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On the stingray city website, it has Laviscount Island listed as a possible combination.  Does anyone have any thoughts on this excursion?  I can’t find any information other than their site.  
 

Thank you, 

Amanda 

On the Breeze, we bought 2 orders of the crab cakes, 1lb crab legs, a lobster roll, and 3 pounds steamed shrimp. We did not like the crab cakes at all.  I’m not one to complain but I had to take them back.  The manager deleted the charges.  The rest was delicious. 
 

We plan to get the same thing one night on our Horizon cruise in May but we will avoid the crab cakes. 

My teen and her friends love going to the kids club. Towards the end of the last cruise, several girls from the club complained to the counselor about a creepy older guy hanging around the entrance area and making nasty comments. After receiving the complaint, there was a security guard posted in the hallway just outside of the clubs.  I was glad to see Carnival took their concerns seriously.  

8 hours ago, JCinATL said:

 

I do the same thing -- I would yell "passport check" and we'd get out our passports.  I did it when we got in the car, when we got out of the car, when we left the house...  I'm super-paranoid about it.  🙂

You and wheels87 sound just like me.  My DD also has a friend traveling with us each year . We’ve taken 4 different ones so far and will take a new one this year.  I require they send me a pic of passport beforehand. We did cancel one girl because the parents wouldn’t get the passport.  I also do a passport check the night before we leave, after getting into the car to head to airport., and before leaving the hotel to head to port.  They laugh at me. I tell them it will be a lot easier to know where the passport might be if I know where we saw it last. 

So I tried some of the suggestions.  The video smaller could not support the AVI files.  The phone drive and VLC player were both easy to use thru iTunes to add the files.  Once on the phone drive, I could not save the video to the photo gallery or do anything except view it. With VLC, I could save or send a good portion of the files but not all of them. My fix for this was to send all the VLC videos to the cloud (which was quick) then use the iCloud website to upload the other videos that the VLC couldn’t handle (which was a slow process).  

I really appreciate y’all taking the time to help me find a solution.  Thank you.

Amanda 

Thanks for all the new responses.

The photos sync quickly without issue regardless of what camera I used.   I have an SD card reader to easily upload camera photos to the phone but it doesn’t even show the videos to upload. 
 

 The main reason for having the videos on the iPhone is to share with teenage daughter.  She uses some type of software to make videos and tiktoks.  A lot of her friends are in the videos throughout the years so she would like to share them too. I will try some of these suggestions over my Christmas break.  

10 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

The AVI files may need to be converted. The .mov and mp4 files should be fine. If you want to reduce the size without downloading software you can try something like this.

 

http://videosmaller.com
 

Thank you. I will definitely try it.  

10 minutes ago, shof515 said:

Try using the VLC media player, download it from the app store. it can play almost any kind of video file

Ok. Thanks. I will take look at it. 

9 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

How big are the files? iPhone should be able

to download those formats. 

Here are a couple of pictures of some of the files.  When I sync only videos originally taken on an iPhone will download. 

Hi all, 

I have many years of digital videos but I can’t load any of them to my iPhone. Is there a way to reformat them so I can download to my phone? Most are mvi or mov files if that makes any difference.  I have used window movie maker to make a couple of cruise videos but they are huge and take hours to load to google Drive, so it is still not actually on the phone but usable with it  Here is one video. 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0ns7Sujm2fwSkQycEo2VE5qUTA/view?usp=drivesdk

Thanks

Amanda

It’s been awhile since I had a family harbor cabin on the Vista.  It was ok. Kids enjoyed easy access to ice cream but said a group of kids always hogged the gaming system so no benefit there. I would think the cove balcony would have the couch/twin bed with the bunk overhead plus the king bed versus insides which would usually have
 the two bunks directly over the king bed (no couch).  This may be different on horizon but something to consider.  

I am looking for a tour guide. I’ve received a response from Bully but he is only available for 3 hrs of our port time.   We are in port from 9am to 11pm so are thinking of doing a longer tour.  We want to see Ayo rocks, wind farm, aloe farm, ostriches, mangel halto, shore snorkeling, and maybe a few other things I learn about as I’m researching Aruba.   We have previously been to Bushiribana ruins, collapsed natural bridge, donkey sanctuary, and the tiny chapel. Anyone have suggestions for a fun private tour guide? Also any suggestions for other things we should do?

Thanks,

Amanda 

7 minutes ago, mitsugirly said:

if you are referring to the one in DR, they missed it because they were late getting there and the tour had already left. However, I did that tour when we came back to DR and it was SO MUCH FUN!!!!!  I highly recommend it. I have a review on it too on my site I’d you are interested. 

Oh that’s great.  I will check out that review.  I love reading your reviews and looking at all your pics.  I’m also a nurse and we have one teen daughter plus other similarities.   I feel like I’m reading about my own family. 

8 hours ago, mitsugirly said:

I did a complete review with tons of pictures from our day. You can check it out HERE <---click

I read thru your review.  Just curious, how did Thrilled and family like their buggy tour?
 

1 hour ago, jbethel11 said:

I thought you can put all of the minor (under 18) children in one stateroom, and put all adults (18+) in another?

Our next booked cruise has two adults in one cabin and two teens (14 &15) in the other cabin.  Our cabins do have a connecting door.  

I will give you our experience from May.  Our cabin was platinum. Teens cabin was FTTF.  Some reports said they could board with us as platinums, others said no.  Before we were platinum we always purchased FTTF to avoid the lines at whatever time we arrive (usually 1130-1200).  We decided to purchase FTTF for teens cabin just to avoid possibility of being denied quick boarding.  Both cabins were treated as FTTF for boarding and debark.  Didn’t matter to us because we still bypassed the line and had a quick orderly self assist debarkation.  

We also toured with Cleve and loved it.  We paid $70pp. I think that included all fees plus food.  There were 12 of us.  It was a wonderful tour and worth every penny spent. One tip is to be one the first off the ship so you can get to the monkey/sloth hangout first.  We also went to the iguana/fish farm and all around the island. 

An older man was taking part in the hairy chest contest.  As he danced his way down the aisle, he stole a half eaten ice cream cone from a young girl and ate it.  Her look of surprise was so funny.  

In Roatan, check out Cleve’s on the trip site that advises. We had a wonderful private tour and never felt unsafe.  Check out our cruise review. 

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2667862-quick-western-caribbean-breeze-review/

1 minute ago, handbellplayer said:

Although this would be really nice, it's not why I booked FTTF - I wanted the immediate cabin access and the priority tendering.  The dedicated GS line is nice, too.

Immediate access to our cabin has never been an issue and guest services has always been quick with FTTF. I can’t help you with the priority tender, we haven’t used it yet. I finally made platinum so now I only have to buy it for the kids cabin.  Hope you enjoy your cruise.  

13 minutes ago, handbellplayer said:

I thought one of the benefits of FTTF was getting your luggage early. 

 

Thanks for the info.  It just seems like a strange way to do things - probably because I'm used to a different procedure.

Yes. It is suppose to be but has never really worked out for us.  Probably because we get there at a busy time.   We get FTTF mainly for the quick self assist disembarkation without needing to fight the masses pushing in front after we’ve been waiting. The last three ships have done a great job with FTTF self assist disembark so it flows well. 

We’ve had FTTF several times.  Our luggage is never at the door early, usually shows around 3-4pm (we arrive to port around 11-1130. We have been asked to see our cards when entering the closed door twice but not on this last cruise. The cards are there waiting. I guess someone could take your cards and use them but hopefully staff would notice the picture.  I would suggest checking your balance the first night, if something doesn’t look right address it right away.  

I recommend Cleve. Check him out on the trip site that advises. We were the second group to the sloths and monkeys so had no wait. He told us so much about the history and culture.  He also arranged a ride through the mangroves in a small boat.  He took us to the iguana farm too. His personality was great.  Our group was 11 people.  He charged $70 per person.  This included a stop for pastelitos and donuts.

On 6/12/2019 at 2:34 PM, mitsugirly said:

We vacation there for 1-2 weeks during the summer and have been to DePalm Island and it's awesome! The snorkeling is great and there's so many activities to do there as well. It also includes your meals (usually breakfast and lunch...all you can eat) and all you can drink as well. There's a water park, several small coves/beach areas, you can do zip lining as well. Then for extra $$, there's an awesome SeaTrek walk with props under the water (they take pictures of you) and you sit in a jeep and stuff like that. It's a pretty cool experience. They also have snuba as well. 

 

If you look in my signature line, you'll see a link with all my reviews. DePalm has a link under the land vacations that will take you to tons of pictures (there's 2 of them). 

I just checked out your website. It’s great.  My internet is a little slow today but I will definitely check it out better on another day.  

Thanks, Amanda

You could book an excursion for each person separately, so it would be kind of like a payment plan.  Maybe one per paycheck, for example. You run the risk the excursion could sell out before you have purchased for everyone, but it is easy to cancel excursions on Carnival’s website and get refunded.

In Costa Maya, take the tram to Mahahual. $4 per person.  There is a seaweed problem right now so some clubs have fencing in the water to hold it back. If you keep walking away from the ship and it clears up a good bit and smells better.  The tram guys try to make you follow them to a certain beach club, but just ignore them and walk til you see pretty beaches and clearer water.  We went to El Fuerte hotel (I think that is the name). Chairs were free if each person spends some money. We spent $56 for lunch and soda for five.  In the picture below, you can see how close it is to the ship.  The taxi ride back was $2 per person.