Don’t Get Left Behind

I enjoy shore excursion shopping especially if it is something I really want to do and there are two or three trip options that include it. For the most part I tend to book through the cruise line for many reasons but the main one being that if anything went wrong and we were delayed…

Caribbean Cruise St Maarten/ Sint Maarten

St Maarten sadly was our last Caribbean port of call but it ended with some fabulous weather! Our plan here had been to visit Maho Beach (also known as Airplane Beach) but our previous evening had actually gone on until 3.45 that morning so Maho had moved to the back of our minds slightly. We…

Caribbean Cruise Tortola

What a really pretty place this is, that was my reaction to Tortola. The sky was a little overcast but it still was very humid and you could just see the sun trying to escape through the clouds. Today we would embark on the Best of Tortola excursion and I couldn’t wait, I had been…

Caribbean Cruise Jamaica

In the words of Damian Marley, welcome to Jamrock! And what a warm welcome it was! When I first booked the cruise and told people our ports of call I kept hearing the same things over and over again about Jamaica. It’s not safe, don’t go anywhere unless you are in a group, try to…

Caribbean Cruise Cozumel

Ahhh Cozumel! The day that we had planned as a beach day and what happened, the Carnival Legend pulled up next door and it started raining! OK I can’t blame the Legend as it only rained briefly and it was still so muggy and warm it felt like you could barely breathe. We made our…

Caribbean Cruise Roatan

Roatan was the island I had been looking forward to the most so obviously it would rain torrentially for most of the day wouldn’t it but, that did not stop us enjoying our day. Before we left the UK I had booked a trip through the Shore Excursions Group who are based in Florida. It…

Caribbean Cruise Panama Canal

Our Panama Canal day actually started in the middle of the night. We knew if we wanted a prime spot we had to more or less camp for it, so that’s exactly what we did….sort of. We awoke before the sunrise and made our way forward on deck 14 at roughly 5am. I had expected…

Caribbean Cruise Aruba

We arrived in Aruba after a day at sea so I think everyone was feeling a little more recharged and ready to explore once again. The cruise port was a hive of activity as there were 5 ships in port including us so it was a little crazy for a few minutes trying to navigate…

Caribbean Cruise Grenada

Port 4 was Grenada, our last port before a now well needed sea day. I love port days but we all need a day off every now and then to just do nothing. Today we were going to spend the day at Grand Anse beach. We had heard so many great things about this beach…

Caribbean Cruise Barbados

Our third island was Barbados. The sun was shining, the temperature was increasing nicely and Celebrity Summit had also joined us in port for the day. Barbados was one of the ports we did not really have anything planned for. We had assumed we didn’t really need to do much work on this one before…