shonandsuzie

After weeks and weeks of denied bids on Priceline and no good prices on Hotwire, I had to bite the bullet so we can move on with our other travel prep! Not sure if something amazing is going on in SJU that weekend but the prices were consistantly more expensive than any other weekend. :(

HOTWIRE

1/20-1/22/11

San Juan Conrad Condado Plaza

Four Star, Ocean Front, Near Beach, Casino, Spa (were some of the markers listed)

$187/night

Date: Aug. 31- Sept. 3 2011

Number of Nights: 3

Hotel: Warwick Hotel

Rating: 4 stars

Area: Midtown West/Times Square

Site: Priceline

Winning Bid: $190

Not sure if it's a good hotel. Not the one I was aiming for but the price listed per night on other sites is $390-$430/ night so I guess it's a good price.

EVALUATOR-LMAO.. That story is one of the reasons we love cruising so much! People watching at it's finest!:D:p It's so entertaining if you don't let people get to you.

We also love comedians. So when people begin to judge us, we like to use a simple quote from Katt Williams to keep our self esteem in check;

"It's called self esteem, esteem of your ____-____ ing self":eek::D

Thanks these are most useful.

Thanks alot Zef!:D

Thank you, but I'm not done yet. I still have some more photos to post. I'm not posting all 1900 photos, but I do want to give everyone some idea of what the ship and the places it goes are like.

We have been having fun following your review and pics. :) As always, you are a wealth of information! So..with that in mind....

We leave for our Mexican Riviera out of Long Beach in 6 weeks! However, we'll be on Splendor instead of Mariner:) I wondered if you had any info. tips for us on transportation...we fly into LAX, our hotel is Crowne Plaza in San Pedro and our Cruise leaves out of Long Beach. Our last cruise from California was Norwegian which was in San Pedro so we messed up and booked Crowne Plaza thinking it was 1/2 mile from our cruise terminal again.

We thought we'd rent a car but we are very unfamiliar with the area as far as drop offs, etc.

Long Beach/San Pedro

Crowne Plaza

9/4-9/6/09

$70

Nice pictures!

We were in 7388 on Adventure and have more pics in our webshots link if anyone is interested....

We went to Aruba on a cruise in Sept 2006 and i have been itching to get back since.

We took a half day jeep tour using abc-tours.com which showed us good sites on the island. Ostrich farm was amazing- never did any of that kind of stuff elsewhere. Then we went back to the ship for lunch and took a cab to Palm beach and spent some time waiting for a sunset.

 

We are booked at the raddison for that week. my email is serene56@aol.com send me an email and maybe I can check to see if we are allowed guest to spend the day using the pools/ chairs.

cool. I'll do that!

We went to Aruba on a cruise in Sept 2006 and i have been itching to get back since.

We took a half day jeep tour using abc-tours.com which showed us good sites on the island. Ostrich farm was amazing- never did any of that kind of stuff elsewhere. Then we went back to the ship for lunch and took a cab to Palm beach and spent some time waiting for a sunset.

 

We are booked at the raddison for that week. my email is serene56@aol.com send me an email and maybe I can check to see if we are allowed guest to spend the day using the pools/ chairs.

cool. I'll do that!

Crown aft-- on the caribe deck--only one neighbor. Partially covered- good for rain ya can sit closer to the balcony door. (sliders instead of a door which we can slide open an inch to listen to the waters-and not worry about turning off the air conditioning)

Real tables to eat at..not those little parsons tables other balcony cabins have.Caribbean Princess was by far our best cruise.

if you google C753 you will see what I mean-- how come ya didnt get an aft on the Princess cruise?

what r u planning to do in aruba?

We weren't "hip" to the aft balconies back then;) . We did think the Caribbean Princess' cabin was the nicest looking though. (Well, besides our owner's suite on the Star :D )

In Aruba, I believe that we are going to Palm beach. We may do some shopping near there if we have time. That's just what I've found so far by reading the Aruba board and some reviews. This is our first time going to Aruba but we've heard SO MANY positive things about it. Since you are going for a week, is this a place you go to often. What would you recommend that we do?

was the Destiny your first aft?

We have another aft on the Crown Princess. i prefer this aft over any of the other ones we have had--it feels so private compared to the past ones

dont forget to chek out www.cruiseclues.com

ps-- we will be in aruba for the week that you are on our cruise-- are you going to aruba that week??

Yes. Destiny was our first aft. We loved it! We loved the location...far away from the business but easy to get to the dining for a quick cup of coffee, etc. My favorite was as we entered St. Lucia. Everyone was out on the aft balconies and we all talked to eachother.

What makes the Crown aft better? I only remember our side balcony on Caribbean Princess and it was frustrating becasue ours was uncovered and midship so people threw junk down from the lido area everynight:( .

We will be in Aruba on 9/9.:)

have you googled :Royal Caribean cabin 7388?I got 10 pages of information.

This balcony will be LOTS bigger then the one you had on the Destiny. You will hae two lounge chairs plus 2 chairs out there with plenty of room to roam around

Thanks. I just got done reading and looking at so much fun stuff!!! I cannot believe that I didn't think to google it!:o Sometimes I have to wonder about my brain!

have you googled :Royal Caribean cabin 7388?I got 10 pages of information.

This balcony will be LOTS bigger then the one you had on the Destiny. You will hae two lounge chairs plus 2 chairs out there with plenty of room to roam around

Thanks. I just got done reading and looking at so much fun stuff!!! I cannot believe that I didn't think to google it!:o Sometimes I have to wonder about my brain!

you are aware of the steel structure on the back of the ship/ it can be a bit much if you are not aware that its there.

the corner has a door and not a slider- but the balcony is the biggest other then the ones (1688/1388) we had 8296 on the VOyager-- same class. the balcony is huge. Have you checked out boniie Voyagers photos?

Yes I saw those pictures fo the balcony. I noticed the steel things. They look to be in the middle? It's hard to tell from Bonnies pictures exactly how big the balcony is. I see chairs on either side of the "structure". It'd be nice to see that balcony with actual people on it to get a better idea. Also, I am still not sure if the cabin itself is smaller than the other balcony cabins?

cabins are the same- no matter where yu are located.

personally-- i would take one off the aft-- i can see both sides then.

I know you know alot about aft balconies. You were very helpful to us in deciding to book our first aft on Destiny last fall. Do you have any experience with Royal Caribbean? We have 7388 on AOS this September which is a corner aft. Wondering if you have any tips, info on that one?

;) We always eat like pigs every minute of our cruise and our weight breaks even at the end. I keep track of my calories everyday at home but have never done that on a cruise. I'm going to try and track them this time just for fun. It has to be at least twice as many as I would normally have. Maybe my activity is twice as much as well?!?!