Anybody else going on Enchantment West Caribbean on February 19, 2005?

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jacie rei

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Hello!!!

I can not believe that we will be leaving soon. We are so exctied. We might get another winter storm Thursday!! As long as it doesn't come next week we are all set. If we have any chance of getting a storm next week we are getting in our car and driving for 24 hours. I am not going to miss this cruise for anything. Tomorrow we will be down to the single digits.

We finally booked one of our excurisions with Trevor Hudlin. Climbing Dunn's River Falls and The Ocho Highlights and then off to Margaritiville. He assured me that we would have plenty of time to do everything. We are so excited. We just have to figure out who out of my family and the family that we are going with wants to feed the Sting Rays and Snorkel. It certainly will not be me. I think that four out of the eight of us will book that trip with Captain Marvin. The rest of us will be lazy or go shopping.
See everyone soon.

Jacie


Carol:
I am sure you doc will be in realy soon.
 
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jodymc

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Well I cant believe we are down to 10 days until cruise time and 9 days til we get out of this winter weather. WE too are having a snow storm. they do not expect it to stop snowing until tomorrow sometime and predict we will have 10" of new snow. Since I work for a school district I am hoping for a snow day. I could use a day to pack. I have done some shopping but everything is sitting in bags, My son just brought up the suitcases. Jacie, we are also going with Trevor Hudlin in Jamaica and are planning Dunns River Falls, highlights and water tubing and then off to Margaritaville. Swimming with the stingrays isn't so bad...we did it a few years ago. I will admit that I was flipping out at first but there was a woman on our boat who looked to be in her seventies and was with her grandson who was about 16. I figured I would stay on the ship with her. well she was the first in the water and I figured my kids would never let me live it down if she went in and I chickened out. It is a pretty cool experience although I do think that sitting on 6 mile beach would be equally enjoyable to me. We are booked with Nativeways.
I have read great things about this ship and the entertainment. I cant wait to go to "Quest", has anyone read about that?
Talk to you soon.
Jody
 
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hastica

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Jodymc
What is Quest?? I have not heard a thing about it. However I am looking forward to downing a couple of drinks and am hoping for a karaoke bar or maybe a sports bar to catch the Daytona 500. Avid Nascar Fan can't miss that one cruise or no cruise. No Snow here than goodness. Everything is packed and ready to go just counting down the days.... I am hoping we will not get a snow storm that weekend to delay our flight that would totally stink. Would hate to miss the trip for some stinking snow. If I see that is going to happen I think I will chose to drive. Well, Still no cruise documents yet. I am about to go crazy, will definetly not use this travel agent again as I am sure all of the excursions have filled up by now, At least anything worth going on any way. Well best thing to come out of this is that it is feb and I have a GREAT Tan... I am looking forward to a enjoyable and relaxing vacation 10 More days. Can not wait


Carol
 
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jodymc

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Carol,
Quest is a game they play on the ship. From what I hear it is like an adult version of a scavenger hunt. Everh\ything I have read says, "do not miss it". I also hear that the first night is a seventies night and should also not be mssed. If you go to Cruise Critic they also have a message board and there is quite alot of info there. I do not know if they have a sports bar on this ship but I believe they have karaoke.
I agree that if they start predicting bad snow for when we are leaving I will get in my car and start heading south. Living up in Rochester, NY which is between Syracuse and Buffalo, you never know when the snow will hit or worse yet lake effect snow which can dump feet on you.
Maybe you should call your travel agent as it seems you should have your documents by now. As far as excursions I booked ours myself without going through the ship. From what I have read it is much cheaper and usually a less crowded tour and more personalized. Last time we went swimming with the stingrays in GC we booked throught the ship and paid $48 pp. this time I booked with Nativeways and I am paying $28 pp.
I would like to say that I am tan but as of yet I have not gone tanning. My son went out tonight with his friend but once I was home I could not bring myself to go out again.
See you soon,
Jody
 
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StacyinKs

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Well, we will be leaving for Cleveland either Tomorrow night or early Wednesday Morning, so Have a great time on The Enchantment! :) Can you all believe we will be ON the ship THIS weekend? :)
 
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jacie rei

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Hello!!!

I can't believe it is almost here. We are getting ready with last minute things. We will be leaving on Friday morning from Providence, RI . We finally have our excursions in place.
BUT!!! Today my son age 13 broke two bones in his hand playing basketball at school. Now he is really in a nasty mood. He can swim with the cast but he is pretty mad. I am sure he will still have a blast.
I hope we get to meet on the ship or on an excursion so we can see who we have been chatting with. Maybe in Margaritiville!! (I can't wait for that.)
I just read a large review from someone that just got off the enchanment and they had a good time. We can't wait.

Jacie
 
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jacie rei

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Hello!!!

We just returned from the Cruise. I hope everyone enjoyed them selves, Stacie, Carol & Gina.
Jodie it was so nice to meet you. I hope your whole group had a great time. I hope you had a great time. Did you watch the Dunn's River Fall Tape yet? It is pretty good. If yours didn't come out good let me know I will try to copy the one we have. The wour were great, the shows were really good. We had a blast.
Jacie
 
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StacyinKs

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Just wanted to say Hello to you guys. Not sure if you all are still visiting the Cruise boards. I AM! I have been having a great big case of the ol Post Cruise Blues..lol

We had an absolute blast on the Cruise and are hoping to be able to go on another one. It may not be until next year, but I do know I want to go on ANOTHER!
 
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jacie rei

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Stacy

Hi!!

We had a blast on the cruise also. We feel like it was such a long time ago. I certainly want to go on another one. We actually met Jodie on one of the excursions. We went to Dunn's River Falls in Jamicia and her group took the same tour guide. It was nice to meet her. What rooms did you stay in? We had a balcony on the 7th floor. It was really nice. The weather was just not great. It was so windy. I never felt very warm. Except when we were in Grand Cayman. But it was still warmer then it was in Rhode Island. We had a woderful time though. I would recommend it to anyone. It will just be awhile before we can do it again. Our waiters we so nice. My kids really miss them. They were just so sweet. The shows and the games that we went to were so funny. (Love & Marriage). What did you do when you were there? I can't see how anyone wouldn't have a great time.
Jacie
 
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StacyinKs

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Hi Jacie!!
Oh, I know it was only a couple of weeks ago, but you are right..it does feel like it was a long time ago!!

I def want to go on another one, but like you..it will be a little while before we will be able to..but another is DEF in our future, and this time we HAVE to take the kids.

I wish I could have met you guys, that would have been alot of fun!!

We were on the 3rd floor in an Oceanview, Room # 3086. Our Room Attendant was Allan, and he really did take great care of us! Left a towel animal 4 nights for me.

In Ocho Rios, I had booked with one of the private tour guides, Phil Lafayette and I highly recommend him to anybody!! We were the only couple that had signed with him that day, so we had him and his air conditioned van all to ourselves. He was waiting at the pier for us when and then took us to Dunns River. We were the first people there, so we had a nice little run of it for a bit. We decided not to climb the Falls, but I am so glad that we went to go see it! Then Phil took us to see Fern Gully, took us on a tour of the Island, by one of the schools and took us up to the top of the mountain where the view was absolutely beautiful! You could see the ship in the distance. Phil took us on a little walk where he showed us some of the various spices and fruits, like bananas and lemons..the Allspice just smelled SO GOOD! The van was airconditioned and while we were driving around, Phil would sing to us. He then let us out at Island Village where we walked around to the stores and then we went to Margaritaville for a litlte bit. We then walked over to Taj Mahal. After Taj Mahal, we started walking back to the ship..then we stopped off at a little beach and just relaxed until it was time to go back to the ship.

In Grand Cayman, we went on one of the Island Tours..we had just gotten off the pier and found a lady holding a sign up for $10 Island Tours..so we took it! She took us to the Turtle Farm, Hell, Governors Mansion and on the ride there, talked alot about Ivan. She told us that all of the sand from the beach had been blown across the street and had to be moved back. I couldn't believe how bad the damage was still nearly 6 months later. After our Island tour, we then walked around the shops and then went to Hard Rock Cafe..Got to be about 1pm, so we started walking down to Captain Marvins where we had our Snorkel and Sting Ray tour..which was an absolute BLAST!!! The stingrays were so much fun..they really are friendly..and the snorkeling was absolutely FABULOUS!!! I had taken some cereal with me and the fish just loved that!

On the ship, we did go to some of the shows and to the games!! We went to Love and Marriage(loved Moe and Myrna!), went to see the "Village People" and went to AND PLAYED The Quest!! LOL I am not sure if you went or not, but that was My Hubby that was "King of the Enchantment of the Seas"...LOL We also went to Karaoke..went to see the Comedian, but I thought he was kinda boring..lol

What did you think of Sunday night with those HIGH WINDS?? That Ship was literally Rocking back and forth!

Stacy
 
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hastica

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Hello everyone.
I also had a wonderfule time. My husband and i are planning to go again in OCt , just a short cruise this time.
I canot believe your hubby was miss enchantment of the seas... That game was so great!!! I never had so much fun in my life! I laughed so hard I was hoarse the next day. I will have apermanent memory of that since we bought the cruise in review video. I really wish we could have met on this cruise.... We stayed on Deck 4 room 4510. and I agree the ship was rockin!
 
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StacyinKs

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HI Carol!!
I was wondering how you were! I think that is wonderful that you and Hubby are going back out again in October!! We are def going on another, just not sure when we will be able to.as this time we want to take the boys with us too!

LOL Yep, I claim him..The Quest was SO MUCH fun! We had to get the Cruise in Review video too! We just had too..it was our first Cruise..and of course Dave is on there. I am really surprised they didn't put Love and Marriage on the video.

I wish we could have met too. I don't know why we didn't make any arrangements to meet. I think the date just came up REALLY quicker than we had expected and we were all kinda running around getting things done that last week.

Oh yeah-We went to Karaoke too...What did you guys think of that Chocolate buffet???? MMMMM..I sure do miss the food..We wanted some flexibility and since we don't get dinner with just the 2 of us at home-we decided to go to the Windjammer most of the time-We thoroughly enjoyed that! I am just kicking myself that I didn't keep a journal of what foods we had there.

I took LOTS AND LOTS of pictures..Still waiting to get 5-6 more rolls developed, will be getting those developed this weekend as a matter of fact. The pics from snorkeling and the stignrays turned out absolutely AMAZING!

What all did you do on the ship, Carol? What excursions did you do? I am so glad to hear back from you guys. I was thinking about you guys..and wondering if we had crossed paths..lol
 
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jacie rei

Guest
Hello!!!

We went to the Quest. We went on the cruise with another family and 4 teenagers. 6 of us went to the Quest. We didn't have the first thing we needed. (copy of the Compass). Then we didn't have the second thing. (whatever that was) so we decided just to watch. It was such a trip. We never laughed so hard.
Stacy,
I certainly remember your husband. That was so much fun. We had a blast. The whole cruise was wonderful. Our friends had been before but it was our first but not our last. The food was great. I didn't get anything from the Choc. buffet but my family did. My stomach never felt quite right any time we were at sea. It wasn't really bad just not quite right so I was careful of what I ate and drank. Other wise our bar bill could have been worse. ( HA HA!) We had such a grat time. It is such a beautiful boat. I hear the Freedom boat will be awesome when they get it in the ocean. It is pretty bad that I am still looking on these web sites now that I am back.
Carol
Enjoy your next trip. I am jealous.
 
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StacyinKs

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Hi Jacie
You know, my stomach never felt quite right either..so I know exactly what you mean..I am SO GLAD I took along the Immodium! I did figure out what was causing alot of my stomach problems..of course it clicked on like the 3rd or 4th night..lol THE WATER!

I like to drink alot of water and would also have a glass or two with my dinner. Well, I held off from drinking the ship water, lemonade etc..and guess what..I felt MUCH Better!

I think the second question from the Quest was..a piece of fruit...Dave grabbed thef ruit out of my drink..then we he came back..our neighboring team grabbed it and took it..want to know the funny part..they offered to give it back. LMAO! Um..No thanks..lol

Did you guys get lots of pictures of the ship? I do know that whenever we are able to go back out, I def want to sail on the Enchantment again to see what changes were made. Personally..I think it is wonderful just as it is!

I know what you mean, I am still hanging around these websites too..but..now it is fun to be able to answer questions and help out other newcomers.
 
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