rajones007

The fact someone even considered leaving an 8mo alone in the room while at a lounge is sad and irresponsible.

If I ever get to the point where I need a drink that badly then it's time to head to AA.

I was searching for videos of Liberty of the seas since I am going on her on Sunday, and found another version of cruise rudeness - far away from beeing a cruise snob..

All right, the inner child in me finds that funny. What sounds like the communal roar from the other ship is what makes it funny to me.

An old guy did that to us, from his dock, when we did a Thousand Island cruise a couple years ago.

The Embassy is totaly smoke free now.

Hmmm, then they should update their website. Even the confirmation I received in my email says it's a smoking room.

Smoke on the balcony, that's what everyone else does.

It'll be nice for a change to sit down comfortably and have a cigarette and/or watch TV or relax on a comfy chair or couch. I don't smoke in my own home, but I will in the hotel room suite if it's allowed. I'll know I'm on vacation when I can watch the late movie in January and not have to go stand outside in the cold while I have a cigarette during commercials.

The shuttle from Embassy Suites to the port is continuous... the hotel is very popular with cruisers so it is a large minivan that will make multiple stops. You sign up for it with your selected time at the Concierge desk right next to check in... it is $7pp.

 

I would recommend that you verify which pier your ship is at. There is a very large lightbopard as you enter the port that tells which pier each ship is at. Make sure your friver is taking you to the right pier.

 

The only reason I caution that is a few years ago we were sailing Princess and didn't know there was more than one Princess ship in port. The driver dropped us off at the wrong one and it took hours to find our luggage again and get to the proper pier.

 

We have never had a problem at this Embassy Suites.

Thanks for the info. That's what I wanted to know! It does sound organized so that's good enough for me.

The info I got from Princess says the ship will be at Pier 2 / Terminal 2, whatever that means. I guess I'll find out when I get there. I'm still 100+ days out so I'll have to be sure and re-verify that shortly before we leave for Florida.

And your bad experience sounds exactly like something that would happen to me. If you hadn't told me that I can guarantee you that when I return I would be complaining about that happening to me.

I hope nobody minds that I bump this thread, but it seems like the best place to ask.

I booked this hotel for a cruise in early January 2011. It's one of only a few that seem to allow smoking, and even though my girlfriend says she doesn't mind it's nice to have that extra "smoking" room for me because, deep down, I know she prefers it that way. We always stay at the Embassy Suites in Niagara Falls, Ontario for that reason (plus the view can't be beat.)

But after reading some comments about cleanliness, I'm kind of hesitant now. So the dealbreaker will be their shuttle to Port Everglades.

How often does the shuttle run? I imagine we're not the only people embarking on this day, will there be a wait with unorganized loading of the shuttle? (I.E. rude pushy line-jumping people get on first, polite considerate people wait for the next shuttle and roll the dice again.) As I'm unsure how PE works (never been there) will it take us right to the Princess area of the port? If so, do I need to ask the driver to ensure he stops there?

Well this is a very interesting thread. I'm glad it keeps getting bumped.

I'm an avid genealogist (amateur, to be honest) and volunteer at my local Genealogical Society which is a branch of the much larger Ontario Genealogical Society. I spend some time every summer looking for old abandoned cemeteries throughout central and eastern Ontario. You'd be amazed at how many I've found that have been long forgotten, even by the local townships and counties. No records survive, so we gather as much as we can and notify the provincial authourities to get it registered in the archives.

I'll gather old maps and documents, some with clues on the possible whereabouts of cemeteries and some without. Then I try to match them to the known geography with the area. Then I set out with my brother spending the better part of the daylight hours just searching both by vehicle and by foot. As morbid as it sounds it is quite a nice feeling to find a cemetery that was completely lost and forgotten for a couple hundred years. We then give it a quick clean up as best as we can, and notify the Genealogical Society. They have professional researchers who dig up as much as they can (not literally) on the people and the cemetery itself and put it in the records and archives for perpetuity. Also, the society has a long list of people who have hit a brick wall during their genealogical research, and if there's a chance that any 'new' cemeteries can help them out - we let them know.

We always try to get permission to go on private property but sometimes it just isn't possible. Many times we've faced a farmer who wasn't too happy to see us wandering around. I always feel badly, but it's amazing how helpful people are when I show them my OGS card and explain my mission. Especially the old timers. They'll jump at the opportunity to tell me what they know of the area. One old fella took me to an old foundation on his property and stacked neatly inside was about 30 or 40 headstones. They were, for the most part, his ancestors. Typically after a few generations had passed the descendants would need the land back, so they'd pull the markers up and re-work the land. "Grandpa would understand" is what we're often told. That has happened more times than I can remember. It's just the way it was done.

Oops. That was long.

Anyways...I'm speaking out of my hat here, so take it for what it's worth. Looking at the photos of the two gravesites I'd hazard a guess and say that they wouldn't be slaves. To have a grave like that, and a headstone (although inscribed very poorly to begin with) would tell me their family had money. There are literally hundreds of thousands of unmarked graves in Ontario alone (likely more) simply because the family did not have the money for a proper plot and headstone. For these people to have a proper burial site, protected from the high water table, with a formed headstone, tells me that somebody paid for that. And even back in the early part of the 20th century, on a remote island, having a proper burial was a luxury not afforded by the poor.

But I'm not familiar with the Bahamas. I'm just throwing my thoughts out there, that's all.

I've been reading this thread for the last couple days and came to a point somewhere in the middle where people were talking about labelling other passengers. Not in a derogatory way, just a way to help you and your party to identify others quickly.

My story isn't particulary funny, more of a "you had to be on the ship" moment, I guess.

My first cruise in 1995 was a charter out of Toronto to Puerto Plata. Everybody on our plane (and 3 other planes that day + a handful more planes from Europe) was going on this small 800-900 passenger cruise on a now defunct cruiseline.

I first spotted this old gentleman, all by himself, in the airport. He had to be in his early 80's. I commented to my wife and our friends that he looked just like Simon the Likeable, one of the villains from the old Get Smart television series. He was the spitting image (if the villain was 30 years older). We seen him on the bus to the pier and we constantly seen him when onboard the ship. Whenever anybody in our party seen him they would say "there's Simon the Likeable". And he seemed like such a nice and fun guy. The nickname was so fitting because he was just so damn likeable. He was always doing stuff, taking part in contests and such. He ended up being a very popular guy on the cruise.

It wasn't long until the nickname Simon took hold with others beyond our party and it seemed like more and more other passengers were now calling him Simon the Likeable. During one of the contests out by the pool, the MC even called him Simon the Likeable right to his face. But Simon didn't mind. He just kept on having fun wherever he was.

One the 5th day of the 7 day cruise I actually got to sit down and talk to him. His real name? Simon.

He thought it was hilarious that he was dubbed Simon the Likeable. He never heard of the Get Smart villain, but he was quite pleased with the moniker.