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Make sure you skip the main showroom, if vaping aggravates your asthma. The atmospheric effects that make the lights and lasers look good are based on propylene glycol, the main liquid in vapes.

I measured it on google earth (which shows a Virgin ship at port) and it's .77m. There's Radio Beach on the South end of the island. Forgot about that one. It's 2 miles and there are taxis.

If I had to go to Bimini again, I would go to the beach that’s immediately to the right of the ship. It is next to a sewage treatment plant, but I think it’s far enough away that it hopefully won’t smell. At that beach, there are some enterprising Bahamians that will provide a chair and umbrella, and even some drinks, for a fee. I don’t want to scare anybody off about the sewage plant, but there is another beach, just next to resorts world. It’s a public beach, and similarly, enterprising locals have chairs, umbrellas, drinks, and even some snacks. I talked to a couple that went to that beach, and they enjoyed their interactions with the gentleman that helped them and had a great time for about a third of the money.

I did this same excursion last week. My advice is to cancel it right now and stay on the ship or look for an independent excursion that doesn’t involve that Resorts World property. Virgin is smart enough to staff the beach club with their people when they stop at Bimini, not Celebrity. Our FB group, as well as a Reddit group, have dozens of stories just like we experienced. The staff was horrible, from the welcome desk to the bars and “food”. They don’t want to be there and they take it out on the guests. No one would take guests to the beach, nor provide an umbrella. Few people got their welcome drink and the food service was like a church camp snack bar. I heard people talking about buying drinks, because the custom wouldn’t be accepted. It took some folks over an hour to get on the tram back to the port. Why? There was no organized line and a couple hundred people left at lunchtime because they were not having a good time. It was awful . The beach is spectacular, everything else shite.

I was on the same sailing, and saw this same thing on the display. What I did not see was one single person vaping in the casino. I did see passengers sneakily huffing their vapes indoors in other places. I also saw two crew vaping, one of the hot glass guys in his work area, the other an officer in the crew area (on the tour). I cant believe that there 35 pages of people saying they’re going to quit Celebrity over this policy. Which other cruise line will you go to? Which one has a truly non-smoking, non-vaping casino?

I have the Verizon pass, but found zero coverage on Grand Cayman. This was in July .

I got off Radiance this morning and the MDR turkey looked better than that. We guessed that it was hand sliced from breasts. It was okay. The Lido had a nice looking turkey. The young lady that was carving it didn’t seem familiar with the bird and the slices weren’t great. It tasted about the same as my grandmas. The Thanksgiving turkey looked like that in the Miracle MDR last year. I didn’t see the Lido.

When we did that same itinerary back in November, it was expressly forbidden to do this.

We got off at 7:28a three weeks ago. Our flight was 10:30a. We sweat it the whole cruise, b7t it worked out great, we had one bag to check at MIA and we’re through precheck and at the gate at 8:30.

We were on two weeks ago and found ourselves randomly looking for spots that were too hot. There were only some small, tight areas where it felt warm. None of the public assembly spaces felt hot.We were never uncomfortable.

We stepped off Horizon at 7:30a last Sunday and were in the security line at MIA at 8:15a. Carnival knew that we had an early flight and left a note in our room that we could debark as soon as they called the first group. We were sweating it before the cruise, but it was fine.

$20 OBC for the trouble. I went to high school in Miami , so we rented a car for cheap and are making the most of it. Two of my high school rock band friends are still playing , thirty years later, so we say them last night. Today will be lunch at Jaxon’s in Dania and a quick trip to Publix.

Did you hear any discussion regarding todays embarkation being delayed? We were supposed to get on in two hours, but CCL emailed, called, and texted everyone to tell us to show up four hours after our boarding time. The Facebook group for the cruise is buzzing with rumors. The two big ones are they the boat has to be clear of all passengers due to USCG inspection . The other that it’s being sanitize because of a high number of CV cases.