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think I also need to get them to be strong swimmers too and that doesn’t seem to be happening fast.

I think I’m going to have shot myself in the foot as I bet I won’t want to go back on cold Europe ones after the Caribbean. Itinery below. The girls will be 9 and 8. Land in Barbados- coach to ship Barbados At Sea Tortola At Sea La Romana At Sea St Maarten Antigua At Sea St Kitts Martinique St Lucia At Sea Disembark in Barbados- Flight home

I agree with this. I would possibly do a window for somewhere like Northern Europe but we had to pick a balcony for the Caribbean.

I’ve already book marked your thread cos there are lots of places I wanted to copy. Was a very good read!

Can we do lots of snorkelling that’s not too far out?

Brilliant thread. Going to have to somehow save it for when we go in 2024

There definitely was one every day on iona. also travelling solo, friends on bill w, I’ve checked two days that I had saved. those are the only ones I would see as “get togethers” the rest seem to be the join in line dancing and yoga etc so like an activity. I do wish there was more on and to do during the day really. I mean we do get rid of the kids in the club for two hours, have some adult time 😉 then what to do with the rest of the 1hr45 😂 we then end up in a bar. on another note I wonder if anyone starts dating at any of these meets. Surely there must be some that have met maybe solo travelling- then cruise wedding!

you’ll be going the month before us then! You’ll have to write about it so I can see before we go. what do you mean though, standards aren’t the same?

We must have dropped on back in 2019 then as it definitely wasn’t that long. We were through all that faster than baggage as I remember having to wait 45mins for my bag and that made me annoyed.

three hours! going to Orlando in May and I really hope it’s not that long especially when virgin changed the flight times on me so now we don’t land till 5.40!

That was what I wanted to do. Have a Royal Caribbean cruise from tampa, do the state fair and do universal. Hubby has said no though cos we are doing orlando this year so wanted a few years between the parks.

Is there anything specific or different on a P&o Caribbean crusie than say a canaries one? tbh I didn’t really want to go on p&o to Caribbean I wanted to try some of the American ships and book it myself but hubby over ruled

already did it. Quite a bit more money though ☹️ it does look beautiful. Best get working lots to pay for it all

Oh this is a question I didn’t even think of. I’d like to know too. I just assumed there wasn’t any jabs needed other than covid.

Might have made the mistake of looking at Caribbean cruises and that’s lead us to change the Mediterranean may cruise next year to a Caribbean one in February (have to use a bit of school holidays) tell me anything I might need to know.

My daughter fell over and bust her lip and her younger sister was really upset that she’s been hurt. We were in sindhu, I missed my pudding and cuppa and they were fine, can laugh about it now. But anyway my point is if you think about what you do on a cruise ship. We are either in our room when the kids are in the club or in a bar somewhere so there is a high chance that they will know where you are. And there’s only once I’ve been contacted.

Is iona still having any difficulty for ports such as stavanger olden alesund haugesund

How would I get an Uber/taxi? Will there be one at the docks? Would I have to pay in cash

been to Stavanger. Got as far as walking around, bit lost, saw some multicoloured houses and went back to where we were docked and sat in a bar for few hours. Very nice looking bar man, till he stepped out and was so short. hubby wants to see the swords. Me not so much but it’s literally the only thing on the list for the whole holiday so got to be done. best getting a taxi there and back

Can I get there from the port in a taxi? will that be best/cheapest for us to do (2a2c) anything else of note round there to spend time doing before going back?

I’ll ask them before I go in April. Looking forward to olive grove again. Will least be interesting when I take all the coins to the bank, that machine better work as I’ll be there a while. we tend to save in cash cos if it’s in a bank account hubby likes to spend it and when I save up all my cash in my big money box he won’t go in there. Best look soon so that it’s not a large amount to deposit. Wouldn’t say the money box actually gets a lot in there each month but it’s been a few years.

But the point is I can’t take £1700 cash onto my April iona to pay for the remainder of my December balance.

haha I haven’t got the brains to be a master criminal. yes I could do it at post office. Might be closer.

suppose it depends on what a large amount of cash is really. the bike was £2.5k all in 20s. He was about 55-60ish. That was deposited back in October few months after we sold it. this new phone was the new Samsung one, couldn’t get along with it at all,I’ll stick to apple from now on but he paid in cash too. If it’s a private seller for the car I’ll just have to ask for a bank transfer then. It’s just most vehicles weve sold has always been cash if it’s not worth much. My car is maybe about £2k on the car buying site. Maybe more private. That’s why I thought that the car would pay for the holiday.

No I actually love cards. Especially my credit card that shows my transactions immediately. but over the past year we’ve sold motorbikes, then the motorbike clothing, a brand new phone i bought through my card but then I didn’t like it so sold it on Face cloth which they then gave me cash for etc, some jewellery. I now have a large wad of cash again, same thing happened when we sold the motorbike, he paid all in £20s-bank transfer would have been better but he wouldn’t do it. Anyway I was talking to my friend who is my hairdresser, she’s the mum of my youngest friend at school and I was talking about putting this cash into the bank every few month and that I was sick of going into town to do it, as we hardly ever go town, and she said it looks weird me going to the bank with all this cash. She’s now got me a bit paranoid. I don’t know why I am cos I can prove the sale of the phone and the motorbike- properly could for other stuff too. plus I’ll be selling my car in June as I’m getting a new one and that could be even more cash unless I go with the “sell any car” type. she suggested that I just pay off my holidays in cash instead. I’ve already got deposits down on three cruises. So I would be paying off the closest one at £1700. im going a bit crazy aren’t I? We also have two money boxes for coins and notes that are for holiday money. Bet there’s a chunk in there too cos we’ve been saving that since 2019 but it’s my rainy day fund- but that’s again cash that I’d have to bank it eventually