Today, we are in the port town of Bridgetown, Barbados. The ship arrived on time at 8:00 AM, but we were a little late getting up, and were not ready to get off the ship when they opened the gangway. The plan for today was to take the city bus
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The port stop for today is St. Kitts. We were not scheduled to arrive until 10:00 AM, it was quite a distance to travel from Barbados to St. Kitts, over 300 nautical miles, so it was a later arrival than normal due to the distance between these two ports. As
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St. Thomas is our port of call for today. We have been here many times, so we did not really have any specific plans for the day. Initially, this was to be our first “day off” after visiting four ports in a row that we had never been to before.
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Today was a sea day as we head toward the Princess Cruises island, Princess Cays. There is a tropical storm heading toward the Bahamas, and we were experiencing some of the cloudiness and breezes from that storm. It was actually nice to have some overcast, it helped to make it
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This morning, we were awoken by the voice of the Captain, giving everyone an update on the current weather, and stating that we were not going to be able to stay and visit Princess Cays. The winds were blowing about 30 knots from the Northwest, and the seas in the
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Today is “turnaround day” for the cruise. We got up at about 6:45 AM, showered, and got dressed to go to the buffet for breakfast. It will be an interesting experience for us, we have never done “back-to-back” cruises before, so we are not quite sure what to expect. Last
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Today was a sea day due to the hurricane in the Bahamas, Hurricane Joaquin. This had originally been scheduled as a visit to the Princess Cruise Lines Private Island, Princess Cays. The sea day was a much better alternative in our opinion, we are not big fans of visiting Princess
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Today is a day at sea as we continue to our next port of call, St. Thomas. The weather conditions improved dramatically overnight, the seas were quite calm, as well as the wind. The hurricane has moved northward, and we are moving southward, so we are continuously getting farther away
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It was a sunny morning when we awoke as the ship was already being tied up at the Pier in St. Thomas. Last night we had decided to try and visit Meagan’s Bay, a popular beach on St. Thomas. We were not in a hurry, so we slept in a
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Today we are stopping in the port of Roseau, Dominica. Dominica had been hit hard with a tropical storm on August 27, 2015, and we had initially been worried that we may not be going there when we had booked this cruise. They received about 12 inches of rain in
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