Adventure of the Seas 2021 | Thrill Waterpark - Perfect Day at CoCoCay
i don't think it's worth the money but i'll say that with the caveat that good morning everyone and welcome to day three of our time on adventure of the seas first cruise back in 16 months starting to live my best cruise life you know i'm getting to the point in the cruise where it's like okay the travel of the crews and the preparing for the crews and everything is done the stress level has gone down now i can really get into it enjoy the cruise today we have our second of two days here at perfect day at coco k yesterday was amazing if you missed that video make sure you go back and see it really took you all around the island and showed you what all was here went to the beach but today we're going to go to thrill water park i bought a pass for that so planning to spend a portion of the day there and then who knows what's gonna happen i'm walking now i'm gonna go right to the water park and check it out uh really excited to see what all is over there so thank you for stopping by my name is zach this is adventure in coriolis let's get this second perfect day started so that was really easy all i did was scan my c-pass card because i had pre-purchased my pass before the cruise on rural caribbean's website and the past was 90 i did buy it myself this is not gifted or sponsored at all by royal caribbean so you are going to get an honest review of the experience today as such as i'm not sponsored by royal i can't actually take my camera because i'm not get been given a media pass or anything on any of the slides so apologies up front for that but i am going to give you my honest review of everything and i'm going to show you everything so uh just wanted to give that disclaimer up front that you're going to get full honesty with me because i've not been bought by anyone so over here is the wave pool uh i don't see a lazy river i don't think there is a lazy river or anything uh but a wave pool over here and then back here is daredevil tower and this is where there are uh one two five or six it looks like different water slides including that the daredevil fall i guess it is i'm not sure the exact name of it but all the way up there at the top so these are all slides they're just body slides so there's no mats or anything involved with that and here's the splashdown for a couple of them and then over here there's some more slides which i think do involve tubes and things like that all right so that's sort of the lay of the land my first impression is there doesn't appear to be a lot here there are several slides here several slides back here there's the wave pool but other than that so far doesn't seem like a whole lot of attractions here at this water park there are lockers available as well as men and women's showers right when you come in to the water park so i'm gonna go drop my stuff there now check out some of the attractions and i'll report back in a little bit and let you know what i think of thrill water park so we're now at the entrance for the looks like there's five slides up here on the tower there is a shoe drop right there at the entrance you can see so if you want to wear your shoes around because the pavement does get pretty warm you don't have to walk around barefoot all day you can actually leave your shoes there then ascend all those stairs i just rode the purple slide over here the guy called it the baby slide but it tore my back up i know that uh baby or not so now i don't know i'll have to try some of the body slides out later maybe to wear a shirt i don't think it helps that i just grease my back with sunscreen right before i came here so probably didn't make matters good either but you know there's five slides there over at the other tower i'll pan around here back there behind me there are more slides there's some racers which means you lay on a mat on your belly and go down them we'll check those out in a minute there's also some double rider slides over there also a single rider those are all either tuber mat and then the tower here behind me those are all body slides so plenty of options also just gotten the wave pool for a few minutes uh seems kind of small but it's a small part so i guess that makes sense so gonna hang out here by the way pool for a bit and work up the nerve to go up some of those bigger slots behind me so there are a lot of umbrellas and chairs all around uh here at the wave pool but also behind the body slots there's some as well and these are all free and included with your admission to the water park for the day so now i'm gonna walk over here the very short walk to the snack shack and get some lunch this is the same i believe the same snack shack that they have out on the general coco k for just anyone to go to but this one uh not as many people have access to it because only the people that have access to the water park can go to this snack shack so there's no line over there there's hardly anyone even sitting so uh let's go get some lunch all right so just grab lunch here at the snack shack and everyone is so very helpful here and here come the stupid seagulls trying to get food you got to watch your food anywhere you are on this uh on this island because the seagulls have been attacking everyone's food it's been left unattended but mine is well attended um i got the shack burger which is right here and then fries like i did yesterday and then the lemon lime drink that they have at the drinks then okay i should apologize to the seagulls i didn't mean to call them stupid i know they're just hungry animals and they're used to people feeding them so over here on the other side for some way finding there's the tower so this is on the other side of thrill water park the yellow and pink slide here is the slingshot and all of the lifeguards and operators here have told me that is awesome slingshot is a two person or more attraction though so if you are coming by yourself sorry you're out of luck just like me or you'll need to find the buddy over to the right you have the racers and there are mats here at the blue match you take those up the stairs with you to do the racers i think you come down on your belly and then this one over here on the left the purple and the green this one is fun this is the one i've been doing and this is twister and you actually grab one of the green floats over here and take it up the stairs with you since i can't actually show you the water slides as i go down them i thought i would at least show you what it's like i'll do my best to do an accurate representation of it so it's something like this there it is it's pretty dark on all the slides some of them do have a little colored window sections that make like a kaleidoscope effect but other than that it's dark it's a sort of claustrophobic feeling it smells like chlorine and that's about the jest of a water slide all right so i believe i'm about water parked out for a bit now it's uh just after one o'clock i was laying out by the way pool which was nice but i'm like hey i have like a natural wave pool just right over here so i'm gonna go over here and get a spot right on the beach and enjoy the last few hours that we have here now the water park once you do have an admission for the day the admission is good for all day you just use your c-pass you can scan in and out as many times as you like throughout the day so i can go back there later if i choose so this here is called splash away bay it's right across from another entrance to thrill water park you can actually come in here this is uh you see the tower up there this is along the path that goes right behind the tower and this will run back to the oasis lagoon but this is the other entrance that you can take that's a little bit more accessible to the beaches and other places now found myself a seat here by the ocean the railway pool just down from the chill grill and just gonna hang out here and relax uh for the better part of the afternoon i did stop on the way here and got myself a funnel cake let's see you get a better shot there we go so it's just now near three o'clock and i think i'm gonna head on back to the ship i am suddenly very sleepy just very tired i was relaxing there by the beach and laying under the umbrella and i'm just hot i feel like i've gotten maybe too much sun today so i feel like the sun's zapping me in my energy you know we've all been at home for the past year and uh unable to leave our houses and stuff and now we're like slowing out into the sun and it's like it takes all of our energy at least that's how i feel about it anyway so i will give my thoughts now about thrill water park first of all uh to be on a private island and owned by a cruise line it's absolutely incredible you know the first thing you notice when you pull up at coco k is the tower with all the water slides on it it's so colorful it's so bright it's so inviting to the eye so that's really cool it's it's marketed very well it's themed very well i don't really feel like there's a whole lot over there though i know there's a lot of slides a lot of those are body slides and i really don't like the body slides in fact i only did one of them today because it just hurts your back so much the every little seam in the water slide it feels like you snag it on the way down so it's very brutal there were more slides that you could do with mats and things like that the premier attraction there was the slingshot though and i am a solo traveler this trip and i did not have one to do that slide with me so i was told you know by everyone that works there like you need to do the slingshot you need to do a slingshot and i'm like i'm by myself and they're like oh you have to have two people so if you are traveling by yourself it may not be worth the money that you're paying because you can't do all the attractions you need do need a buddy the wave pool was awesome probably my favorite part uh very cool very relaxing they kept the waves going pretty much the whole time different than some weep holes i've been in at some water parks before where they'll cut it off for periods of time the waves were constantly going they would switch up the pattern of the waves so that was neat also the availability of chairs and the timeliness of food when you order it and the bar staff was walking around very quick like i said there's not a lot of people here so there was a lot of room over there for folks so for that part it was great however i don't think it's worth the money but i'll say that with the caveat that most decent cruise ship excursions that you're going to go on in most all ports you're probably going to pay at least 90 a person round about if it's something like a water park if it's something of that magnitude something that exciting and thrilling uh you're gonna pay that much so on a cruise 90 is uh probably par i i do think that's overpriced but i do get the pricing point of it now it's not going to give you the value that you're going to get like if you go to orlando or somewhere to a major like water park and pay the same money they don't have that many attractions over there but for it to be an excursion on a private island owned by a cruise ship it's absolutely worth it if you are interested in slides and water attractions or if you have kids and you want to take them especially i think i found a place to relax for a minute they have these hammocks sitting this is on chill island uh this is nice just looking up laying under the palm trees uh i'll probably go to sleep here and miss the ship that'd be tragic wouldn't it to never be able to leave coco k tempting so serene i've been here now for about an hour just uh rocking away in the hammock uh this is amazing this is uh what vacation is for and i found pure relaxation today here at coco k so oh wow no i missed him thank you he's big now we have a bahama friend over there that is a huge iguana and i'm not getting any closer than this so i hope you all can see can they run fast like can he come at me i don't know i gotta go so sad to be leaving coke okay and not to be coming here again tomorrow i have truly loved this place i can't say that enough this has been incredible i'm so glad that we had two days here uh and i'm i'm excited to book my next royal cruise that comes here i've got to do it i'm excited to sell on royal again and i'm definitely coming here on it so i'll be hitting up that next cruise desk at some point during this sailing to secure that trip there's some cool weather back here just off to my left that's pretty cool there's some sort of a storm going on over there but again like i said we've dodged the weather here for the past two days we haven't had any rain or storms so it's been very nice to have beautiful sunshine so even if we have bad weather the rest of the trip at least we had two beautiful days here at coco cay good evening everyone it's now almost 7 45 and it is formal night or formal evening here on the adventure of the seas so about to head out now to go down to the dining room but it's a beautiful evening here on the ocean as we left coco k earlier it was actually raining uh and that was actually very nice just to hear the rain hitting the ocean but you can see behind me now it's a very calm the seas are calm and it's just a beautiful evening so looking forward to getting down to dinner because dinner has been on point the entire cruise and i know it will be tonight also i'll have a full review of that in just a few moments so now just back from dinner another fantastic night in the dining room folks the adventure of the sea royal caribbean fantastic food fantastic service i don't know if it's just the sailing in particular because there's so few people or what the deal is but the food is next level started out my meal with the iceberg wedge salad and even without me asking the waiter brought extra blue cheese dressing for the salad and that was fantastic uh the salad itself was very good also got the fried crispy calamari this is a dish that i try to get on all of my cruises no matter what line i'm on and it was very good here on royal for my main dish i got the beef tenderloin and that was a great cut of meat it was so tender a couple nights ago i called the prime rib that i got the best main dining room dinner that i've had on a cruise ship and i still stand by that this was just another great cut of meat that i got in the dining room tonight was very impressed with the beef tenderloin and then for dessert i got the grand mariner souffle and my waiter my weight staff at my table that i have every night they are fantastic they take very good care of me and they brought me two which i quickly consumed both of because it was really really good piping hot all the food's been hot it's been very fresh you know nothing's been lukewarm or cold or tasted like it's sat under a heat lamp for a long time everything has been perfection in terms of food in the main dining room and i'm loving it they're taking such good care of me here on adventure of the seas that's going to do it for our day had a great day at coco k a great couple of days there tomorrow is a sea day but gonna have several things planned for the video tomorrow including lunch at chops grill which is the steak house here on board adventure of the sea probably also gonna do a ship tour to just show you some of the highlights around the ship maybe a stateroom tour and we'll just see what happens thank you all so much for watching this video see you tomorrow from the sea day good night everyone
2021-07-09 22:54
