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Bloomin Onion

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    Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  • Interests
    travelling, country concerts, swimming,
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Carnival/Royal Caribbean
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Caribbean

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  1. You know of anything closer to Bayside Marketplace? It would be more convenient for us to start and end the tour at Bayside vs in Miami Beach so we can head straight to the airport at the end.
  2. Thanks for the response. That is good to know especially about weekends as it will be on a Sunday (specifically next Sunday when we come back from Oasis of the Seas) especially cause Bayside looks nice from online and all the guide books. Our flight home isn't until 10:30 PM so we do have full day in Miami. Hope to visit the Art Deco district, Vizcaya and if there's time to get food at Versailles in Little Havana.
  3. Have any of y'all been on the Dragon's Breath zip line in Labadee? I've only been zip lining once and its was a tiny 100 foot zip line at a local fair, not anything like this. Does it feel like a roller coaster? I've read you are supposed to take off your glasses and wear closed shoes but in some of the YouTube videos people are wearing sunglasses. I wear glasses and its easier to keep them on to enjoy the view. Can you control how fast you go or is it a set speed based on the equipment and gravity? Is it true that the launch point is outside the secure fenced in area of Labadee and requires you going out side the gate?
  4. My family and I are considering taking the Metromover and Metrorail to the airport from Bayside Marketplace on our debarkation day. It seems to be much cheaper than even an Uber or taxi. Has anyone here experienced mass transit in Miami? Is it more like Washington DC where its used by the general public, or more like Baltimore or Atlanta where the trains are only used by people who can't afford a car and there are a lot of unsavory characters, crime concerns, etc etc? I don't know of any bad areas of Miami aside from Little Haiti, does the train go through any rough parts of town on the way to the airport? We are also of a different ethnic background than most of the city's population, will this be a problem like with some other cities mass transit systems (ie Baltimore, Atlanta.....)
  5. We'll be cruising on Oasis of the Seas from Miami this Sunday to next Sunday. Our return flight out of Miami isn't till 10 PM at night on Sunday and we want to spend the day in Miami and Miami Beach sightseeing, All of our luggage is carry on. Does Royal Caribbean offer a service to transport our luggage to the airport so we can pick it up at the airport later? I know they have an offer for luggage storage plus the hop on hop on Miami tour but that is $149 a person. We can buy our own hop on hop off tour tickets for $40 a person and take the metro or Uber to the airport. So we don't need it combined with the tour, plus that package ends too early at 3 PM and we want to do more sightseeing. Are there private companies around Bayside Marketplace that do luggage storage that any of y'all have experiences with that are reliable?
  6. Cruising out of New Orleans tomorrow on the Norwegian Breakaway and the Google maps directions are very different than the ones on the NCL website. The NCL website says to take Tchipotoulas Street to Henderson Street to Port of New Orleans Place. The second set of directions says to first go past the Carnival terminal at Erato Street. Would this mean heavy delays if there is also a Carnival ships in port? Are the Google maps directions (Chase Street to Convention Center Blvd) involve roads that might be blocked?
  7. Thanks for all the response y'all. We're deciding mainly between a 7 day cruise on Oasis that leaves Miami and goes to Labadee, St. Thomas, San Juan, and CocoCay vs a 9 day cruise on Grandeur of the Seas which goes from Miami to the Dominican Republic, San Juan, CocoCay, St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. Maarten. Its my understanding St. Croix is less touristy (and everyone I know who've visited there was there for work at the oil refinery) and not sure how special Puerto Plata is, if the two extra days on the ship can be better spent visiting the Miami Beach and Everglades National Park. Grandeur would be the second smallest ship we've been on (smaller than its sister the Enchantment of the Seas) and it has fewer restaurant selections and doesn't have the large water slides and zip lining on board. But the itinerary does seem a big more appealing since it includes TWO of the Virgin Islands (we had initially wanted to fly there and get a resort but that would be much more expensive) and St Maarten seems interesting (though Labadee as a private destinations sounds good too.) So the Grandeur cruise would be on a smaller ship but more days and more ports. If we go on Oasis, since there are large water slides on board I'll probably not pay extra on CocoCay for the amusement park section. Both CocoCay and Labadee look very appealing. So far I've been on the Carnival Ectasy back in 2000 from Miami to the Bahamas, that ship is small compared to all the rest but that was my first cruise but I was impressed. Also been on the Enchantment of the Seas from Baltimore to Bermuda, then the Explorer of the Seas from Seattle to Alaska and Norwegian Getaway from New Orleans to Cozumel, Jamaica and Grand Cayman. RCI ships seem better than Norwegian in that there are more places to relax and enjoy the ocean, Norwegian has more food selections but the restaurants take up a lot of space on the ships, also with Norwegian you have to pay to use the sauna and hot tub in the gym area while at least with Explorer of the Seas I didn't have to and they had a nice indoor hot tub.
  8. I mean mainly in the number of passengers. My main concern is it will take much longer to get on and off the ship at the various ports of call and on embarkation day, like for example the difference between leaving a high school football game and leaving an NFL game.
  9. I'm exploring cruise options for next year and several of the places we really want to visit including St. Thomas are on Oasis of the Seas or Harmony of the Seas, the largest class of ships not just within Royal Caribbean but in general. The marketing is proud of how big they are and how much they offer. But I'm curious if any of y'all think they're TOO big. Specifically does it take longer than usual to embark and disembark especially at the ports of call? Does the check in process take a lot longer, the lines within the ship for restaurants, stores, etc? The largest ships we've been on previously are Explorer of the Seas and the Norwegian Getaway. Also I noticed from the pictures a lot of the rooms have balconies overlooking the "Main Street" open area in the middle of the ship courtyard style. Is the soundproofing in these rooms really good enough where the noise from outside doesn't enter the rooms?
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