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The Itinerary:
As I said this was inspired by a show we watched of Samantha's Brown's. We her! We love her disney and non disney stuff. We watched a cruise special that she took with her family last year. It was an 8 day cruise which we have been wanting to try out. When I saw her at the Baths of Virgin Gorda, I told Eric I wanted to do this next time if we could. I didn't mean that exact cruise and it wasn't meant to copy her cruise exactly. But, in the end it somehow came out that way *LOL*
A few months later as in about 4 months later, Eric calls me and said for me to DVR that Samantha Brown cruise special that was on and coming on again later that day. So, I set it up and he goes on to inform me the cruise I said I liked that she did happened to be the exact cruise we booked *LOL*
So, how cool is is that we have a visual on what we will be doing soon?? We kept it on the DVR and watch it here and there.
It is really cool to see the ship and the activities,etc.
So, when choosing the itinerary we choose an 8 day cruise. We usually do a 7 day but this would give us another port and another day for not much more than we usually pay. We decided we wanted to give this a try.
We choose the Carnival Freedom ship. This ship goes out of Ft. Lauderdale which we went out of last year.
The itinerary we choose was:
Sat. March 27th: Ft. Lauderdale depart at 4:00pm
Sun, March 28th: Fun day at Sea
Mon, March 29th: San Juan 5pm-midnight
Tues, March 30th: St. Thomas/St. John 7am-6pm
Wed, March 31st: Antigua 7am-6pm
Thurs, April 1st: Tortola/Virgin Gorda 7am-330pm
Fri, April 2nd Fun day at sea
Sat, April 3rd Nassau 1pm-8pm
Sun, April 4th Ft. Lauderdale 8am
That's what we choose. We have been to some of these ports before but it was ports that we really enjoyed. There are a few that we have never been to before and are excited to try out.
Here are a few pics of the where we are going....
San Juan....
We have been here before so here are a few pics of San Juan
This is Downtown Old San Juan. We plan to do this on our visit this time. More on that later though
St. Thomas/ St. John
We have been here several times and love going here. We have plans for both islands, more to come on that but here are a few pics from prior cruises
St. John (Trunk Bay where we plan to go this time)
St. Thomas
Antigua NEW PORT...we have never been here but here is what
it looks like
Tortola/Virgin Gorda...Brittish Virgin Islands NEVER BEEN....NEW PORT...
This is what the baths look like
The last stop is Nassau....I have no pics of this right now. We have done this port before. We have something really cool lined up here that we are really excited about!
So, that's a bit of what we are doing and what it looks like
We are 48 days out. We should get our packet and cruise tickets at around 45 days out next week!!
We did book cruise insurance which is a must do! Because if you were to get sick or a bad weather cancel the cruise or anything happen to your luggage you loose everything. The cruise insurance was booked at time of booking and was 100 for us both total. Which is a great price!
We do plan to drive down again more on that later!
Up next: The ship details!
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her! We love her disney and non disney stuff. We watched a cruise special that she took with her family last year. It was an 8 day cruise which we have been wanting to try out. When I saw her at the Baths of Virgin Gorda, I told Eric I wanted to do this next time if we could. I didn't mean that exact cruise and it wasn't meant to copy her cruise exactly. But, in the end it somehow came out that way *LOL*
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