Today was the last day of our cruise, disembarkation day.  We arrived back in Seattle very early, but we still had quite a long time to go before we would get off the ship.  We had arranged to stay over in Seattle an extra day so we wouldn’t have to rush off to the airport.  Once we’d given this information to Royal Caribbean, they gave us the latest disembarkation group.

We had been assigned luggage tag #33, which meant we would be in The Royal Theater and wouldn’t disembark until 9:50 am.  That did allow us to get up late and get a light breakfast from Cafe 270.  After we finished our breakfast, we headed to the Royal Theater to wait for our luggage tag to get called.

While I was excited to get a late disembarkation group (so we could sleep in), it all came crashing down as we exited the ship.  Why?  Because we were at the tail end of a LONG line to get a taxi.  We had a hotel in Seattle to go to, but needed to take a cab there.  Instead of getting a porter for our bags (who had a much shorter line), I thought it would be easier to carry our own bags and wait for a cab.  Big mistake.  We ended up standing in this line until almost 11:30 am.  In hindsight, a porter would have had us on our way in less than 15 minutes.  Eventually, we did get a cab and headed off to the Olive 8 Hyatt.

Our initial thought was to drop our bags off with bell services and then head out to get some lunch.  I approached the desk at the Olive 8 and asked to check in.  The gentleman that was helping me looked up my reservation and said our room wasn’t ready quite yet, but asked that I wait a minute.  He looked on the computer and said he had a room that was available now, but it would be a slight increase in cost.  In the interest of getting into the room and dropping our stuff off, I agreed to the charge and he handed me the keys.  He smiled and said to let him know if I liked the room.

What he had upgraded us to was the presidential suite, which was awesome.  Nancy and the girls were definitely impressed.  The room opened to an enormous dining room table, with seating for 10.

There was a smaller four person table at the other end of the room.

There was a living room area as well with a television and three couches, one of which folded down to a bed.

The kitchen had two coffee makers, a wet bar, and microwave.

The separate office had a computer and multi-function printer.

The master bedroom was located in the back of the suite with a king size bed.  There was also a dresser and television in the suite as well.

The most impressive part of the suite was definitely the master bathroom.  The mirror has a television in it.

There was a wardrobe closet complete with a pair of robes.  (No, we didn’t have enough clothes to fill the closet.)

There was also a tub and shower, complete with rain shower head.

After looking around the suite, we grabbed an Uber and headed for the nearest Teddy’s Bigger Burger.  During a trip to Hawaii, we found the burger chain and loved it.  I don’t know that it is that much better than any other burger chain, but we associated it with all the fun we had in Hawaii.  Once we discovered they had a few franchises in Seattle, we knew we would have to visit.

We got dropped off at the Teddy’s location in Greenlake and had a great lunch.  Then we decided to take a walk around the lake and see the neighborhood.  We walked most of the way around the lake before we gave up and got an Uber back to the hotel.  We ended up ordering dinner to the hotel and just relaxed for the rest of the evening. 

Tomorrow, we would be headed back home!

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