kaybeeeeeee

That's actually a good itinerary change in your case, enjoy :).

Agreed, especially since I'll be in Cozumel the week before :)

I haven't received notification but noticed on the our itinerary for this cruise that they've replaced Cozumel with Playa Del Carmen. I'm on the Vision the week before and Cozumel is still one of our stops. Anyone have any idea why the swap?

Also says that Playa Del Carmen is a tender port. Anyone done this tender before that can tell me how long it takes?

First formal night was the eve of the first day at sea. Second formal night had lobster and it was Costa Maya night I believe.

 

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Thanks, much appreciated!

Thanks for the awesome review. We'll be on Vision in 10 days and have a question for you. We're going to book Chops for one of the formal nights but don't want to miss lobster night. Can you tell me which 2 nights were formal and on which of those lobster was served?

Thanks...Ken

Can someone who's been on the Vision recently confirm which 2 nights are the formal nights and on which formal night they served lobster?

They're private beach clubs. You'll have to make your own way there but they're only a 10 minute taxi ride from the port.

Mr. S is just down the beach from Nachi (you can see the water toys while sipping on a margarita at Nachi); cab fare and driving time fromt he piers will be the same.

Much appreciated

Thanks for all the responses. I've been to Nachi but was wondering how far Mr Sanchos is from the pier?

I can only tell you that the Celebrity snorkeling excursion where they picked us up at the ship was horrible, we were packed in like the proverbial sardines. I go to Belize for scuba diving regularly and the reef on the Water Caye excursion was not that good. Goff's Key is supposed to be better.

Thanks Podie. We won't be doing any scuba, in fact it's probably going to be just beach for us that day. How would you rate the beach and are there any facitilites (ie washrooms, food etc) at Water Caye? If we wanted to do some snorkelling, do you know if they provided equipment or if there was equipment available?

Was wondering if anyone could shed any light on the difference between these two. Price difference is only $10 and the RCI excursion leaves directly from the ship without tendering to shore first.

Goff's Caye - https://www.belizecruiseexcursions.com/BelizeBeachSnorkeling.htm

Water Caye - http://www.royalcaribbean.com/shoreExcursions/product/detail/view.do?sourcePage=shorexByPort&ProductCode=BEE9&DestinationCode=

Any thoughts comparing the two, or information on either one from someone who's been there, would be appreciated.

I'm trying to get a hand-on this cave tubing... I'm claustrophobic, do you walk through caves, or would you say they are more like caverns?

 

Thanks.

You ride the tubes thru the caves which are quite wide. I never had an issue of feeling closed in.

My wife and I really enjoyed cavetubing with .bz. Vitalino and his staff went out of their way to make our experience enjoyable. My wife has mobility problems and couldn't walk the 20/25 minutes to the entry point so they pulled her upstream to meet us in the caves.

I'm not sure what experience pokerpro had and can't find any specifics in any recent post on the Belize forum but ours was extraordinary. Without specifics my gut is to just ignore those kinds of posts as sour grapes.

This has been the most interesting thread.:)

This is not true (and my statement makes about as much sense as all of the other uncorroborated this is not true statements made in this thread!).

ditto on cavetubing.bz. Vitalino and his staff were fantastic and we had a great time.

I was looking at various tour companies for a cave tubing excursion with the family. Do any of the tour companies have tubes with bottoms? I have seen some companies with head rests' date=' but unsure of bottoms.

 

Also, has anymore been tubing recently? What is the water level like? We will be there march 13th and I wonder if it gets really shallow at parts.

 

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we were tubing with cavetubing.bz last week and yes they had to yell "bottoms up" at a half dozen spots.

cavetubing.bz carries tubes and there are a lot of reviews here on them.

ditto on cavetubing.bz. they got the tubes to the river entry point and were extra specially attentive to anyone with issues walking.

I have considered booking with cavetubing.bz, but with the tender and distance, I figured it would maybe be safer to just book with the cruise ship. We don't want a combo tour, unless it includes ruins, which carnival doesn't offer (i know .bz does). I see there are 3 tubing tours on carnival for $50, $56, and $120. I see the only difference is lunch between the 50 and 56. The $120 tour is confusing though because of how much more it is than every other tour. I guess it goes down a different, or "better" river? Can someone better explain if it is worth it and if should pay $70 more?

 

BTW, my search feature is messed up right now.

If it helps at all we just did cavetubing with cavetubing.bz. Took us a while to get off the ship (wife's medical issue). We met up with Vitalino at 10 and were still back to the port by 3 (4:30 was last tender).

We just came back and did the cavetubing with cavetubing.bz and had an awesome time. They also had zipling but we didn't do that. yes, between tendering and the subsequent bus ride it took about 30 minutes to get to the excursion site but we thoroughly enjoyed it and Vitalino and his staff treated us royally.

in Belize cavetubing with cavetubing.bz was awesome - they also have a zipline and you can do both. we only did the cavetubing (which included lunch) and it took us about 5 hours including travel time from and back to the city.

I know the ship parks way out.

 

How long is the tender ride in? about 30 minutes

 

Are the tender boats pretty decent size? yes - anywhere between 150 and 300 passengers

 

And is it a scary ride in???? Lol

Much appreciated for all the replies. Consider it asked and answered!

Ken

So no more Seattle's Best on the Promenade? What do they serve in locations other than Starbucks?

Does anyone know of a decent Fort Lauderdale hotel that has a day (not hourly! lol) rate? We have an 8:30 pm flight and would like to have somewhere to hang after the cruise until we need to hit the airport.

Sounds to me like for rent is for rent - they don't specify so I would take that as you can rent it to use on your own. Having said that I would contact them directly to be sure. There's an email address on their website and they're quite good at returning emails.

Does anyone know if you can just rent snorkel gear there and can go out and snorkel on your own??? Thanks!!!:o

From their website....

WATER SPORTS

Nachi Cocom Beach Club also offers Parasailing, Sport fishing trips, Wave runners, Banana Boat Ride & massage. Private boat, Kayaks, Floats, and Snorkel Gear are also available for rent at the dive shop.