KeithnRita

Voted for Matt

Very nice photos! Thanks for sharing them with us. :)  :)

We have just completed a 33 night Circumnavigation of Australia that took in the NZ South Islands and Sounds as well as Bali... So we are saving up our vacation time again to head to the USA in 2016 and do an Alaskan Cruise, a cruise on Quantum out of New York and then cruise back to Sydney from Hawaii. It will be our biggest adventure yet.

I had an interesting thing happen when I booked my last cruise which is coming up in September. I booked thru RC and I told the agent I had a savings certificate from the C&A. The agent says let me see if I can get a better one for you so he comes back and says I have a 300.00 special you can use and of course I said sure. He said this will take a few days to show up on your booking. I kept checking back and talked to another agent who said yea its still in the pipeline. I checked back a week later and it still was not there so I called again got a very nice agent who checked and said that was if you sailed by a certain date and you are sailing after that. My responce was than why was I told it could be done and she could not answer that so I ask to talk to a supervisor and was connected to one I can't recall her name but again a very nice one. I told her what happened and of course she said they never should have told you that and said they need to make sure agents are told not to promise things they can't do.
 
Well she goes on and says I can't give that deal but I will take 125.00 off you bill and add 175.00 to your on board account and that adds up to 300.00. Well to say I was happy with that goes without asking I feel RC went well above what they had to do.  I guess the lesson is if you feel something is wrong dont call up and yell at people call up and try to reason with them because it works much much better.
 
This experience with RC has left me with a very good feeling and I will be back cruising with them many more times.
 
ERS

Our first trip to Belize was in our younger 'snorkeling' days in Oct of 2002. We were on our first RCI cruise ship, Rhapsody of the Seas out of Galveston.

We took a snorkel excursion right off the ship to Shark Ray Alley near the island of Ambergris Caye.  It was one of our all time favorite excursions. We swam and snorkeled with 6 foot long nurse sharks, as well as Rays and many species of fish. Afterwards we went to the town of San Pedro on the island for lunch. The only vehicles seen there were golf carts. It's a beautiful island!

 

http://ambergriscaye.com/pages/town/parksharkrayalley.html

Hello all fellow cruisers! We are Hoosiers from Southern Indiana. We've been on 27 cruises spread between Carnival, HAL, RCI, NCL, Princess and Celebrity. We recently finished our third RCI cruise, which was on the Serenade out of NOLA. It was one of our better cruises and we fell in love with ship. On the last full day aboard we decided to book our same stateroom for a B2B cruise for New Year and the week after. :)  :)