Kristi Williamson

Thanks, Barbados!! We will definitely look for that price and/or try to bargain our way to it! :D Almost 50/60 bucks for a 20 minute ride one way seems like such a rip off, ya know?

Can someone clarify those taxi prices for me? Are those PER PERSON?! And I'm assuming that's not in dollars...can anyone give me the exchange in dollars? Surely there's nowhere that's 61 bucks a person...right?! :eek::confused:

There's 6 of us (hence the slightly freaked out post on taxi fares!) and we will probably go to Accra Beach. Any recommendations or comments for that beach?

Thanks so much. It's been 10 years since we've been to Barbados. We are really looking forward to it and this thread is AWESOME!

That is AWESOME info Tom-n-Cheryl! Thanks so much for taking the time to do this. Definitely saving this one!

I posted about the lady sniffing from the buffet on the Glory a few pages back, but we had another "shocking" moment on the Dream, too. The new show on the Dream is awesome and evidently the word got around because two guys got into a fistfight during the early showing up in the balcony. Someone tried to sit in one of their "saved" seats and it ended in blows. They let them go, but when they got out into the hallway they went at it again and ended up locked up! Never heard if they were kicked off the ship, but it was shocking to see two grown men fighting over seats to a theater show. lol Something about that just seems like it would only happen on a cruise, ya know?! Can't see those same grown men going to blows over theater seats anywhere else... :rolleyes:

The funny part was that we couldn't get seats during the first showtime, either, so we had to return for the later seating. No big deal, right? Almost half the theater was available during the later seating. If they'd just returned they could have gotten much better seating without fighting!!

This was January of '10.

The most "shocking" thing I've ever seen was in 2009 on the Glory. The lady in line at the buffet directly in front of us picked up a piece of fish with the spatula in the dish and lifted it up to her nose and took a BIG sniff of it. Then, she places the fish and spatula BACK into the buffet bin.

Before my teeth could stop it, I gasped really loudly and said, "OH MY GOSH, honey...did you see that?!" My DH, who is usually charmed by inability to filter from my brain to my mouth is smiling like a goof and says a little loudly, "Yes, I did. Wonder what she thought fish smelled like?"

Her husband, who was in front of her, was RED! I don't think he could believe she'd done that, either. Anyway, her DH picked up the spatula with the fish still on it and dumped it in his plate. Bless his heart...he couldn't even make eye contact with anyone around.

It is a recent change where Carnival allows you to book in advance as a shore excursion.

Thank you! :)

OK...I keep reading that you have to book the cabana's on the ship, but they're on my excursions on my booking. I'm getting ready to "book" it online. Will I have to go to the excusions desk anyway when I board?

Thanks!

 

We also DID happen to see old naked guy strutting his stuff.

 

Lora

ON THE SHIP? IN PUBLIC?!?! :eek:

Let me be clear...he was butt naked, on the ship and you saw his...er...business? LOL

The funniest thing we've ever seen on a cruise was a 500 lb gorilla at the buffet in one of those scooters. She's reaching for her SIXTH cookie and her scooter tips over. She didn't get hurt, but she was so fat that they couldn't get her out of the scooter to stand her, and the scooter, back up. So...the crew member calls over 3 others and they all four stand there, at the dessert bar, pulling this fat lady out of her scooter.

They finally get her up, she forces herself back into the scooter and doesn't roll away until her SIX cookies are back in her lap. And...off she goes.

Yes, I laughed out loud and got the evil eye.