Jewel of the Seas Greek Isles - Disembarkation Day & Our Day In Rome Part 1

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this but we continued to ask for Zandro and Ferdinand’s section at dinner throughout the cruise. They were fantastic and we said our goodbyes at that last night in MDR. Zandro is being promoted and we totally understand why!

At breakfast on debarkation day we sat outside of the Windjammer buffet and ran into Ferdinand one last time.
He said his crew card lets him on any ship owned by Royal to take a look at it (symphony of seas and a pullmanter ship were in port. He said he could go on either)

Symphony basking in the sun:
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Debarkation was by far the easiest we’ve ever had. Our number was called half an hour early and we walked off the ship.
Did you think we were done? Nope not yet.


For our hotel post cruise I think I cancelled and booked about 3 different hotels. I just couldn’t make up my mind. Again I decided to splurge a little and took a friend’s advice and booked us at Albergo del Senato using a promo code from their website and paying in advance. It saved a little bit, but still amounted to $354 for the one night. The hotel is located in Pantheon square: Piazza della Rotunda.

The overall experience you get though from this place? Worth it for the one night splurge.

We dropped our bags off and adventured out to explore sites unseen.
Pantheon...directly in front of the hotel:
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Let’s go inside the pantheon shall we?
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This guy's expression pretty much sums up how I felt about it too:
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After that quick stop we continued on in our endeavors to see more...and mine to eat more gelato
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Fiance got a panini at one of the shops on via de corso
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We started making our way toward the Spanish steps
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AH. There they are...TBH I was slightly underwhelmed but I think that's because they were so busy.
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View from the top:
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Where would we go next? Stay tuned!

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