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We ate at Johnny Rockets right across from the beach. We
then walked down to South Beach (across the street) and
hung out for a few minutes. There is great people-watching
there. We then made our way to the Port of Miami. As we
drove down the causeway, I saw the ship with people on the
top deck waving as they took off. I also noticed steam coming
out of a pilot tugboat, the ship that leads the bigger one
out to sea. We then managed to get to the terminal building
where we check-in, and no one was there but a few people
with the doors locked. We missed the boat by minutes, but
I don’t think they would have let us on unless we
were there by 4 pm.
Mike’s
mom lives in Del Ray (south Florida), so she was gracious
enough to let us stay there for a couple of days. We had
to meet the ship in Jamaica on Tuesday and miss half the
cruise.
We
had a good time on this cruise, even though it was shorter
due to missing the boat on Saturday. We got to the ship
on Tuesday, around 12 pm. They upgraded us to a balcony
room. It was really nice, and we were happy just to be on
the ship. We got on and dropped our bags off. We then took
a taxi tour of Montego Bay, and we saw areas like the “hip
strip” and the ghetto. We saw Jimmy Buffet’s
restaurant, Margaritaville, as well.
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Montego
Bay was nice but I wish we could have had more time
there. I would go back. We did some shopping and
bought a CD and t-shirts.
Grand
Cayman was nice. We went on the stingray excursion.
Mike was the only one that caught a stingray. We
were told we couldn’t feed them anymore, though,
which is my favorite thing to do.
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Cozumel
was a great shopping stop. The people were a little pushy
about selling stuff. I got a tanzanite ring and a silver
frog brooch. We ate in a Mexican restaurant. I had fajitas
and tortilla soup with avocado. We then took a taxi tour
and saw some of Cozumel. It looked like you could snorkel
right from the beach. The taxi driver told me that a day’s
worth of minimum wages would be about 5 dollars total. It
would be hard living on that. One US dollar was equal to
10 pesos, so we had to divide everything by ten to get the
price.
Mike
rode the flow rider several times. One time he tried
the surfing, and the other three times was a boogie
board. It was okay, but it sprayed salt water in
my eyes so they were irritated most of the day.
Mike enjoyed it. Most of girls who did it were wearing
t-shirt cover ups since they said it was possible
for bathing suits to be come undone and loose.
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The
dinners were nice. We were sat with two other couples, one
from Tennessee and the other was from Newcastle, England.
It took about 1.5 to 2 hours each night to eat dinner. One
night we had lobster, and I ate a few things like New York
strip steak, Tilapia fish, and penne pasta with meat sauce.
Some desserts were coconut crème brulee and banana
parfait. Dinners were a little longer than usual.
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I would rate this cruise a “7.”We
started late and missed Haiti so we still had four
stops.
We
will cruise with Royal Caribbean again. I would
still say they are my favorite cruise line.
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