Still Dreaming

Hilton diamond matched to MSC diamond

Thank you. Considering this ship, first time MSC also. 

Beautiful photography!

Loved your review!  We ventured over to celebrity a few years ago and loved it. Now we have 3 under our belt.   We had some cruise next certificates to use and decided on escape. Loved that! We are now platinum.   Oh what to do. So we jumped ship and tried the Havana area on the new carnival ships!  Oh my gosh, amazing!!!
People need to venture out of the box. Each line has there critics and cheerleaders but we love the differences!  We have never had a bad cruise with inedible food and awful service!!

I only placed minimum bids on haven.  Really didn’t expect to win any, but we are happy with our large balcony.  Some day. Lol

We received printed luggage tags for our upcoming Epic cruise out of San Juan.  First time in a decade from any cruise line.  It also came with a reminder to not come to the pier early!!

We always stop at a bar on the way to the room or to the pool and have bartender fill with ice and water. 

Have a great cruise and congratulations on finishing your degree!

Havana is 12 plus.  Amazing area!!  We have sailed the Vista and Horizon in this area!!  
Love it!  Carnival and Celebrity’s prices creep up with their beverage packages.  But we can be in a private area, no small children, for about the same as NCL regular balcony.

We switch between NCL (platinum), carnival and Celebrity.  I think diversity is good. And total cost for the experience always factors in!  

Would love to see these also. Especially the embarkation day.  
With all the negative reviews of traffic jams to port and then longgggg security line waits, maybe it would be better to come around 4-5 and just hit the make up muster drill?

Another great review!  I am a lurker!   We booked the private house in Cozumel a couple of weeks ago after watching your video 😍.  Your you tube videos even got me to book the carnival vista and now we just got off the horizon.  Love the Havana area!  
We sail the Epic in a couple weeks and really wanted the Haven but it was 4000. Over the 4000. We already paid. Not worth it to me.  Your deal on the Joy was amazing and I would have paid that in a heart beat.

Thank you for all of your advise!  Panorama is on my list but I love NCL and Celebrity also!  Oh what shall I do 🤷‍♀️

Ah!  thank you.  I guess I did not catch permanent resident vs citizen.  

I am just starting to research our cruise and was not aware of any visas needed.  I looked under  Travel.State.gov  .  I looked up every stop including croatia and it only requires passport.   What am I missing here?  We are not going through travel agent so just trying to get informed.

thanks

Thank you for your review!!   

Love your day by day reviews!  Thank you!  You certainly go above and beyond!
 

I read a post by you that you are moving on, I hope you can give us a synopsis of what you like and what you miss from the mass market cruise lines.

Hi Dana,

 Following your wonderful review!   

I can see it😀.  Very nice!

Yes, I was lol about the first review!  Some people can get their undies in a bundle over the smallest things!  Loved all the pictures in the second. 

All links work for me!  Ended up scanning through your Epic reviews since we are booked on her next February.    Great info.

Mitsugirly

i thought of you the other day when I read this review on space for signature and reviews. Just came across the st. Kits thread today!   I guess it was meant to be💜

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Good luck

You can have anyone in your cabin. The entrance to cabins is in the open bar area, the only restricted part is the doors past the bar to the pool and hot tubs.

We did the Ncl Dawn out of New Orleans a couple years ago.  We did a couple full days b4 cruise and loved every minute!  Love your review, my husband not so much!  Lol. Your review of the Paul Gauguin has had me researching Tahiti for the last year.  What’s the saying. “ show me the money”.  

Thanks for taking the time to review!!

Thank you for these wonderful tips!

We have stayed at the Sheraton not the older one. Walked into old San Juan.  Our favorite is staying in the condado area.  Great beaches and a lot of hotels to pic from.