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[moffl]

Hello All:

 

My wife and I are flying into Fort Lauderdale 2 days early for our cruise on the Grand Princess jan 16/08. We will be staying at one of the Marriots not sure if i should mention the whole name ( don't want to cause S***t) could someone tell me places to go so that i can take pictures that would be close by

 

Anything is better than sitting in a hotel for 2 days

 

thanks

[Toto2Kansas]

Hello All:

 

My wife and I are flying into Fort Lauderdale 2 days early for our cruise on the Grand Princess jan 16/08. We will be staying at one of the Marriots not sure if i should mention the whole name ( don't want to cause S***t) could someone tell me places to go so that i can take pictures that would be close by

 

Anything is better than sitting in a hotel for 2 days

 

thanks

It's OK to mention the full name of the hotel and location. And probably the only way you will find accurate responses to your question. ;)

[SheltieLady]

I would go over to the Florida Board, go down to East Coast Departure then there is a seperate link for Florida Depetures and it's full of wonderful information.

 

Christine

[moffl]

thanks we will be staying at the

Marriott Hotel Fort Lauderdale North

 

6650 North Andrews Avenue

[DrivesLikeMario]

Everglades Holiday Park is a beautiful, natural place to take pictures. Just do a search for that name. It's about a 35 min. drive from the hotel. The air boat rides are fun too. There's a lot of picture-taking ops there.

 

You can always drive down to South Beach too.

[Genghis Khan]

We had a great time riding the water taxi's up and down the canals. Great photo ops as you pass by the beautiful homes and yachts. Recalled the price was reasonable. Got you close to lots of the sites along the beach and around Las Olas. Looked tough at times to get a boat along the middle stops. We got on and off near the ends.

[Stevesan]

Hello All:

 

My wife and I are flying into Fort Lauderdale 2 days early for our cruise on the Grand Princess jan 16/08. We will be staying at one of the Marriots not sure if i should mention the whole name ( don't want to cause S***t) could someone tell me places to go so that i can take pictures that would be close by

 

Anything is better than sitting in a hotel for 2 days

 

thanks

 

Hi, moffl. You should look into the roll call. We passed the 1,000 post mark so you can find lots of info and good camaradie there:

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=641796

 

Isn't Marriott North the hotel Princess uses?

[Nana G]

There is not much around the Marriott North. Hve been there 3 times. A nice little nature sanctuary next door but not much elde. If you have a car, that would be great.

[moffl]

Sure would like to have a car but since we are from Saskatchewan Canada and the exchange rate along with everything else makes it kind of hard to rent a car especially if you come from s small town of 35000 and then try to drive in Fort Lauderdale and Miami.

[tinker 4]

If you have gone through Princess for your hotel then I would see if they can put you up in the one on 17st or in Plantation. Our first trip Princess put us up there and trust me when I say they have next nothing out there.