family cruisers

I will say that this time in Bermuda I saw cockroaches on the streets and that grossed me out. They'd run right out in front of you while walking at night. I was doing dances around them for fear of the "crunch"

Yuk....

In my pix from last years pride cruise I have some shots of the triumph that shows the back of the ship (find your's )...

Also the great big screen on the pool deck. We were docked next to each other in nassau.

Pix are in webshots link if you want to look.

Me, too! Triumph, October 11!:D

Great shot from the deck..

7445 Glory

I love this post.. We'll be in our FIRST AFT for October 2010.

Can't wait.

Now ... this IS a picture... Just gorgous. Thanks for posting this one.

From our balcony on Carnival Spirit August 2006, South of Juneau

 

Our Favorite all time waiter on any cruise was this past Nov. 1st cruise onboard the Carnival Pride out of Baltimore , MD.

Santos Barrios was our favorite anytime dining waiter and we always requested his table even if it meant waiting. While we did have several others who were good, Santos was GREAT. Very Personable, great personality , Funny and would accomadate any request we had. He even made a few great suggestions. Nothing was out of his way and you never hear the word NO from him. He always greeted us with a smile and would wave from a distance is he saw us waiting. We met him on the last day and gave him an additional tip to say Thanks .

We just love everything about horseshoe bay. It is so picturesque and very spread out where you can find an area and feel like it's your own private beach. When we first walk down that hill and approach horseshoes consession area we're always in Awe of the beauty that surrounds you. We rent our chairs and walk all the way to the left of the beach, all the way down and through those humungous rocks/caves to our own little private paradise. Pictures are beautiful from this beach.

This is a perfect place to spend the day, relax, swim, read a good book walk etc...

Highly recommend this place to anyone. Great for families with children. Very calm waters.

We'll return here for every bermuda cruise we take. We even braved our october cruise this year. We WALKED back up the hill!!! The last two years we spent the "best buck you'll spend all day" and paid the guy $1.00 p/person to drive us up the hill... I huffed , he puffed *but pretended not too*...

You probably got the bottle of red wine because it sounds like you didn't blame them for your situation, you just wanted a safe,dry cabin.

Great attitudes...

New Cruzer - We didn't get compensation for our cabin mishap but we were not looking for it either. We only wanted to be in a different cabin and we did get that, although it did take alittle bit of effort on our part. After we were moved and settled, Wednesday afternoon, we did receive a bottle of red wine from the Front Desk but we do not know if that is because of our problems with the cabin or our problems with room service. Either way it was very nice to have.

 

Meg

We just got off the dawn sunday 10/26.

On our last night sailing we ate in Impressions.

They had a curtain that closed the back section of the restaurant and the Captain and other Officers went into the back along with several passengers wearing a special "badge" if you may.

They must have been the ones chosen to eat with them that night but they did Indeed have it on our cruise.

We saw some Elderly people all excited to be having dinner with the "Crew'".

Good for them, made their day...

I will say our Captain and Crew of Officers were so friendly , always smiling and very personable.

You sound like a great sport.. I was really concerned hearing while on board the Dawn what you folks were going through on the Dream.

We hit 20ft swells on the Crown last year and that being a small ship didn't do well, but nothing like what you experienced.

While on the Dawn we hit continuous swells of 12-18 feet, some seemed alot bigger than what they said.

Just glad no one was hurt but sorry to hear of how many were hurt on the Dream.

I was on the Dream. What a ride!

 

I think it might of been a perfect storm kind of deal for the combination of where and when the Dream was leaving, with a rather large tropical depression to the east of Bermuda. I dont know when the Dawn left, but I believe they were not scheduled to be in Bermuda until Wed, giving them some leway in travel plans, plus leaving a little further south certainly puts the dawn in less of the storm. I am not sure having a bigger ship would of helped, as the cruise ships now sit so high on the water. Having a ship with a deeper hull would of helped but they just dont make them like that anymore.

 

The swells on the Dream were up to 32 feet in height. Twice the bow went under, and the propeller came out of the water. Which is apparently bad. If that kept happening rumoer has it, they would of had to stop the ship and just let us bob in the water. I dont think anyone anticpated the swells of that height. The crew expected a rough ride (about 20ft swells) but not quite what we experienced.

 

After hearing what had happened, i guess it makes sense the decks were all closed. Certainly dont want a passenger fall off in a wave, but I would of liked better pictures of the ride!

 

The dinning staff were friggen CHAMPS that night. It took two hours for dinner, but because of the lack of dishes they had to wash stuff as it came in, and half the kitchen equipment was down so that is why dinner took so long. The people I sat with at dinner had a good time of it. The poor waiter kept appologizing, nothing much he could do about it but I appreciated him at least letting us know why service was taking so long.

 

The shops were all smashed up, booze bottles everywhere, broken glass, it was not until about 4PM on the sea day that stuff started to open. One of my poor room stewards was feeling awful and the cart even fell on her once. TVs were falling everywhere, I heard one fell on some guy's leg. Just about every staff person I talked to would say something to " This is the worst I have ever seen it in X number of years working for NCL". x = number of years that employee worked for NCL.

 

The CC meet and greet was short and with no goodies, mostly for safety reasons. They didnt want tables of hot coffee spilling everywhere. As I heard that a couple of tables did flip while people were sitting at them, and there were numerous chair tippings.

 

Me I was loving it! I mean I wouldnt willingly sign up for a trip like that again, but there wasnt much the staff could do about it and I felt self with such an experienced seaman leading the way. Captain Hoddevick spent 36 hours on the bridge, the entirety of the storm. In the end it makes a heck of a story/ adventure!

We just returned from the Dawn ,NYC to BERMUDA and so many people we talked with were saying "Did you hear about the Dreams cruise to bermuda? Crew and passengers were talking about the horrible ride out there, very rough seas etc... which we also experienced but being such a large ship we didn't get beaten up like they did.

WE had dishes flying, very rough seas for about our first 30 hours of sailing. 12 - 18 foot continuous rough seas.

Would love to hear how those did on the Dream, heard they were in lock down for a few days?

Again, this is only what I heard while on board and it was the gossip of the ship.

Hope all are well.

I'm sorry I don't have the answer to your question but I know somone will. This was the last beach we did last year on our cruise and our cruise this october we'll stick to horseshoe bay and find some new ones !

How much is the taxi from the pier? Do U happen to know?:confused:

thanks for the responses.:)

I have to agree with the above poster. Snorkel park is not what I'd call a beach. Horseshoe bay is gorgous so get yourself transportation there, we'll worth it.

If you've never been to bermuda before I'd hate for you to think that Snorkel park is what bermuda beaches are like.

Good luck.