Same Old Same Old Caribbean Itineraries ??!

[boingy300]

For what it's worth we did just visit Falmouth Jamaica and it was down right pleasant. I don't care for Ochos at all. It was our least pushy island (Cozumel was the most aggressive- go figure!) Labadee was totally hands off as well. Very pleasant cruise overall. (I'd love to visit Cuba too!)

Karen

[Jimnbigd]

On time we had to skip Grand Cayman -- seas were too rough to use the tenders. Instead we went immediately to Cozumel and got to stay overnight (on the ship but docked). I'd like to see that permanently. The night life in Cozumel is great. This won't likely happen though because:

* Port charges cost more the longer a ship is docked

* Cruiselines want the ship's casino to open by early evening to make more money

Still an overnight at a port like Cozumel or Key West would be a nice change.

[boingy300]

I should probably clarify that although I described Cozumel as the most pushy, they weren't very pushy. I only meant to emphasize how "not pushy" the other islands were-which was awesome. An overnight sounds great to me as well!

Karen

[will773]

I agree! St. Thomas' date=' St. Maarten, Grand Cayman, Nassau, and Cozumel are STALE. Offer more choices, especially on the southern route.[/quote']

 

What more could you want in the Southern Caribbean? Doing a back to back on the Serenade out of San Juan will take you two ten different islands in two weeks.

 

Tortola

St. Maarten

St. Kitts

Dominica

Barbados

 

St. Thomas

St. Croix

Antigua

St. Lucia

Grenada

 

One of those itineraries can also be done on the Adventure, in addition to:

Curacao

Aruba

Dominica

 

I think RCCL has the Southern Caribbean pretty well covered.

[mamaza]

I believe with over 2/3 of the population never having cruised before and now much of the cruisers on board being 1st or 2nd timers, these ports are new ports to a majority of those on the ship. Just a thought.

[will773]

I believe with over 2/3 of the population never having cruised before and now much of the cruisers on board being 1st or 2nd timers, these ports are new ports to a majority of those on the ship. Just a thought.

 

This is also true. For the vast majority, a cruise is a once in a lifetime vacation, and the cruise lines don't expect the people to be coming back for the amount of times that some of you have. When you first started cruising, you were excited about the ports. Most people don't cruise very often, so the ports are still exciting to them.

[maxxedout2]

How about Grand Turk, Progreso, Calica, Roatan, Costa Rica, Colon, Belize, Tortola?

 

 

Exactly....Progreso for Chichen Itza or Uxmal.

 

I chose to go on Carnival Glory to Progreso.

Why? Well, because neither Royal Caribbean,

nor Princess, goes there and I wanted to see Uxmal.

 

Glory is also stopping at Belize (Xunantunich), Costa Maya

(Chacchoben) and Cozumel (Coba)....awesome Mayan Cruise.

 

Sorry RCI. Sorry Princess. Maybe next time.

 

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