Today I am going on the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Hollywood. It’s $76 for the basic tour. They have some bigger packages. The plus tour is considerably more expensive at $160 and the description doesn’t tell you what you really get other than “additional time with the tour…
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I booked the Loews Hollywood Hotel for my one night stay in Hollywood. There were some cheaper options, but I felt the drop in quality was more significant than the drop in price.
This is the second time I’ve stayed at this hotel. Last time I was able to get…
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At 3am I woke up and it sounded like a party was going on next door. It’s the same room that had that on the first night. The crazy thing is it’s two older ladies in that room. But it sounds like on the first and last night they…
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Good morning! We are in Ensenada today, but it is the last day of the cruise. Before leaving my room, I left a thank you note and additional tip for the steward.
This shows our current position. We aren’t quite to Ensenada yet but we’re getting close.
We have another short…
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My trip to Ensenada was just to satisfy the rule about making a foreign port call on my Hawaiian cruise. Because of that we didn’t have a very long port day.
There weren’t many tour options. I went with the World Famous Blow Hole tour which was $50 through Carnival….
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Good morning. Today is our last sea day before we reach Ensenada. One thing about this room location. It hasn’t been much of a problem but one day I could hear a bunch of workers laughing and talking like echoing under the floor. Now I hear someone whistling. The…
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These are the slides from Kate Chapman’s Stargazing presentation on Carnival Radiance. Social media and contact information for her are on the last slide.
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Good morning. Today is yet another sea day as we make our way to Ensenada, Mexico. The coffee line is five deep this morning.
I headed to the Pig & Anchor for the 8:30 nature walk and nobody was there.
I hung around to catch the wake.
Within five minutes the naturalist…
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These are the slides from Steve the Naturalist’s Reef Romance Presentation on Carnival Radiance.
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Good morning. We lost an hour in the time change this morning. We’ll be losing an hour each day on our way to Ensenada.
The coffee line is only two deep this morning.
It looks nice out here but it’s extremely windy.
I headed back in to the atrium bar and got…
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