Our 25th Anniversary Adventure - Baja Mexico & Hawaii on the Inspiration & Splendor

HeyJut · May 25, 2019

Enjoying your review as usual.

Although I haven’t been on CC for 5 years I have read all of your reviews and like others feel I “know “ your family. My thoughts have been with you the past few days.

MsJersey84 · May 27, 2019

Following another great review!! Thank you

hockeyguru32 · May 27, 2019

On 5/21/2019 at 6:34 PM, Jamman54 said:

IT'S THE F%&^G CATALINA WINE MIXER

Luke Saint Joe · May 27, 2019

Hey, Jeff. Haven't begun to read about your most recent travels. Came here to ask a question. Will u please reach out to me when u have a moment. Nothing urgent. Carnival PVP question.

Jamman54 · May 27, 2019

On ‎5‎/‎25‎/‎2019 at 12:41 PM, jbhcw said:

Jeff...pictures are wonderful...love Ensenada....have stayed there several times and stopped several times on a cruise....I grew up in San Diego and brother now lives in Baja....so Patti's pictures just made my day!! BTW....two good Mexican beers...Pacifico...and Carta Blanca!

Thanks! I have tried both of those Mexican beers you mentioned. Excellent!

On ‎5‎/‎25‎/‎2019 at 12:54 PM, fyree39 said:

"....any more kids into the hot tubs." So true! I love the short cruises on the little ships, but, man, the number of kids on board can be insane!

It's nice to see Patti lets you use her camera. lol

Wait until you see the pictures. Normally I only get to touch the camera when I'm downloading the pictures.

On ‎5‎/‎25‎/‎2019 at 2:07 PM, Hogladyrider said:

Great pics....the Inspiration looks amazing after her upgrade.

Please be sure and tell Patti she looks FABULOUS! Not sure what she did or what her secret is but WOW and I like that she allows herself pina colada and other tempting treats!

Patti says Thanks!!!

Jamman54 · May 27, 2019

On ‎5‎/‎25‎/‎2019 at 6:49 PM, HeyJut said:

Enjoying your review as usual.

Although I haven’t been on CC for 5 years I have read all of your reviews and like others feel I “know “ your family. My thoughts have been with you the past few days.

Thanks for following along once again and for your kind words.

4 hours ago, MsJersey84 said:

Following another great review!! Thank you

Glad to have you aboard again!

1 hour ago, hockeyguru32 said:

41 minutes ago, Luke Saint Joe said:

Hey, Jeff. Haven't begun to read about your most recent travels. Came here to ask a question. Will u please reach out to me when u have a moment. Nothing urgent. Carnival PVP question.

Will do Lorrie!

Jamman54 · May 27, 2019

Day # 8 (April 25^th) - Fun Day at Sea.

Here are today’s Fun Times…..

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We were up at 7 am to a cloudy and hazy day. It was our last day on the Inspiration and we had yet to hear about the Diamond event with the Captain. I called Guest Services to ask about it and I was told that the Diamond event was held the day we were in Catalina. I told them that we were disappointed since we were never given an invitation.

Once again, as Patti was drying her hair, we lost power to the cabin. We made another call to Guest Services to send maintenance to our cabin. He reset the breaker again and explained to us that there are four cabins for each breaker, and if two or more people are drying their hair at the same time the breaker will trip. This has never happened before in our over fifty cruises, and I suggested to him that maybe you ought to replace that breaker. Geez, this day isn’t starting so well.

We are planning to head to the Sea Day Brunch today, but first Patti wants to check out the arts & crafts scheduled this morning. I would head to the Red Frog Rum Bar for a few beers. They were making Mother’s Day cards today…..

Afterwards, Patti collected me and we made it down to the brunch in the Mardi Gras Dining Room…..

We both had fruit plates to start…..

We got our free drinks using our coupons…..

This is what I had…..

This is Patti’s brunch…..

To be continued…..

Jamman54 · May 27, 2019

After leaving the Mardi Gras Dining Room I went to play blackjack one more time, (didn’t do so well), while Patti went to check out the Chocolate Extravaganza…..

Here are a couple of watermelon carvings…..

To be continued…..

Jamman54 · May 27, 2019

Patti went to check out the Del Norte Teen Choir who were performing in the Paris Lounge…..

Back up on the Lido it was amazing how many kids could fit in the hot tubs. I for one, would not be using them this cruise….

Patti and I went to check out the Love and Marriage Show with Ryan Rose…..

We hung around for the big bingo of the cruise, which of course, we didn’t come close to winning.

Afterwards we went back to the cabin to begin our packing. This was our final towel creation of this cruise…..

To be continued…..

Edited May 27, 2019 by Jamman54

Hogladyrider · May 27, 2019

WOW that's a LOT of chocolate!

As for the kids in the hot tubs, yikes, guess no one with Carnival was minding the store.

Jamman54 · May 27, 2019

We thought about going to YTD tonight, since Guest Services had sent us two vouchers for free Steakhouse Selections to make up for us “missing” the Diamond event.

However, when we got there the line to get in was crazy long, so we decided to go eat up on the Lido.

After we ate we took one last walk around the ship. Lisette and Tyler were playing in the Atrium…..

2Notes was playing at the Casino Bar…..

We passed by the Bonsai Sushi Express….

Motor City was being performed in the Paris Lounge…..

Back in the Candlelight Lounge, Comedy Club host Brooke is introducing tonight’s first act, Shayma Tash…..

Back to the cabin to finish packing, put the luggage out in the hall, and call it a cruise.

Coming up next: Goodbye Inspiration, hello Queen Mary!

SenatorsFan · May 28, 2019

Hope Patti didn't eat any of that "Chocolate mouse cake". I know I don't like mice in my chocolate cake!🤣Sorry, this comment should have been in the picture below.

Heather

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nissach · May 28, 2019

14 hours ago, Jamman54 said:

Back up on the Lido it was amazing how many kids could fit in the hot tubs. I for one, would not be using them this cruise….

To be continued…..

This is one of the main reasons why we opted for the more expensive Havana area on our Mexican Riviera cruise in March....too many kids in the hot tubs....yuck!!

Jamman54 · May 28, 2019

17 hours ago, SenatorsFan said:

Hope Patti didn't eat any of that "Chocolate mouse cake". I know I don't like mice in my chocolate cake!🤣Sorry, this comment should have been in the picture below.

Heather

Heather, I would be more worried if it was chocolate "moose" cake!

7 hours ago, nissach said:

This is one of the main reasons why we opted for the more expensive Havana area on our Mexican Riviera cruise in March....too many kids in the hot tubs....yuck!!

That's a good plan!

zencruisers · May 28, 2019

I am glad I found this review. Great pictures and commentary. Thank you for sharing!

Jamman54 · May 28, 2019

24 minutes ago, zencruisers said:

I am glad I found this review. Great pictures and commentary. Thank you for sharing!

Glad to have you aboard! More going up now! 😎

Jamman54 · May 28, 2019

Day # 9 (April 26^th) - Back in Long Beach.

We awoke at 7 am to find that we were already docked back in Long Beach. Here is the General Debarkation Information…..

Here is our Diamond Debarkation Information…..

We decided to skip breakfast this morning. We are not carrying our own luggage off, so at 8:15 am we vacate our cabin and head for the Library to wait. They have coffee and Danish there for us.

At 9 am we were allowed to debark the ship. Ryan Rose was at the gangway saying goodbye to everyone. We made the long walk across the bridge, into the dome, and down the ramps until we reached the baggage area. Finding our bags was easy since almost everyone carried their own bags off.

We will be spending today and tonight across the parking lot at the Queen Mary. I was hoping to have Big Al take our luggage over but he wasn’t available. However, Big JD jumped in and grabbed our bags. We are heading over to the Queen Mary…..

Welcome to the Queen Mary….

Our porter hands our luggage over to the bell hop…..

To be continued…..

Jamman54 · May 28, 2019

We are now embarking the Queen Mary…..

We board onto Deck “A” and the hotel lobby……

Since we are so early our cabin is not ready. They sore our luggage for us, and give us a faux key card so that we can be recognized as hotel guests. They will call us when our cabin is ready. We are here…..

Here are some of the Queen Mary highlights……

To be continued……

grandmarnnurse · May 28, 2019

Following along! I was so happy to see a post on another thread where you mentioned your review. I’ve been waiting (not so patiently—Lol) for it ever since I heard you were sailing to Hawaii for your 25th Anniversary. And the extra bonus of this shorter cruise was fabulous! My hubby and I are celebrating our 50th Anniversary in March, and had a cruise booked for April 11 for an 8 day on the Magic. After much discussion, we felt that wasn’t enough celebrating, so we added a week on, April 5, to make it a B2B, because these milestone anniversaries require a whole lot more celebrating! We are actually going to drive to Ft Lauderdale, so we are even leaving one week early, and rented a cottage in Florida before boarding our ship. We also added a cruise in February on the Glory out of NOLA, and heading there 3 days prior. I am so excited to be following along on yours and Patti’s celebration!

Jamman54 · May 28, 2019

We decide that we will head up to the Promenade Café for breakfast, which is two decks up. We start to head up the stairs, and at the first landing between decks, we find the old first class gymnasium…..