cruisinbabs Posted June 4, 2015 Author #101 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Enjoying the review...how close to the cruise did Carnival open up HMC cabanas??? hello! i am trying to remember and i want to say it opened up a about 3 or 4 months before we sailed? but i checked daily and once they were available we booked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthomaniac Posted June 4, 2015 #102 Share Posted June 4, 2015 I booked over 7 months out, and they were available right away. YMMV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in TX Posted June 4, 2015 #103 Share Posted June 4, 2015 I am loving your review!! DH and I just did this itinerary in April and would do it again. We loved every one of the ports! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinbabs Posted June 5, 2015 Author #104 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Please bear with me.. I will post some more later today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrigley80 Posted June 5, 2015 #105 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I'm all caught up. I'm pretty sure that you love HMC as much as I do. I am trying to get my Krewe to do a cruise here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinbabs Posted June 5, 2015 Author #106 Share Posted June 5, 2015 (edited) We got back to our cabana, loaded up our sippy cups with soda and booze and headed back out to the water. We floated and hung out in the water until we started seeing the beach slowly start to fade out. What do we do... keep on floatin, drinkin and talkin. Jen got out first to start getting stuff ready.. then followed Ann.. I told them let me know when it is 3:15 and I will get out. Once it hit that time I reluctantly dragged myself and my floaty out of the water and headed towards the cabana so I could start drying off. Everyone packing up.. me.. nope chillin in the hammock still.. Finally we had to start heading over to the entrance.. I DONT WANNA!! We walked as slow as we could and wanted to enjoy every last second our feet were touching this beautiful beach! Sad pandas!! Empty bar :-( Edited June 5, 2015 by cruisinbabs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinbabs Posted June 5, 2015 Author #107 Share Posted June 5, 2015 We walk right past the line of people and head to the rumrunner bar. I am not waiting in that line! Found a chair and table to relax with a beer. See that line wayyyy behind me.. no thanks! The bar manager Ahmed came over and asked if we needed anything else and I told him "not at this time, just waiting for you guys to pack up your stuff and ride back on the tender with you guys".. He just smiled and said "no problem, you ladies leave when I leave ok?".. OK!! Clearing out! (some other people had the same idea too!) The girls were ancy a bit asking if we should get on the tender, I said "nope, they wont leave without us and its all good Ahmed will let us know when it is time". All clear! Make buddies with your bartenders! (he look familiar? yup he is the one that jumped into Jen's picture.. lol) Then we asked someone in line to take our picture in front of the sign without the chaos of doing it when you first get there... no rush!! Last tender!!! Ahmed said its time to go! I kept saying Jamman will be so proud of me... so Jamman, this one is for you!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinbabs Posted June 5, 2015 Author #108 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Last passenger off the property! Tender! My girls! And some fun friends off our roll call! Crew and provisions Out of the little channel we go.... :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthomaniac Posted June 5, 2015 #109 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Last tender, my kinda group! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinbabs Posted June 5, 2015 Author #110 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Wahhhhhh!! I guess I will let someone else use my island... Glory in all her Glory Always amazed at cruise ships size... amazing.. Waiting for the other tender to offload everyone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinbabs Posted June 5, 2015 Author #111 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Either you can ride over in a sardine 2nd to last tender... OR You can ride in comfort and stretch out. Whale Tail! We finally offload and people watching us... their faces...priceless. Back on board safely and tired from the sun we head back to our cabin to drop off everything also to relax for a bit. HALF MOON CAY MISSION: ACCOMPLISHED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC Cruisin Posted June 6, 2015 #112 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Love your review. Your HMC pics are awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lido deck larry Posted June 6, 2015 #113 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Hahaha! Love the second to last tender sardine pic. Never understood what the rush was for..... Great review! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smurfm69 Posted June 6, 2015 #114 Share Posted June 6, 2015 We just got back from our Glory cruise and Half Moon Cay was our favorite port! We also had cabana 10 and loved it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qchunter Posted June 7, 2015 #115 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Great review... Going on the same cruise in about a month. Not sure if I want to try the water bottle trick that worked for you or the rum runners??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulan1123 Posted June 7, 2015 #116 Share Posted June 7, 2015 My family and I will be on this cruise in December. This will my brother and I first Carnival cruise (we cruised on RCI). My parents went on a Carnival cruise on about 12 years ago or so...... This is making me excited!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jst Posted June 7, 2015 #117 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Love the review so far, can you post a picture of the evening live music schedule from the daily times am interested in the bands on board? Thanks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooksma Posted June 8, 2015 #118 Share Posted June 8, 2015 You make me look forward to HMC even more! Great photos :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saskplcguy Posted June 8, 2015 #119 Share Posted June 8, 2015 We're going last week of November. So looking forward to this. Sent from my SM-T310 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinbabs Posted June 9, 2015 Author #120 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Love the review so far, can you post a picture of the evening live music schedule from the daily times am interested in the bands on board? Thanks :) I need to scan my funtimes still.. aka take a picture of them.. been slacking but I will see what I can find for you! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinbabs Posted June 9, 2015 Author #121 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Love your review. Your HMC pics are awesome! thank you. still plugging away and trying to do some more but it was month end closing last week and I have a short week this week before leaving for nyc.. so I am trying to do it all.. keep those balls in the air! hehehe.. nothing special to take pics, just my iphone6.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinbabs Posted June 9, 2015 Author #122 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I booked over 7 months out, and they were available right away. YMMV ya maybe ours were too? cant remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinbabs Posted June 9, 2015 Author #123 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Hahaha! Love the second to last tender sardine pic. Never understood what the rush was for..... Great review! right? they wont leave without you... lol.. thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinbabs Posted June 9, 2015 Author #124 Share Posted June 9, 2015 We just got back from our Glory cruise and Half Moon Cay was our favorite port! We also had cabana 10 and loved it! welcome back! HMC IS MY HAPPY PLACE!!! its always hard to get off the ship! ugh. yup cabana 10 is my go to cabana from here on out.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinbabs Posted June 9, 2015 Author #125 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Great review... Going on the same cruise in about a month. Not sure if I want to try the water bottle trick that worked for you or the rum runners??? as of today unable to any more.. guess I will just save up and order my booze on board through the fun shops.. :-/ new policy wont stop me from cruising.. love it too much. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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