alydinva

We were on the Pride cruise that left 12/17, so the day you returned, and were also in the same category cabin! It's been nice reliving our cruise through your pictures.

I hope you get your camera back. A few years ago a friend of mine bought a go-pro from a pawn shop. The pawn shop guy said a scuba diver brought it in - he had found it while diving (we live in Florida). My friend brought it in to work to look at it and we realized there was a lot of video already on it. We looked at the video and (I announce proudly lol) through some excellent detective work on our account we figured out who we thought it belonged to. We saw video of him going home and saw street names and an address that we looked up on google maps and through public records found a name that I looked up on FB and we were pretty sure we had our guy. So I sent him a FB message explaining my friend (who didn't have FB at the time) had bought a used go-pro but he dind't want to keep it if it had been lost and wanted to return it.

 

We were disheartened when weeks and months went by with no reply. We thought we had done such a good job of amateur sleuthing.

 

Then YEARS later (like 4 or 5 maybe) I hear the familiar "bing" of a message alert on FB and it's the guy finally replying - he said he never even knew he had private messages and just saw my message about the camera from years ago. I hollered at my friend (and co-worker - we've been cubical neighbors for almost 15 years now) that the camera guy just replied. We chatted a bit and yes it was his camera he had lost while surfing and my friend said he'd be happy to send it back but the guy said he had replaced the old camera and didn't really need it back but now my friend could enjoy it with a clean conscious. And so he did.

 

So I'm hoping you get yours back sooner than 4 or 5 years. Good luck! It can happen!

This is a great story! Thank you for sharing. :)

Considering the fees on the ships for example sometimes exceed $10-$15 per transaction, are you saying that if you used one of those machines say, five times, during a cruise your bank would reimburse you that much money?

 

I find that hard to believe.

My bank caps the reimbursement at $35/month, so I suppose it is possible to exceed the amount if you though I never have. I've also never been charged $10 on a cruise ship for using the ATM.

Canadian banks are now just starting to do away with the foreign-brand surcharge, but the machine level surcharges are still fair game.

 

Interesting your bank reimburses those...but how do you prove the fee to them?

I am a different poster, but our bank also reimburses ATM fees. I don't have to prove the fees to them - the know which fees are ATM fees and they issue the credit immediately after the ATM transaction.

I would contact them now. When I asked about something for our cruise in October they indicated they were not running anything then.

 

 

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It's funny you should say that! I emailed them immediately after my post and they've already written me back and told me that the only excursion that will be available to me (since we're only in port from 7am-1pm) is the Sea Safari Snorkeling Tour since it only lasts 3 hrs.

Thank you for the info regarding Pat & Diane! We are cruising on 12/17 and I was struggling finding something to do in Freeport.

Really enjoying your review and the pictures! We will cruise on the Pride in December.