VAL57SMITH

Yeah, this. Our local bar has a bucket of 6 beers for $15- mix and match. Now that is definitely cheap, but even at most bars around here, you are going to pay $3-4 for a bottle- non happy hour prices. Mixed drinks are going to run $3-$5 a piece. Go to a restaurant like Applebees, Chili's etc., then you might pay more like $4-6 a beer. Generally, if we have an evening out with just drinks- no food, its going to be a tab of about $30 or so for DH and I and that is if we both drink and DH drinks more than he should. If we just have a couple of drinks, it might be under $20, with tip.

Of course cost of living here is a lot lower, as are salaries.

Wow, sodas in this area go for $3. Mixed drinks (top shelf) and wine $7-9, martinis $12-15, beer $5-7. When my hubby and I did a road trip to PA and stopped for a drink, vodka tonic for me and tequila on the rocks for him, the total came to $7.00. We looked at each other very confused and then said drink up.:p

This is the first I have ever seen someone post there's not a conch graveyard here now.

 

Can anyone confirm this?

Back in 2007 there was a enormous conch graveyard. The last time I was there in 2013, there was hardly anything left.

Wow! How do they manage to get so many people off the ship and onto buses? It's been years since I cruised to Bermuda and docked at Kings Wharf. I do recall many complaints of the long waits for buses. Perhaps they have made great improvements since then.

In July we did a 9 night Caribbean cruise on the Breakaway which included a stop in Bermuda. It took us 1.5 hours to get to Horseshoe Bay. I think if your ship is docked there for a few days, it's not as bad, but when it is an 8 hour visit and 3000+ people are getting off the ship, there are just not enough taxi's or buses. If I were to do this again, I would book the excursion.

i personally want the 9 day from nyc back. It included a trip to bermuda (kings wharf)

me too!

We have been on several cruises with several different lines and it's the same story on every ship when it comes to chair hogging.

I was on a cruise a couple of years ago and believe we were right off the coast of North Carolina/ Virginia when the Coast Guard came to evacuate a sick person. There was no helipad on the ship. They came down in a bucket and brought the elderly person up in the bucket. Hours before the Coast Guard even arrived, we were not allowed in the open aft areas. They had to put all the folding chairs away, etc. We were all told to go to midship or forward. The wind from the helicopter blew out one of the glass showers by the pool. Thankfully it was a beautiful, calm sea day.