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On Bourbon Street this is the Tropical Isle where you can get a popular drink called the hand grenade. It comes in both liquid and frozen form. I don’t recommend drinking too many of those. I drank ten once and it didn’t go well the next morning.
I’m skipping the…
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Warehouse District
This is the Riverwalk Mall. The Riverwalk Mall and neighboring Convention Center were built for the 1984 World’s Fair. They are where most of the exhibits were located.
They say they fair was a failure because it didn’t bring the number of people they wanted but I see…
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This is a 7-day Western Caribbean cruise on the Carnival Glory from New Orleans to Montego Bay, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel. The trip includes two nights in New Orleans pre-cruise.
This will be my 11th Carnival cruise, first on Glory, and eighth out of New Orleans. It will be my…
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While researching for a place to stay prior to a future cruise, I decided to share the information as I was collecting it. I will post a detailed review of the hotel I book later in the year.
This is going to be my first time to Fort Lauderdale so…
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The Holiday Inn Downtown Superdome is one of the hotels in New Orleans that offers a cruise package. Their package includes up to eight nights of parking but no transportation to or from the port.
I’ve never booked this cruise package, but I have stayed at this hotel about…
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The Country Inn & Suites in Metairie is the closest to a true “park ‘n cruise” hotel that you’ll find in New Orleans.
Their package includes up to eight days of parking, a hot breakfast, and a shuttle to the port. What it doesn’t include is a shuttle back…
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I booked this hotel on Hotwire.com for $120. It came to $155 after tax. It was a busy weekend for the city and the hotel. This was December 30th. Carnival Dream and NCL Breakaway were in port. Carnival Triumph was coming the following morning. People were in town for…
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If you are staying at a hotel in the port area and want to walk to the port, it can be a little tricky. On a map it looks like you can just walk through the New Orleans Convention Center, but you can’t. You actually have to walk around…
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Prior to sailing on the Vista earlier this year, the Dream class (Dream, Magic, Breeze) was by far my favorite class of ship. Based on some of the reviews I had read, I expected that would remain the case after sailing on the Vista. I was wrong. I left…
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