Detailed Photo Review of Carnival Dream 7 Night Western Caribbean Cruise 3/10/19

[BigEasyCC]

On 4/4/2019 at 9:02 PM, Cairns Cruisers said:

Hi Walt fan,

I will be driving from NOLA to San Antonio next year. We are overnighting just north of Houston at

The Woodlands and then on to San Antonio for 4 nights. Would you be able to recommend any tourist things to do that aren't well known(Alamo,Missions etc) or any restaurants apart from the Riverwalk?

FYI we will do 2 days in Fredericksburg after San Antonio before Waco and home from Dallas.

 

Last time we went to visit San Antonio we went to the Natural Bridge Caverns. It was very cool.

[JaniceB]

Can't wait to read what you do in Belize.  

[ZoeyVictoria]

2 hours ago, JaniceB said:

Can't wait to read what you do in Belize.  

 

Same here!  I have been avoiding Belize since I was there on my very first cruise in 2004, but now there are some itineraries that I would be interested in if only I knew of something I would enjoy doing in Belize.  

[pghsteelerfan]

I really enjoyed your Roatan section and after seeing your pictures, I definitely think we need a re-do.  We were also at Bananarama in the loungers that day and there was only one row up against the wall in the shade because the water was coming up almost to that area because it was so windy and rough that day.  That does NOT look like the same beach we were at, but I know it is because everything else looked familiar.  I loved your snorkeling pictures!  I was thinking if we ever get back to Roatan we'd just stick to the beach at the cruise center, but I think my mind is changed.  And the sloths are so cute!!!  I'll be writing down the name of the tour guide you used.  We used Victor Bodden the last time and I enjoyed it, but there are things that take time away from the actual tour and our guide seemed to think we'd be more interested in seeing the big houses that "Americans" lived in, so I felt some of that time was wasted.  And all of the tours have a stop at Victor's place to pay, which also takes time, especially if it's one of the cruises with an 8am - 3pm (back on board by 2:30pm) port time.  Again, BEAUTIFUL pictures! 

[deladane]

8 hours ago, JaniceB said:

Can't wait to read what you do in Belize.  

 

5 hours ago, ZoeyVictoria said:

 

Same here!  I have been avoiding Belize since I was there on my very first cruise in 2004, but now there are some itineraries that I would be interested in if only I knew of something I would enjoy doing in Belize.  

 

I'll post the first few posts about Belize tomorrow morning!  Stay tuned!

[deladane]

3 hours ago, pghsteelerfan said:

I really enjoyed your Roatan section and after seeing your pictures, I definitely think we need a re-do.  We were also at Bananarama in the loungers that day and there was only one row up against the wall in the shade because the water was coming up almost to that area because it was so windy and rough that day.  That does NOT look like the same beach we were at, but I know it is because everything else looked familiar.  I loved your snorkeling pictures!  I was thinking if we ever get back to Roatan we'd just stick to the beach at the cruise center, but I think my mind is changed.  And the sloths are so cute!!!  I'll be writing down the name of the tour guide you used.  We used Victor Bodden the last time and I enjoyed it, but there are things that take time away from the actual tour and our guide seemed to think we'd be more interested in seeing the big houses that "Americans" lived in, so I felt some of that time was wasted.  And all of the tours have a stop at Victor's place to pay, which also takes time, especially if it's one of the cruises with an 8am - 3pm (back on board by 2:30pm) port time.  Again, BEAUTIFUL pictures! 

 

Thanks Holly!  I read a lot of positive reviews about Victor Bodden but I think a lot depends on which guide you get that day.  Unfortunately, that's not something you can plan in advance, so the only thing you have real control over is your itinerary with tours like this through the bigger companies.  I guess if you booked with a private person who runs a one-man shop where that is the only person you could get as a guide, then there's more guarantee of what exactly you will get.  

[deladane]

Thursday, March 14, 2019 ~ Belize City, Belize

 

 

Fun Fact:  Belize is the only country in Central America where the official language English. 

 

For several years, I have been reading about how Belize is said to have the best snorkeling reef in the Caribbean, so it has been on my bucket list to experience it for myself.  When I started researching ideas of what we could do with our time here, there was no question that it needed to include snorkeling.  Belize is a tender port and is known for having one of the longest distances to go between the ship and the tender dock, with most people reporting the ride took them around 30 minutes.  When we originally booked the cruise, we didn’t have FTTF yet (in fact, it wasn’t available for purchase until 7 weeks before the cruise… long after I would have needed to book a tour for today if I didn’t want to risk my tour of choice being sold out!), so I was a bit nervous about booking a tour through a private vendor because we would not have priority access to the tenders.  I have read horror stories about people not getting off the ship until after 10am due to crazy long lines for the tenders, or on some ships where they distribute tender tickets, you need to be on line very early in the morning to get a good ticket number.  Anyway, given my desire to avoid all of that drama, I actually considered booking an excursion for Belize through Carnival.  I know, that’s unheard of, right??  I usually avoid ship excursions at all costs because they tend to be more expensive, more crowded, and let you spend less time at the attractions as compared to private tours, and snorkeling excursions through the ship are notorious for being over protective and not letting you go out and do your own thing.  Despite this, I was still curious as to what options were available through Carnival because some of their tours left directly from the ship, saving an hour or more on the round trip tender rides, and then I wouldn’t have to worry about the tender at all so no stress and no lining up crazy early for tender tickets.  I found a tour which seemed interesting called Sharks, Rays, Barrier Reef Snorkel, and Island Escape.  The tour takes 5 hours, starting with a 45 minute ride by boat out to the coral reef to go snorkeling, then to a sandbar called Shark/Ray Alley to swim with nurse sharks and stingrays, then to a little island called Caye Caulker where you could buy lunch or explore on your own for an hour or so before the 45 minute ride back to the ship.  Carnival was charging $99 per person for this tour, which actually sounded reasonable considering how much was included in the itinerary.  I was very close to booking the tour, but I just kept having this nagging voice in my head, reminding me about how people always complain about ship excursions and did I really want to take that risk at a port which was so important to us?

 

Giving into my apprehension, I started to research private tour companies to see what other options I had.  There were several companies offering tours that sounded incredible, with small boats taking you snorkeling at some of the best parts of the reef, but those tours seemed better suited for people visiting Belize on a land vacation.  You needed to be at their offices on Caye Caulker very early in the morning and that was not possible for us coming from a cruise ship in Belize City.  One of the tours even has you take an airplane to get out to their office, but that sounded very risky because we wouldn’t know the details of tendering until that day and if we missed our flight, we would also miss out on the entire tour!  That sounded like more stress than I could handle, especially considering this was 7 days into our vacation and I’d probably be worried about missing the flight and not enjoying my time on vacation.

 

I was about to give up and just book with Carnival when I discovered Coral Breeze.  They offered a tour that sounded identical to Carnival’s itinerary, but with the benefit of a smaller group on a smaller boat, and this tour only cost $75 per person.  Their website was very helpful in answering all of my questions, including the biggest question: how to handle the time difference.  I think this may be the first time I have ever been in a port where ship time and local time were different!  On all of my prior cruises, either the ship changed its clocks to match local time at each port (Celebrity does this, as did the Carnival Sunshine when I cruised in the Mediterranean), or the embarkation city had the same time zone as all of the ports (as with my cruises out of Puerto Rico and Tahiti).  Luckily, the Coral Breeze website does a great job at understanding how to convert ship time to port time, even detailing the difference between ships leaving from Eastern vs. Central time zone in the US and between when Daylight Savings Time starts and ends.  We got lucky for the other ports on this cruise because Mexico and Roatan did not change their clocks as we did on Sunday, so we ended up being on the same time as them, but for Belize, ship time was one hour ahead of local time.  When I booked the tour on their website, they required a $12.50 per person deposit, and the rest could be paid in cash on the day of the tour.  Skip ahead to 7 weeks before the cruise when FTTF finally opened up, I breathed a huge sigh of relief knowing that we wouldn’t have any problems meeting up with our guides in Belize.  The instructions that Coral Breeze emailed me said we had to meet at 10am ship time at the pier at Terminal 4 (the tenders go to Terminal 2, so it’s close by), so we would have had a little wiggle room and not needed to be on the very first tender to get there on time, but it was a whole lot less stressful when we knew for sure that we could take the first tender if we wanted to.

 

Today’s Fun Times

 

 

 

 

In case you were wondering, here is the tendering information for people who don’t have priority access

 

[deladane]

Waking up this morning, we could tell that we had arrived near Belize from the ship map on our TV set.

 

 

You would never know it based on the view out our window!  There was nothing but water, as far as we could see.

 

We got dressed, slathered on a ton of sunscreen, packed up our day bags, and went upstairs to Lido in search of burritos.  When we stepped outside from the mid-ship elevators, we were greeted by tons of towel animals!  I had read somewhere that Carnival does this on the last port day of the cruise, but we were due to arrive at Cozumel at 7am tomorrow so maybe they did it today instead to have a little more time to complete all the animals?  Who knows!  Either way, it made me smile!  Unfortunately, it was verrrrry windy today so a lot of the animals were decapitated because the wind blew off their heads!  Oops!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once again, there was hardly anyone in line for the breakfast burritos at Blue Iguana.  The lines for the regular breakfast buffet and the omelet stations were always super long, so I’m not sure if people didn’t know about the burritos or didn’t like them or what, but I wasn’t complaining! 

 

 

[deladane]

After breakfast, we went down to the mid-ship entrance to the MDR for our priority tender access.  There were already about 100 people sitting at tables in the MDR and we were instructed to join them as the ship had not been cleared yet.  While we were sitting there, one of the crew members came around to each table to make sure we had FTTF and were NOT booked a Carnival shore excursion.  Those people who were booked on Carnival excursions were instructed to go to the meeting place listed on their tickets so they could leave the ship with their tour group and they were not supposed to make use of the FTTF priority tenders.

 

At around 8:10am, they escorted us down the stairs so we could board a tender which was specifically designated for people with priority access.  Remember all of that wind up on Lido deck causing mass decapitation of towel animals?  Well that same wind was wreaking havoc on the tender boat and it was bopping up and down in the waves like crazy!  They had two guys on the ship and another two guys on the tender to assist passengers safely as they transferred between the two boats. 

 

Funny little side story… While we were sitting on the tender waiting for everyone to board, the girl sitting next to us started freaking out.  Long story short, she booked an excursion through Carnival and the tickets said she should meet in the theater.  All of her friends were in the theater and texting her through the Carnival Hub app that they were waiting for her and why wasn’t she there yet?  She told them she was already on a tender, and they said she shouldn’t be on the tender yet!  We finally figured out that she missed the announcements that people with FTTF who booked excursions through Carnival should not take the priority FTTF tender because they had to go to the meeting place printed on their excursion tickets.  She tried asking the crew members who helped us to board the tender if she could get off to meet her group in the theater, but they told her to just stay on this tender because her excursion group would end up exiting their tender on the same dock as us, but we would get there first so she could meet up with them when they arrived.  We told her to make sure to communicate that with her friends ASAP because once our tender pulled away, she would probably lose access to the Hub app and have no way to communicate with her friends!  We also wanted to make sure her friends knew not to wait for her and to just go with their group when their excursion was called.  I can only imagine how stressful this whole experience was for the girl on our tender, so learn a lesson from her… read your excursion tickets carefully if you book a Carnival excursion!!!

 

It took white a while to load up the whole tender, but we finally pulled away at exactly 8:30am.  I was happy that we were able to find seats on the lower level so we could hide in the shade because the upper level was completely exposed to the sun.

 

Holy moly!  It was sooooo rocky as we first sailed away from the Dream.  I honestly thought they were going to turn the tender back around and abort the whole thing for fear of our tender tipping over.  Luckily, that did not happen and once we got a little further away from the Dream, the water was less choppy and we felt safer.

 

One of the (only) benefits of a tender port is getting a pretty view of the ship while we sail away!

[deladane]

The tender pulled up to the dock in Belize City at 8:50am, so it was a 20 minute ride, even in those rocky conditions.  We wished our new friend good luck in finding her tour group as we exited the tender.  The instructions from Coral Breeze said that our tender would arrive in Terminal 2 and we should walk over to Terminal 4 to meet our guide.  The walk was very short, but we needed to be careful not to get mixed up with the people exiting the cruise port area.  We got to our meeting place just before 9am and checked in with the Coral Breeze representative who was standing there.  He said to come back in 40 minutes to get fitted for flippers, and that there were restrooms and free wifi if we wanted to go wait in the shopping mall just a few steps away.  Looking back, I regret that I forgot to ask where the giant BELIZE sign was located because this would have been the perfect chance to take a photo with that sign.  I never did find the sign, but I have a feeling it was to the right when exiting the tender and we missed it because we went left towards Terminal 4.  Oh well! 

 

Just a warning… while it was probably smart of us to use the bathrooms at the port shopping mall because we wouldn’t have bathroom access again for a while, those bathrooms were surprisingly messy considering how early it was in the morning!  We had equally disgusting experiences for both the men’s and the women’s bathroom.  You have been warned!

 

We returned to the meeting spot at 9:40am and at first, the guides didn’t know where to send us.  One guide told us to go with this big group of 30 people, and at first, I obliged, but then I thought to second guess it.  Sure enough, that was a group who booked directly through Carnival and we did not belong on that boat.  The guide sent me to speak with the lady who was in charge, and I pointed out our name on her master list so she could figure out which group we were with.  I was under the impression that we booked our tour directly through Coral Breeze, and that everyone else on the tour boat with us would have booked the same way.  When we finally did get split up into the right groups, we were on a boat with about 10 other people, including a family of 6 people who we were wearing Carnival excursion stickers.  I meant to ask them about it later in the day, but I never got the chance.  I have to wonder if they booked that Carnival excursion that I saw online which cost $25 per person more than booking directly through Coral Breeze’s website?  The other group was a family of 4 with two young children (perhaps 4 and 9 years old??), which seemed a bit odd considering we would be snorkeling out in open water and this didn’t seem like an appropriate excursion for a child that young. 

 

They led us out to a pier where they had a bunch of flippers lined up so we could try them on and find our size, then they helped us load up onto the speed boat.  Our boat for today was probably big enough to fit 20 people, so we had some space to spread out with only 12 of us on the tour.  We had 3 guides on the boat with us, with Beto being the lead guide, Rocky was the assistant, and there was a third guide but I never heard his name (he was the one who stayed on the boat while we were in the water in case people didn’t want to swim or came back early).  They told us to get comfortable because we had about 45 minutes to go before arriving at our first stop, and we left the dock at exactly 10am (ship time).

 

Ready for a fun day in Belize!  Note that we’re both wearing long sleeve rash guards… those things are life savers on all day boat tours like this where there is basically no shade for the entire day!

 

I think these were the boats they used as tenders to/from the Dream

 

 

[CruzerDeb]

On 4/9/2019 at 10:31 AM, deladane said:

Tuesday, March 12, 2019 ~ Costa Maya, Mexico

 

 

 

 

 

Really enjoying your review!  What software do use to personalize your photos?  I love this so much!

[deladane]

8 hours ago, CruzerDeb said:

Really enjoying your review!  What software do use to personalize your photos?  I love this so much!

 

I use an app on my iPad called Spark Post.  They have hundreds of templates which are completely customizable in every way (size, color, font, design, layout, etc.) so I just play around with it until I find something that looks good!

[bmc alabama]

Enjoying your review.  Looking forward to Cozumel. I believe we weee there on the same day on Regal Princess.

[deladane]

1 hour ago, bmc alabama said:

Enjoying your review.  Looking forward to Cozumel. I believe we weee there on the same day on Regal Princess.

 

Thanks for reading!  You were docked 2 ships over from us, with the Vista in between.  Your ship shows up in one of the photos I took that day.... I'll post it when I get to that part of the review 🙂

[deladane]

We spent the next 30 minutes speeding through the water and holding onto the benches on the boat for dear life.  Speed boats are always a bit rough and uncomfortable when traveling at full speed towards a destination that is far away, but it was even worse today given all of the wind.  We’ve taken enough tours like this that I was prepared for it, but I still view these longer rides as a necessary evil to get to the good part of the excursion haha

 

I will say that the scenery was beautiful!  The water was a light shade of aqua, and we passed by lots of little islands filled with lush green palm trees.

 

 

Finally, we reached our first little “stop” at 10:30am… the mangroves.  The reason I put “stop” in quotes was that we were literally here for 3 minutes lol 

 

 

 

The guides slowed down the boat to a crawl and they talked about a few of the animals we might see here, but we didn’t actually see any animals and we once we exited the mangroves, we went right back to speeding along through the water.

 

Finally, at 11am, we arrived at Caye Caulker.

 

Beto explained that we would tie up at the dock here for about 10 minutes so we could order food for lunch if we wanted to eat at this restaurant.  They would have the food ready for us when we returned in 2 hours to save us time and give us more time to explore Caye Caulker.  DH and I usually eat a big enough breakfast that we can skip lunch in port and we just eat a late lunch or a snack to hold us over until dinner.  Yesterday, that kind of back-fired and ruined my appetite for dinner, so we decided to order a grilled chicken breast sandwich to share.  We weren’t sure how hungry we would be in 2 hours, if at all, but we figured sharing the sandwich would work out well and one of us would probably be hungry enough to eat it.

 

This is the restaurant where Beto recommended for us to eat lunch… The Magic Grill

 

The sandwich we ordered cost $8 USD, and the waitress told us we could pay for it after we ate. 

 

 

[deladane]

Once everyone placed their orders, we got back on the speed boat for a quick trip over to the coral reef for some snorkeling.  I wish I thought to take a photo of how it looked when we arrived because OMG it was crowded!  There were several other tour boats anchored in the same area, and some of those boats must have had 50 people on their tours because they were super packed!  Beto split our boat into two groups… the family of 6 went with Rocky, and DH and I were going to stay with Beto with the family of 4 with those two young kids.  The water looked very choppy, probably because it was still windy plus there was a strong current.  Beto said we would swim out away from the boat along the reef for about 20 minutes, then turn around and let the current push us back to the boat. 

 

My notes say we finally jumped in the water at 11:55am, so 4 hours after boarding the tender, we were finally getting to snorkel here in Belize!  Once we were all in the water, I could see that Beto was holding onto that little boy and swimming with him in his arms.  Honestly, this really bothered me.  As I suspected, that boy was not able to safely swim for himself so he needed a lot of extra attention from our guides, and that meant that DH and I had a lesser experience.  I had read tons of reviews about this specific tour both through Coral Breeze and through other tour vendors, and most of them talk about how wonderful their guides were at diving down to pull up interesting animals and pointing out things to see.  We did not experience this at all because 100% of Beto’s attention was focused on that little boy.  If that family knew their son was not a strong enough swimmer to participate on his own, they should have paid for a private tour where the guide could focus on them and the needs of their family.  Instead, they were put on our group tour which meant that DH and I did not receive the experience we paid for.  I really wish I had ignored Beto’s instructions and stuck with Rocky and the family of 6 because at least they were all adults and could swim for themselves, so Rocky had his hands free to give them a great tour.  I guess it just comes down to luck of the draw as to who is on a group tour with you, but this was very disappointing considering how much research I did to find the perfect tour for us and how much I was looking forward to experiencing the snorkeling in Belize.

 

On top of that, with all of those people snorkeling in the same spot, it was extremely difficult to stay together as a group.  At one point, DH was swimming behind me and then he got separated from us and he blended into a different group.  He couldn’t figure out where we were and it was very stressful because once you get separated from your guide in that situation, you have no way to know where your boat is and you start to panic.  Luckily, he did eventually find us again, but it was a bit frantic for a while and I’m sure that Beto would have done a better job of keeping us together if he didn’t have all of his energy focused on towing that little boy.  Ugh!  Sorry for the rant, it was just so frustrating!

 

With all of that said, the reef was impressive and it was worth the struggle and time it took to get here.  It was very similar to the snorkeling we did off the beach yesterday in Roatan and there was a ton of coral, but I think a lot of it looked bleached out and dead.  When I am snorkeling, I love to linger and give the fish a chance to peek out of the rocks.  That was totally impossible in this situation as I had to keep up with Beto to avoid getting lost in the water, and the conditions were so rough that I really couldn’t stop swimming and safely stay afloat.  I also always try to swim with the sun behind me to get the best possible photos, but that was a lost cause in this situation.  These were the best of the photos I took, but I had to delete a lot of them because they weren’t very good.

 

 

 

 

I liked seeing the purple coral as that’s a rare find

 

 

 

[deladane]

I’m pretty sure there’s an anemone down there but we were moving so fast that I couldn’t really check it out

 

 

 

At one point, the coral was very close to the surface of the water.  It wasn’t as scary as yesterday when I thought I would bump into it, but it was still too close for comfort.  I think this was around the point when we turned back towards our boat.

 

 

 

 

[deladane]

This was my favorite photo from today… my eye went right to the blue and yellow fish, but it wasn’t until I got home and saw the photo on my computer that I saw the bigger fish swimming up from between the coral!

 

Honestly, I’ll give this snorkeling experience a solid B+.  While we saw a high volume of coral, I expected to see much more vibrant colors.  I also expected to see many more fish than we saw as there were really very few fish, and like I mentioned, if there was anything else worth seeing that I missed (which I’m sure there was), our guide did not point anything out to us.  I think our boat went to this particular reef because of its close proximity to Caye Caulker, but I wish we could have gone somewhere else, even if it was just a few minutes further away, so we weren’t at the same place as all the other boats.  I don’t know… I’ve just heard such amazing things about the reefs in Belize so I had very high expectations.  Maybe I’m jaded, but I don’t think those expectations were met.

 

Swimming back to our boat was quite chaotic.  We had no idea which boat was ours because all of the boats look the same when you are in the water.  When we finally found our boat, we had to swim against the current to get there so it took all of our energy.  By the time I climbed back onto the boat, all I wanted to do was take a nap! Haha

 

Like it or not, there’s no rest for the tourist because now it was time for Shark/Ray Alley.  We went about 5 minutes across the water to a sandbar that was supposed to be shallow enough for us to stand so we could play with the nurse sharks and stingrays.  As we pulled up, we could see the sharks circling around the boat next to us.

 

 

When I jumped back in the water, I realized that the water was too deep for me to stand.  Not only that, but the current was really rough and kept pushing me further and further from our boat.  If I was able to stand, then I would have anchored myself and it would have been okay, but since I was forced to float, it felt like I was swimming in one of those endless spa pools you see on TV lol 

 

I pulled on my snorkel mask and ducked under water to see about 10 stingrays swimming all around us! 

 

Even though this is not the first time I have swam with stingrays (or sharks, for that matter!), I still find it thrilling!  I know these animals are used to having humans in the water and it is unlikely that anything bad will happen, but there is always that tiny part of me that starts to over think the situation and worry that they might hurt me.  Don’t worry, that didn’t happen, and I lived to tell the tale (and share the experience with you!)

 

 

[deladane]

When we were in French Polynesia, we swam with black tipped reef sharks and lemon sharks.  Today, we swam with nurse sharks, so it’s another animal to add the mental checklist I have of amazing life experiences!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[deladane]

It’s just so mesmerizing to watch these graceful animals swim along the floor of the ocean

 

 

 

 

Crazy as it may seem, I took all of those photos in under 3 minutes!  It was so completely exhausting to swim against the current, and I kept drifting further and further away from the boat.  I started to panic that I wouldn’t be able to swim back to the boat, so I decided I had seen enough of the sharks and stingrays and I used all of my strength to swim back to the boat.  Just as I reached the ladder, Beto was helping the little boy get in the water.  I let them get in the water, then climbed back on the boat and collapsed onto one of the benches.  The third guide asked what was wrong, so I told him the current was too much for me and I had to give up.  He said “Why didn’t you hold onto the buoy attached to the rope at the back of the boat?”  Ummmm, what buoy?!?  No one told me there would be a buoy!  Well it turns out that Beto was so busy helping the little boy that he didn’t throw the buoy out into the water until after I was back on the boat!  Once again, that little boy got all of our guide’s attention at our expense.  Maybe he could have made sure the rest of the people paying to be on this tour were taken care of before he devoted all of his time to that child??  That family really should have booked a private tour.  Whatever, I was kind of over it at that point and didn’t have the energy to get back in the water.  The third guide (I really wish I could remember his name!!) was awesome.  He chatted with me while everyone else was still in the water, telling me about the sharks and the stingrays, and a little about his life in Belize.

 

There were a few birds circling the tour boats, trying to snag some of the fish used to bait the sharks and rays

 

Sorry for the water spots on my lens!  You can see the floating buoy here, and yes, that would have made my life much easier if it was in the water before they let any of us jump in!

 

[AndrewD65]

I am so addicted to your review, I could not stop reading it. You have done an awesome job and cant wait to see the rest of your vacation. 

[Backyardbum]

I am booked with Coral Breeze and I'm excited to see how your excursion ends.  I'm sad that the first part of your trip to the coral wasn't wonderful.  Can't wait to see how it ends.

[deladane]

On 4/19/2019 at 10:22 PM, AndrewD65 said:

I am so addicted to your review, I could not stop reading it. You have done an awesome job and cant wait to see the rest of your vacation. 

 

Thanks Andrew! So glad you are enjoying it :) I’ve been busy this weekend but I’ll post more during the week.

[deladane]

On 4/19/2019 at 11:12 PM, Backyardbum said:

I am booked with Coral Breeze and I'm excited to see how your excursion ends.  I'm sad that the first part of your trip to the coral wasn't wonderful.  Can't wait to see how it ends.

 

I just went back and re-read the reviews on Trip Advisor because I know I saw lots of good reviews before I booked with this company.  No one mentions our guides by name, but there are lots of positive reviews mentioning different guides.  I guess it is luck of the draw, plus the windy weather had a lot to do with the less-than-ideal conditions in the water.  I hope you have a wonderful day with them in Belize!  Definitely wear a long sleeve rash guard if you have one because there is limited shade and the sun is strong down there!!

[Florings]

Great excursion photos!  Looking forward to more.