The Dominican Republic is so beautiful. Thanks for keeping up with our travels. You should join us on a cruise sometime.

Enjoy. She ended up not being one of our favorite cruises, but she wasn't bad. We just didn't enjoy her as much as we thought we would with our first NYE cruise. Don't let that ruin your cruise though as everyone's experience is different.

@ I love every minute I’m on a cruise.

It was$25/person. There are stands all through the Bayside market area to book the tour. It was ok for the price, but the tour guide was playing on his phone more than talking to the guests. He pointed out 7 or 8 houses total out of all we saw. It was an interesting trip though.

We didn’t really see due to pretty much getting straight on, but it didn’t look crowded when we got there. Embarkation once in the terminal went quickly. Debarkation was crazy though. The lines and trying to get to baggage claim were awful.

@@traubtravelsmaybe I’ll skip paying for FTTF then. On the last day we are doing the Miami top ten with airport transport so hopefully they let us out earlier to make the bus.

The biggest benefit for us to use FTTF was not having to keep up with our back packs and carry on. At debarkation you do have an early debarkation time, but our flight wasn’t until 9:30 pm so we chose not to take advantage of that part of it.

They actually had 2 times for the main shows (88 Keys, America Rocks, Flick, and My Dear Future Husband) doors open at 7 and 9 and shows were 7:30 and 9:30. We personally prefer the early dining time to make the shows. Most people we talk to that do Your time dining complain about not seeing “Showtime “ in the MDR due to getting there too early or too late.

You think eating in the MDR in an hour is doable? With an actual dining time instead of YTD, to clarify.

@@K.KILLORANit is doable, but make sure to let your waiter know that you are trying to make a show. They’re really good at making it happen. Also make sure to get there when the MDR opens at 6 if early time.

Hopefully I'll have that up in the next few days. The Countdown was amazing, although the sky opened up about 5 seconds before midnight.

Not really any other then the use of the Thermal Suite and instead of 10-20-30% off on spa treatments, it was 20-30-40. We only did a couples 75 minute Swedish massage though as they had a real good Managers special on embarkation.

Have you been on her before? We really enjoyed our time on there. Enjoy!

We loved it too. Mardi Gras had some great shows, but we enjoyed the smaller theater shows more then the Central Stage shows

Did we get to meet? We loved the cruise and met lots of people during the week.

@@traubtravels no I don’t think we met I had so much fun it was my 2nd time on her

That was our first and I’m sure not our last. Our next cruise though is on Magic Dec.28-Jan.5 out of Miami.

It was fun. That was the first time Dorraine and I made Sushi. We were surprised at how easy it really was. The hardest part is getting the rice cooked correctly....The rest was a snap..

LOL.

We were pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to get around the ship. We were concerned with the large ship we’d get lost but that wasn’t the case. We’d definitely sail her again.

We loved it too. Only bad part of the overhang is trying to take pictures of the horizon.

@@mdweddingplanner You’re welcome! Can’t wait to enjoy the cruise

Yep! We always have fun on our cruises. Our next one will be in September on Mardi Gras. We'll post a video series on that after we get back.

Did you cruise already or when are you cruising?

Thanks! Yeah it helped a little with the lighting in the room.

Our pleasure!

Thanks! The only complaint we had is the walk since it’s all the way in the front of the ship. Otherwise it was quiet and you could walk down the hall to access the secret deck as it’s called. Great spot to watch for pier runners if the ship is in port by front end.

@@traubtravels yeah, it looks fab!

They do have some excursions to some beaches, but I don't recall which ones. I don't believe any of the all inclusive's I mentioned were offered through the ship. You had to book those directly with the resorts.

Paradise is more Family oriented we’ve read. There are lots of beaches though.

No. That was our first time in Cozumel and decided to go there. There are 3 all inclusives we know of, Mr. Sanche, Nachi Cocum, and Paradise Beach.

No, some people drive and bring them. Others that fly go to Walmart or such to get to bring on board.

We didn't notice one when we were on there.

What did you think of her. She's an older ship, but we enjoyed it. The only real bad weather was when we got back to NOLA. Some high winds at times prevented a lot of the deck activities, but we made the best of it.

The weather was great. It was in the mid 80's. There was a little overcast, but it still felt great. The water was a little cool for us, but we enjoyed the beach and the great food and drinks.

Was that the November 27th cruise

@@teressajames4108 Yep. 11/27-12/2