Prior to my Carnival Spirit cruise out of Mobile, Alabama, I booked the Hilton Garden Inn in West Mobile. I was able to get it on Hotwire for $102 where it would’ve cost $227 booking through Hilton. This hotel put me 10 miles from the cruise port on embarkation…
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I really didn’t have any plans to cruise out of Mobile, to cruise on the Spirit, or to go back to the Bahamas. But during Carnival’s Spring Sale of 2022, I was looking for good prices on cruises with ports I haven’t been to and/or ships I haven’t been…
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Good Morning! Today is debarkation day. Sleep wasn’t great last night. I had a lot of broken sleep. It sounded like someone was taking a shower in the room above me at 1:30am. I probably woke up four times.
I decided to try to make the Platinum/Diamond debarkation after the…
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Good morning. Today is the last day of the cruise. I fell asleep early last night and missed the Rock ‘N Glow party. On the bright side I was able to get up at 6am with plenty of sleep.
You know what that means? This was my time to to…
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Good morning! Before we get the day started I’m going to take you on a little tour of the areas of the ship that I don’t frequent. We’ll do the Sports Square, Water Works, Serenity Deck, and The Family Harbor areas. Let’s go up one deck from Lido.
Right by…
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Good Morning! 7am is pretty much the latest I can sleep on this ship because that’s when the group of 3 or 4 rooms in my hall start slamming their doors and having loud conversations in the hallway.
I stepped out to the bar to get my screwdriver for breakfast.
On…
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Good morning! We are docked next to Celebrity Constellation in Costa Maya. I wanted to do the last set of Mayan Ruins that you can do from this port. But I’ve only seen it offered through The Native Choice and their website is telling me this port stop isn’t…
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Today we are going to visit Battleship U.S.S. Alabama in Mobile, Alabama.
The Alabama is one of four Dakota Class ships. She was ordered in 1939 and entered service in 1942. She is best known for protecting our aircraft carriers in the Pacific during WWII.
After the war she carried 700…
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We already covered the upper decks in USS Alabama. Now we are going to be covering the lower decks beginning with green and finishing up with red.
We are heading down into the engine room.
We are continuing to the red tour route now. As you can see, Green 24 runs…
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There is a lot to see and do inside the Costa Maya Cruise port. They have shopping, bars, restaurants, pools, an aviary, dolphin encounters, a flow rider, and shows.
I’m going to use this map as a reference. We’re going to start down in the lower left section of the…
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