Cruising the Carribean on Oasis of the Seas: Nassau, or what you do when you don't leave the ship

Today we finally got up about 1030am, got dressed and headed up to the pool area to see what was going on. We are docked in Nassau from 7am-2pm, so about 11am most people are still off the ship and the pool area was very empty. We decided to grab some lunch and headed for the windjammer cafe - which is tiny in comparison to other ships, mostly because there are about 12 other places to eat during the day. But the place still gets super crowded, so we felt really fortunate to get there about 15 minutes prior to the scheduled opening and they were already open, with hardly anyone there. The food was pretty good, Chris had some very good German Sausage (and he'd know, with all his trips to Germany recently!) and some nice pork schnitzel as well!

After lunch, we headed for the room to pick up some books for the pool deck, where we stayed until about 130pm. There is a pool area known as the "beach pool" where the deck chairs are almost in the pool - it's got an area with umbrellas and beach chairs.

picture of beach area

At 130pm, we headed up for the helicopter pad for our "top tier sail-away" - it was actually really neat, because they don't usually let guests out there. We had some champagne drinks and enjoyed the view. The weather was beautiful and we had a perfect sailaway. Here's some photos -

the helipad

looking out across the other ships in port as we are leaving

Sailing out of Nassau harbor

we then went back to the main area in the center of the ship and spent some time walking around checking out things we hadn't seen yesterday. This ship is so big, I don't think it is really possible to see everything without running around like crazy people, so we'll stick with what we like.

Back to our rooms to get changed for formal night dinner - it is always fun to get dressed up when you don't normally have to. We then went to the Concierge lounge, which is open for suite guests and diamond plus guests (frequent cruisers) and had a drink there while enjoying the view. We are apparently being chased by a Carnival ship - you can see it to the right of the anchor in the below picture.

Pam and Michael met us there, and we then all went down to the dining room for dinner. The dining room was very impressive - it's huge! And there are lots and lots of tables in the my time dining section where we are sitting. Our dinner was very good, and we enjoyed meeting our waitstaff, who did an excellent job serving dinner. Once dinner was over, we went to check out the Diamond Club, a concierge like lounge for diamond and diamond plus cruisers. It was nice, overlooking the promanade, but very loud inside when the band was going.

We then headed for the Rising Tide Bar again, it seems to be our favorite place because it moves around. I snapped a few photos, including the Carnival parade that was going on in the promanade.