metairiegal

Very cool! I love Deadliest Catch. Dh and I got to meet Sig and Edgar a few years ago when they were at the Norway pavilion at Epcot, signing autographs and selling Deadliest Catch/Northwestern merchandise. We got our pics taken with them and they were super nice to us. The line to meet them was a couple hours long!

I was in grammar school and they had us stand up and say a prayer in the classroom.

Also - my brother had was just been born on November 19.

We like:

Turtle Kralls:

http://www.turtlekraals.com/

Half Shell Raw Bar:

http://www.halfshellrawbar.com/

Here is a great website where you can check out restaurants and their menus:

http://keywestmenu.com/menus.htm

We got ours 8 days out.

 

They do send an email but in our case it was at least a day later.

 

Best to keep checking your luggage tags (as though you were printing them out).

Thanks!

A month to go and the suspense is killing me! :p

Does HAL send an email or is it best to keep checking?

Great toots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek::D

Bon Voyage, Eurodam! See you in December! :D

What time does the Eurodam sail?

Don't rub it in! :D

Sorry bout that! :o :D

Busy day for sail aways!

It is like a HOT summer day here in South Florida. :)

This thread is making me hungry! :p

It is a HOT day in South Florida and very windy for a sail away!

From the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel: Temps in low 80s. Because the winds are predicted to gust to 20 mph, beware of rip currents at the beach and rough seas.

If you can find Lovely_Serenity's thread about her trip to Alaska you'll see lots of pictures of food. Maybe someone will know how to post the title. It's an edible thread!

Thanks!

ETA: I think I found it. Off to check out the pics:

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1841439

There is one area that Holland America beats all the other cruise lines at, and it isn't even close....

 

a (at no additional charge) hand packed ice cream waffle cones!!!

Winner! :)

I need pictures, please! :D

Great review and pics! Can't wait to read more. We will be on the Magic for Thanksgiving.

We always stay on the ship in Nassau.

Last year I bought two Happy Thanksgiving signs from the Dollar Store for our cabin and for our son and his wife's cabin. I was surprised to find that someone took one of the signs and put it on their cabin door (on the port side while we were on the starboard side). I don't know if they meant it to be a prank or if they just decided to "take it". Although I generally have a great sense of humor, I wasn't that amused by this. :)

Maybe some passing kids took it from your door and put it on another?

thanks - yes sometimes this happens for reasons unknown.:( even after I test:eek: I will correct at the next update;)

Thanks! :)

I think there is a typo on my Dec 18 cruise - looks like my entry and mydogs entry is running together. Thanks for keeping the list for us.

metairiegal - Eurodam - 18-Dec-13 - 4 day Bahamas - anniversary mydogs - Eurodam - 18-Dec-13 - 4 day Bahamas

We recently started putting a magnet on our door. Something simple, no bigger than a greeting card and definitely not with our names. It has been fun, and it helps us find our room.

For our upcoming Thanksgiving cruise I have a cute turkey magnet and for Christmas I have a Christmas tree - again they are small. You can find neat things from the $1 bins at Target, or the Dollar Store. Nothing anyone would want to steal and it only cost $1 even if they did - although it has never happened.

That would be my brother and sister-in-law ;)

And, dh and myself. :D

Next month is our 8th DCL cruise and we don't have kids.

P.S.

sailingaway: We are neighbors - I live in Boca Raton. And, my brother lives in Wellington.

My CCL Dream experience wasn't a good one, though I can't complain about the ship as much as the rude and unfriendly crew. Seems to me that we had 3 of us on the Conquest last year and had room to put up all our clothes for all 3 of us. This year in the Dream, I still had to live out of a suitcase after I unpacked my husband (just 2 of us this time). It didn't have as much drawers and spaces to store clothes (even in the closets) as the Conquest did, which is a smaller ship. We were also in a spa interior, so I don't know of that makes a difference.

 

Unless you are in a swanky room, you will never, never, never, never convince me that CCL has better bathrooms and showers than Disney. Never in a million years. I can't even say how many times I dropped my razors, conditioners and shampoos. No shelves, nothing but a sticky shower curtain and a metal bar on the floor that served to 'separate' your shower from your bathroom. (Which did NOT work. Our floors were soaked all the time.) The Disney staterooms had a split bath (I realize not all of these have split baths) which was awesome for the 3 of us, but even still without a split bath, we get a TUB! With a tub, I now have places to put my shampoos and conditioners (and I have hair past my hips! I need a lot of conditioner especially after pools and salt water) and a place to shave and put my razors. The thought of another CCL interior bathroom makes me literally cringe. (Not one word about their 'shampoo' and 'body wash' dispensers...eghh.....)

 

The poster is correct that the quality is MUCH better for staterooms for Disney, who realizes they will have more families than spring breakers crashing in a room together. Sorry if that seems blunt. I will say as a minus, on the DCL Dream, the couch sleeping arrangement was VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. We pulled down the bunk instead (and loved the peter pan stars too!) and it was much more comfortable. So minus points there for the awful couch bed. Otherwise the mattress on our queen bed was fine, as good as the CCL Dream although the fluffy comforter may have slept a bit hot for my husband's tastes.

 

Anyone who thinks a low-mid level interior on any CCL (even the Dream) can compare to any interior on a DCL is either a guy with next to no hair who doesn't care about the shower and has packed hardly anything, or is either kidding themselves. And in no way does the decor compare. No way jose. The cheap motel art and flat bed spreads etc. The orange carpets. There just is no way they compare on a decorative level. And while that isn't the most important thing to me, it IS nice, and as some posters point out, they want nice arrangements, not just a place to crash.

 

I also will add that our CCL Dream veranda had a coffee table which made bringing food down and room service MUCH easier than balancing it on the bed or the small desk with our CCL. Not sure if all their rooms have a table, but I think so.

 

I realize I have a bias against CCL at this point, but no one can argue with those points above. Unless you are paying for a GREAT room on CCL (And my parents always got a nice suite or something and YES it was GREAT!) than you aren't getting anything remotely as nice as any DCL room.

Totally off topic, but I just met you over on the DIS boards. :cool:

As they say, It's a Small World!