mollygirl61

Just to give a thumbs up for this location. We recently had an overnight stay pre-cruise and couldn't have been better. Convenient to everything and hotel is very nice. Thanks to all who recommended. :)

At the Embassy, were there any transport options? Airport shuttle, shuttle to cruise port? And was breakfast included? Thanks for any info - we are weighing options for a pre-cruise night.

Me too! I joined under my own name when my husband turned 50 and I was only 36 - sweet and I am proud of those years of savings!!

Nancy, thanks for the reply. We are sailing the 27th also, with my mom for her upcoming 85th bd, my brother and gf and their 5 kids, ranging from 31 - 16, and my husband and I with our 16 year old. The 16 year olds are both girls, so a little boy company would probably make them smile!!

I will look for the other thread and join up there. I think the cave tubing in Belize looks great for many of us.

Nancy I am following with interest your questions, as we are also on the Jewel in December. We are 11, with 6 of them young adults probably interested in some more exciting excursions than the more sedate older ones. We may be interested in joining in something on Belize, and are looking at Honduras for options. Please keep me posted! Molly

People who decorate their doors look like they are having fun to me. We are going to take something next time too! Maybe a couple of cheap magnets or something. We have seen quite a few different things, but hubby likes the birthday banners with the fringe along the bottom. He likes flicking along them!

 

We sometimes reference a picture on the wall or something, but after a couple of cruises back to back in different rooms, remembering your room number is not always easy! Luckily last time they were in similar positions just a few decks different. A few times our room attendant was close by and opened our door for us. The hardest thing is remembering which way to go when you get off the elevators! But yes, we read the signs they put up.

For many cruises I took with us clever colorful magnets I made, personalized with our names (for our large family traveling in several rooms) and lots of activities, such as "at the pool" "dining room" "off to the island" "waiting for sunset" etc. They were adorable and passersby often seemed to enjoy rearranging them. I also brought a set of refrigerator poetry words - you know, the kind you can arrange to make phrases. Our hallmates liked those too, and we ended up with some pretty humorous sayings on our doors sometimes! Then on a Carnival cruise a few years ago, the magnets were stolen, and we found several of them strewn on random doors down various hallways; the phrases were abused and taken, and the fun was gone for us as a result of a few presumably drunken late nighters. Oh well, I guess it was a "Fun Ship" for messing with other people's things. That had never happened on 4 RCCL sailings and 6 HAL cruises.

I realize that someone will respond to this post with something like "well you should have expected it when you put things on the outside of your door," but frankly I don't like to expect boorish behavior from people, and I am unhappy to see it.

Just beware when you put things on the outside that there are always spoilers out there. I just hope this trip they aren't in my hallway.

I first made personalized door signs for a cruise 10 years ago when my daughter was a baby. We had our names, images of "spa" "pool" "dinner" etc, to let others know where we were. I also took one of those magnetic word games, and we could rearrange at will. So did many of the passengers walking by! It was always fun to come back and see what messages we had been left. That is, it was fun until a Carnival cruise last summer, when night after night our magnets were taken off the door, sometimes left in the trash down the hall, sometimes in more inappropriate ways on other people's doors, and on the last "party" night on board they were removed entirely and I never did find them. Never had that problem on HAL, RCCL, Princess - but Carnival was a different story.

Going on RCCL soon, and am debating whether I will do it again.