mokat76

 

I think your comments towards the cruise lines are unfair. Cruise lines, historically have donated millions of dollars in relief and disaster aid. Royal Caribbean provided over a million dollars to relief aid in Haiti after the terrible earthquake that took so many lives. Carnival over $5 million. I could quote many more news stories just by googling cruise critic stories on disaster relief. Let's wait and see what the cruise lines do before casting stones at them. Hopefully Dominica will recover quickly and I look forward to visiting and putting some of my money back into the local economy in April.

 

Cheers!

 

Ken

I hope that happens for Dominica. That would make life better for many.

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You made me scroll thru my pics. Here are a few from around the island.

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This is tragic. I was there earlier this year. It is a beautiful island, but the least developed of the stops we made on our cruise. I loved that. The people were wonderfully warm and friendly. It was the one island I wanted to revisit because of its natural beauty and the people.

Our tour guide told us then their government had thrown all its economic development resources at attracting tourism. The destruction of the infrastructure they need to get basic services to their own is crushing. That it also will devastate their one economic engine breaks my heart.

I would hope the corporations that put cruise ships into that port and make a ton of money off the cruisers would step up financially to help Dominica recover. They can't do it all, but they could help.

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I don't know where you got your information but according to the website it's $13 cash only.

Whew! I must have been misreading something on Trip Advisor. This makes much more sense and puts it back into the realm of must-dos. Thanks!!!!

So I just read that it's now $30 cash for the Hemingway House. Is there a lower cost option if you don't do the guided tour? That seems really pricey.

Disney Magic to the Caribbean. So much fun although the weather on sea days was pretty bad. Made some lifelong friends and memories and developed a love for cruising.

You can fly into Norfolk International (ORF) and taxi to downtown Norfolk. I think Amtrak now offers train service to Norfolk, but I'm not too certain about its frequency or reliability. Once out of the northeast corridor, Amtrak can be dicey.

Warning, there's another airport reasonably close in Newport News (PHF). I personally love it since I live near it, but taxi to downtown Norfolk would be very costly and would involve transit through one of our infamous bridge tunnels. Traffic often bogs down there. I'd avoid it.

July 2015

CABIN #: 9146

DECK #: 9

CLASS: M Class

AREA: Aft

BED NEAR: Bathroom

QUIET?: Some noise on balcony from upper decks, but no noise in room. You could hear chairs scraping from being moved around, but it wasn't bothersome

BALCONY VIEW: Fantastic!

BALCONY SIZE: Very large, we had three lounge chairs, along with a table and 4 chairs and still room to spare

WIND A PROBLEM?:no

SOOT A PROBLEM?:no

PROBLEMS/COMMENTS:Loved this cabin, we were upgraded at the last minute to this accessible cabin and it was very large. Loved it.

 

July 2015

CABIN #: 9142

DECK #: 9

CLASS: M Class

AREA: Aft

BED NEAR: Bathroom

QUIET?: Some noise on balcony from upper decks, but no noise in room. You could hear chairs scraping from being moved around, but it wasn't bothersome

BALCONY VIEW: fantastic

BALCONY SIZE: Very large

WIND A PROBLEM?:No

SOOT A PROBLEM?:No

PROBLEMS/COMMENTS:Our children had this room next to ours, They were very pleased with the room and the balcony. We would book this room again in a heart beat. The balcony alone would be worth booking this room again.:)

Hi, crazytomatoes

I saw your review right after I booked 9162. I'm hoping you can answer one question. I know it was your kids' room, but was their balcony also extra large? Does it get any sun at all?

Love your name, btw. [emoji3]

Return it to its rightful owner. Keeping it when you clearly could see what room it belonged to is stealing.

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Laughing so hard at these!! Don't want to hijack the thread but I think you'll appreciate this irrational "issue" I was on a Disney Cruise Line vacation. In the elevator one afternoon was a couple complaining long and loud about the ship being too themed and having too many kids. Uh, what? Did you miss Disney in the name?

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This sounds terrific!

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You will probably have greater success if you request second seating for dinner. First seating is such a hot commodity for parents with little kids that they might be less able to help you.

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