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AhI've got it!! Jan type cruises then zoo into the box on google

 

Berwyn

Oh yes!! I've got it!! Never heard of that before, looks interesting, thanks.:):)

The sun is just starting to come out, not that warm today.

Jan

signing up for email alerts for deals at these sites is recommended. and there's a great one for holidays and travel (including cruises) with the place where animals are kept in cages...

LOL don't know about cruisecritic more like cruisecryptic :confused:

Zoo?..:confused: I can't cope, I'm no good at puzzles. Circus?.... What? ....lol. Petshop? Aargh!! Dogs Home...:confused:

Jan

Royal Caribbean allows smoking inside.:eek: That's got to be a no no for me, I didn't even like not being able to go on Deck 8 on the IE because of the smokers and on Deck 1 on the Celebration we got the smoke coming up from the bowels of the ship where the staff hung out. No offence intended but it has a really bad effect on me. That's another thing I didn't like about the Celebration, that the pool was split in half with smoking and non-smoking. All very well but the smoke gets under the overhang and drifts across to non-smoking.

On a lighter note, is everybody out tonight? I'm going to put some bunting up next week and get into the spirit of things. We went to the shopping centre yesterday and it looked lovely all decked out with bunting. Our kids were little when it was the Silver Jubilee and they had a great time at the street party then. I just wish we'd taken photos of it all, they were given silver sugar spoons by the school in presentation boxes and we've still got them.:):) I think everyone has forgotten how to celebrate national events.

Start making the jelly, lol.:D:D

Jan

The same with Horizons Bar. Having to walk through all the cabins to find it. We walked miles and miles round that ship and although I would go on her again for the itinerary she wouldn't be my first choice.

Of all the different cruises lines and ships which would be your favourite Berwyn?:)

Jan

You've got to find the Promenade Deck first though. Funny, on the IE, we found our way around ok but for some reason on the Celebration we were lost the whole week. Up and down, back and forth, drove us mad.:eek: It didn't help that you could go up the stairs at the back of the ship to the restaurant, from Deck 1, but then found that they had locked the rear entrance. We then had to go up one, walk back through the ship, then down the stairs. If we fell for that one once we must have done it 20 times.

It was all RR's fault on the other side.;) Never me, lol.

Jan

Lol, that'll teach 'em. I believe they were there first so squatters rights :D. The male we saw had magnificent horns that curled right round.

Off thread again.:eek::eek: We'll be getting sent to the Floataway Lounge, AGAIN. Oh! I forgot, you weren't here last time, lol.;)

Jan

Thanks Berwyn. We were walking along the road that runs around the sea side of the Orme last year and looked up feeling as though we were being watched, there at the top of the hill, looking right down on us, was a large brown Billy and his white lady wife. Lovely.:):)

I don't agree with the author that walking the path around the Orme with the benches on is 'like walking through a graveyard'. A lovely walk. Pity they demolished the house that 'Alice' lived in.

Jan

I got it, Gillian went up the hill, lol. The sun has been more in than out this afternoon and quite chilly at times. Glad we didn't book a weekend in Wales then, lol. Shame, I just fancied a hike around the Great Orme to see the goats with the big curly horns.:eek: Now we're friends can we come and stay at your house, lol.:D:D Be afraid, be very afraid.

Jan

What?:confused: Jack and Jill went up the hill....and booked a cruise?:confused: Get out of the sun immediately, lol.:D

Do you mean the one that rhymes with cruise meals? lol.

What I'd like to find is a website that doesn't ask you to phone up for the price, apart from Thomson that is

Jan

Hi grannypops

Long time, no see.:):) I always think of you when we revive this thread, it's so much easier to bump it up than answer the same questions over and over.

Tell me, do you find your last minutes on the web or do you go into the travel agents? I can find Thomson last minutes on the web but never seem to see any other cruise lines that are easy to understand.:):confused:

Jan

I think this is the thread Kruzseeka.:):)

Jan

I should stop reading these posts...my countdown timer seems to have slowed down :D

57 days for me, :D:D:p

Jan

All packed and ready to go - 23kg allowed and cases weigh 22.8kg &22.6kg - oops but can't see anything I can leave behind although I haven't taken all the thing I have bought - lol

 

Hope you had a good hol - will check in again at midnght then I'll be off to bed and will check at 8.30am before I set off to manchester.

 

A nervvy tummy - sooo excited - 1 week stay and then 1 week cruise - Whoo Hoo

Ooh! Watch that weight. They often weigh more at the airport and almost always at foreign airports. When we came through Dalaman in Turkey we weighed our cases at 19.5kg and 20kg and they weighed them at 44.5kg. A bit too close for comfort. Have a great time.

Jan

Just bumping this up for a new member.:):)

Jan

If I don't catch you before you go have a great time and if I do catch you before you go I'll say it again, lol.:D:D;)

Jan

I can answer that one :D

 

took us 40 mins just before Christmas :cool:

Glad you answered that RR. We boarded at Madeira, ha, ha, ha.:D:D

Jan

We need people like you who have done the voyage to let people like us who have not know what to expect when we get on board. Going to pound and the internet for the pills.lol.

Not long to go now!:):) Weather should be lovely. Remember to put a comb in your hand luggage as when you get onboard for the first time you'll be put in front of a camera for your card. It's not a photo that you pay for, although often there will be photos taken when you leave the ship in various ports but you don't have to buy them if you don't want, they'll be on the board in the photo shop later. The trouble is when you're travel weary you can look a mess by the time you arrive and that photo is looked at by security every time you leave or board the ship. Much to the amusement of the staff as it comes up on a monitor and you look like the thing from the swamp, lol.:eek::eek:

Jan

We just had one rough evening from La Palma to Madeira which I believe is often a bit choppy. Having read the forums we got Stugeron off the internet, which I took, and those wrist bands with the little ball on for my husband, internet and pound shop. Both worked after we lay horizontally for an hour and then we were back up and running. I believe that the pills you can get from reception also work well and about 50p I think. Not quite sure about the price but pretty cheap whatever.:):)

OMG I've got to stop this, I'm turning into the forum know-it-all. Sorry, lol.:D:D

Jan

Don't forget to come back on and tell us what you think?:):)

Weather should be nice first week in April. Lucky you and that's from someone who's just got back from Sharm. To be honest I would rather have less flying time and go to the Canaries for similar weather (apart from the other day, lol). Awful cramped plane, it took a week for the stiffness to go out of my joints.:)

Jan

Leaviing Glasgow 1st April, read all the reviews, good and bad. Going with an open mind. Our doughter and granddougher already packed. We are going to enjoy ourselfs. hope to meet up with other 1st timers.

You'll have a great time.:) Think of it a bit like sleeping in a caravan but that said you're hardly ever in it. Apart from the day at sea when the decks are a bit crowded you'll be off the ship every day. Strangely, even though it's a ship you don't often see the same people twice, unless you go to the same sunbed, bar etc. so it's not too intimate. It's great waking up in a different place every day, you just couldn't do that going overland. I think that's why it get so addictive to a lot of people. We would like to visit Venice but wouldn't want to spend a week there so a cruise would be ideal. Visit, then move on.:):)

Jan

We didn't have any trouble with mozzies in the Med or the Canaries. No trees or greenery on board for them to hide in. Take a travel mug if you want as you can fill up with tea, etc. to take back to the cabin. Depends what deck you are on as to whether it's worth doing that as if you are close to the restaurants it's quite easy to pop in for your drink. As to alcohol I'm not sure about the Carribean but in the Canaries we couldn't take duty free purchased on board back to the cabin and had to leave it until we disembarked but we did take bottles of wine etc. on from Lanzarote and had a 'small' one in the cabin before venturing out in the evening. On the Turkey trip we bought duty free on board and we were allowed to take them back to the cabin straight away.:):)

Jan

Bumping this thread up again for someone.:)

Only 122 replies, any more, lol.:D:D

Jan

Hi Grannypops

Where have you been?:):) It seems ages, Berwyn went away and didn't come back. Keep out of the water if you go to the Red Sea, watch out for the shark.:eek::eek:

Jan

 

Btw as my navy brother told me.....boats don't have decks, ships do.

What was that other one? Oh yes! you can put a boat in a ship but you can't put a ship in a boat. Ta Dah!!:D:D;)

Jan

Hi

This will be my first cruise and I have enjoyed reading all the tips

 

"quote" Not cruise specific but I'll think of some essential on my trips with excursions and children is to take a plastic lunchbox and a few sandwich bags so you can to get a few bits together from breakfast buffet, pastries, make up cheese rolls, some fruit etc to eat on the coach on day trips....

...Is this something that is allowed or do you need to be a bit discreet about it....

 

Kind regards

 

Meg x x x

Hi Meg

I thought it wasn't but on the Celebration last year we were booked on an all day trip with no lunch break. When I queried this with the excursion staff one of them said to take something from the buffet which was what we did. We were discreet about it though, just in case, and there was a limited choice as it was breakfast. We ended up with cheese rolls which wasn't great but better than nothing. Anyway, if we hadn't gone on the trip we would have been down to lunch and eaten much more.

I think that we all have to be responsible, however, and be careful that we don't taken meat products off ship and dispose of them on land. Remember how the Foot and Mouth disease was caused in this country a few years ago.:):)

Jan