yorkshireterrierist

Soooo if you can't afford two rooms but bring 6-8 suitcases, where do you store them? Also which cruise lines do your laundry for you and which do you have to do it? Do they have gentle cycles? All my clothes are hand wash only:rolleyes:

Has anyone taken a cab to secret harbour? I wanted to know if you can rent chairs and umbrellas if you are not with the cruise ship? We would go with the ship but they only give you 2.5hrs which isn't enough time for us. :rolleyes:

I did St Thomas one in Jan of 2013 and it was awesome!!! The boats are a blast to drive and the guides let you go full throttle if that is your thing but they also have a guy at the back to help the slower people.

The water at the snorkel site was very warm, not the most fascinating snorkelling ever but not bad either.

One thing was that a couple of the boats did have problems and could not go very fast, I'm not sure if they offered to compensate those people or not.

Day 3 Continued – VNP – Thurston Lava Tube

The Thurston Lava Tube is a very, very popular stop, with limited parking, a great deal of which is taking up by tour busses. There is another lot about ~1/2 mile away that you can park at and either walk along the road or take a trail back to Thurston, but that was too far a walk for DFH, plus it was raining. So we drove back and forth a few times until we were able to snag a parking place near an entrance to the tube. The lava tube is definitely in the rain forest and it is beautiful. You have to walk down a pretty steep path to get to the tube, and it can be slippery. We had brought flash lights so we could go in the unimproved section of the tube. I was not loving that part of the tube. It was SUPER dark. It seemed like the darkness just soaked up the light from the flashlights. And I certainly didn’t want to be at the back of our group. I’ve seen too many movies – I know what happens to the poor sucker in the back! At one point we all turned out our flashlights. That was the darkest dark I've ever experienced.

 

 

 

Coming up: Richardson Beach Park in Hilo

Thank you for the wonderful review, we are going on this cruise Jan 15th. I was just wondering if there were any bees at the lava tube? I read somewhere that there was and I am very allergic. What about other places?

Thanks again!