Saint Greg’s Carnival Celebration - Live - November 27-December 4, 2022

[kdr69]

6 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

I was going to do Emerils today but with my excursion I think it would be better for tomorrow 

The Bananas Foster is do die for....

[BohJang]

Hey Greg - I started your review a little late but I'm all caught up.  You are really making me want to try the Celebration. It looks awesome.

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2 hours ago, Megan_Strick said:

Why are they standing out there? Checking id's?

I think so. That’s why I stopped to take that one. I think only people who may be under 18

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1 hour ago, Megan_Strick said:

Your straw or theirs?

Mine

 

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10 minutes ago, kdr69 said:

On the TA the saying was "go up to go down or go down to go up" otherwise you were waiting a while for a car to go your way. So many elevators were down you just got on one and rode it till your floor appeared lol.

did that today.

walked up two decks then went down to go up.

 

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 No coconut!

 

 

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The good thing about carnival is the meeting point is at the end of the pier where with the outside vendor I had to walk through the port and outside. Then a few more blocks.

 

This is a little confusing because I don’t see anything Carnival. I see people with NCL clipboards and i see VV banners hanging. I asked someone he said these are for all cruise lines and chacchoben is always on the end.

 

This is my spot despite the VV banner.

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I just realized I’m in the wrong line this is chacchoben exclusive. Which is a small group. The line next to us with two people in it. All of the other people were taken to the bus early.

 

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The bus is pretty packed but not so packed that I have someone sitting next to me. 44 people.

 

Had to sign a waiver form.

 

This is the nicest tour bus I’ve been on. It feels brand new. Comfy seats. Tray tables. Overhead compartments. TVs.

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Driver is having to back out very slowly. That other tour bus is close.
 

 

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A lot of nice looking buses
 

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All of the vehicles look new here. I guess since it’s a fairly new port. That or they got some covid money. I’ll probably come back in 30 years and they’ll be using all the same stuff.

Tour guide says when ships aren’t in port, Costa Maya is a ghost town. Tour guides and port workers don’t live there. She lives two miles from Belize. Tonight she goes home for the week.

 

 

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Tour guide is taking orders for these sterling silver charms that you can get personalized during the tour. It’s $44-54 depending on how many letters you get.
 

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I don’t think this is a one way road..and it’s only two lane

 

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A lot of fruit stands. A lot of pineapple availability. Last year they had a competition on who could grow the biggest pineapple. The winner was 10 pounds. The pineapple…not the person who grew it.

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Burial ground

 

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chacchoben
1972 discovered
1994 uncovered
2002 open to public 

 

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Been to both
 

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Arrived 1043

Our guide had mentioned we would get assigned a local guide at the site. I’ve seen that at other places. I don’t know what happened but that didn’t happen. So maybe we didn’t get as much information as we were supposed to. I will say the best place for that was at Altun Ha in Belize. They broke our bus down into three smaller groups and each group had a local guide.
 

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This is the two sides and back of the main temple. There are staircases on all four sides. We will see the front of it at the end.

 

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A lot of people out here.

 

 

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Found my group.

 

 

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This is an example of the color the structures would’ve been back in the Mayan times.