Hello
We had a horrible day on Sunday with travel arrangements. Started off first thing in the morning by having to be up at 630am to go and retrieve our passports and clear US customs. Then we had to wait until 1040 to disembark. We got to the airport and our flight didn't leave until 315 so hanging around the airport is no fun. Our flight to Toronto was on a tiny little plane with just 2 seats to a row and I sat beside a great big guy that snored all the way because they were in N.O only for the night to attend a one hour meeting on Sunday so he was VERY hungover. Air miles booked our flight with only a one hour layover in Toronto,our flight was late coming in and we were told we had to retrieve our luggage from our flight and then clear Canadian customs with our bags,put them on a different baggage belt and then jump on a shuttle to get us to terminal one. Needless to say they bumped us off our 800pm flight and rebooked us on a 1015pm flight. The agent said she had 30 empty seats so she would leave the middle seat open so we could get some sleep.Yeah right the flight ended up being completely full and to top it off we were half hour late sitting on the runway because a passenger that was suppose to be on the flight was not and they had to unload his baggage from the plane!!!! It was a horrible day, 22 hours later we were home.
As for the cruise I thought it was only OK. The entertainment was terrible!! By far the worst of any of the other 2 ships I was on. That female singer was absolutely horrible,we got up and left after 2 songs,wasn't my cup of tea. The comedian was OK. I did not like the layout of the ship and how they had the different lounges set up so close together. There were terrible odors in many parts of the ship at times,"musty" the carpets were wet coming down some of the flights of stairs.The food was edible but not great. The service in the dining room that we had for the captains dinner was horrible. We were a table of 6 and our plates remained on the table finished for close to 10 minutes,and that was after the last person was done eating. My water glass never was refilled and remained empty most of the time. We just ate at the sports bar most of the time after that. I'm not one to sit around so long waiting for different courses to arrive. I did like the freestyle dining because your not on such a schedule and you meet different people every meal. As far as the cruise went I don't know if I would go with Norwegion again. We didn't pick that great of Shore excursions. We did the "Pirates,Birds and Monkey's in Roatan I liked it, but in the description of it they didn't indicate that you would end up at this beautiful beach at the end of the day with chairs and it was totally empty, it was just us from the tour there but we didn't bring our swimsuits so we just walked around in the very warm water. That was a disapointment. In Belize we did the airboat/city tour. It absolutely sucked!! The description was not at all what we saw, there were no manatees feeding, the tour guides would point them coming out of the water for air,yeah right!! The rest of us certainly didn't see a thing. No crocodiles, 1 little tiny baby in the weeds that was it, just the same old birds through the half hour boat ride. It was terrible and a waste of 89 us dollars. Once back into Belize I was so tired of the pushy men trying to take you on a tour of the city and in your face not taking "NO THANKS" for an answer. I did not feel safe there and would never go back to that filth. It was Soooo dirty!!! Cancun and Cozumel were OK. It was nice to get away as it always makes me appreciate my life and how grateful and lucky I am to live in Canada.
Now New Orleans was the highlite of my trip I LOVED it and am planning on going back for a week. 2 days was not nearly enough it was only a little teaser. I loved the people,the french Quarter, the french market, Bubba Gumps shrimp company {the food was to die over} the swamp tour we did. I loved it all.
Overall it was a good holiday. I tried calling you in your room a few times but could never catch you around. We were at the casino alot. I lost my shirt but my friend did OK at least she was up money.
The next trip I want to go somewhere for a week and relax. I found with 4 ports it wasn't all that relaxing as you were always on some type of schedule. I would like to go to Cuba or Dominican Republic and take my son with a friend of his. That's what the plan is.
