the cruise
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alibaliSo yeah the cruise.. we went on Crown Princess for 9 days..
day 1 (tuesday 9/12) - we get on the ship.. check out our room and ours stinks like smoke. The cabin steward gives us a bottle of air freshener and says "good luck". i can't breathe in the room. we go down to the pursers desk who says theres nothing they can do there are no other rooms and they'll change out all the curtains and stuff while we go to dinner. we go to dinner and the show.. get back to the room at around 11:30 and it still reeks. Now our cabin steward switched our room spray from lemon to tropical. so it smells like cantaloupe cigarettes. I go to pursers desk with my mom this time.. they give us an inside cabin for the night cause i told her that i couldn't breathe in the room and i booked a non-smoking room for that reason. She said she'll talk to hotel manager in the morning and hopefully things will work out.. if not we should leave our stuff in the Balcony room and sleep in the Inside Cabin.. yeah that makes sense.
day 2 - day at sea. i was annoyed and preoccupied with cabin my dad tells me to just suck it up and enjoy my vacation. i get annoyed at him cause god forbid they had a curtain outta place we all would've never heard the end of it.. i couldn't breathe in my room.. it was a big deal. finally around 3:30 we speak to hotel manager. i start to cry cause i'm upset (and a big baby) and shes like "i appreciate you're upset" what the fuck does that even mean?? she somehow manages to find a room just like ours but smoke free. Never even apologizes for us having to repack all our stuff and move or the fact that we had to sleep in an inside cabin even though we paid for a balcony.. didnt even offer like a free excursion.. or something geez. We get to our room that night after dinner (it was a formal night) and our new cabin steward (Mihaela) who was friends with our old steward (Dracos) knew the whole story felt bad and gave us slippers, a boutonniere and a corsage.. that was sweet of her.
day 3 - at sea. we ate. we watched mission impossible 3.. we ate more. that was it pretty much.
day 4 - Grand Turk. we went snorkeling at like 8am then we went to see sting rays. i dont like sting rays ever since the fucker hurt me when we went to sting ray city like 15 years ago. Finally I was coaxed into the water and our guide guy was following me around holding a huge sting ray until i touched it. the only reason i did was cause mark has to touch a snake. if i have to touch my fears he has to touch his. It really wasn't so bad there though because there was only like 4 sting rays and the guides "knew" them all.. except for this big mofo that showed up and i of course screamed lol. sting ray city was like 100s of sting rays and tons of people.. not so fun.
day 5 - Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Mark, my mom, and i decided to find a taxi driver and get a tour. We've all been there before a few times but Mark never went so we wanted him to "see the sights". We had cab driver drama.. mark stormed off.. we end up bumping into cab driver on the st. Nice guy. Just the 3 of us in a huge bus/van. We're all sitting right behind his seat.. he puts on his microphone and says "Hello, Welcome to Jeffrey's Tours, my name is Jeffrey and I'll be your tour guide today". It was hysterical. We saw the rainforest, random towns then went to Dunn's River Falls. Which we were willing to climb but Mark didn't want to.. its a lotta work.. we've done it before but i think eventually one day mark will have to do it, its just one of those things. We ended up going shopping afterwards.. bought matching Movados.
Mark was called racist at the falls cause he was "white man who too good to buy from the black jamaican" it was funny. then on our way back to the ship we walked past a guy peeing on the side of the road. oh and i bought a creamer in the shape of a boobie. milk comes out the nipple. its amazing i shoulda bought like 10 of them.
day 6 - Grand Cayman. all six of us took a tour around together. Saw the conch house and Hell - which was much smaller than I remembered. We went to the Turtle Sanctuary.. took a pic just like we did 15 years ago the first time we visited.. it looks cute. Mark yelled, no SCREAMED, at a group of chinese people. The were taking the adult (aka HUGE) turtles out of the tanks and placing them on the (tiny) ledge so they could take pictures. You're not supposed to do that.. you're not even supposed to touch these turtles cause they're so big they'll eat your hand. So mark saw it happening and rushed over and screamed at them "What the fuck are you doing? Put the damn turtle down!" and he grabbed it and put it back into its tank right before it almost fell.
day 7 - day at sea. we ate. galley tour - lame. art auction - fell asleep. got drunk on wine at dinner.
day 8 - port canaveral. we didn't get off the ship.. so it was pretty much another day at sea for us. got drunk on deck and got sunburnt. went in the pool and hot tub. played bingo. that night my sister was talking to Sarge (the comedian on board - had like 3 shows) in the casino and it was really funny.. cause when she walked away he comes right up to me and is like i have to ask you a question. and i'm like okay? "is your sister a bodybuilder?" i was just like what?? and trying really hard not to laugh. hes like "shes got CRAZY calves! i used to be a bodybuilder and only ever saw calves like that on other builders" i'm like yea no shes not but okay.
day 9 - at sea. ate. napped in lounge. read book. packed up. ate.
All in all:It was a big ship (held about 3000 guests plus 1200 crew) but none of the common areas were big enough so you always had to be 45 minutes early to find a seat anywhere. We had a good time, but by like day 6 my dad was getting cranky so that was annoying.
I dont think I'll be going on Princess again - they seem to nickel and dime you everywhere. For example: coffee is free everywhere you go except in the bar next to where they have free pastries. weird. I'd go on Princess if we fell into a really good deal again.
I think i'm getting sick of cruises. well not cruises.. maybe just the caribbean. i dont know.. its just the same stuff over and over and its not as enjoyable anymore because all these island rely on the tourists for their sole income so you get harassed into buying crap you don't want or need.
day 1 (tuesday 9/12) - we get on the ship.. check out our room and ours stinks like smoke. The cabin steward gives us a bottle of air freshener and says "good luck". i can't breathe in the room. we go down to the pursers desk who says theres nothing they can do there are no other rooms and they'll change out all the curtains and stuff while we go to dinner. we go to dinner and the show.. get back to the room at around 11:30 and it still reeks. Now our cabin steward switched our room spray from lemon to tropical. so it smells like cantaloupe cigarettes. I go to pursers desk with my mom this time.. they give us an inside cabin for the night cause i told her that i couldn't breathe in the room and i booked a non-smoking room for that reason. She said she'll talk to hotel manager in the morning and hopefully things will work out.. if not we should leave our stuff in the Balcony room and sleep in the Inside Cabin.. yeah that makes sense.
day 2 - day at sea. i was annoyed and preoccupied with cabin my dad tells me to just suck it up and enjoy my vacation. i get annoyed at him cause god forbid they had a curtain outta place we all would've never heard the end of it.. i couldn't breathe in my room.. it was a big deal. finally around 3:30 we speak to hotel manager. i start to cry cause i'm upset (and a big baby) and shes like "i appreciate you're upset" what the fuck does that even mean?? she somehow manages to find a room just like ours but smoke free. Never even apologizes for us having to repack all our stuff and move or the fact that we had to sleep in an inside cabin even though we paid for a balcony.. didnt even offer like a free excursion.. or something geez. We get to our room that night after dinner (it was a formal night) and our new cabin steward (Mihaela) who was friends with our old steward (Dracos) knew the whole story felt bad and gave us slippers, a boutonniere and a corsage.. that was sweet of her.
day 3 - at sea. we ate. we watched mission impossible 3.. we ate more. that was it pretty much.
day 4 - Grand Turk. we went snorkeling at like 8am then we went to see sting rays. i dont like sting rays ever since the fucker hurt me when we went to sting ray city like 15 years ago. Finally I was coaxed into the water and our guide guy was following me around holding a huge sting ray until i touched it. the only reason i did was cause mark has to touch a snake. if i have to touch my fears he has to touch his. It really wasn't so bad there though because there was only like 4 sting rays and the guides "knew" them all.. except for this big mofo that showed up and i of course screamed lol. sting ray city was like 100s of sting rays and tons of people.. not so fun.
day 5 - Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Mark, my mom, and i decided to find a taxi driver and get a tour. We've all been there before a few times but Mark never went so we wanted him to "see the sights". We had cab driver drama.. mark stormed off.. we end up bumping into cab driver on the st. Nice guy. Just the 3 of us in a huge bus/van. We're all sitting right behind his seat.. he puts on his microphone and says "Hello, Welcome to Jeffrey's Tours, my name is Jeffrey and I'll be your tour guide today". It was hysterical. We saw the rainforest, random towns then went to Dunn's River Falls. Which we were willing to climb but Mark didn't want to.. its a lotta work.. we've done it before but i think eventually one day mark will have to do it, its just one of those things. We ended up going shopping afterwards.. bought matching Movados.
Mark was called racist at the falls cause he was "white man who too good to buy from the black jamaican" it was funny. then on our way back to the ship we walked past a guy peeing on the side of the road. oh and i bought a creamer in the shape of a boobie. milk comes out the nipple. its amazing i shoulda bought like 10 of them.
day 6 - Grand Cayman. all six of us took a tour around together. Saw the conch house and Hell - which was much smaller than I remembered. We went to the Turtle Sanctuary.. took a pic just like we did 15 years ago the first time we visited.. it looks cute. Mark yelled, no SCREAMED, at a group of chinese people. The were taking the adult (aka HUGE) turtles out of the tanks and placing them on the (tiny) ledge so they could take pictures. You're not supposed to do that.. you're not even supposed to touch these turtles cause they're so big they'll eat your hand. So mark saw it happening and rushed over and screamed at them "What the fuck are you doing? Put the damn turtle down!" and he grabbed it and put it back into its tank right before it almost fell.
day 7 - day at sea. we ate. galley tour - lame. art auction - fell asleep. got drunk on wine at dinner.
day 8 - port canaveral. we didn't get off the ship.. so it was pretty much another day at sea for us. got drunk on deck and got sunburnt. went in the pool and hot tub. played bingo. that night my sister was talking to Sarge (the comedian on board - had like 3 shows) in the casino and it was really funny.. cause when she walked away he comes right up to me and is like i have to ask you a question. and i'm like okay? "is your sister a bodybuilder?" i was just like what?? and trying really hard not to laugh. hes like "shes got CRAZY calves! i used to be a bodybuilder and only ever saw calves like that on other builders" i'm like yea no shes not but okay.
day 9 - at sea. ate. napped in lounge. read book. packed up. ate.
All in all:It was a big ship (held about 3000 guests plus 1200 crew) but none of the common areas were big enough so you always had to be 45 minutes early to find a seat anywhere. We had a good time, but by like day 6 my dad was getting cranky so that was annoying.
I dont think I'll be going on Princess again - they seem to nickel and dime you everywhere. For example: coffee is free everywhere you go except in the bar next to where they have free pastries. weird. I'd go on Princess if we fell into a really good deal again.
I think i'm getting sick of cruises. well not cruises.. maybe just the caribbean. i dont know.. its just the same stuff over and over and its not as enjoyable anymore because all these island rely on the tourists for their sole income so you get harassed into buying crap you don't want or need.
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Date: 2006-09-29 03:23 am (UTC)We're trying to plan a trip up around Christmas.