Pre & post-cruise, March 9, 2019 cruise on Princess Caribbean 7 day

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To anyone on the Carribbean Princess, please join an activity that has graciously by a fellow cruise critic meet and mingler: Hi, there is a slot pull, Thursday, March 14th at 10 am, meet at the casino bar, $15 per person. Each person get 5 $3 pulls, all cash split at conclusion. Tell your friends, the more, the merrier.

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Hi, whoever is on-line on the Caribbean Princess, please join the Meet and minglers at 8:30 in the Explorer's lounge on deck 7  to see the "Read my lips: officers lip synch competition" if there is any interest, we'll go on a pub crawl or to the show in the Princess theater for the vocal impressionist at 9:30. I'll call the passengers that have given me your cabin #'s. See you tonight! 

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2 hours ago, funCruise3 said:

Hi, whoever is on-line on the Caribbean Princess, please join the Meet and minglers at 8:30 in the Explorer's lounge on deck 7  to see the "Read my lips: officers lip synch competition" if there is any interest, we'll go on a pub crawl or to the show in the Princess theater for the vocal impressionist at 9:30. I'll call the passengers that have given me your cabin #'s. See you tonight! 

Hi, I am unfortunately still waiting for my Tiramisu, so will be late for 8:30 at the Explorers lounge. 

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2 minutes ago, funCruise3 said:

Hi, I am unfortunately still waiting for my Tiramisu, so will be late for 8:30 at the Explorers lounge. 

For supper, started with a small Caesar salad, veal marsala, would anyone care to see food pictures, or can I answer any questions so far? Cheers, Diane

P.S. I will catch up on the two last days at St. Thomas and St  Maarten ASAP. We are having such an awesome 💙 ❤️ time on Princess, I will share all this really soon!

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Day 3 Sea Day #1: I need vitamin sea and walked up and down the promenade on decks 7 and 8, I learned that 2.5 laps equals 

The meet and greet meeting had a great turn out, it was so awesome to meet with the nice, kind folks on the C.C. roll call. I offered 2 doors prizes and the fabulous Matt, the Carribbean Princess cruise director graciously offered non-alcoholic drinks to the attendees, a slot pull was being organized, and lots of mingling occurred, such fun! 

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It's a beautiful day on deck 7 promenade: 

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14 minutes ago, funCruise3 said:

It's a beautiful day on deck 7 promenade: 

This can be such a peaceful play to be

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Joined my family for our breakfast, at some tables besides the pool. Cheers! Even tried cowboy beef and something called "lot kiss" which I believe are similar to latkes 

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1 hour ago, AF-1 said:

This can be such a peaceful play to be

Yes, very peaceful ☮️. We went for the exciting slot pull, I'll share the great winnings in my next post!

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Wow, just came from the casino slot pull and am floating on air! Thanks to Allison and Dave for organizing this activity and to Penelope, the casino manager for donating the Princess cruises Hays and T-shirts! There were 10 passengers that participated, @ $15 each =$150 into the wheel of Fortune slot machine. Sally fed the money into the hungry machine 🎰 in first pic. I began the Lucky streak winning 💪 4 big dollars, lol and Lori was the biggest winner and Raymond and then Kathy did pretty well, too. Lori, Raymond, Judy, Diane-myself, my hubby Guy, Sally, Joel, and Allison and Dave, Kathy all 10 of us doubled our money to a bigger winnings of $300!! Where oh where am I going to to spend my own $30!! I'll start at the gift shop?!? Stay tuned.. 

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Vacation is sometimes easy and sometimes hard to decide how to choose which activities to attend. Hence my delemna for 3 pm: afternoon high tea or today's movie by the pool Mamma Mia, her we go again! I promised myself at least one time to try the high tea social and have only one other sea day left, so perhaps will start with the tea, then the movie? Time will tell!

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Thumbs up for high tea! On the way to sing along to Abba songs!!

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[Colo Cruiser]

Ocean Views like that can't be beat!  😎

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Day 6 Sea Day #2: I need vitamin sea and walked up and down the promenade on decks 7 and 8, walked 2.7 laps with my hubby. We dressed up for the second formal dinner, every meal in the dining room has been 5 star, too notch! I chose the salad and salmon and my hubby ordered a few rock lobsters. Everything was delicious. The cherry trifle had lots of cherries, and the chocolate dessert was very decadent.

 

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We had a fabulous vacation and went to join the celebration in the Piazza: Matt arrived just in time for the scheduled time 10:45 as indicated on the patter: excellent band, lots of dancing and of course the balloon drop!!! It was serious FUN!!!! My daughter went to the teen's club party and hour earlier with her new friends and joined the balloon drop fun, too. 

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Another awesome day at sea, time for my latte with almond milk and muisli to start the day

[skatie]

Sounds like you've had a blast so far!  The ocean looks a bit rough in that pic. Has it been mostly smooth Sailing?  We get on her March 23 and I tend to get motion sick in rough seas so wondering how much gravol go bring lol!

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20 minutes ago, skatie said:

Sounds like you've had a blast so far!  The ocean looks a bit rough in that pic. Has it been mostly smooth Sailing?  We get on her March 23 and I tend to get motion sick in rough seas so wondering how much gravol go bring lol!

I recommend ginger tablets as they really work for me! The ship stabilizers really make it much better, smooth sailing. I did bring regular gravol but none of my family needed to use it. 😀 Cheers!

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My daughter went to hang out with other teenagers during the day, so my hubby and I went to find some lounge chairs, swam in the adult only AFT  pool, had a piece of the daily pizza special (mushroom & ham). I promised myself that I would have at least one Pina colada and one gin and tonic during the cruise, so check! And my hubby ordered a nice strawberry daiquiri today for me!  Wow, how can the final day of our cruise be any more better? Well, of course our final MDR  supper in the Coral dining room with Marvin and Ashwin serving a fabulous new York steak supper! I started with the seafood chowder, my daughter had the details salad to start, both delicious dishes and five star!!! Even better, a special dessert was served, too! I tried the sugar-free chocolate tapioca dessert, but tell you the truth, the baked Alaska was to die for!  I lost my new Princess cap yesterday and found it in the lost and found at customer service on deck 6. So happy to wear it again!

I'll do a quick summary of our disembarkation day on Saturday later on, ASAP. Cheers!

[jwattle]

Great thread, thank you for taking us along! 😃

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1 hour ago, jwattle said:

Great thread, thank you for taking us along! 😃

You're welcome!

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Our disembarkation day on Saturday was awesome!  We reserved the Everglades tour, alligator show, and transportation to the Fort Lauderdale airport excursion. The awesome thing about booking this tour is that our disembarkation time was already determined by meeting at the casino at 7:55 am, easy peasy, AND the baggage tags were provided to us a few days prior, so we simply tagged our large suitcase and even a few of our carry-on suitcases as per instructions, left them outside our cabin our last night on the cruise outside our cabin door.  We factored in a half hour for our last breakfast in the morning in the MDR in the Palm dining room.  We even had time to go to the International cafe to pick up my daughter's specialty tea (see pic of favorite fruit green tea ice tea, my usual latte Expresso with almond milk, and my hubby's double shot Americano. Everything went well afterwards: disembarked the lovely Caribbean Princess ship, found our luggage, a porter offered to take our luggage to customs, waited in line for a few minutes, found our tour bus, tipped the porter, and we were off to the Everglades by 9 am.

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We had a great time on the airboat ride, saw a few alligators in the Everglades. It was a short half hour on the water but it was fun when we went fast! The boat had twin propellers and was quite big as it carried around 30 passengers. We felt very safe while traveling in it. We watched the alligator show, learned some cool stuff about alligators, and even tried some alligator bites with fries, but forgot to take a pic of the food. Our tour guide's name was Lance, and he was very knowledgeable, telling us lots of facts, and stories about the Everglades, and the Fort Everglades area. Before we knew it, we were dropped off at the airport and on the way home to Canada!!

I'll post a few tidbits of our favorite parts of the cruise in a separate post. Cheers! 

[AF-1]

Thanks for the great review of your cruise;  I enjoyed the pics.