My First Cruise
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We've taken a number of cruises. The best was probably a Mediterranean cruise. Well, after the flight from Sarasota to Chicago to Frankfurt to Istanbul. They love it when you call it Constantinople
After that nightmare of flights it was a blast! Mykonos, Athens, Malta, Catania, Salerno, and Rome were the itinerary stops.... We stayed a few days in Rome and need to go back 
This trip was during the World Cup so every bar on the ship was a home bar for a country in the Cup.. AND we had free beverages. 
Down in the Colosseum
We've taken a number of cruises. The best was probably a Mediterranean cruise. Well, after the flight from Sarasota to Chicago to Frankfurt to Istanbul. They love it when you call it Constantinople
After that nightmare of flights it was a blast! Mykonos, Athens, Malta, Catania, Salerno, and Rome were the itinerary stops.... We stayed a few days in Rome and need to go back This trip was during the World Cup so every bar on the ship was a home bar for a country in the Cup.. AND we had free beverages.
Down in the Colosseum
Cruises for sure and trips in general I never regretted going on any of them.
I have wondered later on a few I missed...... like Woodstock 1969, almost went.
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We had a cruise that ended up in Barcelona and then drove to Paris thru Bordeaux. We have also had a driving trip through Belgium, France and then return and another two week tour by train after a week in Rome to Venice and then Florence and a driving/staying trip through Tuscany then back to Rome. Our last was all over Western Spain and back to Madrid where we started. That was great because language was never a barrier. The most surprising to see was the extent of the Roman ruins in Merida. I had no idea it was that extensive that far inland from the Mediterranean Sea.
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I've heard you can get some great deals on Cruises to China and SE Asia right now.
"You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970. -
I've heard you can get some great deals on Cruises to China and SE Asia right now.
I've heard you can get some great deals on Cruises to China and SE Asia right now.
Yeah you might get an extra 14 days with 3 meals a day for FREE.
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We have selected a couple of our excursions: On Cozumel we will be doing the Playa Mia "Beach Break" with my daughter and everyone. Waterpark, snorkeling, eating, drinking.
On Costa Maya we will be doing a Maya ruin tour. Kohunlich I believe is the name of it. Nothing decided about Roatan. The underwater scooter thing is only a slim chance of being selected. There are also some nature park tours which my son may consider.
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We have selected a couple of our excursions: On Cozumel we will be doing the Playa Mia "Beach Break" with my daughter and everyone. Waterpark, snorkeling, eating, drinking.
On Costa Maya we will be doing a Maya ruin tour. Kohunlich I believe is the name of it. Nothing decided about Roatan. The underwater scooter thing is only a slim chance of being selected. There are also some nature park tours which my son may consider.
We have selected a couple of our excursions: On Cozumel we will be doing the Playa Mia "Beach Break" with my daughter and everyone. Waterpark, snorkeling, eating, drinking.
On Costa Maya we will be doing a Maya ruin tour. Kohunlich I believe is the name of it. Nothing decided about Roatan. The underwater scooter thing is only a slim chance of being selected. There are also some nature park tours which my son may consider.
Recommend the Cozumel beach break. The rum punch is outstanding, goes down easy and uhhh.... yeah. You'll probably be blacked out if you don't know how to hold your liquor.
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We have selected a couple of our excursions: On Cozumel we will be doing the Playa Mia "Beach Break" with my daughter and everyone. Waterpark, snorkeling, eating, drinking.
On Costa Maya we will be doing a Maya ruin tour. Kohunlich I believe is the name of it. Nothing decided about Roatan. The underwater scooter thing is only a slim chance of being selected. There are also some nature park tours which my son may consider.
Recommend the Cozumel beach break. The rum punch is outstanding, goes down easy and uhhh.... yeah. You'll probably be blacked out if you don't know how to hold your liquor.
Recommend the Cozumel beach break. The rum punch is outstanding, goes down easy and uhhh.... yeah. You'll probably be blacked out if you don't know how to hold your liquor.
Well...that is what we are doing. That may be the only time I could get a bit tipsy because we have determined that we are NOT going to buy the drink package.
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Recommend the Cozumel beach break. The rum punch is outstanding, goes down easy and uhhh.... yeah. You'll probably be blacked out if you don't know how to hold your liquor.
Well...that is what we are doing. That may be the only time I could get a bit tipsy because we have determined that we are NOT going to buy the drink package.
Well...that is what we are doing. That may be the only time I could get a bit tipsy because we have determined that we are NOT going to buy the drink package.
If I remember right it's called the "yellowbird"...? I think. It's a boat, takes about an hour to get to the private island and then it's basically just a beach day. Still a great time. But from what little I remember, it was double fisting drinks the moment with got on the catamaran.
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We have selected a couple of our excursions: On Cozumel we will be doing the Playa Mia "Beach Break" with my daughter and everyone. Waterpark, snorkeling, eating, drinking.
On Costa Maya we will be doing a Maya ruin tour. Kohunlich I believe is the name of it. Nothing decided about Roatan. The underwater scooter thing is only a slim chance of being selected. There are also some nature park tours which my son may consider.
We have selected a couple of our excursions: On Cozumel we will be doing the Playa Mia "Beach Break" with my daughter and everyone. Waterpark, snorkeling, eating, drinking.
On Costa Maya we will be doing a Maya ruin tour. Kohunlich I believe is the name of it. Nothing decided about Roatan. The underwater scooter thing is only a slim chance of being selected. There are also some nature park tours which my son may consider.
That's the way to do it book ahead.
When my wife and her nurse friends did their turning 50 cruise a few years ago in the Western Caribbean where you are going I got the best excursion packages at the best time of day and prices. You don't want to wait until you get there to try to pick through the leftover deals in the hottest parts of the day...... and it is HOT there.
They left ft Lauderdale for key West, Cozumel, Belize and back to Ft Lauderdale. My wife found a Walmart ad for about $499 + air which I did and her travel agent matched it for $899 total plus land excursions which I did. But that was a decade ago. They loved it.
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I've heard you can get some great deals on Cruises to China and SE Asia right now.
I've heard you can get some great deals on Cruises to China and SE Asia right now.
And you don't have to worry about sea sickness since it visits only one port.?
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the good ole days of cruising you bring your own booze on the ship
side note: cruise ships give you their water bottles so when you unboard at port bring it along find the booze store and fill it with vodka
the good ole days of cruising you bring your own booze on the ship
side note: cruise ships give you their water bottles so when you unboard at port bring it along find the booze store and fill it with vodka
I guess they do allow you to bring in bottle or two per person....from what I understand.
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the good ole days of cruising you bring your own booze on the ship
side note: cruise ships give you their water bottles so when you unboard at port bring it along find the booze store and fill it with vodka
I guess they do allow you to bring in bottle or two per person....from what I understand.
I guess they do allow you to bring in bottle or two per person....from what I understand.
maybe it varies from cruiseline to cruiseline also hey if you get the chance try the Alaska inland cruise best time of year to go is june and july
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I guess they do allow you to bring in bottle or two per person....from what I understand.
maybe it varies from cruiseline to cruiseline also hey if you get the chance try the Alaska inland cruise best time of year to go is june and july
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We have selected a couple of our excursions: On Cozumel we will be doing the Playa Mia "Beach Break" with my daughter and everyone. Waterpark, snorkeling, eating, drinking.
On Costa Maya we will be doing a Maya ruin tour. Kohunlich I believe is the name of it. Nothing decided about Roatan. The underwater scooter thing is only a slim chance of being selected. There are also some nature park tours which my son may consider.
We have selected a couple of our excursions: On Cozumel we will be doing the Playa Mia "Beach Break" with my daughter and everyone. Waterpark, snorkeling, eating, drinking.
On Costa Maya we will be doing a Maya ruin tour. Kohunlich I believe is the name of it. Nothing decided about Roatan. The underwater scooter thing is only a slim chance of being selected. There are also some nature park tours which my son may consider.
Cozumel - we all went to a National? Park beach - it was pretty much enclosed in the distance by a coral reef. Just beautiful safe snorkleing/swimming. Big whatchacallit lizards all around. I guess that is your park. When we took our taxis to that park, the taxi drivers drove way, way too fast. I think they have an autobahn highway right there. If I recall correctly - the other side of the island had dangerous ocean currents. and even back then, I worked hard to know some really relevant sentences to say to the driver...except he already spoke very good English. But he thought it was really funny.
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We have selected a couple of our excursions: On Cozumel we will be doing the Playa Mia "Beach Break" with my daughter and everyone. Waterpark, snorkeling, eating, drinking.
On Costa Maya we will be doing a Maya ruin tour. Kohunlich I believe is the name of it. Nothing decided about Roatan. The underwater scooter thing is only a slim chance of being selected. There are also some nature park tours which my son may consider.
Cozumel - we all went to a National? Park beach - it was pretty much enclosed in the distance by a coral reef. Just beautiful safe snorkleing/swimming. Big whatchacallit lizards all around. I guess that is your park. When we took our taxis to that park, the taxi drivers drove way, way too fast. I think they have an autobahn highway right there. If I recall correctly - the other side of the island had dangerous ocean currents. and even back then, I worked hard to know some really relevant sentences to say to the driver...except he already spoke very good English. But he thought it was really funny.
Cozumel - we all went to a National? Park beach - it was pretty much enclosed in the distance by a coral reef. Just beautiful safe snorkleing/swimming. Big whatchacallit lizards all around. I guess that is your park. When we took our taxis to that park, the taxi drivers drove way, way too fast. I think they have an autobahn highway right there. If I recall correctly - the other side of the island had dangerous ocean currents. and even back then, I worked hard to know some really relevant sentences to say to the driver...except he already spoke very good English. But he thought it was really funny.
Iguanas?
I don't think we need to take a taxi. It is an excursion bought through the cruise line. They are supposed to provide transportation.
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We have selected a couple of our excursions: On Cozumel we will be doing the Playa Mia "Beach Break" with my daughter and everyone. Waterpark, snorkeling, eating, drinking.
On Costa Maya we will be doing a Maya ruin tour. Kohunlich I believe is the name of it. Nothing decided about Roatan. The underwater scooter thing is only a slim chance of being selected. There are also some nature park tours which my son may consider.
Cozumel - we all went to a National? Park beach - it was pretty much enclosed in the distance by a coral reef. Just beautiful safe snorkleing/swimming. Big whatchacallit lizards all around. I guess that is your park. When we took our taxis to that park, the taxi drivers drove way, way too fast. I think they have an autobahn highway right there. If I recall correctly - the other side of the island had dangerous ocean currents. and even back then, I worked hard to know some really relevant sentences to say to the driver...except he already spoke very good English. But he thought it was really funny.
Cozumel - we all went to a National? Park beach - it was pretty much enclosed in the distance by a coral reef. Just beautiful safe snorkleing/swimming. Big whatchacallit lizards all around. I guess that is your park. When we took our taxis to that park, the taxi drivers drove way, way too fast. I think they have an autobahn highway right there. If I recall correctly - the other side of the island had dangerous ocean currents. and even back then, I worked hard to know some really relevant sentences to say to the driver...except he already spoke very good English. But he thought it was really funny.
Iguanas?
I don't think we need to take a taxi. It is an excursion bought through the cruise line. They are supposed to provide transportation.
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We have selected a couple of our excursions: On Cozumel we will be doing the Playa Mia "Beach Break" with my daughter and everyone. Waterpark, snorkeling, eating, drinking.
On Costa Maya we will be doing a Maya ruin tour. Kohunlich I believe is the name of it. Nothing decided about Roatan. The underwater scooter thing is only a slim chance of being selected. There are also some nature park tours which my son may consider.
Cozumel - we all went to a National? Park beach - it was pretty much enclosed in the distance by a coral reef. Just beautiful safe snorkleing/swimming. Big whatchacallit lizards all around. I guess that is your park. When we took our taxis to that park, the taxi drivers drove way, way too fast. I think they have an autobahn highway right there. If I recall correctly - the other side of the island had dangerous ocean currents. and even back then, I worked hard to know some really relevant sentences to say to the driver...except he already spoke very good English. But he thought it was really funny.
Cozumel - we all went to a National? Park beach - it was pretty much enclosed in the distance by a coral reef. Just beautiful safe snorkleing/swimming. Big whatchacallit lizards all around. I guess that is your park. When we took our taxis to that park, the taxi drivers drove way, way too fast. I think they have an autobahn highway right there. If I recall correctly - the other side of the island had dangerous ocean currents. and even back then, I worked hard to know some really relevant sentences to say to the driver...except he already spoke very good English. But he thought it was really funny.
LOL! When we first went to Venezuela my Dad was taking intensive Spanish in Caracas because each American engineer was paired up with a new Venezuelan engineer to train them how to run a refinery. The Venezuelans took intensive English so that between the two they could learn to communicate one way or another with each other. Anyway there were several Americans going to lunch one day who had just finished a lesson on how to negotiate a fair taxi price (everything down there is bargained for BTW). So they flagged down a taxi and the bargaining began by this one American asking his "precio". The driver told him "Quince Bolivares." And having just learned his lesson he haggled by saying just what he was taught, "No pago mas de veinte Bolivares". Everyone else including the driver got a great laugh from that as the driver agree that 15 was too much and that the American negotiating for "no more than 20" was a fair price. LOL!?
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