Lot of rain in Caribbean for a week

[pzico]

This is bad luck for my first cruise :(

 

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/caribbean-to-turn-more-active/13322573

[KirkNC]

That is bad luck, usually you don't get that much rain without a tropical system.

[Eriksgarden]

Rain this time of year comes and goes very fast. You'll have plenty of awesome weather.

[pzico]

Rain this time of year comes and goes very fast. You'll have plenty of awesome weather.

 

That's nice to hear! :)

[pzico]

What happens to shore excursions if it rains? Money lost and people tend to stay in ship?

[Langley Cruisers]

What happens to shore excursions if it rains? Money lost and people tend to stay in ship?

 

Seriously? No. Excursions are not cancelled unless it is incredibly inclement weather and even then I think most would still go. It rains in the Caribbean and then the sun comes out. Please try not to worry about this, OK? It's something you can't control.

[goneclear]

There are two seasons in the Caribbean islands. Rainy season and dry season. The Trinidad and Tobago met office has indicated that the rainy season has officially started. It is maybe a week or two early. It is a yearly occurrence at this time when the inter tropical convergence zone drifts north off of south America. You do still get sunny days but at this time of the year expect some rain.

[grand isle joe]

My advice to you is drink heavily.........;):D

[pzico]

My advice to you is drink heavily.........;):D

 

That always works! Unless I end up teetering in swimwear on formal night :rolleyes:

[CapsR1]

That is bad luck, usually you don't get that much rain without a tropical system.

 

We were on a cruise last week in Nassau and Freeport and experienced torrential thunder/lightening storms in both ports.

We made the best of it, but had to leave Atlantis waterpark after only 3 hours due to them closing the waterpark at about 3 pm.

Many of the outdoor activities on the ship were cancelled and they substituted indoor movies, trivia, etc. The casino was crowded all week!

All in all, I'll take a rainy vacation on a cruise ship rather than dry weather at home and work!

[pasodancer]

If you can,and are adventurous, hit the Dollar Store and stock up on water toys and several umbrellas, noodles, floats, rubber duckies. We had the same weather forecast and decided "what the heck" let's plan for it. Initially, we were the only ones in the pool so out came the water toys - we had a blast playing (and drinking).....and others soon joined in. We wore the awful $1 poncho's sitting on the loungers (taped our $1 umbrella on the chair)......sat out in the rain and read our books, drank our drinks, etc. Didn't let no liquid sunshine spoil our vacation! :)

[metairiegal]

This is bad luck for my first cruise :(

 

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/caribbean-to-turn-more-active/13322573

 

Holy moly! We'll be on the Allure next week.

[kruzerci]

We have had a couple days of lousy weather on all of our late May-early June sailings. We try to stick with Early May or August for our summer cruises now. We usually have perfect weather.

[grand isle joe]

That always works! Unless I end up teetering in swimwear on formal night :rolleyes:

 

So long as you wear a bow tie you should be all set.......:D

[windjamming]

If you can,and are adventurous, hit the Dollar Store and stock up on water toys and several umbrellas, noodles, floats, rubber duckies. We had the same weather forecast and decided "what the heck" let's plan for it. Initially, we were the only ones in the pool so out came the water toys - we had a blast playing (and drinking).....and others soon joined in. We wore the awful $1 poncho's sitting on the loungers (taped our $1 umbrella on the chair)......sat out in the rain and read our books, drank our drinks, etc. Didn't let no liquid sunshine spoil our vacation! :)

 

I love your style! That is awesome. I'll bet you put a smile on the faces of many people who had previously thought their cruise was ruined.

[Driftwoodgal]

Torrential down pours in Puerto Limon Costa Rica one cruise. We made our mind up to just go and make the best of it. As we were getting off the ship the Captain was there handing out trash bags for us to tear a hole in and pull over our head. What a Captain!! We managed to get a little wet, but dodge rain too as the showers were on and off again all day.

 

Take a rain poncho and go for it.

 

For the poster that went to Atlantis.... yikes that was expensive, hope you enjoyed the aquarium.

[mjm325]

we are on Allure next week too... but if you read the article it states that the rain is starting and might go into the weekend... so I'm hopeful for some sunny weather next week :o

[evandbob]

I think it's terribly funny when people are at the beach, in the water swimming, and they go running for a palaypa when it starts to rain.

 

If there's lightning I can see it, but rain? Already wet, right?

[griffy116]

Rain this time of year comes and goes very fast. You'll have plenty of awesome weather.

 

A couple of years ago, I watched the predictions for rain on absolutely EVERY port on our day there. We never saw a single drop of rain the entire week. I hope you will have the same luck. In case you don't, it rained when we were in Maui on a cruise several years ago. We were going on a whale watch. It rained for about 15-20 minutes and the sun came out and that was it. It rained on one of the islands in the caribbean a few years back..Everyone went about their shopping, bar hopping same as if it was dry weather..in fact, it cooled things off a bit. Everyone looked a little damp, but the margaritas were good and we had a great time.

[maureencruiser]

A rainy day on a cruise is better than a sunny day at work! :D:D

[Keith1010]

Rain will hopefully not last too long each day.

 

Keith

[metairiegal]

Surf's up in Miami! (Pic from Miami Herald.)

 

[LuckiStac13*Majesty*]

Surf's up in Miami! (Pic from Miami Herald.)

 

 

Wow!!

[the_journeyman]

It changes quickly, so maybe you'll get plenty of good weather. It was cloudy when we arrived in Barbados. 30 minutes later, it was a horrific downpour. 10 minutes later it was cloudy. By the time our 12:00 excursion started it was sunny.

 

JM

[MrsKC08]

Seriously? No. Excursions are not cancelled unless it is incredibly inclement weather and even then I think most would still go. It rains in the Caribbean and then the sun comes out. Please try not to worry about this, OK? It's something you can't control.

 

 

This is not true actually. Any water related excursions (Deep sea fishing, dolphin excursions, scuba and snorkling) all take a serious chance of getting cancelled. On our cruise a couple weeks ago we had rain in St. Maarten and all of the water excursions were cancelled even though the rain quit about 2 hours after docking. If they are ship sponsored excursions you will be refunded definitely...sometimes independent companies might not refund, but give you other options if they have them available.