Good morning! We are in Amber Cove today. I was here in December 2019 and toured Puerto Plata in Christmas Magic: Amber Cove . I also have good coverage of the port area in my Amber Cove Cruise Port Guide. I may get off of the ship for a…
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Good morning! I didn’t get enough sleep the first two nights so this morning I made sure I stayed in bed and got a full 7 hours of sleep instead of getting up to watch our arrival in San Juan.
Someone put their room service stuff by my front door….
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The Spanish controlled Puerto Rico (Spanish for Rich Port) for over 400 years. They spent 250 of those years constructing forts to protect the city of San Juan. The Spanish maintained control of the city until the United States took it over in the Spanish-American war in 1898. These…
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Good Morning! Today is the second sea day of the cruise.
From the looks of that screen I may not have totally missed the sunrise. I’m going to head upstairs and check it out from the Serenity deck.
This is the water park area with nobody in it.
By the roller coaster…
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Good Morning! Today is the first of three sea days this cruise.
They have a lot of information on the room TVs.
Here is today’s schedule of events.
I normally sanitize my room as soon as I get in it. My Clorox wipes were in my suitcase yesterday which I didn’t…
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After the muster drill I wanted to head up to deck 16 lido for Shaq’s Big Chicken. There is too much food on this ship to try to eat everything. My strategy is to try to eat things I can’t get on other ships.
Carnival has gone away from the…
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Good morning. I was able to get a few more hours of sleep after the scrubbed Space-X launch. My port shuttle leaves in three hours.
Leftover spaghetti–The breakfast of campione.
We are in the hotel lobby waiting for the Radisson Resort shuttle to the port. The hotel charged $6 per person…
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Today I am traveling to Orlando and checking into the Radisson Resort at the Port. They have a shuttle you can sign up for that will take you to the port in the morning. I have been so preoccupied with getting my COVID test results that I never booked…
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I can’t believe it’s been almost 18 months since my last cruise planning post. The next one was supposed to be Carnival Magic’s Southern Caribbean itinerary out of Miami 12 months ago. After having bookings canceled for August, November, December, January, February and April, my travel agent advised me…
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