lovealaska

Thanks again for all the advice. I'll talk to Mark and see if he'd like North Wales or if he wants to "go for it." Yikes! This is a "date day" for us as the kids and Mom are going elsewhere for the day. It might be nice to have a less stressful drive, then finish off with a nice snack or tea overlooking the harbor...

Dave, we are going to Ireland for three nights pre-cruise and London 3 nights post-cruise. We're going to be in London for two days, then do one day at Warwick/Cotswolds.

Any additional input is welcome!

Have a great day,

Erin

Thanks for the input.

Hmmm...not sure what to do. My husband REALLY wants to see the countryside and he wanted to take me to the Yorkshire Dales because I have greatly enjoyed the Herriott books.

I wonder if there is somewhere closer we should consider...I believe that on a post way back someone mentioned the Lake District (north of Liverpool?) but I don't know anything about it.

I don't know that I'll ever get my husband back to England so this may be his only chance to see it. (He has a long list of places he'd like to travel to!).

Thanks again for all of your thoughtful advice. You do put a lot of time into helping all of us, and it's appreciated.

Erin

Morning All!

Towncar T, I have read all of your advice and trust your opinion. We'll be in Liverpool on the Crown Princess on June 29. We've rented a car from Enterprise. My husband very much wants to take a drive as far into the dales as is reasonable.

We'll be in port from 7 am to 7 pm, but I assume it will take a while to disembark and get our car.

Being so familiar with the area, could you recommend a route that would show us some of the dales landscapes and towns and get us back to the ship on time?

Thanks so much for taking the time to offer all of us your advice.

Best to you,

Erin

I hope you have better luck than we did. We had three cabins on the Liberty in June/July for a B2B Eastern and Western Caribbean cruise. I decorated each door with foam parrot heads. Within two nights, the parrot on my children's door was gone completely, and mine had it's face ripped off. Our friends down the hall were unscathed, although the lei necklace on the parrot was stolen immediately.

I was disappointed but figured maybe it was a fluke.

Week 2 began and we changed cabins (ours weren't available two weeks in a row). Again, I put up our parrot heads (I had brought two more for the second week). Again, within two days, although this time I surrounded the entire base with packing tape, the kids parrot was ripped completely off their door, and the face of mine was ripped off.

I was upset that there were this kind of people roaming the halls...but I decided to make the best of it. I put up post-it notes around my ravaged parrot face and a pen in the mailbox and a note asking for condolence notes. The pen was stolen within 30 minutes.

BUT our room stewards wrote funny notes which I kept and are now in my scrapbook along with a picture of the remains of Mr. Parrot Head.

I don't think I'll do door decorations again. It's just upsetting when people vandalize them.