What To Do on Celebrity Beyond | Le Voyage | Le Petite Chef | Le Grand Bistro | Sea Days

Good morning and welcome to our first sea day, first full day on Celebrity Beyond. We are en route to Colombia, which we have a 2-day passage to get there. This is going to be a video showing our first 2 sea days on Celebrity and our thoughts. It's already 10 o'clock.

So far I've gotten up and went and got a manicure pedicure. It was awesome. The little area where you get your nails done has big windows to see outside, so you can watch outside the whole time. It was very good.

And I just had some coffee up at the Spa Cafe, which is a tiny little outlet inside of the Solarium area. You can get some coffee there. They do have a coffee maker or coffee machine, which just does Americano and decaf Americano, which—

I did the Americano. It's strong, but it— I mean, it's decent. Yeah.

I just did regular coffee. And then they have like some small plates, so They have like a little bit of fruit, some avocado toast, not a lot of avocado.

They had a bagel with some banana and peanut butter on it, which was really tasty and fresh, and then a turkey wrap with raw kale that was not so hot.

It looked bad. It looked dry.

One bite, one bite was enough on that one.

Yeah, but we're gonna try to go walk up on the track. I did see there's a lot of people walking up on the track. It looked like it had rained last night, so there were cleaning up. But yeah, let's get the day started. All right, you all— I know.

Fancied up this morning.

Well, it was more humid than I thought it was going to be.

It was humid.

And the walking track was busy. Oh my gosh, so busy. Yeah, we were able to pass quite a few people though. We are a bit younger Than a lot of the people on this cruise.

Yeah.

But it was nice. Uh, now we are not— we are not new to cruising, we're just new to Celebrity. Celebrity.

Yeah.

So we were able to tier match from Diamond status at Royal Caribbean to Elite here, and so we're gonna get to do some things that not everybody gets to do. So what are we doing?

Uh, it's called Create and Pour. We'll see.

Yeah, we don't really know what it is.

We don't know what it is.

There was a thing showing for Elite members only Yeah, so we're gonna go check it out. The things you do to get a free drink. We're gonna draw.

Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon.

All right, for lunch we decided to come to Le Grand Bistro, which is like an à la carte. You can see the prices on here. It's a French bistro style, and it is Tuesday, so Coq au Vin is the special. We have heard on other vlogs that the double cheese truffle burger is amazing, so that's definitely gonna be one of the things I think we get. Not sure what else though.

Well, my thought is I'm gonna ask if you can only get the plates to If not, I'll maybe go for that La François burger.

Gotcha. And how about let's see those pictures we did?

Oh yeah.

So it ended up being a sketch and sip, basically.

Yeah, so 3 different wines: Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, and a red, uh, Cabernet. Cabernet. And then we got to draw some wine glasses too.

And I mean, it was free.

45 minutes, it was It was included in our.

Yeah, and it was a wine tasting. So a sommelier talks about that, and then the artists like helped us. So that was cool. But I'm hungry.

Yeah, time to eat.

All right, they do bring us some butter and sourdough.

Yeah.

Looks not the easiest to spread. No, it is butter. And I did the French baguette and sourdough. First course is here. I did the escargot, which you can see it comes with a puff pastry. Pastry and it's just like in a cream sauce. I've never seen it served that way.

I did a crepe and I believe it's a tomato—

I think it's some type of tomato crepe.

Yeah, yeah, savory crepe for sure. Yeah. Oh gosh, look at that, it's like full of cheese.

That is a lot of cheese. That looks really good.

It was hot. That's tasty.

Wow. Yeah, I think these are both going to be pretty dang good. It took a little bit of time, which Which does indicate it probably is quite fresh.

Yeah, and those plates are warm. Yeah.

Very warm. All right, I ended up going with the double truffle cheeseburger. You can see some grilled onions on there. I think it's a truffle aioli. It's a double cheeseburger. I didn't catch what type of cheese it is. And then it does come with french fries.

They are supposed to be Parmesan fries.

And it is a potato bun.

And I went with the brie and turkey sandwich. It also has a matcha and cranberry apple dressing on it.

Interesting.

Looks good.

All right, just wrapped up lunch at Le Grand Bistro. Thoughts?

Um, I think the turkey sandwich was a really good turkey sandwich on a really good baguette, but I also know they offer sandwiches up at Ocean View Cafe, so I'd probably go back there.

But everything else was great.

Yeah, it was.

Uh, total was about $50. I thought the burger was amazing. I thought the escargot might be the best escargot I've ever had.

Yeah, and even the crepe was delicious.

Yeah, there was like so many different— do you just call them escargots? Snails? Lots of snails. And it was in this cream sauce that was just salty, garlicky, delicious. The puff pastry was awesome with it. Yeah, I think it's the best I've had. And the crepe was good too.

Yeah. It was all good.

Check it out. For dessert, we came up to Scoops. All right, I got banana rum with caramel.

Chocolate soft serve with caramel.

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Chic night.

We came back, took a nap. Took a nap.

Because tonight is gonna be a late night. We're— I was just saying we have an early night and a late night tonight. Because we have dinner at 6:15 at Les Voyages by Daniel Boulud, which is supposed to be one of the fanciest ones they've got on all of Celebrity. And we have a show in the theater. We're hoping to go to a show by the Eden cast in the, in the club, I believe. You think it's Eden, I think it's a club. Yeah, you'll see later which one it is because we're gonna try to get to it.

Yeah.

And then the other is silent disco is I think at like 10:30 or something.

Yeah, it's a busy night.

Yeah, so we're probably gonna—

And a late-night comedian. Like—

I can't imagine all this is gonna happen, but there's a ton of stuff to do tonight.

Yeah.

So we're probably just gonna skip out on the elite drinks, which we did take advantage of last night.

Yeah.

But tonight we're just gonna go to the casino because I don't think we're gonna go to the casino after all the shows.

No, or after dinner.

So. So. Come along with us.

Yeah, we'll show you. We hope we show you a big win.

We'll try to do a good job of wrapping up later, but yeah, and a big win like last night. Did you see that already? Later. Minor, minor, minor, minor.

2 minor.

Mini is $50. It's $400.

Nice.

All right, here's a quick look at the Tasty menu. I think that there is an upcharge for that compared to what we paid for, so we will likely be over on this side. If it's like Eden, we were able to pick 2 appetizers and 1 entree. Hopefully we can do the same.

We'll have to pay for dessert.

All right, he did say he's gonna bring us a complimentary glass of champagne, but here are your cocktails. And look at that lighting. Seems terrible, but— oh, there it's better. $15 for a drink if you're interested. All right, so the waiter did say that, um, our 5-night dining plan leads to us being able to do this, which is a 3-course menu. So you get one app, one entree, and one dessert. He said if you really want to try something, he can try to speak to the chef, so We're gonna try to press our luck and get three entrees. All right, this is our amuse bouche. It has a poached shrimp, some caviar, fennel salad, a mango disc, and a mango puree. And Rachel just ate hers. What do you think?

Wow. Thank you.

Thank you.

Please do enjoy. Okay. So I started off with this pretty fancy drink called LV75. It's Bombay Sapphire, lemon juice, Prosecco, and rose water. And I believe there's a little rose on top. Josh got this fancy DB White Cosmo. Vodka, St. Germain, white cranberry, and lime.

Yeah, the fancy thing is that ice cube.

Yeah, it's fancy.

There's like ice in it.

Is there?

It's so cold. Yeah, it's delicious though.

Good.

All right, complimentary bread service with French, uh, butter that is in from Normandy area, a 3-seed sourdough, and then like a croissant-style brioche.

Yeah, the thing I think is interesting is you can see it's kind of hollow in there.

I chose to just go with 2 of those ones cuz that seems more my style. But I'm really excited to try that bread butter. First course, uh, he did allow us to do an extra appetizer as well as an extra entree. This is the tamarind and peanut crusted prawns. I believe it was like a green Thai basil— maybe not basil, but Thai curry sauce.

Yeah.

And you can see a little bit of chili on there.

They did say slight heat.

Slight heat. I believe it. You can see the chili on there. Then over here is the king crab salad, which I heard another table where they said that this is their best seller. You can see lots of crab. There is mango, radish, avocado, and then avocado puree in there.

Yeah.

And then This is the steak tartare. It sounded like flavor with za'atar, I think. I did not hear if that's like a cucumber.

Cucumber.

Okay, it is cucumber. Did you catch what the chip is?

No. Me neither. I was I was thrown off. Yeah, but it looks pretty.

All right, our entrees are here and they are much bigger than what we thought.

Well.

Not this one.

And not this one.

Not the next. Yeah, so this is the lamb chops. So you can see there's 2 lamb chops, there's some eggplant, some romesco sauce, some tzatziki, and then pistachios. Uh, this is the one that scares us a little bit, I think.

It looks a little bigger than we expected.

Much larger. You can see, uh, much larger than my hand. Uh, this is a lobster risotto, a little bit of zucchini and squash in there, some sun-dried Tomatoes. And then this is the duck, which has like minced duck meat, and then it looks like breast meat as well. And then it's cooked in almost like a Beef Wellington style.

Yeah, a nice pastry. It has a sweet and sour sauce.

And a little bok choy, I'd say.

That's baby bok choy.

Okay. Yeah, this is a lot. Alright, dessert menu is Here you can see mille-feuille, pavlova, rice pudding, which Rachael's been eyeing for a while, some Black Forest, and then an Ethiopian coffee ice cream. Interesting. Which one you getting?

I'm getting the risotto latte.

All right, dessert is here. I ended up going with the mille-feuille, which is a puff pastry, some passion fruit foam, or yeah, I think it was foam.

Yeah.

Um, some different types of pineapple, some kumquat, and then like a mango sauce. And then Rachael—

I got rice pudding with some rice crisps, and there is some, um, peaches in there as well.

Yeah. And I asked if we were supposed to smash these in, and he said, nah, just eat it like a So I guess there's rice pudding down there. Okay, so peaches, pistachio. Compliments of the chef, we have a raspberry dessert jelly thing, jelly type thing, a chocolate truffle, and then some fresh baked mandolins.

I love you.

All right, we showed up late to the last one and had horrible viewing, so now we're in the very front row and we're early and it's packed. 20 minutes early and it's Yeah, super packed. All right, back in our room. We did end up doing 3 different shows tonight. We did not make it to silent disco, but let's start with dinner.

Yeah.

Uh, dinner at Les Voyages was a little bit of a hit and miss. Our appetizer courses we really liked. Our entrees we were underwhelmed by.

Yeah, they were mediocre at best.

The experience was very good.

It's a very beautiful restaurant.

Service was great. Yeah, uh, they did start us off with a glass of champagne, which was complimentary and always appreciated.

Mhm.

Uh, my favorite bite of that was— oh boy, it's hard when I'm struggling to come up with a favorite bite.

Of the dinner?

Of the dinner, yeah. It was not a most memorable meal for me, unfortunately, it seems like.

I think mine was the king crab salad.

I could probably say that. King crab salad or the steak tartare, probably. And then after that, we did go to— it was a production show by the cast from Eden that was in the Club seating in there is weird. If you don't get there very early, you are going to end up being like 3, 4 people deep. Yeah, standing like we were up in the second level. It seemed like it would be good if we could have been there early and be like at the ground floor level. I think that it would be good, and they're gonna have it again later this cruise, so hopefully we'll get to see it in a better setting. But from up above, you kind of lose a little bit of the feel.

Yeah, I thought it was— I call it more of an intimate setting on purpose, so I thought it was A neat production show, not one of the best production shows I've ever seen.

Yeah, especially not from where we were standing.

Yeah.

And then, uh, speaking of one of the best production shows—

Ever.

Yeah, yeah, the show was called Stage Door and it has a ton of songs from Broadway musicals. The cast was amazing. We ended up being in the front row because that place gets packed.

Packed.

Holy God. And we were like 25 minutes early.

I was gonna say, we were 20 minutes early.

Yeah. But, you know, front row was open, so we took it, and I'm glad we did. I could see doing it again in the future.

Me too.

And then we just stuck around because like 12 minutes later the comedian was going and some lady puked in the front row. Which— she's doing okay, but the comedian did a great job. It just kind of consumed the rest of the show.

Yeah, it was weird.

Yeah.

But it was funny. There was some funny bits.

Yeah, he did a good job.

Yeah.

Anyway, uh, this is the end of our first sea day. We are going to combine this with a second sea day because we have 2 sea days to start the cruise. So we'll see you in the morning.

Wait, what was your favorite moment of today?

My favorite moment of today was during the stage door. I thought that that musical was awesome.

So mine was also during the musical stage door, and I thought it was when I heard the very first Dear Evan Hansen song. And then—

The second one was even better.

The second one came on, but then at the very finale, um, as everybody's standing and applauding the production cast, there's this gentleman and he has got like the biggest grin on his face and he's got to be close to 70 and he is just grinning from ear to ear and I'm like, yes, remember these moments. And that to me was like This is one of those moments.

Yeah.

And then there was some comedian parts that I won't forget soon either. But the stage door was amazing.

Yeah. All right, what was your favorite bite?

Mine today was Alaska king crab salad. It was a nice refreshing—

I'm shocked.

Um, brightness that I felt was definitely needed in the meal that we had it in.

I thought that the burger at Le Grand Bistro was the best bite of today.

I'm surprised you're saying that. Knowing we both thought the escargot was the best we've ever had.

All right, well—

We actually had 3 good bites today.

There we go. All right, we'll see you tomorrow. Good morning, welcome to day 2. Actual day 3 of the cruise.

I think it's full day 2.

Yeah, full day 2. Sea day 2. Uh, got up at 9, slept in. We're going to the gym.

Headed there. All right, we got our workout in at the gym. So breakfast, I went with pork sausage, bacon, they call it breakfast bread, a hash brown. I ended up with a waffle and then muesli build your own, which I love that idea. Josh also went with muesli. Looks like he went with sausage, bacon, and then he just got 2 raw eggs. No, I don't think he did. Those are hard-boiled. I'm not a breakfast person. And he's going to get us coffee, but we're sitting outside today. Oh, so pretty.

Well, we just did an education session on the Panama Canal.

This is my first time ever doing an education session on a cruise.

I've heard about them. Yeah, it was great.

It was great. I, I had no idea about the history of the Panama Canal. I know I don't pay enough attention to history class anyhow.

Yeah, if we haven't said it before, we're going to the Panama Canal, which that's kind of the whole point of this cruise.

Yeah.

Um, but a lot of history on it, talks about how it works, and so gets me ready for it in a couple days. I can't believe how full this theater was.

Like, we were on level 5 and I saw 2 spots and we kind of rushed down and hurried around and got into seats. Otherwise we would have had to stand for a whole hour, and I don't think I would have stood for a whole hour.

No, but it was great. If you can do it, I think you should do it. Uh, we're probably just gonna go head up to the pool though today because we haven't really We haven't even gotten in the pool yet. No, we haven't.

Let's go get in the pool.

Yes. Also, this screen is amazing. But here you can see this was standing room only when all was done. All right, so there is a solarium, which is an indoor area, as well as a large pool on the outside. We'll see where we end up here. One thing I really like here is that you can just walk up and grab Towels, which you can't do on Royal Caribbean. You have to check it out. But looks like the big pool is filling up. The weather is much better today. It's nice, sunny, and hot. But this is the main pool area. Got a couple perfect seats right at the pool with the elephants. I think we're going to see if we can get a bucket of beers Do you want to mix up the teams or do you want to stay? Lunchtime! All right, Mass Grill bacon cheeseburger with grilled onions and some french fries. And you did the mushroom instead of onions?

Yep.

It's Elite happy hour time.

It's almost sunset too.

Yes, so we're headed to the Sunset Bar for some drinks. All right, we just experienced our second true time of doing Elite Happy Hour, and I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. Yeah, so on Royal Caribbean we get 4 free drinks throughout the day, whereas Elite Happy Hour you get 2 hours to drink basically as much as you want on a specific menu, which editing Josh will show you right now.

Right, but the difference is, is it depends on the bartender, because we've had 2 times where the one bartender will give Whatever.

True.

Then another one comes in, he's like, that's not on the menu.

But tonight we tried to do a better job of actually doing what they say you can have and easily got 4 drinks in that time. And it's probably not a bad thing to start drinking at 5 o'clock.

Well, I mean, we had a— we paid for a couple beers today.

That's true. But yeah, we had a good time, and I think that the Sunset Bar is where we are finding ourselves a lot.

Yeah, we really like that spot. It's nice and quiet and there's a perfect view. Like, you get the wake view and truly the sunset.

And night one, there was a guy that just showed up with a guitar and started playing. Yeah, and it was great.

Yeah, it was awesome.

Yeah, so now we're waiting for a comedian, Tommy Green Jr. She says comedian, I say a music guy.

It says in the title, classic hit songs and fresh comedy.

West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home. All right, horns, blast it for me. All right, Rachel, we are at Le Petit Chef. What can you tell me about this place?

Yes, so I do know it's a Pretty much fixed menu. There's maybe one alternative to what you see on the menu, but it is dinner and a show, and it's a virtual show. So the chef, similar to like Remy from Ratatouille—I haven't even seen it, but I believe that's true. Similar to Remy from Ratatouille, but making your meal.

And so there's something projected on our plates.

Yeah, and then the meal will show. Yeah, I am looking forward to it, but it is a limited menu.

Yeah, it is a preset menu. So burrata salad, bouillabaisse, red lobster or rosso lobster tail, and the vanilla ice cream, which I'm stupidly excited with a hot fudge sundae and nuts.

I'll take it. I can't wait for it.

Yeah, but this is Le Grand Bistro, which is where we had lunch yesterday, turned into this.

Le Petit Chef.

Yeah, beautiful. I'm going to welcome you to the Le Petit Chef dining experience. Please remove your personal items from the tabletop so that Le Petit Chef does not trip as he likes running around. All the way from France, measuring 6 centimeters, the world's smallest chef, Le Petit Chef. Oh wow, that's cute. Cool. I hope that's burrata.

I hope it is too. Oh, I hope that's what it looks like. Thank you.

Thank you, Rachel. What are you thinking after, uh, course one?

I'm still considering the fact we might need to go have pizza. Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm also concerned because we eat fast and we are probably the fastest eaters in here.

Oh God.

So it's going to be a long time in between courses.

Yeah, I'm ready for the next course. Come on, little chef.

I wonder if they have some bread. Do you think he's baking bread in that little—

Yeah, there's no bread so far. That was a salad, and this is 8:30 dinner.

I'm hungry.

We had that burger at like 2 o'clock.

And took a nap, and we've had some drinks since then. It's time to eat.

This will be interesting to see how this goes, but it's cool presentation. Something tells me we're getting seafood.

And soup.

Seafood soup. All right, got some bouillabaisse and we got some bread.

Oh, there is a shrimp in there. It looks like a clam, scallop, shrimp, a piece of octopus, a mussel. All right, I'm assuming—

Looks like seafood coming. Oh, there it is. Yeah, get him, buddy. Get him, buddy. Thank you. Thank you. All right, lobster tail. Is that a spice? Potato chips are good. I think they're 2 potato chips.

I had 5.

Lucky. Rachael, how is your Le Petit Chef experience going so far?

So far, I think the presentation idea is very interesting and unique and something I've not seen before. I do think it needs to be more interactive throughout because there seems to be a lot of waiting afterwards, and it is probably the first time I'm gonna walk away from a specialty restaurant and say, Josh, we need to go get some more food.

We are already talking about going to get either pizza or—

I want eggs, salad, and sandwich. I mean, like, right now we're waiting on a hot fudge sundae.

Yeah, all we have left. Yeah, so we talked about like the lobster was delicious.

It was delicious, but I felt it was more of an appetizer-sized portion.

There was zero side dish to it. There was 6 potato chips, the tiniest potato chips ever.

Potato chips. I think I would be eating everybody's here, but Josh said they already ate them.

It's like we've had 2— a soup, a salad, and an appetizer, which for the price of $60 plus—

Yeah, I think it was like $65 a person on the app, and that's without any discounts.

But still, like, this is cool, but this is not interactive. This is just a On their table, whereas like you do get to see where they make it.

Yeah.

Put it together.

Yeah, it's a one and done for me, and I can say that with only having dessert left to say. It's a one and done for me.

Yeah. Do you have a couple scoops, brother?

He's only gonna put one on the plate, I'm sure of it. Yep, because here comes your berries.

No, I need more than that though. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. One scoop.

Pepperoni and cheese for sure.

All right, I really don't think that we're snobby assholes, but I was just disappointed in that. Le petit chef. I was disappointed. That might be the first time I've ever been that disappointed with a specialty dining on a cruise ship. But hey, the pizza's free. We got some color today. Look at this. That is some weird sunburn going on. Yeah. I don't think I look too bad though.

You got some redness, but not not like this.

All right tonight, Tommy Green. Tommy Green Jr.

from Nova Scotia.

Yeah, he was pretty funny and good singing. Yeah. Enjoyed the show tonight. Didn't really enjoy dinner tonight.

Yeah, and it's not the waitstaff, and it it's more the concept itself.

Yeah, I feel like the concept is like well we should probably say where we start went.

We went to La Petite Chef. Well, you probably saw that.

Yeah, and I probably inserted scenes where yeah, La Petite Chef. I think in our minds it was going to be a lot more interactive, a lot more fun play with the the video on your table and stuff.

Yeah.

It was very minimal. And then the food, there's not options. It's just, it's a set menu, which we knew was a set menu. But I think that the portion sizes were just— it felt like a salad, a soup, and an appetizer.

Yeah, rather than an entree by far. Yeah.

Yeah. So we ended up going to the buffet afterwards, like immediately afterwards, and got pizza.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. So outside of that, I think we had a good day. It was a nice relaxing day, which I think the good thing is we were able to show you can do a lot of stuff day 1, you can do minimal stuff day 2. And that's what our goal of this was, to show what you can see on— what you can do on sea days with Celebrity since it was our first time.

Yeah, it was. I thought it was really fun. I, I loved the pool options because they played some music that We both like.

Yeah.

And but it's not so loud you can't have a conversation.

Yeah, it was actually a very good volume.

Yeah, we could start reading a book, so it was nice.

Yeah, but tomorrow we are headed to Colombia for the very first time. We are gonna do some cooking. We are.

We're gonna see— I think we're gonna see Old Town.

I think so too. So come along with us for that. If you're enjoying our videos, don't forget to hit that like and subscribe. Nope, we are not ready for that yet, Josh. Favorite moment— nope. We'll have to do moment, or you want to do food first?

Favorite food of the day. Favorite bite of the day.

Food's gonna be easy. You pick.

Um, mine, it's odd. As much as we didn't like the entire experience at dinner, my favorite bite of the day was the lobster.

Yeah.

It was really good lobster.

I agree. The lobster was the best.

Yep.

Um, okay. Favorite moment of the day.

You are going with that over your chicken sandwich?

Yep. Yeah, I made a chicken sandwich out of the buffet food at Of the late bites. But that was delicious. But the lobster—

The lobster was good. Favorite moment of the day?

My favorite moment of the day, probably just chilling at the pool.

It was a lot of fun. My favorite was sitting at the comedy or the night show, and this lady sat next to Josh and said, are you guys newlyweds? Because you look like newlyweds.

I think she thought we were a lot younger than we are.

So that was nice. She does still think we're newlyweds. It's good. Yeah.

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