LadyBerard

Never been to St. Vincent. Been to Grenada a couple times. I stay on the ship now. LOVE Dominica. it's so beautiful with their falls, tubing, champagne snorkeling, etc. I've not been to Tobago, and it's been too many years to remember Martinique. Remember if you go to Martinique, you do need a passport.

I, too, love going to Bermuda in September the most. Have been in mid to late May, mid June, early and mid September and mid Oct. The water temp in May was still quite cool, June's was bearable, September's water temp was perfect for me, and Oct. it was cooling up again.

We will be cruising on the Pearl on 8/18, and I will be anxiously awaiting your live report! 🙂 Have a wonderful cruise. It's a beautiful day in Massachusetts today for a sailaway!

Many travel agents have group pricing which, many times, could be less than what you see on the consumer site.

Good to know. Thanks. Last time we cruised on NCL, there was hardly anything free on the tv........nevermind movies.

Were the movies in the room free, or was there a charge for them, and if so, how much?

The free at sea promos are not completely free, as when they are added to the reservations, the gratuities for the drink package and the dining package get added to the total cost of the reservation.

We're booked on Serenade in Oct. When ours has been on sale, it is $61.99 pp. Otherwise it is $71.99 pp.

Thanks!

What do you love about Normandi, and what does your wife love about Cyprus? Those were the two I was considering. Honestly, we just prefer to have the same waitstaff every evening. I find that it makes dining go more smoothly when they learn our preferences.

That's fine. As long as there is some sort of bar still there with food there and shaded areas to sit in near the bar. That's all that matters. 🙂

We'll be back to Bermuda in August!!! Anyway, I was just wondering if the Rum Bum Beach Bar was still at Horseshoe Bay. If not, is there a bar there any longer, and if so, what's the name of it?

I guess I'll be visiting the Maitre'd in one of the main dining rooms as soon as possible when we board. I hate waiting in lines to be seated for dining. Plus, we prefer to have the same waitstaff every night. Now I guess we'll need to decide which main dining room we prefer to be in every evening for dinner.

Booked for a cruise on the Apex. We have 6 p.m. dining. How does that work if there are 4 complimentary main dining rooms?

After doing more research, I booked Ultimate Beach Experience - Resort World Day Pass. Total cost with Celebrity for 2 of us was just under $90 - we have OBC with Celebrity, so it makes sense. It includes beach chairs plus one drink each. I had read on tripadvisor that it cost $75 for two chairs with an umbrella on Paradise Beach. It's extremely uncomfortable for me just to sit/lie on a towel, so chairs are a necessity. If anybody here has done this excursion, I'd love to read more about it. Thanks!

Going on a cruise with Celebrity which has a stop on Bimini. I was looking through the excursions, and Celebrity has one that goes to Paradise Beach and includes chairs for $40+ pp. I was wondering if we just went on our own, what the cost of chair rentals would be.

That's what I thought. I went ahead and switched our cabin to 6240.

I'm considering the above 2 hour excursion when we're in Bermuda in August on the Pearl. If you have done this excursion through NCL, how was it? Was there dancing on board, what kind of music did they play, and most importantly, how were their rum swizzles? When we did the snorkel excursion with them through Celebrity this past Oct, they were kind of weak.

I believe I read that 6240s balcony is larger than 6242s. Does anybody know if that's correct?

We're cruising on Celebrity Silhouette and one of the stops in Tobago. We were booked on a beach excursion through Celebrity, but decided to cancel it and just stay onboard the ship.

Take a taxi from St. George's to Tobacco Bay or Crystal Caves, because it is a couple blocks to walk to get up to the road where the bus will stop, and if memory serves me correctly, it is a little bit of a hill.

My husband and I are also on the 8/18 Pearl with four of our friends. I, too, am hoping there are not a ton of kids on board.

We've done one transatlantic, back when NCL Epic was new. We sailed towards the end of June from London to NY and arrived in NY on July 3rd or 4th. We had wonderful sunny, warm weather for a couple days prior to the cruise in London, but the day after departure, weather was windy and rainy and very cool, damn near all the way to NY. One and done for us. We'll never do another transatlantic cruise. Not for us.

I just booked this excursion for our Celebrity Silhouette cruise departing 1/15/23. I sure hope it doesn't get cancelled.

We have Celebrity Apex booked for 2/1/25 which has a stop in Key West.