jpmaximus

Terrific review and pictures!!

Congrats on your booking of Freedom and Splendor. Im sure you are looking forward to sailing on Carnival's newest ships! Ill be on Freedom in November for a peak!

AOS in port of San Juan

 

 

Destiny in port of San Juan

 

 

 

Destiny again in San Juan

 

 

 

And again in St Thomas

 

 

 

 

 

Destiny again... In St Lucia

DESTINY is really a good looking ship!

A Walking Tour of Nassau...

 

Nassau was the only port on my recent Carnival Liberty cruise where I did not have a firm plan in advance of what I would do there.

 

Had thought about Pearl Island excursions, but thought it would be crowded with 6 ships in port and all reports indicated that it was. Two people from my dinner table did the treasure hunt and found no treasure - perhaps the earlier cruisers had looted it all. They are supposed to reseed, so who knows. They did end up with a couple of smelly conch shells for their trouble.

 

Considered Atlantis, but it just seems like a waste of a port and more of a destination in itself to be discovered another day.

 

So, decided to do a self-guided walking tour. Of cours I had forgotton my notes -liberated from here:

http://www.frommers.com/destinations/newprovidence/0251010008.html

 

and a map to go with:

http://www.frommers.com/images/destinations/maps/jpg/251_walkingtourhistoricnassau.jpg

 

From the ship you should be able to see a number of points of interest

1) Atlantis

2) Straw Market

3) Senior Frogs

4) British Colonial Hilton (was a Sheraton when I stayed there, me thinks).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is no shortage of maps and booklets available inside Festival Place which is hard to miss and in fact, I don't think you can. I picked up a couple of maps and a couple of booklets and off I went. One note - bring water with - going up hills and stairs can lead to much thirst.

 

What a cool looking place...i cant wait!!