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Sara Lee

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Hello

I found this board and was made a reject from the other board . I quess I wrote a review of a ship that was not really a good trip and all my post were kicked off because of the slams I recieved over there .

I am a nice person , I like to cruise , I can be funny but I also can say what I think and I may not be an "in " crowd person but I do like to cruise and read and write some post according to the way I feel and do not want to cause trouble nor be beat up because of my opinions .

I would love to stay here if welcome

Thank you
Sara Lee
 
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Kar06

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Wow it seems like a lot of people are having trouble lately saying what they think. Hm. You've come to the right place, these boards are great! =) Welcome!
 
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joebat1

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Hi Sara Lee........

I read where I hired you while I was gone to stir things up......... I hope I paid you enough for a cruise....LOL

Seems like a lot of new members have joined lately from the other board.... Maybe the water will be smother over here......
 
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marleejean

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Welcome aboard!! These people here are awesome. What ship did you give a review on? (Would love to know what site, too.) I feel the most comfortable on this one...many wonderful people that are always willing to help out. Enjoy!
 
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Sara Lee

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Hi
Thanks for the reception . Perhaps someone will soon bring out the free wine and we can all have a toast . Yes Herbie , I quess it was a conspiracy . I dont remember getting the check you promised yet tho .

But with the price of cruises now , it doesnt have to be that much . Im amazed at the prices my agent is sending me and Im still waiting to recieve a credit for my last cruise and still looking forward to seeing Nassau .

And from the cruise board I came from , well I dont mind coming to dinner , but I really didnt want to be the menu . After our last trip , I still have some convincing of my husband to go on another cruise , he is talking about flying and I dont like flying to much , so Im hoping that I might find some good examples of what to tell him on how our next cruise will be different and even if it isnt , at these prices we should go anyway .

Thanks for the words of kindness and please if my spelling or my use of the space bar or anything like that bothers you here on this board , just try to be funny in your response about it . Its been a long time since I took english and grammer school and my mind is getting fuzzy .

Sara Lee
 
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Sharkin

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Welcome Sara Lee,
I wouldn't worry too much about spelling and grammar. It doesn't seem to be an issue around here, except for some of us, but I'm using it as an opportunity for growth. I try to remember that my seventh grade English teacher said, "As long as you make your point understood" that is all that matters.



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DeniseZ

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:wave Hi Sara and welcome aboard @ddicts. And please check out the community board here at @ddicts.



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Susan O

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Hello and you are very welcome here! Don't worry about spelling and grammar, if it is understandable it is good enough!

Herbie - I LOVE YOUR GIF!!!!!
 
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Funship Lover

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No sara If you would have just said I had a bad cruise and told why then everything would have been fine, you got slammed for thinking you were going to get a 100% refund after you had taken the cruise, I have written a bad reveiw before so I know, my second cruise was not real good. But your still hooked on Nassau which is ok. but if the islands are what you are about then maybe cruiseing is not your cup of tea. if the prospect of missing an island is going to upset you the you should just fly to Nassau and spend a week cause anyone who has cruise any length of time has missed ports I have. on my cruise next week we are going to Catilina Island and Ensenada with the weather forcast for next week looking not so good we may miss Catilina it happens the ship is what its about. speak your mind thats fine thats what its about but also look at your demands and say does that sound reasonalable or not. These cruiselines keep files on you as I have found out, so any corrospondance you sent to Carnival they have on file. I just got an email yesterday and the marketing person said she noticed my third cruise was comming up next week they arranged for an upgarde and an onboard credit so hoped I send another reveiw of Carnivals performance when I return so the know. NCL started letting people mill around the vessel while waiting to disembark Carnival did not, They heard so many people praise NCL for not making disembarkation day feel like a day in prison now Carnival allows you to mill around the ship. Just a little advise take it for what you will.
 
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OBFam

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Let's all just move on. I was tired of this issue on CC and I don't want to see it picked up here. Welcome, Sara Lee - hope this works out better for you.

JO
 
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Sara Lee

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Hey , thanks again for the welcome . To the poster who wanted to bring up the Fantasy again ... . It was what it was for me and it is was what it was for others

I have sent the form they give you on board for everyone to fill out to tell of what is good and bad of carnival cruises so , as you say, they can make improvements to service by the various customer comments

As far as Im concerned Carnival has a very good process to get people on the ship ..

I sailed Princess Star also in Jan 03 and I couldnt say how long it took to get on board for everyone because in that ONE CASE we had to FLY to Los Angelos to get on that ship .. and we were late arriving and we were the last to board so of course we "sailed " right on thru that process .

As far as Mexico and the 3 towns we stopped at for a 7 day cruise on Princess and I personally believe 3 ports were plenty on a 7 day cruise for me and actually I did not care to see any of them after the first stop Puerto Valerta ..

One port was enough for us to see but we did get off and stay in town for an hour or so at all of them ... Now some people loved all the ports there in Mexico and that is what I think is great about cruising ..

If you dont want to get off at a particular port , you dont have too...... and if you want to get off , you CAN ...

Mexico was not exactly as beautiful to ME as the books show it to be and I grew up in San Diego so I have been to Mexico before ..

But in that case the cruise itself was the experience ,The Princess Star is a beautiful Boat and Practically brand new so that cruise experience had some bad and some good but in that case I would say the greatness of that cruise far outweighed any bad things on that cruise .. So Ports are not always the reason for crusing ..


On the three day cruise to Nassau on the Fantasy , one port was plenty and adding another one thus cutting the first one shorter than it should have been when we already had lost time waiting for the part to be delievered to fix the ship was not our cup of tea but then again to some , It was an added perk ..

We all are different as I stated and IM GLAD FOR IT .

But on this occasion on a short three day cruise ,we choose that particular cruise to go to one Port and the Port we chose to go to was Nassau ..

YES we wanted to go to Nassau ON A CRUISE which is my God given right to try and do ..
Now to put this matter to bed with a carnival animal folded towel ..

My husband and I have pursued the matter with Carnival and we have asked for what we feel is fair according to what we paid for ..That matter now has become our
personal business between us and Carnival .

BUT just to say this and then let it REST mainly because I dont need to keep on DEFENDING MY RIGHT TO DEFEND MYSELF or my thoughts and My ideas because they dont always agree with everyone elses BUT , and I accept the fact that neither will everyone elses always agree with mine .

The difference Im finding from this experience .. I myself personally am NOT GOING TO HANG anyone OUT ON A LIMB FOR thier IDEAS OF WHAT or WHY they GO ON A CRUISE FOR...OR TELL ANYONE ELSE PERSONALLY ON HOW THEY SHOULD VACATION ...

We are all unique individuals and we ALL DESERVE RESPECT regardless of what we like the best on a cruise or why we cruise or like crusing.....

We like to cruise . And We wanted to see Nassau spending the day and the late evening there in Nassau doing what we wanted to DO ... ..

For this matter to keep being brought up over and over and over of WHY DIDNT WE FLY to nassau if we wanted to see Nassau ..

Well Im going to answer you one last time and then let it drop because you dont seem to understand .. At least

that is all I can figure

Why should we give up cruising just because we wanted to see Nassau and spend a day there? ..

I stay in hotels once a week EVERY WEEK due to work related travel and I really dont want to fly .. IN fact I DONT LIKE TO FLY ..
I dont have any WINGS ( which most people already know )

so we take cruises ... to see what we want to see and obviously somethings we dont always want to see might just FLY BY ... blinding our view ...
Thanks for the memories ,

Sara Lee
 
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Funship Lover

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Three cheers for Sara Lee that was very well written. I don't like to fly either thats why Amtrak and I are such good friends. I would like to hear the other 2 ports you stopped in and the good and bad points. I hate to hear Puerto Vearta was a bummer I thought that place might be nice. I am figureing if that was bad and I did like Cozumel or Playa Del Carmen I am not holding out much hope for Ensenada either next week but we will see.
 
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Sara Lee

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Hey
Puerto Valerta was pretty when the ship how do you say , landed..... in ships language?

Well it slid into port .. As soon as you look at the view of the town on the hills it is pretty , but then after sailing like 2 and 1/2 days ,we thought it was funny we sailed all that way to go to Walmart ....

there is a huge SAMS and WALMART right at the Port ... Now we didnt go there but I wish we would have .. WE probably could have gotten every souvenier that they were selling in town .

But there is supposed to be a Seahorse Statue in the middle of town and so we went on a cab to get there and then got let off .and saw the statue .. there is also a pretty catholic church that is 500 years old that is pretty ...

NOW I MUST SAY THIS .. As soon as you get off the boat .. in this town

There is a DONKEY AND A CART where you can get your picture taken .. If you want to see a DONKEY the rest of your trip .. GET YOUR PICTURE TAKEN THERE .. I think it is the last living donkey in Mexico .. I did not see another one except for the same one I believe once being taken away from the Port on a trailer and I dont mean a horse trailer .

I mean a trailer .. Poor donkey , it was just hanging on in the truck for dear life and I know why . Dont get in a cab without knowing you might die ..

And dont rent a car as VW ;s are all they have .and if you think they drive crazy anywhere else , this is the worst .. Pay the cab driver a couple extra bucks to drive nicely .. They try to make you afraid ... it is fun to them ..

. Now in Jan I heard a hurricane had come thru Mexico last year but they were rebuilding some stuff but it is SELL SELL SELL and MR MR LADY LADY LADY

How much will you give me for this or for that and hey mr rich man buy this for your wife and silver is cheaper in the USA .. I did get one cross for my son there because it said Mexico , but then my husband showed me in the states , the mexico stamp is on a lot of things but you know I wanted to get it from mexico ..

IN the next port it was Cabo San Lucas maybe that was third and it was not so bad ..
More americans lived there but still it was winding around .. and sellers everywhere from the time you got off the ship trying to sell you stuff ..

it used to be that Mexico you could get some deals but now , not so much anymore ..

Lots of people went to pharmacys there as you can get drugs there like Soma and pain pills you can not get here ... without a precription .. pharmacys were everywhere ..

I cant even think of the other port right now but it was the same downtown.. I asked the cab driver what the usual salary was in Mexico .

. Most would not talk of it , but he did say he himself as a cab driver made about 50 dollars a day which is a fortune but waiters and waitresses made about 7 bucks a day ...

So you can see it is a very very poor country and lots of kids begging for money everywhere and the moms put them out there to do it really ...

So bring a lot of dollars with you and money not to buy souveniers but to help those poor kids ..

You can tell after a while which ones really are poor maybe by the clothes I dont know .. Some looked terribly poor and one little girl was trying to sell chicklets and she had on designer jeans
so I didnt buy any from her but most of them are so heartwhenching , you have to give to them...

Also thank the Lord if you return to the ship alive .. I was wondering how many accidents there are and they use open air cars to drive you around in one port and I was waiting for an accident to occur and next thing you know .. BANG CRASH a car banged into another one and I took the picture but they just took off after getting out and shaking fist at one another ..

Very funny and unigue place but I would not say it is NOT real clean and DO NOT DO NOT DRINK THE WATER

Sara Lee
 
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Funship Lover

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That was very interesting and entertaining, sound just like Cozumel and Playa Del Carmen. It pretty much from what you said and my own experiances on the other side of Mexico, That Mexico is basically the same no matter where you go. I know about the begging deal I never give anything because I talk to people in Mexico who have jobs and they tell me not to give to them they dont need it the parents find it easier to send thier children out to beg off the soft hearted Americans with deep pockets then go get a real job and let their kids go to school and get an education. So I just say no thanks and walk on. But thats ok hopefully we will make Catilina Island ok and the water wont be rough and we can go there it sounds really swell and my NCL cruise this fall will stop in Victoria Canada which I am so excited about, and Seattle which I have have have always wanted to see anyways and the San Fransisco which I think sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge will be about the pinnicle for me unless I ever get the chance to cruise pass the Statue of Liberty those two to me are about the best things I can imagine.
 
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Funship Lover

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Sara Lee;

I was thinking about your post while I was at work and your comment about you used to be able to get a good deal in mexico but not anymore couldnt have been any truer. Let me tell you. I was so excited because my grandparents went when I was a kid and got two pair of nice boots and a lot of other stuff like for a quarter of the price here I got to playa and got sticker shock a guy said save your money til cozumel it will be better over there it wasnt it was the same. the guy later that night appologized and told me cozumel was not that high a year ago. and you had basically the same experiance on the otherside of mexico so I guess I should hope for a bargin next week. it just struck me as funny that we basically had the same experiance in mexico but were on completely different coasts. i guess mexico is mexico no matter where you go.
 
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Sara Lee

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Yes I remember going to mexico as a kid and finding all those piggy banks the size of a real pig for like 50 cents and purses and flowers and all kinds of things and my dad always took us down there about every 6 weeks because he could get a haircut for like 50 cents ..

and they were selling stuff at the borders and kids were washing your windows as you were leaving ..

and I thought when we went to Mexico we could find some REALLY good deals but NOT anymore .. but then again I used to be able to go to the corner store and get two comic books a bottle of orange nehi and 2 candy bars for 50 cents too..

Those were the days .. or where they ???

we didnt have all those fancy toys the kids have now .. we thought those paddle things with the little ball attached was fun and you know your parents liked them too .. they were always good to use on your little bottom if you didnt behave and jumped in the adult hot tub..

Sara Lee
 
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