Sunday, May 19, 2013

Southern Caribbean Cruise: Fort Lauderdale and Embarkation


We planned this vacation back in January before we knew we would be going to Honduras and Europe this year. We went with the Warner family back in October to Costa Rica and we jointly chose to go on a cruise together. Omar and I have always wanted to cruise with other people. The itinerary was really cool. 8 days long – 3 of them sea days and our stops were Grand Turk, La Ramona Dominican Republic, Curacao, and Aruba.
We were going on the ship Carnival Breeze which is the newest ship. Carnival has received a lot of bad press recently do to some different incidences, but we have never had any issues. Due to the bad press it helped us to have $400 of onboard credit, which I didn’t complain about at all.
We drove both cars down to Orlando so we could drop of our car at my parent’s house while we were gone. I was going straight to an event for a week following the cruise for making President’s Council for work. We then drove down with the Warners to Ft. Lauderdale where we got a great deal on a hotel room.
Ashley and I went to go find her some swim suit coverups across the street from the hotel while the boys relaxed. We asked the locals what there is to do and it was interesting because quite a few of them would say there is nothing to do in Ft. Lauderdale. We finally received the suggestion to go to Las Olas  where there are restaurants, art galleries, and boutiques sort of along a riverfront.


We ate at Rocco’s Tacos. It was really good, but the service was bad.
Omar and Ashley

Jeron and I

Me and Hubby


We drove down the beach at Fort Lauderdale and then pretty much crashed for the night. 



The next morning we woke up and drove around Miami and South Beach a little before heading to the port to board the cruise ship. 

This ship is really nice and you can tell that it was new.




Our first sea day Ashley and I received a really nice massage – it was a fully body massage, facial, and some other things. It was wonderful. 

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