Oasis of the Seas – Our 2011 Spring Break cruise was on Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas over the dates of April 2-9, 2011. I have attempted to condense highlights from our 7 night cruise down to three and a half minutes. We stopped in Labadee Haiti, Falmouth Jamaica and Cozumel Mexico. The ship is amazing and we had perfect weather the entire cruise. The big surprise/highlight was the quality of the entertainment. We saw the play “Hairspray”, the ice show, Beatlemania, “Oasis of Dreams” in the Aqua Amphitheater and the “Come Fly with Me” show. Richard Spacey was the Cruise Director. royal caribbean oasis of the seas cruise labadee falmouth jamaica cozumel mexico spring break western richard spacey zip line surfing flow rider allure liberty beatlemania dreams come fly with me boardwalk central park rising tide neon trees animal snellville ga georgia gwinnett county bruce johnson nikon d5000 stop motion dreamworks freedom tour cabin Haiti royalcaribbeanoasis reviews review photo photos oasisoftheseas cruise ship April 2011 video tour honeymoon tours highlights best most popular most viewed world’s largest huge wave biggest highlights tour and highlights GoPro tour tips
My hubby and I are going on our first cruise (Carnival) later this month. We’re looking at some shore excursion options. Our cruise heads to Mexico, Belize, and Honduras. We have a few in mind that we’d like to do, but if we were to do a shore excursion at each place (4 ports), it is going to get pretty pricey for us. Are we allowed to get off the boat and explore on our own without a guided tour for some of these places? We just didn’t want to pay (i.e.) each to go shopping if we could roam the town on our own.
Also, my hubby has his passport that he’ll be using. I’m taking mine as well, but since mine says my maiden name I’m told that I’ll need my birth certificate and marriage license to get on the ship. If we ARE allowed to go off the ship on our own, are these ID documents ok for the other countries? Or would they ONLY accept a passport with my married name in order to get off the boat and explore?
Lots of questions, I know….Any advice would be helpful. Also if you have done this cruise, and enjoyed (or hated) certain shore excursions, please let me know! Thanks!
my cruise is going to yucatan and cozumel in mexico and i don’t know what to wear? my mom is taking me shopping for it and i don’t know what to buy!! please help!!
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Under the current Caribbean regulations, ships can begin dumping garbage, including metal, glass and paper, three miles (five kilometres) from shore as long as it is ground to less than an inch. Almost anything but plastic can be dumped beyond 25 miles (40 kilometres). Miles from shore in the open Caribbean Sea, cruise ships are dumping ground-up glass, rags and cardboard packaging. But vessels in other waters such as the Baltic and North seas are prohibited from throwing any solid waste overboard other than food scraps. The difference? Many countries with coastlines on the world’s most fragile seas abide by a United Nations dumping ban that requires them to treat ship-generated garbage on land. Caribbean islands, however, have yet to adopt the ban, saying they simply don’t have the capacity to treat ship garbage on shore. They also fear the ban could push ships to dock in less regulated ports of call. The islands scattered across the Caribbean have struggled to establish a common policy because when it comes to the cruise industry, they see themselves as competitors. Cruise ship arrivals are major economic events, with passengers spending roughly .5 billion annually in Caribbean ports. Governments are wary of driving away ships that might find fewer requirements or lower fees elsewhere. In one notorious example, Carnival Cruise Line withdrew from Grenada in 1999 amid a dispute over .50-a-head tax to pay for a new landfill. “Countries haven’t forgotten that,” said …
The Carnival cruise ship valor’s theme is heroes and heroism, and I liked it. It was just my style and just what I needed to be on during the elections this fall. Yes, I missed the big elections, but of course I voted, by mail. I was given a chance to go on this cruise for free, so I took it; who wouldn’t. Can you imagine a cruise ship with American flags on the floors, the stairs, the bar countertops etc? Can you imagine in this day and age a ship with sculptured images of George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and other remarkable Americans up above you surrounding some of the public rooms? A ship where as you walk down the stairs there is, between the decks, first a painting of Abraham Lincoln and then one of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon? Well you don’t have to imagine it, all that you have to do is to book yourself a cruise on the Valor and you can see it all for yourself. And for those of you who love to smoke an occasional cigar, on the Atlantic deck there is the Winston cigar bar where you can feel free to smoke cigars to your hearts content. This huge bar stretches the entire width of the ship and has more than enough seating for all. It has leather seats and real solid wood tables with pictures on the walls of Winston Churchill and others from the WWII era. If you like smoking cigars in a classy setting, then this is the place for you. Dinner was at 8:15 in the Lincoln dinning room. The food was the best. I had the duck, I had the snails, and I even had the …
