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On 3/4/2024 at 4:06 PM, daniella1279 said:

HI

 

Just wondering how you made out?

 

Actually, we ended up going with an excursion, and really regretted it 😞. Next time we’ll do breezes!

lol!  So, last year we met a new fun, drunk friend in the suite lounge.  It was his first cruise ever, and he was really enjoying the free suite lounge drinks.  Apparently he put a handful of the butter packets in his pocket at dinner, because he loved them so much.  Then, he reached in his oozing pocket to show the concierge the butter and to ask where he can buy more, because it was so good.  She said- Sweety, let me get you a napkin so we can clean you up 🙂. I call him “the butter guy”.

As a couple in our late 40’s, who like a relaxing beach view near good food and drinks, we really enjoyed our time there, and will go back if we get a decent price again 🙂

9 hours ago, tardy said:

What was the name of beach  the  " beach express excursion"  took you too?

there is another excursion "Beach Break" that I booked . was wondering if  will be same beach.

 

I think it was Goodman’s Bay beach.

Way back in the olden days of like 15 years ago, hubby and I never got travel insurance.  Then, I heard the horror stories.  Now we always get “cancel for any reason + medical”.  True story- the night before my mom and I were to embark on her first cruise, she had horrible back pain, massive anxiety, and mentioned we might need to cancel.  Since we had “cancel for any reason”, I didn’t have to stress about any money loss, and assured her that it would be ok and we could just go later.  Thankfully, she felt better after some medication and rest, and we had a great trip 🙂

We booked this tour because our Blue Lagoon tour was cancelled.  While the beach was ok, we would never book it again.  The drinks were a scam (even if you wanted just one drink, they made you buy a 3 drink package for $30, that you couldn’t share), drinks were watered down, and it was all mixed drinks that tasted the same no matter what kind you ordered.  The food area looked unsanitary, so we just skipped lunch and ate on the ship later.  And, someone had taken the toilet paper and paper towels out of the bathroom, so you had to pay a person standing outside for a sheet of each.

Thanks for the review!  Will be on the Mariner in a week 🙂

We are going to take a cab.  If you don’t see me post back to you be Feb 20, please post here to remind me 🙂

Today in the MN metro area- we did not get as much snow as they predicted… but so cold and windy!  Can’t wait to be back in the Caribbean next month!!!

We contacted Breezes Nassau, to do a day pass in February.  They collected NO payment info.  Is that normal?  Can we just pay via credit card when we arrive?  We have a confirmation email.

Loving your updates!  My update- my mom loved her first cruise 🙂. I think Oasis spoiled her!

On 1/3/2024 at 12:55 PM, island lady said:

 

No idea.  A few years ago, on a simple 7 night cruise on Freedom we had 8 medical emergencies.  It was unreal and sad, and two of them were almost at the same time.  We all hope it does not happen to us, but obviously we can't read the future.  

We had 12 alphas on our December Oasis (7 night) cruise!

I saw an article that there are a ton of young social media influencers on the world cruise.  Is this true?  Apologies if this has been discussed, but I didn’t read every post on this thread.

On 12/7/2023 at 9:11 AM, island lady said:

 

Yes.  He is on the whole 274 nights, Laura is disembarking and flying back to Orlando with us in LA.  She is rejoining us in Copenhagen, we rejoin in Barcelona for 4th quarter. 

 

John has been uninvited to CC, sadly.  😞 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What??!!! John is awesome?

On 12/25/2023 at 6:35 PM, braces43 said:

We are thinking of heading to Breezes for the day in January when are cruise is in port.  Did you end up going? Do you have to pay in advance? How was it? Thanks!

We are going in February.  I have the confirmation email, but they have not asked for payment info.  Hopefully we indeed will have a spot, and can pay via credit card!

On 12/23/2023 at 7:59 PM, KBS1607 said:

We had trouble getting to the Miami terminal on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Our Lyft driver was very confused and there was something going on with traffic at the terminal.  We left in plenty of time but ended up boarding later than we wanted. 

Even with that, we didn’t have any trouble making reservations for our small dining package. 

On a related note- we also had Uber/lyft driver confusion in Miami this month!  The one taken us there kept taking wrong turns at the port area, and I finally had to guide him in (using signs, since I haven’t been there in ages).  At departure, we waited an hour for our guy, and he finally called saying he couldn’t figure out how to find our terminal (I had watched him on the app for over 30 minutes, circling around, like a mile from us), so we finally just took a shuttle to the airport.

On 12/14/2023 at 7:55 PM, Mum2Mercury said:

No, it's not necessary; however, it's a free download and is handy -- so why not?  

My mom doesn’t have a smart phone…

Have a great trip!!

I am going to be lazy, and not google nor scroll through all of the comments 😉. Remind me- when does the first leg leave, and where from?  Happy sailing!!  

On 11/29/2023 at 8:41 PM, blueslily said:

Has anyone heard any updates on when the excursions might be offered again? I'm not asking to be insensitive to those who were impacted by the experience a couple weeks ago. I actually really did enjoy the Excursion when I did it before. And, I was looking forward to going again with some first time cruisers on an upcoming cruise. I did look around on their website last night and saw that there are some dates available next month for booking. But they are sporadic dates. I did not see any major announcement on their web page about being open or closed. 

Hi!  My Oasis cruise leaves Sunday, and people reported yesterday that they received emails saying that their Blue Lagoon excursions were being cancelled (we’re at Nassau Monday).  The letter someone posted said that all excursions were cancelled until at least Dec 15.

😞

1 hour ago, CSHS1979 said:

Hoping someone does a Live review here

Agree!

I wasn’t surprised to see this, this morning… https://www.businessinsider.com/life-at-sea-never-ending-cruise-does-not-have-ship-2023-11?amp

On 11/15/2023 at 2:49 AM, samiam0403 said:

Just saw this on another site - people are making jokes about how it's no big deal since it's shallow warm water in the middle of the day, and ignoring the fact that a woman died. People are awful. 

My MIL can’t swim at all.  If this happened to her, she would be terrified, even if the water wasn’t that deep 😞

I realize that your trip was several months ago.  However, was wondering if you could give your thoughts on the ship, since there are so few reviews here about it.  DH and I LOVE the big ships, but are running out of new (affordable ;)) ones to try.  Thought it would be interesting to do something smaller.