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Chris' & Ginny's Breeze Review w/ Large Pictures

sonicbuffalo

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jrmende63

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Thanks Chris for the awesome review! Loved all the pictures! We sail on March 30th, we are doing Grand Turk, Curacao, Aruba and Dominican. This will be our first balcony (just a regular one). Did you become a gold member while on this cruise? We need 4 points to reach gold so this cruise should get us there. Also do they still have a Captain Gala night with complimentary apps and drinks? Or past guest nights? I'm assuming they may not have past guest nights now that they have the rankings. And thanks for all the wonderful pictures! Really appreciate your time and effort.

 

Hi there..I thought I would answer your questions. There is not free drinks or apps on the Captains night. They have drinks at 1.00 off if you wish to get a drink during that time.

There is however, a past guest party for gold, platinum and diamond members. This party does have the free drinks and apps. Don't miss it...You will be invited as you will turn Gold on this cruise.

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sonicbuffalo

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Chris and Ginny,

Thanks for the awesome review! We are going to be on the Breeze October 12, 2013. We have this same intinerary. Your pics were great!

 

Glad you enjoyed the pictures and review....hoping all on the Triumph are safe and able to endure a very trying time.

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This was an aft cabin room....don't know if it is larger than a regular balcony. I never even noticed the ladies bare feet! That is too funny!

Thanks for the cabin info. LOL--I only noticed her bare feet cause she looked like she was having so much fun in your photo, sort of drew my attention to her.:D

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Briitini

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The Dent Came from a collision with the Riverboat "Michaelangelo" in Venice, Italy on August 26, 2012 when in an unexpected squall, both the Breeze and the Michaelangelo broke their mooring lines and floated away from the dock, into each other! Breeze dropped her gangplank into the harbor and it took three hours to fish it out and get her tied down so we could reboard. Since we were at St. Marks Square with the squall hit, we were soaked so sitting in the terminal soaking wet waiting was not so much fun!

 

 

Great! I am sure they want to sell the Breeze now for a couple hundred dollars since it is now a "scratch and dent model" :D:D

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It was a busy day inside the terminal as it was the day for the VIP's to board for the naming ceremony. We received our sail & sign cards right away, and as you will see, Ginny held onto our zone 6 card for boarding. We were there at the terminal at around 11:00 and onboard closer to 1:00 pm.

 

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Man!!!! There are some GRUMPY Gus's in that picture!!! Smile folks!!!! You're on vacation!!!! :D

 

LOL...that was the first thing I thought when I seen this. Too funny.

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sonicbuffalo

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Great photos! Thank you for sharing your trip with us and Ginny's new ring is gorgeous!

 

She loves the color of the blue sapphire in that ring....it's the only piece of jewelry I've ever bought her on a cruise and it was well worth it! :D

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This is my third attempt at posting the Breeze review. To make a long story short, I didn't like the size of the pictures using shutterbug, and ran out of space using Photobucket and deleted some pictures to make room for more.

 

This was before I decided to bite the bullet, since I'm a novice, and pay the $29.99 for 1 year of 20 GB storage. Now, thanks to Gambee, who published a brilliant review on the Allure that I read, I know how to downsize my own photos and will never have to pay the $29.99 again. Thanks Gambee for all your coaching me along the way. You are a bright star and I look forward to your review on your upcoming Norwegian Breakaway cruise.

 

Now for the pictures.

 

Would you be willing to share your photo upload secrets???? I used to have a PC w/ Picassa and never had any problems. Now that we have switched to a MAC and use iphoto every picture I try to upload says "file too large". I even tried to move my pictures to Flikr and got the same "too large" error message. I am so frustrated....:(:(:(

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Our last look off the balcony before we went to breakfast and disembarked. Overall, we had a great time, but we really weren't wow'ed by the ship like I thought we would be. The tropical themes were nice and what we really liked was the bright colors throughout the ship (except the piano bar). We loved it being bright instead of drab like some of the other ships we've been on. Don't get me wrong, we liked the Dream, and we liked the Miracle, but it was refreshing to see the bright deco all around the Breeze.

 

We went to all the Playlist Production Shows, and The Hasbro Game shows and they are definitely different from some of the things we were used to. We're kind of boring since we don't gamble or drink, but we like to watch Bingo being played at times before shows.

 

The Playlist Production Shows were good on the Divas Night and the Brits Show, but sucked on the Latin Night. It was because they had two teams on board and one group was leaving at the end of the cruise and the other was in rehearsals to take over after the first group left. The first groups contract was up. The first group sung their songs to perfection, and were very good, whereas the new group coming on sung off key, and overall made a mess out of their show. We were glad to see the solid group do the Brits Night for the last show. A lot fo people walked out during the Latin Night performance. I will say here and now that Carnival came up with the Playlist Productions to save them money. They no longer have to pay a 7 or 8 piece orchestra to accompany the singers and dancers. They also don't have to pay for new shows to be developed. They can create any scenery on the giant TV screens for background props so that saves them money too. It is exciting and if their singers can sing, I'm sure they'll make a go of it. They did have a few props, but nothing too outlandish. Mostly stairs and things like that with no painting on them. I'm sure you'll enjoy them and I'll be interested in hearing what everyone thinks about them compared to 'Ticket To Ride', and the other Production Shows. Overall, even though I've never cruised with RCI or NCL, I will say they probably have Carnival beat up pretty good in the entertainment portion of the cruises. NCL has Blue Man Group, and RCI has Chicago, and Hairspray. Carnival is scaling up with the new big screen LCD screens as backdrops and for scenery, but scaling down in quality of talent.

 

The food was OK, but nothing to brag about. The lobster was lukewarm, and the Filet Mignon was fantastic. I had the flatiron steak one night and as usual, it was tough. I don't remember much more except that Mahi-Mahi was only on the menu one night. I used to get that any night the main course wasn't something I wanted. They had Mahi-Mahi one night only as an option. Of course the shrimp cocktail is back, and I'm grateful for that. The scrambled eggs is something you should never try. They were horrible. I bet GI's in the Army or any of the armed forces get better scrambled eggs than what was served. I bet prisoners in prison get better eggs. The only way to change it is to boycott the crappy eggs., and complain about it any time you can. Escargot was listed on the menu for one night, but it turned out they didn't serve any. I don't know if they were out of it or not.

 

The Service was fantastic with friendly, energetic, and a very willing to accommodate Steward that we had. Ours gave me a brand new Breeze hardbound commemorative book. At dinner each night the server from the bar came to our table and offered me a Diet Coke since he knew I had the Bubbles package. The bar staff at the other bars gave me equal treatment with all of the other customers. I never felt they were ignoring me because I had a Bubbles package.

 

I must congratulate our Captain and his officers for making it a point to get to and dock at every port of call. We had fantastic weather although a little cloudy and some brief rain showers a few times. We felt safe all the time. Got a little windy the first Sea day... but other than that I can't complain for December. The snorkeling water was very warm, and other than Antigua, we enjoyed it. We enjoyed the ports of call but Ginny said she'd like to just take tours of the islands next time, instead of snorkeling. She likes to snorkel but loves to tour the islands too.

 

My advice is that with Carnival's new pricing structure(s), take the time to look into other cruise lines for their pricing. It may surprise you. My opinion on the Breeze is that it's a nice new ship, but doesn't have a wow factor. I mostly cruise for the itinerary and price anyways, so if the ship doesn't blow me away, that's ok. I think those who haven't cruised on The Breeze but are waiting to do so will be surprised by many things that it offers. I think the new 2.0 upgrades are great. I loved eating lunch at the Blue Iguana Cantina and eating their burritos. I also liked the taste of the Guy's burgers, and the fries. I wish they would give you more fries with your burger though. I think I got 5 fries one time. You should also eat at the Italian Restaurant at least once during lunch since it's free at lunch for pasta dishes. I didn't try the 5th deck BBQ, so I can't comment on that one.

 

The kids will love the water park and the ropes courses, and they have great new Camps to go to. There is something for everyone. We really enjoyed The Singing Maitre D, Ken Byrne, and Ron Pass in the piano bar. We also watched quite a bit of karaoke. We also played and lost in many of the trivia contests but they were fun too. We don't really spend too much time baking in the sun since Ginny has had surgery for the mildest form of skin cancer. She uses a very high SPF of sunscreen when we do go outside.

 

I hope you all enjoyed my pictures the 2nd time around. I didn't mind posting them, and added quite a few, and made quite a few new comments. I didn't know how to make my review pictures bigger until recently, so I thought being larger pictures would definitely enhance your enjoyment. I know I'd rather see the pictures in the larger format. Thanks for looking at it again and for the newcomers who haven't seen my old review, this is, by far the best one. I say that because that's what I am being told. Good luck on all your future cruises and I can't wait to see your reviews too!

 

Your review was great and I enjoyed the photos. We are cruising on the Carnival Sunshine next March, which was the Destiny before. Maybe that would be something you and your wife would be interested in. I'm really excited but have to calm down because it's still a year out! Thanks again for your review and I look forward to reading your next one.

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sonicbuffalo

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May I ask what kind of camera did you use?

I need a new one before my next cruise in January.

What a great review!

Thanks,

Teri

 

I had just bought a Nikon D5100. It's a great camera but now they have the D5200 out which is the newest...thanks for the compliment!

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sonicbuffalo

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Would you be willing to share your photo upload secrets???? I used to have a PC w/ Picassa and never had any problems. Now that we have switched to a MAC and use iphoto every picture I try to upload says "file too large". I even tried to move my pictures to Flikr and got the same "too large" error message. I am so frustrated....:(:(:(

 

No big secrets....I use Photbucket to host my images....tried the others and the pictures were not large enough....good luck!

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Fantastic review! My wife and I sail on Breeze in three weeks and you provided some great information! Did you stay at the La Quinta Airport East by any chance? And you say the shuttle was free?

 

Thank you so much for going through the trouble to upload the great pictures!!!

 

Jim

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