Jean A

Were their pools heated? Did you stop in Puerto Plata Dominican Republic? Any suggestion for tour or things to do. What two times were their show?

We were on a sixteen day cruise and most of our ten ports we booked ahead of time with others on cruise critic forum. We book cruises base on ports and cost. This was our first Royal Caribbean and transatlantic cruise.We are booked for their 2019 August transatlantic cruise again. Ports are great and a few different one. The price for inside cabin started around $1800 when cruise was listed in the end of December 2017. Odderoya is listed number 3, Ravnedalen Naturpark number 2 and Baneheia number one on trip adviser. My husband was the one that wanted to see Ravnedalen. It was pretty easy to find until we come to a roundabout that didn’t have streets names listed. Only about three streets to find the park. We did get to walk past some houses which are always interesting. We are in our early sixties and the trail up to the top was maybe about two flights of steps. I think Baneheia maybe is connected to Ravnedalen. Baneheia I think is about fifth teen minutes’ walk from port. We were the only ones there except three school groups passing us. Ravnedalen was beautiful.

Many years ago we were at port and rented a car that was in the only gift shop at Warnemunde port. The car rental was arranged earlier by another couple. No signs for car rental,even the staff on the ship did not know about the car rental. We thought we had rented a small car and when we got there we were given a small SUV. If we had known we would of add two more people to our small group. We drove into town and parked. Parking was hard because we needed coins for the parking meter. We had to find a store to exchange bills for coins. We just paid for the on and bus in Berlin. On the way back to port we stop off at the small town near the port. Renting the car was so much cheaper than taking the train.

Last year on Thursday August 24 my husband and I were in port in Kristiansand. My husband and I did our own thing. If you love nature I strongly suggest going to see Ravnedalen Valley Nature. We were tender off the ship at 7:30am. It was raining lightly and we walked across town and then came to a roundabout. We at that time didn’t know what street to walk along and after about a block we asked someone and they told us to cut through the cemetery to get back to the street we needed to be on. The cemetery was very interesting and we spent some time there on our return. The walk was maybe a half hour walk from port. The park was beautiful and we must have sat for half hour on a bench watching the swan sand this other type of birds that were blue. We also walked on foot trail that was just past the lawn amphitheater. I would also suggest taking a picture of the trail map sign with your cell phone.We would have walked more on the trail if we had a trail map. Once we were at the top we had a beautiful view of the city. Also there was a lake and we walked around it. We stop along the small lake at a bench and ate our muffins. We did walk a little past the lake but there were a few trials to choose from and we did not want to get lost. This was a great place without the large groups from the cruise ship. We did see about 3 different classroom school groups’ visit the park and the trail. On the way back through town we stop and had lunch at Le Monde. We stop at a large church and went inside. We visited a few shops near the port. Facing the ship on the left was a bunch of boats and a small grass area with fountain and two beautiful sand sculptures.

Two years back my husband and I went to see the Baths in October and I highly recommend going there. I would use the ship shore excursion because you have about a 45 minute ferry ride to Virgin Gorda. The water was very rough. I had fractured my wrist the day before on St. Johns so I could only wade in the water. My husband loved going into the caves and one day we hope to return so I can spend time in the caves and not sitting on the beautiful beach.

We did the St John Eco Tour through NCL to beautiful honeymoon beach. The park ranger kept telling us to be careful not to trip on the trail. Being one of the young ones I tripped on a tree root. I think I was busy watching the landscape to find a mongoose. I fell face first and caught myself with my hands. Cut my right hand and fracture my left wrist. I waited until I was back on ship to see Dr. I was very pleasantly surprise that NCL covered all of my medical expenses on the ship (RX, x-rays, cast, and cleaning dirt out of other hand and bandages it up).

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