Laurie S.

Opal's Dream

I've dived all three, and my choice is St. Thomas with Blue Island Divers.

I'm flying Singapore Airlines from LAX to Singapore in October to get to Manado, Indonesia. One stop in Seoul for about 75 minutes.

I'm thinking about doing a liveaboard for my next trip and it probably will be Thailand. Headed to Indonesia in October!

I've done it on HAL.

Why wouldn't you print them? That's part of the precruise excitement.

We went to Captain Don's Habitat in Bonaire and had two wonderful shore dives. Just take a taxi each way.

You are incorrect. They are travel warnings for everyone.

Wrong, the warnings are specifically aimed at government employees. Tourists can heed them or not. They always are over the top.

That's why I don't do ship excursions and also have all my own gear.

The state department warnings are for their employees ot the general public. I live in Mexico part-time and there are areas I no longer would travel to, but the majority of the country is just as safe as the US.

Legal to HAL, Carnival, RCL, and Princess per their guidelines. My dive tool is attached to my BCD and it always goes as checked luggage. It is of legal length per the rules on those four cruise lines. You couldn't pay me enough to sail on Disney.

I've never had my dive tool confiscated. It's of legal length, less than 4 inches.

Bonaire

I don't use antiseptic wipes on anything. I don't use hand sanitizer. I do wash my hands thoroughly and regularly and use my knuckle to hit the buttons in the elevator and my elbow on the railings. I never have become ill on a cruise ship and I've been on almost 20 cruises in more than 30 years. Maybe it's because I'm a diver and I dive all the time with fish poop around me building up an immunity. ;)

I agree with Sea Sports, have used them three times so far.

Hand sanitizer is not effective against Norovirus.

Have some pesos, that's the best way to go.

I've never had the cruise excursion cancelled, but also they also are more expensive, not cheaper than booking privately. The other difference is you typically will get longer dives on a private excursion and less chance of being on a cattle boat. The only cruise excursion I book now is Puerto Vallarta because it's a great party boat after the dives. Last year, I was the only diver out of about 35 people. The rest were snorkelers, kayakers, etc.

We couldn't get off a cruise in San Diego one year until 10 am. Two non- US. citizens refused to show up to customs. No one was allowed off the ship until everyone was cleared. My friend barely made his 11 am flight. I was staying over so had no worries, but there were a lot of frantic people that day.

No.

I'm glad he won, he had the best collection.

Pesos

I thought it was fun for a change.

For two people on Miracle it usually is no wait at all to a maximum of five minutes.

A full transit of the Panama Canal, I've already see all the other cool stuff by flying there.