June 2009 going Cruising again!!! This time my sister and her family going to :)

[greenbriar]

I love cruiseing and this will be AWESOME

[greenbriar]

1. come with us

[Cant trust em]

2. Are you up to the nautical circle; or whatever their recognition society is?

You know how if you've cruised 15 days you become a captain, 30 days you're the admiral or something like that?

[greenbriar]

3. this will be our 6th cruise

it makes us Platinum on the Crown and Anchor society

[Cant trust em]

4. Which lines have you been on? Any preferences?

I've been on Holland America and Princess.

[greenbriar]

5. Royal Caribbean and Carnival

definately prefer Royal Caribbean



hands down



this ship will be the Majesty of the Seas

[Cant trust em]

6. My parents went on Freedom of the Seas a few months back

They were pretty happy.

[greenbriar]

8. We just got back from Freedom of the Seas two weeks ago

wonderful beautiful ship

[Cant trust em]

10. unless there are two cruise crazy fools on DU

I think I remember that post.

[greenbriar]

12. it is the only thing I love to do

and if I can get my sister and her family and maybe even my brother and his family to all go the same time, it would be fantastic

[Cant trust em]

15. the only cruises I've been on have been with my whole family

there's like 18 of us rolling into the lido deck. My grandparents like it because we're all in the same place.

[greenbriar]

20. what did they like best about their cruise?

Did they see Shane Tapper in the pub?

[Cant trust em]

21. They talked more about the ports than the ship itself

They did mention that the balcony they had was fantastic. Good gym too. They said that the food wasn't as good as the Holland cruises we've been on.

[greenbriar]

22. hubby said the gym was fantastic

We love the ports,

but the ship was awesome. I wanted a balcony but hubby wanted a promanade view so that is what we did. It was pretty neat.

I thought the food was great, but they did not have baked alaska and I wanted that

[Cant trust em]

23. My parents said that the absence of baked Alaska was conspicuous

actually they're less pretentious than I am so they probably just said that they noticed it was missing and were disappointed.

[greenbriar]

24. I think that although the ship was awesome, the bigness of it causes some of the neat

touches to be lost?



We are going on Majesty which when built was one of the biggest, but now its the smallest family and I believe the personal touches we fell in love with will be back?

[Cant trust em]

25. When are they going to start refurbishing U.S. aircraft carriers to use as cruise ship?

My dad showed me a travel channel episode on "freedom" that he taped. I wasn't that interested. I don't know how much I want to walk through a huge shopping mall every time I wanted some jello.

[greenbriar]

26. its really not that bad... there were only a few times that it was crowded

the rest of the time, the promenade was really peaceful

[Cant trust em]

27. On the Holland America ship Ryndam they had this awesome library

It was like the full media center where they have music stations and all that jazz. It was located in the middle of the ship so every time you sat down there was always a family member who'd walk by and visit eventually. I liked hanging out there.

[greenbriar]

14. the cool thing is that Majesty was our first cruise

so it will be neat to see it again



it has been totally redone top to bottom

[lost-in-nj]

7. Where to!?!?!?

gotta let us know the itinerary!!!


:hi:


lost

[greenbriar]

9. opps sorry

Ship Name: Majesty Of The Seas
Departure Port: Miami, Florida
Ports of Call: Miami, Florida; Nassau, Bahamas; CocoCay, Bahamas; Key West, Florida; Miami, Florida

[Grey]

11. We are doing the viking river cruises through the Netherlands,

Ten days of windmills and tulips. We have done some very nice 'Holland-America' cruises but this will be on a much smaller scale.
I can't wait to see the rivers and canals of Europe.

[greenbriar]

13. that sounds awesome

daughter just said she didn't even care about getting off on the islands


she just loves the boat

[Scooter24]

16. Awesome

Have a great trip!

I'm eagerly waiting our 13-night Galveston to Barcelona voyage in a few weeks. It's a small birthday treat from my boyfriend. We're also doing the "Project Genesis" inaugural in the fall of 2009.

In that ship picture above, I can spot our balcony! lol

:)

[greenbriar]

17. that sounds awesome

I would love to do that

[Born_A_Truman]

18. June 2009 Mariner of the Seas

Taking two of my grandchildren on their first cruise. We're taking the Mariner 7 night Mexican Riviera. I will miss the Monarch--I went platinum on her 3 and 4 night Baja cruises. I love cruising on RC! Enjoy!

[greenbriar]

19. I have been on the Monarch to the Baja Cruise

very nice ship



You enjoy as well

[Pacifist Patriot]

28. *sigh* I haven't been on a cruise since the last time I was pregnant.

And he's been out of diapers for awhile. 4 cruises in my lifetime and pregnant for 3 of them. That just isn't right. I so want to go on another one...provided it is either just me and my husband or they have excellent children's programs.

[greenbriar]

29. They have excellent kids programs

for all ages.

you can plan it so you never see them except to sleep and then one night not even then!!!

[Pacifist Patriot]

30. Oh, it's not the availability of kids programming.

It's the availability of a free week and a few thousand dollars. I live really close to a cruise terminal so I don't even need to factor in airfare.

[greenbriar]

31. go to Royal caribbean . com

and just poke around the different ships and dates.


the one we are looking at for 2009 is only 329 per person


sometimes you can get really GREAT deals