12/19/2011 Jewel of the Seas.

We drove down on Sat the 17 to Tampa. We stayed at the Chase Suite hotel which is a nice place. Offers rooms with a nice view, full kitchen and transport to cruise dock and allows you to leave your car for up 14 days with their snooze and cruise package. I believe it was 109 a night for 3 adults regular room and 159 for the cruise package. Pretty reasonable. I had gone to the website for the hotel to see restaurants and what was close by. In Yarbar city about 10 miles away was Acropolis Greek Taverna which was Greek and Med food. We thoroughly enjoyed it. The prices were average and they had live entertainment. They played music and at one point the waitress' got in a line and danced and they threw some plates. Dad of course took some video. Sunday we got up ate breakfast at hotel provided which is things like muffins, bagels,fruit, waffles, yogurt, eggs and bacon. They did change it up for Monday they had sausage and biscuits. We then drove to Orlando to go to Universal Studios Islands of adventure. Our day started off bad as we got in line for Spider Man and it said 45 min wait, but we waited 2 hrs. The ride had some technical difficulties they did not bother to inform us of and there was no one to direct you if you wanted to get out of line. When we finally got on half the screens did not work and some crazy parents had taken their 2 to 3 yrs old on it who got completely hysterical. All we thought was poor kid and why the parents did that to that poor child. We got off and immediately went to guest services to complain. They refused to give any money back, they only gave us 6 express passes for our trouble. Which in my opinion did not cost them a thing. We probably wont go back because of the horrible guest services. We did make the best of the rest of day and did have some fun.

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