Sea Dog

Ok sorry my mistake. I can't keep track of everyone's cruises and where they originate. Good price I would take that.

@A&L_Ont Question for you?? When you did your excursion to Jost Van Dyke (was that a Royal excursion by the way?) what time were you in port and what time was the excursion? Since our cruise got switched from Voyager to Adventure originally we were to be in Tortola from 7am-3pm so I assuming a morning to early afternoon excursion. Now we will port from 12pm-8pm. I wondering if an excursion to JVD in the afternoon is a good thing or bad thing? Thinking what will the crowds will be like? What was your experience? Thanks for your help. Sea Dog

Galveston right? Embassy Suites looks great as always I don’t know if we tried to book there or not. I like ES. Did you get a decent rate?

YAY! Finally we got moved over on our Eastern Caribbean Oct. 21st sailing which includes Tortola. The port stops got switched around and I think I'm ok with it. Before we had two days at sea at the top now it's our last two days which I think will be ok. The St. Croix port will be a longer stay instead of 8am-5pm it's now 7am-6pm which I think it's good.Perfect Day is a shorter stay instead of 10am-6pm it's now 7am-4:30pm. The big change time in port is Tortola. We want to do an excursion to Jost Van Dyke and White Bay to go to the Soggy Dollar Bar. Originally it was 7am-3pm now it's 12pm-8pm. I don't know if this is good or bad. In one way we can have a good breakfast and then get ready to go over. The bad may be by the time we get there it may be really crowded. Anyone with experience at Soggy Dollar better in the morning or afternoon? Cheers, Greg

Yes, I think triple points don't you?

That’s great news. Im so sorry Lenny. Have a great cruise. Get some great mooring line pictures. The closer without getting yelled at gets you extra points. GreT way to start the day off. Cheers! I sure hope you get to do the Dog Sled excursion. That sounds like a lot of fun.

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Two days.

Congrats let's this party started!! I like the color of your luggage and the stickers. Easy to pick out. Cheers!!

Lol, Now that's an idea.

Another fun whiskey tasting at my friends store. This time it was Wilderness Trail from Danville, KY. Cofounders Shane Baker and Dr. Pat Heist met playing in a rock band. Thinking that music didn't pay the bills, Dr. Heist thought he would make use of is Phd in in Plant Pathology and microbiology. That was the beginning of Wilderness Trail. Two classes mine was the first. Room was packed. Back in 2013 that still and the entire operation was producing about two barrels of bourbon a day. Now it's over 200 barrels per day with more than 100,000 in storage at their rick houses. Green label was my favorite. Could not go wrong with any of these. We tasted 4 offerings including their wonderful Rye. The rye was in my opinion the best of the four. If you like bourbon or rye and see this in the stores try it I think you will like it.

Winner!!!

I saw the pictures and it looks wonderful. I love the menu. I am a big Mousaka and Patitsio fan.

Thank you I love Greek food. I've added this restaurant to my list as we haver several cruises coming up out of Miami. Looks tasty Graham.Cheers and have a great evening.

When we were there we did the mules going up and the cable car going down. I wish there was something easier. I felt bad for the mules and I was a nervous wreck afraid that we would not get on the cable car in time to make it back to the ship. It would be nice if they rebuilt the cable car to handle more people and a faster run.

That's encouraging. Another reason why I don't think I'll be doing any live reviews. Too much a pain.

The link did not post but I can probably find it. Looked at some of the restaurants. the Mambo Cafe looks very interesting. I love Cuban and Puerto Rican food.

Thank you very much I will do some research. This sounds perfect.

Smart thinking of bringing your pharmacy. Better off to have it if you need it than trying to search somewhere to find it.

That looks and sounds amazing. Please post a recipe if you make it. I’d like to try it.

We are just flying in the day before and staying at Miami Hilton Downtown. Not sure what we will do in the evening. Any restaurants you recommend?

Did she say if she noticed any shortages of food or drinks? How was the crew?

We are checked in! Ready to set sail on Symphony September 16th. One advantage to being on CDT is that August 3rd when we could check-in happens at 11PM. So like a hawk armed with my phone and laptop when 11pm came I was ready. About a minute after everything opened up on the app first but not on my cruise planner. I quickly nabbed the earliest slot at 10:30am and then preceded to fill in the rest of the info. One thing that I thought was weird was in the app they wanted to take a screen shot of my passport or pick from my photo library. I had a hard time finding it so I went over to my laptop where I knew I had a copy. By then the web portion would let me check in but in the cruise planner it did not require the uploaded pic of the passport just the passport information. I do wish both would be the same. It's much easier in some ways to do everything via computer. In the end what really mattered was getting the early check in time at the terminal. Since we purchased the "Key" (only for internet and getting on board a little earlier to do my UDP dining reservations) I'm hoping that we can arrive after 9:30 and get in the process to board. Having never sailed out of Miami how easy is the process? Do they have a separate line for suite and Key holders? Any experiences would be helpful to know.

Thank you! They still have not moved us over yet.

Hang in there. I hope you feel better soon.