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re: Going on my first cruise
Posted on 1/13/16 at 11:58 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Posted on 1/13/16 at 11:58 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Did this cruise in 2013.
Cozumel - went to Mr. Sanchos Beach. Pay one price and there is an open bar and they feed you. You can also order food and drinks if you don't pay the premium price. You can also buy other excursions like parasailing from there.
Grand Cayman's - Went to the turtle farm, post office in hell, and swam with the stingrays. This was the most scenic place by far and the locals have an accent similar to south Lafourche folks.
Jamaica - took a tour, did some shopping and ate at a place called the pork pit for jerk chicken and pork. Food was great. Only bad thing about Jamaica was they hound you to buy buy buy. But like my tour guide told me, a lot of these people don't know where their next dollar is coming from so they have to hustle so be patient. You can definitely offer them a different price on anything they have and they will take your price most of the time.
Cozumel - went to Mr. Sanchos Beach. Pay one price and there is an open bar and they feed you. You can also order food and drinks if you don't pay the premium price. You can also buy other excursions like parasailing from there.
Grand Cayman's - Went to the turtle farm, post office in hell, and swam with the stingrays. This was the most scenic place by far and the locals have an accent similar to south Lafourche folks.
Jamaica - took a tour, did some shopping and ate at a place called the pork pit for jerk chicken and pork. Food was great. Only bad thing about Jamaica was they hound you to buy buy buy. But like my tour guide told me, a lot of these people don't know where their next dollar is coming from so they have to hustle so be patient. You can definitely offer them a different price on anything they have and they will take your price most of the time.
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Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:00 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
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Montego Bay
I did the catamaran snorkel tour. The captain was passing free shots out to people on board. Then took us to Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville where he must have worked because he was still doling out shots but for $1 each this time.
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Grand Cayman
Did the submarine tour. It was great. Afterwards went snorkeling by the bar to the right of the dock - the closest bar. Cayman has the best snorkeling I have ever seen.
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Cozumel
My least favorite place. Went Green Frog and Carlos and Charlies - they are in the same building. Nothing amazing so went to the Dollar Bar for more snorkeling.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:12 pm to Walt OReilly
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You didn't have any trouble getting on and off at ports?
No, as long as you get to your ship in time for departures. I never needed my passport but turned it in soon after getting on the ship. The purser or someone said they would get them stamped at the ports for you. I took a copy with me whenever I got off the ship but never had to show it to anybody.
They say if you miss the ship it can be a pain to get back to the states. That's where you may wish you had one. You have to go to the US embassy and without a passport or copy it takes longer to get clearance to travel back to the states.
Another recommendation to OP:
NEVER BE LATE GETTING BACK TO THE SHIP. They will not wait for you. If you are on a Carnival provided excursion or with others from the ship they will not leave. If you get drunk and fall asleep on the beach or somewhere else you can run back to the dock and wave to the Dream as it travels to its next destination without you.
Set your waterproof watch to the ships time soon after you board and don't leave the ship without your watch.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:13 pm to Geebs19
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Been on 3 Royal Caribbean cruises and will never do them again. They are more geared towards 50+ so not a lot of fun activites for mid-late 20s. I got extremly sick from the food on 2 of the 3.
Really? I couldn't disagree more.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:15 pm to Scooba
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Don't waste your money on the alcohol plan unless everyone in your room plans to drink 15 mixed drinks per day for the entire cruise
no one in the family drinks, so they put me in a room with usually one of the people under 21 so I can get the card by myself. then switch rooms after.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:18 pm to Tiger Ree
Awesome. Thanks a lot man 
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:22 pm to Tiger Ree
So do I spend the $250-$300 it's gonna take for our passports or just sail without one?
Also have any of you bought the FTTF package that allows priority boarding and disembarking?
Also have any of you bought the FTTF package that allows priority boarding and disembarking?
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:25 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
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Cozumel.
Go to Nachi Cocum LINK. Short cab ride from the port. For $55 a person you get a lunch (was pretty good), and all you can drink for the day...we had way to much tequila. Great beach and they only allow 100 people max a day there.
This post was edited on 1/13/16 at 12:30 pm
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:29 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
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So do I spend the $250-$300 it's gonna take for our passports or just sail without one? Also have any of you bought the FTTF package that allows priority boarding and disembarking?
sail with a birth certificate
and new Orleans is now staggered boarding, so 50 bucks aint bad for priority boarding if you don't have a check in time till late
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:38 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
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So do I spend the $250-$300 it's gonna take for our passports or just sail without one?
If you make sure you get to the ship in time before it leaves port you don't need one.
It depends on your comfort level at the possibility of being stranded in a foreign country without one. Nothing bad will happen to you other than it will take longer to be able to travel back to the states. And the additional expense of airfare and you may have to purchase a passport there.
I would say if you are a person who is never late, you won't need one. If you are almost always fashionably or more late you may want to get them just in case.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:44 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
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Also have any of you bought the FTTF package that allows priority boarding and disembarking?
FTTF thread.
https://www.carnival.com/Funville/forums/t/393389.aspx
On my cruise there were some people who said they pretty much stayed in the cafeteria eating until they got thrown off the ship. Not literally thrown off but these people loved cruising and didn't want to leave. They may have been the ones who said their favorite part of the cruise was at the ports because they stayed on the ship and pretty much had all the immentities to themselves.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:52 pm to Tiger Ree
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they pretty much stayed in the cafeteria eating until they got thrown off the ship.
your friends sound really fat
Posted on 1/13/16 at 12:59 pm to Kajungee
We went to Nachi Cocom in Cozumel and really enjoyed it. $17 cab ride each way but up to 4 people can get in the cab so we all split it, not too bad. The place is an all-inclusive so for $55 we had all you could drink, lounge chairs with a little hut giving you some cover and food was included and it was really quite good. Not bad at all for $55. They had a nice pool area with a swim-up bar as well.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 1:01 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
We ust got back from a 7 day Disney Cruise. We were allowed 2 bottles of wine per person. We packed our liquor in a wine bottle, put a dab of red and blue food coloring to give the bottle more of a tint, shoved a cork back on and cut off part of the top that wasn't all the way back on, and resealed it with these.
LINK
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Posted on 1/13/16 at 1:03 pm to YumYum Sauce
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your friends sound really fat
They weren't friends. Just some people we met on the cruise. They were pretty old though. We went during school so there wouldn't be as many kids running around.
Posted on 1/13/16 at 1:40 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
Spend $55 and get a passport card.
Can't fly with it, but you can use it to go on cruises and cross land borders.
Passport Card
Can't fly with it, but you can use it to go on cruises and cross land borders.
Passport Card
Posted on 1/13/16 at 1:42 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
Order everything and anything (amounts) at dinner if you see something you like.
"Yea, I'll have 10 shrimp cocktails"
Order whatever you want
"Yea, I'll have 10 shrimp cocktails"
Order whatever you want
Posted on 1/13/16 at 1:55 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
If you plan on sneaking alcohol put it in a listerine bottle in your checked bag.
Don't buy the alcohol pass at the beginning...too many restrictions.
Eat at the main dinning every night you can.
You can bring a bottle of wine on your carry on bag.
Don't buy the alcohol pass at the beginning...too many restrictions.
Eat at the main dinning every night you can.
You can bring a bottle of wine on your carry on bag.
This post was edited on 1/13/16 at 1:58 pm
Posted on 1/13/16 at 2:17 pm to Adam4848
I live around Baton Rouge, but we always take a cruise out of Port Canaveral, Florida. Yes, the drive there and back sucks, but we get a hotel room the night before the cruise leaves and the night we get off the ship.
There is hardly any "trash" on the ship and we always go the last week of May and there is a TON of smoking hott girls on their senior trips because they just graduated. Florida girls are
The CHEERS! program was awesome. 15 drinks per day per person for only $50 per day per person. We still smuggle one or two bottles of rum on board. We just put it in water bottles and throw it in our carry on with all of our toiletries. That way it doesn't look as suspicious on the x-ray machine.
There is hardly any "trash" on the ship and we always go the last week of May and there is a TON of smoking hott girls on their senior trips because they just graduated. Florida girls are
The CHEERS! program was awesome. 15 drinks per day per person for only $50 per day per person. We still smuggle one or two bottles of rum on board. We just put it in water bottles and throw it in our carry on with all of our toiletries. That way it doesn't look as suspicious on the x-ray machine.
This post was edited on 1/13/16 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 1/13/16 at 2:22 pm to whodatdude
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Spend $55 and get a passport card.
Can't fly with it, but you can use it to go on cruises and cross land borders.
Passport Card
At that point, you may as well just get an actual passport for $165.
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