Good morning! I’m flying to Anchorage this afternoon. Tomorrow I’ll be taking a bus to Seward where I’ll spend a couple days before my 7-day Alaska cruise on Norwegian Jewel.
My parking starts at 10 but I’m going to get there around noon. That’s more than three hours before my…
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Welcome to my third annual “beat the heat” cruise. Two years ago I went to Alaska last year with Carnival. That one was a roundtrip from Seattle. The ports were Tracy Arm Fjord, Icy Strait Point, Ketchikan, Juneau, and Victoria.
This time I am repeating the cruise I did last…
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I usually like to stay in Webster but I booked the Comfort Inn and Suites Seabrook-Kemah for $75 ($87 after taxes) on a night when all of the good Webster hotels were going to be well over $100. This isn’t far from Webster, but it will add about 10…
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This is a crazy morning. I remember last night the captain saying we’d be arriving at 5am. I woke up at some point and thought, I bet we’re parking. I looked out they window and we were going down the canal. I look at my phone and it’s 4:36am….
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Good morning. Today is the last day of the cruise and the weather looks great! I see some chatter on social media that we hit some rough waves this morning.
I haven’t had a lot of ship movement this cruise. But up front here in my room I have a…
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Good morning! Today is the first of two consecutive sea days as we make our way back to Miami. It’s been raining all morning. This is a look out the window.
Let’s step outside.
Here are today’s Fun Times.
They must have the Seuss at Sea events today.
Now they turned the sign…
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Today is the final port day of the cruise. We’re in Curacao. I have Free Walking Tours Curacao this morning. Then I booked an island tour for the afternoon. They changed that afternoon excursion to the morning so I canceled it yesterday. Guest services told me to expect a…
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I originally booked the Best of the West excursion in the afternoon. Twice they moved me to the morning which finally I canceled because it conflicted with my Curacao Walking Tour. I found this Discover Curacao Island Tour which had the Hato caves as a stop so I booked…
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In my research on Curacao the Free Walking Tours Curacao tour had excellent reviews and the all had the same tour guide, Rayay.
Carnival offered a walking tour for $35 but I would much rather do something like this where all of the money goes to the tour guide in…
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Good morning! We are in Bonaire today. I have another rental car with Hertz. I got up to use the bathroom at 2am and the water wasn’t working.
Now I see chatter on social media that they were working on a broken pipe and guest services was telling people there…
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