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The Cruise... I've been busy working 7 days a week to finish some projects and it's time for another blog! Earlier this year, my wife and I went on a company sponsored cruise to The Bahamas. I think it's also correct to say we went to Bahamas leaving 'the' out of the title. Four nights, three days with the main stop in the capital city Nassau. This was our 2nd cruise together and the boat this time was smaller than the first cruise. The first trip (2 years ago) took us to Cozumel, Mexico. Traveling East from Miami brought us into the waters of the Atlantic ocean, where it's choppy in the spring and storms are common. But, we managed to get to Nassau without any trouble. As we got off the ship and headed along the pier, we could feel winds 30mph with gusts no less than 40mph. People were losing their hats and anything that wasn't securely fastened. It was mostly sunny, but extremely windy. There are all kinds of services and vendors offing (read: selling) things both before customs and on the island side. Annoying would be a polite description as some of the people (young men mostly) wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. They had authentic Cuban cigars, offered personalized taxi guides around the city, conch shells, trinkets, T-Shirts and duty free alcohol. After the first day, we could see this cruise line wasn't the caliber as the other one. The food, service and entertainment was considerably less. They had a comedian who only did one show per night, so if you were at dinner, you missed him. But, that seemed to be a common thread throughout the trip. Not much in the way of quality entertainment. The other cruise was truly international as they had help from many different countries and that was interesting, especially since the young women from China attached themselves to my wife and were interested in how she found life in America. The Bahamas cruise had nearly all help from the Philippines. The benefit in that is they all speak fluent English. Since the weather was windy, the captain called off our next stop as it was a private island without a pier for cruise ship docking. We would have to go ashore on tiny boats that seat less than 20 and it was deemed too risky in such rough seas. So we stayed another day in port at Nassau and not many wanted to be bothered with travel on the island. We ended up poolside and walking around the boat no less than 20 times! I rarely experience motion sickness and had a miserable night getting only 3 hours sleep. I chewed on Ginger gum that is good for nausea relief and had room service bring a can of soda... that worked. We couldn't wait to get back to Miami and had all our things packed and stood at the front of the line getting off the boat. .    |
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We anticipate there will be another cruise next year and agreed to decline the offer.
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My daughter and I went to Turks island and the trip was fabulous. All the food was good. Small portions, but you could order 2 meals to equal a normal sized meal. When my wife and I went to Cozumel, we preferred the buffet style and not the dining room meals. They were tasty, but again... small portions. We laughed having spent 90 minutes 'dining' and after, head to the upper deck to visit the buffet.
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