Floski

Just a really nice video from the NY Times OpDocs series on RC's own Super Mario Salcedo.
 
The Happiest Guy in the World
 
Thanks to the RC Crown and Anchor Society Facebook page!

Just a really nice video from the NY Times OpDocs series on RC's own Super Mario Salcedo.
 
The Happiest Guy in the World
 
Thanks to the RC Crown and Anchor Society Facebook page!

Just a really nice video from the NY Times OpDocs series on RC's own Super Mario Salcedo.
 
The Happiest Guy in the World
 
Thanks to the RC Crown and Anchor Society Facebook page!

We were there this past April 5th. The beaches and water were great in spite of the devastation. At the port the vendor shops did not have any power, so they set up little vendor booths in the covered walkways in front of their shops. I was AMAZED at the number of cruisers that were haggling over the price of stuff they were trying to buy. I became so pissed off at this one lady who was trying to buy a $20 necklace for $10 and kept arguing with the vendor, who came down to $18. I butted in and told the vendor I'll take it for $20 and gave her $30. Hey, she could use the money and it didn't break my bank. Needless to say the cheap skate lady had some words for me, but I just smiled and joined my group. 

Buying the drink package in advance allowed me to not even think about the money I was or was not spending.  In the past without a drink package, was was constantly tracking my expenditures which completely changes my relaxation level and I wasn't willing to try new drinks.  With the drink package, I was free to try any drink they could make without worry.  If I didn't like it, I just got another one.  Between the bottled waters, sodas, specialty coffee and alcohol, I was free to enjoy my trip knowing it was all covered. 

Normally I'd agree -- did this on Freedom and worked out just right, but I feel like it only worked out because (1) we had a really short day in San Juan, and (2) we had a day on Labadee, where they honor the drink package.
With this 5-night Bermuda trip that has just two sea days and two full days in Bermuda (where I'll be off-ship the whole time), and where I'm bringing my two bottles of wine (where I'm the only one drinking them, so they should last four nights)... I just feel like I'd rapidly hit the point of drink fatigue or feeling like I'm buying things just for the purpose of keeping up with the package. I may reconsider, especially since I tend to indulge more on embarkation day and that first sea day, but I'm not a big drinker overall. Maybe if the package gets closer to $40 pp pd...

RIPPLE!!!!!!

RIPPLE!!!!!!

RIPPLE!!!!!!

Well, there goes my good drunk I had been working on....
 
Says the guy who hasn't moved from the Schooner Bar in hours...

Oh, and as for how to adequately deal with the withdrawal symptoms, I recommend paying a visit to the Merry Monks

I'm ten minutes from the terminal in Charleston, and it's quite common for me to consider "scratching that itch" by just jumping on a Carnival tug for a few days.
Then I get some calamine lotion and that problem goes away.   
 
Now, if RC came to Chucktown, that would be a !

Well, there goes my good drunk I had been working on....
 
Says the guy who hasn't moved from the Schooner Bar in hours...

Well, there goes my good drunk I had been working on....
 
Says the guy who hasn't moved from the Schooner Bar in hours...

Loving this so far!   Thank you for your dedicated "research"!   :-D

It is not about beating a dead horse or about being politically correct. It's about human beings showing some respect and sympathy for parents who lost a child under tragic circumstances. It is baffling to me how some people don't get that.
If it's supposed to be a family here on RCBlog, I guess I've been disowned by some. Oh well.

Loving this so far!   Thank you for your dedicated "research"!   :-D

Assuming you dock at the same place we did (don't remember which one, but there was a very large shopping area at the pier), the taxi stand is well-marked and easy to find.  We had no trouble at all getting one for our drive to Nachi.  Here are the prices:

Some of the comments here belong on the "other" board. Some things should just plain not be joked about. Do not want to hear how I should lighten up or get a sense of humor---"it's not me, it's you".

Day 2 part 1
 
After a few hours of sleep (although I consider sleeping as waste of cruise time) we looked at the window and saw we already in Palma de Mallorca , second look  showed us that the forecast was not that accurate as instead of nice sunny day it looked quite gloomy, or so we thought
As we did not have special plans for Palma we decided to take it easy and postponed our travel to the city.We took the regular breakfast at the WJ , I order some eggs (sunny side up , hey at least I thought here I will have some signs of sun)    As the weather was not that nice yet and since we already visited last year the main attraction of the city we just turned it to a sea day and stayed on the ship.If it’s  your first visit to Palma , I will not skip it , after all it is a nice small city with some interesting building and a nice cathedral.First thing we done was to use our spa access (yes the one from the research) , we did a quick check in , got our scrub packages and of we went to the thermal suite.We used the wet sauna which felt very good, helped to ease some of the non-sleeping enough pains.We tried also the heated chairs which was very nice. We were the only one there.


As the spa team were kind enough to allow us to take the rube out  we decide to do another thing new. believe or not until this cruise (our sevens one) we still have not any of the Jacuzzi's  or the pools in any of ships. We do not feel that comfortable with the public Jacuzzi which are usually very crowded but as it is a very new ship and most of the people went to the city we thought it is a good opportunity to try it.
So quick shower in the spa and of we went to the pool deck, we choose one of the jacuzzies with a nice sea view that was empty (from people not from water, I am not that weirdo). By that time the sun came out and it became a very nice day. 
 
 
We spent some time in the water and went to enjoy some PinaColadas near by (10 $ each, not sure how they got to it but after gratitude it was 23 something for both).
We took  another quick shower, changed and went to try another activity we never done (and I am not talking about napkin folding class) , yes it was time to go down by the ultimate abyss. No lines at all (wired for a sea day no ?)  just two girls that went down screaming all the way which made us think if we are going to do the right thing but no way back.


We both went down the slides on the same time , I can tell you it is much scary to watch the boardwalk from the top of the glass floor than to do the ride itself. It not felt too fast and was fun, will do it again for sure.As we already nearby we thought to walk for a while on the running truck to accumulate some steps and burn some of the calories before heading to the WJ for lunch.After resting a while in the room we visit the C&A event which was conducted at the aqua theater.So around 1500 CA , 900 gold , 18 Pinnacle , the person with most points had 2180 cruising points.
End of day2 part one  

Loving this so far!   Thank you for your dedicated "research"!   :-D

I say unto you....smoke deviled eggs!

Does it still have that new ship smell? ?

LOL.  @Floski I completely understand.  I live in Charlotte and every once in a while I will look at the Carnival ship that sails out of Charleston to see if I can do it....but I just can't.

You'll never forget your first Solarium.