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I agree also. We've never been to Nassau on our 5 cruises and would be disappointed if we missed it on our November 29 Oasis cruise. I've read lots of negative comments on Nassau on here. I guess we will be the judge of that in November. Not many people like Jamaica either but we love it.

OP: Sorry about missing a port! We are on the Allure in a few days and I'm really hoping that we don't have the same issues!

My last trip to Nassau, I got to swim with sharks so I think Nassau is pretty fun, but I really haven't been to a port that I just didn't like.

BTW....

They said they will pick us up at 8:30 and bring us back at 4pm. They said they take cruise passengers quite often and I don't see any review that complains about the timing. out of 35 reviews on trip advisor, 34 of them are 5 out of 5 stars....there's always one person, but they tell you why they gave a lower rating and it WAS NOT due to being late back to port.

MAGIC!!!! 6 days!!!!

Hello!

I am so glad that I was able to find this page! I will be on my very first cruise for my birthday in November. The cruise is leaves Galveston, Texas Nov. 11th, 2012 and we visit Key West, Freeport, and Nassau. We arrive back in Galveston Nov. 18th. If you are taking the same cruise, let me know! I would appricate any information you could give me for Chad4Nature Tours. I am a little sketchy only because I can't find a website for this. Information I really need is...how much is it per person? What all do you do? How long does it last? Does he pick you up from the cruise and bring you back? I am only in Freeport from 8am-5pm on the 14th and I don't want to miss the boat. Also, is there a webpage for this? Any detail will not be over looked! Thanks so much! Oh, and I am taking the cruise from Carnival Magic! Fun, fun, fun is all I want.

Thanks,

Kristyl

Hey Rosy95!

We will be taking the Chad4nature tour (kayaking) in freeport on the same day that you will be there. They have GREAT reviews on tripadvisor. We just booked last week. The explaination and trip description sounds like the ship sponsored excursion.

Maybe we'll see you there!

Victory is where I lost mine too! You need to do it again to go back to St Maarten. It was the best day of my life so far (See pic below). Thanks for the review, it was entertaining and made me want to take the cruise all over again.

To fully get my thinking on this, you have to understand that I'm a 55-year-old white guy that couldn't give a crap about Adele, The Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, Lady Gaga or just about anything else post-1985. I'm in to Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Buffett... and I'm also totally fine with George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire, etc.

 

The music at the main (mid-ship) pool was provided by a DJ. Every now and then he would sneak something in I would recognize, but the vast majority of stuff he was playing sounded like it would have been something a 21-year-old college kid on Spring Break would have wanted to listen to. I'm afraid I can't tell you what the music was, because it was simply unrecognizable to me. And it was too loud.

 

Back at the aft pool, the music comes from an automated music system that runs 24/7. A Carnival employee told me that there are actually several independent music systems running throughout the ship to provide more appropriate mixes of music to different parts of the ship. For example, in the hallways by the cabins you want a much more neutral kind of music playing than you do out by the pool.

 

Anyway, at the aft pool the volume of the music was just right... and the selection was better, in my opinion. There were a lot more songs that I recognized. For example, I remember sitting in the aft pool on a beautiful sea day with "Billie Jean" playing by Michael Jackson... and it just seemed to fit. I also remember hearing a few Motown songs that fit in real nice. Now I do have to say that there were still an awful lot of songs at the aft pool that I was not familiar with... as I simply have not listened to current pop music in YEARS... but the difference between the music at the aft pool that was unfamiliar to me and the music at the main pool that was unfamiliar to me was that the style and tone of the unfamiliar music at the aft pool was not obnoxious or offensive. It seemed to fit the mood. A lot of the unfamiliar stuff I heard at the main pool was urban music and not only was I not familiar with it, but I hated it. At least the unfamiliar stuff at the aft pool didn't sound horribly bad.

 

 

Personally, if I were in charge of music onboard Carnival ships, I'd be hitting the classic hits of the 70's and 80's and "Big Chill" music a lot more than they do now. Also, on a Caribbean cruise, you'd hear a lot more Jimmy Buffett, if it were up to me! And on a cruise out of Texas... there'd be some mainstream country music, for sure!

 

But in spite of the fact that the majority of their passengers are Americans in the 40+ age group, I suspect that their music selection is done by a European in his 20's.

You and your wife sound like my kind of cruisers! Your cruise really is what you make of it. Your review made me smile!

Heather

The best piece of advice that I can offer is to read the boards often, but remember that most of what is on the page is an opinion and some people are just old, grouchy, and glass-half-empty people!

We did cruise ship sponsored excursions on 4 of our 6 port days....we created our own excursion one day and stayed on the ship one day. The day that my girlfriends let me take charge and plan a day where we got to decide what we were doing and the timing, etc, and not rely on a cruise ship sponsored excursion was the best day.

Your cruise is what you make of it!