danielsumner

St. Thomas Chocolate Rum. It's a lot like a Chocolate Kaulua. You can only get it in St. Thomas at A.H. Rise. It is so so good.

I agree. I bet it's the crew that were the first cases on this most recent outbreak.

Same Crew, Sick Crew = Sick Passengers, Sick Passengers = Sick Crew. It's a never ending circle.

It’s been over 10 years since our last Princess Cruise. Booked the Royal for March 30th last night, forward deluxe balcony forward with the solid railing. For many years we cruised Holland, but the end of last year went on a RCCL ship. Nice Ship, Food not so good. Well we are going to go princess again, very excited. Quick question for those that might know, not important but would like to know. When docked in St. Thomas is the ship’s starboard or port side next to the dock?

I booked a forward cabin on the Royal tonight. It's one with the larger steel deluxe balcony. I got it for $1588 total with travel insurance included. It's been several years since we have been on Princess, we are very excited. The cruise in the end of March.

1 day. RCL FOS

I am one of those really OLD PEOPLE cruising at 85 and my DH is even worse at 87.Horror of horrors I use a walker and he needs oxygen at night. We love to cruise, go to the shows and lose in the casino. If we were ever to be on the same cruise please identify yourself so that we won't spoil your cruise, I promise to avoid you. Your loss ;).

This thread is about large groups on cruise ships. The Carnival Paradise carries a little over 2 thousand passengers. Over 80 % of the cruise was elderly. There were less than 10 children on board. So there were 1600+ from the two retirement condo villages. If this doesn't count as a large group what does? Did I say I didn't like OLD people (I'm getting there myself)? The balance was just way way off. I've looked at the forum for "Banned" topics and I don't see one about "Old People". This topic is about large groups on cruise. Don't get your kickers in a bunch. I will stop posting, all you get when you join in is grief.

Way back in 1999 we sailed on the Carnival Paradise when it was non smoking. This was when you could literally book last minute. Found an unbelievable rate on the seven night cruise on a Wednesday and we sailed on Saturday. As we were boarding we noticed a great many really OLD PEOPLE. I'm talking walkers and Oxygen. We found out the next day a local South Florida travel agent had book over 80% of the cruise from two very, very large condo type retirement villages. Also found out that the youngest of the group was 73 years old. It was an interesting week. The ship's AC was set very high because they were all cold. We were miserable in the public areas. Massive lines at the service desk they were complaining about being too cold, the food to spicy ect. All the poor bartenders were only serving glasses of water to take pills (I'm not exaggerating). All were wanting early dining times and most were not happy they couldn't get it. We were close to being run over by wheel chairs more than a few times.

Park n Cruise. I just reserved parking for Oct. 13. $7.99 prepay, $8.99 if you pay at the lot.

Both our passports expired earlier this year. I renewed both this month. We got them back 13 days after I mailed the old passports and forms. Old passports with holes punched in them arrived about a week later. I took our photos with my cell phone. They were taken in the garage (only white wall). I used the passport site photo tool and printed them on photo paper in my printer. No problem. Took about a dozen photos of the Dear Wife, she spent a couple days deciding which one to use (like it really mattered). Save some bucks and print your own photos.

I would have loved to have gotten the chance to sail on the ship in 1996. Even better 1991 (inaugural year)!

I first sailed in 2007.

I liked the old boats, the Sensation was awesome too. On the Ecstasy we went to Mexico. The water was flat as a sheet of glass the whole trip.

Our first cruise was on the Ecstasy also. 4 day out of Miami. 1996