Day 6. La Romana.

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In La Romana today.
We hadn’t booked an excursion, which was good as the excursion we wanted was cancelled. Anyway, due to weather, we had decided to just go to the pool that was in the port.

So this morning, we actually woke up at 7, which is quite late for us. Scott went and got some muffins from the buffet while I had a shower and got dressed. We ate those and we were off the ship and down to the pool area in the port by 8 am.

We sat around a little while and had a bit of a walk around then we were in the pool by 9 am, the kids and Scott are playing tag.

The people at the port were doing dancing which we found strange but they had some good Caribbean music on to dance to but the weather wasn’t great. It kept raining which wasn’t too bad when you’re in the pool, but not brilliant when you sat around the side trying to sunbathe.

There was a man with coconuts to drink so I thought it’d be cool to get one of those. I watched him cut it up with a machete and then we all tried the coconut water. None of us really liked it and it’s not something I would get again, but when you’re in the Caribbean, it’s something you’ve got to try. Scott ended up finishing it. Don’t think that would ever be allowed anywhere else with the size of that knife.

We got out of the pool at about 11am

Then had a wander round looking for a magnet. A lot of the people were trying to get us to buy things. There was a man with a monkey and parrots, so the girls had some pictures taken with them. Because obviously if there’s a monkey you’ve got to hold it.

We also got some churros that weren’t very nice. So we bought the magnet and got back on the ship.

As we were back on board for 12 pm we got a hotdog for lunch from near the pool. Scarlett had said that she wanted to go to the kids club this afternoon so they both went there around 1.30pm but Georgia wanted to be collected for the quiz in Brodies, as she likes to do that with us but I think Scarlett has some friends so would rather stay at the kids club.

We collected Georgia at 3 pm, us three played the quiz and had some beer and mocktails. It’s a good job Georgia was there as she knew the answer to one we didn’t. We ended up winning this quiz with 9 1/2 out of 20. I can’t say it was a big crowd to compete against. And it was a pretty pathetic score to win with.

We had a few more drinks in Brodie’s and I picked Scarlett up at 4:45, as there was another quiz at 5 pm, so we did that one. Can you tell we like quizzes? We went back to the cabin got showered and changed and went and sat and had a drink in Anderson’s while we waited for a table. Surprise surprise. The only drink I choose is not available and will not be available all week. Typical.

The buzzer went off for the Olive Grove at 7. We were in the Olive Grove till 8:20.

In the Olive Grove, we had some really nice spicy prawns for starters they were excellent.

Scarlett had kids, sausage, mash, and sweetcorn,

Georgia had beef gyros,

I had paella,

Scott had Peri Peri chicken.

We tried four different desserts, the baklava, the Panna cotta, honey, cake and tiramisu.


I can’t say we liked any of the desserts, but the starter was the best and the mains were quite good. Scott did pinch a little bit of Georgias. I was hoping Scarlett would have tried something a

little different tonight.

We were quite tired and full today. There was nothing on that takes our fancy so as usual instead of going out at night, we went back to the cabin, sat on the balcony watching the Caribbean sun and chilled out and were asleep by 10.
I do sometimes worry that I should be doing more at night but at the same time why force ourselves to do things we aren’t fussed to do.

Coconut $5
Photos $30
Churros $4
Magnet $4

Punk ipa £5.55
Coke £3.55
Tango £2.70
Punk ipa £5.55
Punk ipa £5.55
Hot chocolate £3.25
Punk ipa £5.55
Mocktail £3.95
Nobbys nuts £1.45
Punk ipa £5.55
Appletiser £2.95
Tea £2.40
Nobbys nut £1.45
Punk ipa £5.55
Pringles £2.00
Punk ipa £5.55
Pringles £2.00
Cocktail £9.20
Total £73.75