Marc Van Niekerk

If you are booked through MEI, there are sometimes group hotels for pre-cruise. Being the planner I am, I like to book my own as a safety option in case nothing comes up. For this cruise, since we are on the 2 day sailing prior to the group, we have booked our own at Homewood Suites. When it comes to other hotels in the area, we have stayed at Staybridge Suites and found the accommodation quite nice.

We just got off Odyssey yesterday and this was one of the most frustrating things. Our chairs were zip-tied as described and it made them very uncomfortable.

Here is day 4-5 compass cruisecompass day4-5.pdf

Here is what i posted earlier today on Facebook: Captain has informed us that Odyssey has passed through the front that gave us 6-7m waves and 50kt winds. While in the windjammer we had several times where the ship listed and carts rolls free and trays of water glasses slid to the floor. During breakfast in the MDR on deck 3 there were a few occurrences where the waves were hitting the ship over the windows. Some of the bottles in the pub took a dive too. Captain says we’re all real sailors now.

Here is the day 2 / day 3 cruise compass with the details you’re looking for cruisecompass day 2-3.pdf

We fly out tomorrow night. It appears that the rain storms and flooding have impacted several of the ports we are scheduled to visit so we need to be prepared for potential change.

We arranged private transport with our hotel.

Our son and his fiance were on that sailing and she was among those who got sick. She has gotten antibiotics from a doctor since she got home and is only now ( a week after disembarking) starting to regain appetite. Not a good situation.

Our countdown to departing for Rome is at 30 days!

Same here. Got our check in done last night and we are anxiously counting the days until we fly to Rome!

60 days! We are beginning to get very excited about this one!

Itinerary: Feb 7 - TAMPA, FLORIDA Feb 8 - SEA DAY Feb 9 - GEORGE TOWN, GRAND CAYMAN Feb 10 - SEA DAY Feb 11 - BELIZE CITY, BELIZE Feb 12 - ROATAN, HONDURAS Feb 13 - COZUMEL, MEXICO Feb 14 - SEA DAY Feb 15 - TAMPA, FLORIDA

Itinerary: Feb 16 - FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA Feb 17 - PERFECT DAY AT COCOCAY Feb 18 - SEA DAY Feb 19 - FALMOUTH, JAMAICA Feb 20 - LABADEE, HAITI Feb 21 - SEA DAY Feb 22 - FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA

Cruise planner started populating on the weekend for my cruise and I have already had a price decrease on a cabana.

True enough and yet it has an excursion listed as does the stop in Jamaica. We are primarily looking for Coco Cay as we have people in our party who would benefit from the accommodations of a cabana and want to get the best price / location we can.