Miss Tequila
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jan 24, 2011 23:24:55 GMT -5
We just got back yesterday from our 6th cruise, 7 day Jamaica, Cayman, Cozumel on Royal Caribbean. Our previous cruises were three on Carnival and two European river cruises with Brendan. We will never, ever travel on Royal Caribbean again. It's supposed to be a "nice" line but our ship was really dirty and in ill repair. The whole place smelled like sewage. The service could not have been worse. We loved all three of our Carnival cruises, fun people, great food, wonderful shore trips, awesome nightly shows. We are 63 and 71 but Royal Caribbean was a complete snooze for us. The only music on the ship was oldies that were around when we were kids and the shows were pathetic, just folks who couldn't make the cut in Vegas. RC is very user friendly for folks with disabilities but not exactly a good fit for GLBT or ethnic minorities. I heard trash talk about lesbians dancing in the disco and saw people shun women in head scarves. River cruises are really different. They are a little pricey but almost everything is included, even shore excursions. We did one from Bucharest, Romania down the Danube to Budapest, Hungary and another from Prague to Budapest so we've done all the Danube. I would go again tomorrow but the overseas flights are pretty rough on old bones if you can't do first class, and we can't. Really? I've been on RC three times and thought the ship was very well maintained, clean, etc. Maybe you were on an older ship. As for people talking about the lesbians and shunning the women in headscarves, were these crew members or other passengers? I will find it very hard to believe that the crew were making fun of the passengers, considering that the crew are extremely diverse. RC can't be held responsible for the actions of their passengers.
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❤ mollymouser ❤
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Sarcasm is my Superpower
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Joined: Dec 18, 2010 16:09:58 GMT -5
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Post by ❤ mollymouser ❤ on Jan 25, 2011 2:14:45 GMT -5
We went on a 21-day Holland America Cruise around South America that we really enjoyed. We started in Valparaiso, Chile, sailed south to Puerto Montt, then Punta Arenas, then through the Straits of Magellan, then cruised off the coast of Antartica, then we stopped at Tierra del Fuego (Ushuaia), Argentina ~ the southernmost point of South America, then went around Cape Horn, headed north to the Falkland Islands, then stopped in Buenos Aires, then Uruguay, and finally ended up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was simply amazing, but the weather/storms around the Cape were out of this world (all of the water swooshed out of the on-deck hot tub, to give you idea of how stormy it was), and sailing through blizzards with icebergs off the bow was a bit ... concerning.
The cost was ... ummm... astronomical. Heck, the airfare alone was about $3,500 per person because we were basically buying two one-way tickets around the world. But we went to places you just can't easily get to except by cruise ship (or a lot of really long plane rides) and we got to see penguins in the wild ~ which is why we went in the first place. Satellite Internet/Phone coverage down there was pricey ... we probably spent $400 in charges (my father died during the middle of our cruise, necessitating calls home) ... and when my wonderful DH's wallet was stolen in Punta Arenas (along with his military ID and credit cards), we had to alert the Embassy and his base and the credit card company.
Our 7-day Alaska Cruise on Holland America in 2007 was very nice (and a much better value, probably!)
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