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Old November 3rd, 2006, 06:15 PM posted to rec.travel.cruises
Brian K[_1_]
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Default First cruise - CARIBBEAN - questions

On 11/2/2006 4:29 PM plucked Senior Frog's
Magic Twanger and said:
We decided to buy our first cruise:
place - Caribbean, time - December, we found too many nice cruises and
now we are confused what is the best for us? We need some help....

We have three types:
1) 7-night Caribbean-Western - from Miami with Royal Caribbean -
Voyager of the Seas
- Labadee, Haiti
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
- Cozumel

2) 8-night Caribbean-Eastern - from Fort Lauderdale with Royal
Caribbean - Radiance of the Seas
- San Juan, Puerto Rico
- St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda
- Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- St. Martin - Sint Maarten
- Nassau, Bahamas

3) 10-night Caribbean-Ultimate - from Tampa with Celebrity Cruises -
Zenith
- George Town, Grand Cayman
- Puerto Limon, Costa Rica
- Colon, Panama
- Roatan (Isla Roatan), Bay Islands, Honduras
- Cozumel, Mexico

We have a lot of questions, we are under 30, we would like to see a
lot, we like snorkeling, exotic places, good fun etc. It will be our
honeymoon, but we want to spend it in active way. We don't want to
spend all day on the beach.
Do You think 1st cruise for 10 nights isn't too long for first timers??
Is it better to take 7 nights?
Is it big diffrence between these lines ( royal and celebrity ) ? Is it
really bad to stay at interior room or it's better to pay a little bit
more for oceanview? what we should know about additional charges? Is
some lines better for "young" people? ( beside disney's ship )? What
about shore excursions? Have You tried something? What can You
recomend? Is it better to organize our time by ourselves or buy some
excursions? We would love to hear everything what You know, every
suggestion, specialy from people who tried one of those cruises.
It's our first time and we would like to know everything before we book
the cruise
Thank You soooooo much

Eve


Eve,

While everyone here will have different opinions about this...I can
suggest two things. Get some travel books from your local library.
Read up on the different islands and what they have to offer. Also,
Google "Adventure Travel", and / or "Adventure Cruising". That seems to
be the kind of trip that interests you. Rather than a large cruise
ship, you might want to look into sail driven cruises. Luxury sail ships
have a much lower draft and can get into ports in accessible to the big
ships. Excursions are more individualized when the number of passengers
is in the hundreds rather than thousands.

You may benefit from contacting a Travel Agent who is a full service
agent specializing in cruising. Note: By this I don't mean a cruise
consolidator. Rather, I am talking about the kind of agent who will
listen to *you* and will craft some cruise options based on your needs.
Also check into Cruise Critic on line which features reviews of the
various ships and cruise lines.

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