jean87510

We have done Carnival and Royal Caribbean with our kids. Will be doing MSC YC with daughter in June. Never have done Celebrity with the kids but wish I had. Here's why I would rather take kids on Celebrity. 1. Better and longer itineraries 2. No theme park in ship 3. Less catering to families and more so to travelers. 4. Less obsession with CocoCay for almost every itinerary from the east coast. I can't stand this place. My 5 kids have traveled with us for years going all over the US and Caribbean. They liked the cruise ship activities but they always loved the ports where we did "cool" things with the rental cars, boat rentals...etc... They never liked day passes at hotels for some reason. They were all pretty active and outgoing and had no problems with what we scheduled. I have showed them our pictures of the big Oasis class plus videos of Icon and asked would you guys have liked this? My one son said honestly he never remembered what the ship had when he was young, just the islands we went to. We have been on the smaller ships (carnival fantasy) which had I think 1 water slide, and on a sea day they just kept going down all day on the one slide. That's all they needed. They went to the kids clubs and had fun. I read a lot of parents posting on this site and others worried that their kids may not enjoy this ship or others because of activities. Honestly, being the parent of 5, you don't have to think the ship is Disney and you have to do this and that and be stressed because there's no laser tag or zip line. If the kids were with us instead of kid's club, we just said where do you guys want to hang out and do?, and that's what we did. If they liked the buffet for dinner one night, we went there. If they wanted to play mini golf for hours, we did that.

People are in between cruises and bored.

Because one group is plural and the other is not.

What I do is Google it but put carnival in at the end of search text.

new one for me as well

I guess she is implying she uses her travel insurance for her asthma meds to the previous poster who doesn't buy any insurance. At least that's what I'm gathering.

read the post she was responding to.

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They have had a problem recently in the past year or so of the government allowing non Roatan citizens in and these individuals apparently have made a lot of trash and don't take care of the properties they are squatting in. Regardless, yes, the port area is not like Cozumel or Costa Maya where the one person bought the land and made that particular port. Directly outside Roatans Coxen Hole port it is congested and crazy BUT it's mostly tour guides waiting when the ship first docks. Once you leave that area, there are some really beautiful spots and beaches. It definitely is not a place to walk around and shop directly outside but one of those taxi drivers will gladly bring you to a decent spot. As we have discovered in the past when we had a no show vendor once there.

I find them the same. Purchases show on mine in the app. I use the website for the menus pre cruise on both. Drinks I wait until connected on both then look at the app as I see no need to look beforehand. I don't know what you mean by opening times. Upgrades can be done on website.

Roatan?? Can I ask why?

ok. Same type of ship. If you like snorkeling both are fine. I'd pick whichever was cheaper overall. If close to same price, definitely the 8 day!

Honestly there's not much of a difference between the ships. They are both vision class. I'd just focus on the ports more. I believe one sailing goes to the Bahamas plus cococay and others go to the roatan, belize, costa maya and Cozumel. Depends what you want honestly. If I was picking, I avoid Nassau and CocoCay as I just am not a big fan but I'm not you.

Have to laugh at this one as when I was on my first MSC Divina sailing, the people who complained the most in the YC at the restaurant, at the concierge desk, in the pool deck were non American. Just a quick question. Are you from the northeast US?

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Try to see if hotel will allow you late check out. If not, it's much more comfortable waiting in hotel lobby for an hour then standing in a line possibly at the port.

Well good for you. It must be amazing to never ask for anything not on a list.

They probably read my review in January. 😁

It really isn't if you plan well. Especially with a 10pm flight. We saw the buses from the cruise ship and were thankful we chose a DIY. As were others we saw.

You take an uber or lyft to car rental, keep luggage in trunk, explore Kennedy, drop off car at airport. We saw people from Germany doing the same as us.

They were ok. Not as good as Butcher's.

Makes you wonder whose cart it was. 🤔

We were booked on this back in January but it was unfortunately canceled that am due to choppy conditions. We have rebooked for an upcoming trip in November. I cannot stress how nice and responsive the online staff has been with me. I had accidentally booked the beach day instead of the snorkeling for November and Bernique the rep said "let's wait and see what conditions are so at least you can enjoy beach. If its good to go, we will add a snorkeling for you".

I have now that we are turning 60 this year on a couple of snorkeling excursions. My answer is to give my truth on what age I think I am (if that makes sense).

Thx, new D+ here. Had no idea about this.