I originally booked the Best of the West excursion in the afternoon. Twice they moved me to the morning which finally I canceled because it conflicted with my Curacao Walking Tour. I found this Discover Curacao Island Tour which had the Hato caves as a stop so I booked…
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In my research on Curacao the Free Walking Tours Curacao tour had excellent reviews and the all had the same tour guide, Rayay.
Carnival offered a walking tour for $35 but I would much rather do something like this where all of the money goes to the tour guide in…
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Good morning! We are in Bonaire today. I have another rental car with Hertz. I got up to use the bathroom at 2am and the water wasn’t working.
Now I see chatter on social media that they were working on a broken pipe and guest services was telling people there…
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Good morning! I slept until 9am and didn’t hear a peep out of the hallway. I think this is a great spot to be on the ship. Nobody has any reason to walk past my room really since I’m in the middle.
I did wake up a couple times. It…
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Good morning! Today is debarkation day. I’m driving home so I’m not in a big hurry. The first announcement from Rico was at 6:45 that we had docked but didn’t have clearance yet.
At 6:55 Rico announces we do have clearance. They called my group C for express debarkation. I…
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I just picked up my rental car from Hertz at the Divi Flamingo in Bonaire. It wasn’t as smooth as Aruba. The two people in front of me were not able to get the car they reserved. It was an issue because the person who was going to drive…
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Good morning! Today we’re in Aruba. This is my first time here so I want to see as much as possible. A popular thing to do in Aruba is rent golf carts. I waited until a month before the cruise to try to book one and they were all…
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In Aruba I rented a car from Hertz Renaissance Ocean Suites. It cost $97.40 and I had to bring it back with a full tank of gas. If you rent from this particular location, make sure you are going to the correct place. Even now having been there and…
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Good morning! I slept 10 hours like it was nothing. That’s a lot for me so I probably needed it. This room was extremely quiet last night. I hope it remains that way the entire cruise.
These cruises go by faster and faster. It feels like just yesterday I boarded…
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I just boarded Carnival Horizon in Miami for my 25th Carnival cruise. As you can see they recognized that on my mirror and I got the special 25th cruise milestone card. I stopped by the room just to drop my bags off. Then I’m going to grab a drink…
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