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A few years ago, I discovered that I was to be on the same cruise as the woman who has cut my hair for over 20 years. Then, we found ourselves on the very same non-Carnival excursion. It’s funny how you usually see the very same people over and over throughout a cruise, and then when it comes to debarkation, you see people who you never saw for the entire week.

There are some GREAT colors in the Caribbean waters (Antigua and St. Thomas rank near the top for me), but I’m hard pressed to find anything better than the waters in the Cozumel port.

Uh, same here with a pair of swim trunks.

True, and it’s also the Mississippi, but I wouldn’t swim in either.

I didn’t think it was possible to have more nasty looking water than leaving Galveston - until I see these waters out of NO.

I USED to think that Campisi’s was IT, until I ate at the new Andrew’s American Pizza Kitchen at the NWC of Preston & Plano Parkway. Now I’m not that certain. They have 5 different styles - tavern, Dallas, New York, Detroit and Chicago. I had the Detroit style, and it blew me away. They have great beer selections as well.

I don’t know if everyone has the same experience (“everyone” is probably an exaggeration), but our experience last summer soured us on LFK. As much as we loved the first visit in 2017, it would take a big persuasion to get us back there after the last visit. It seemed like their employees didn’t care about us. We also booked the monkey/sloth experience as part of the overall trip. Our customer problems are below: 1. The girl checking us in at the dock at Frenchy’s couldn’t bothered to look up from her paperwork when we showed up. 2. The shuttle driver who took us to sloths told us that it wasn’t a long walk from the sloths back to the dock to take us to LFK when we were finished. The problems to that solution were (a) my wife was mobility problems, (b) there was no sidewalk on which to walk, so we’d be walking on the street with several tight turns and (c) it was raining. The employee at the sloth place called LFK to let them know we needed a ride. A taxi driver took pity on us after about 20 minutes and took us to Frenchy’s at no charge (I tipped him, of course). 3. Despite our waiter telling us to the contrary when we arrived, you can NOT order from the full menu using their food coupons. You must order their “island lunch.” He suddenly became extremely rude when we were ready to leave and that we could not use the coupons. Since we didn’t come close to using our allotted food and drink coupons, I offered ALL of our unused coupons in exchange for our single order of chicken nuggets and a hamburger. It took about 15 minutes for the waiter to find SOMEONE to agree to the offer, but he sure rolled his eyes. 4. It seemed like every other independent tour operator was immediately available to take their customers back to the cruise pier from Frenchy’s, but not the LFK employees. We had to wait about 30 minutes for a LFK employee to take us back to the cruise pier, despite the previously not-to-be-bothered paperwork employee calling someone to take us back. 5. At the time of our visit, they allegedly didn’t have the ability to take payments by credit card, so it was cash only. That would have been nice to know beforehand. Even writing the above brings back my irritation.

I immediately discounted that list when I saw Jen Baxter named as one of the 10 best. Someone earlier commented about nails on a chalkboard. That certainly fits my description of Jen. We've had the unfortunate luck of having her on 2 of our cruises.

Like other Celebration reviews, I'm following this one, as I will be on the 6/25 sailing. I keep hoping for a picture that shows my all-time favorite Carnival employee, Dajana. She was one of the Alchemy bartenders on our Vista cruise last summer. She's on the Celebration right now, and I've read about her being at the Latitudes or Golden Jubilee bars. Of course, she could be at any of the other bars, too.

Well played.

That must be a euphemism for something …..

😳

I figured that was the case, but couldn't pass up the opportunity to comment about a limo outside the place.

Surely your driver is hauling you around the island in something a little more sizable for the quantity of people. If not, then you're riding in style and can actually lay down and nap between stops (yes, I fully understand that the island is small and the stops are close together on that side of the island).

I guess I've never seen this sign in your previous reviews of this place, but I audibly chuckled out loud just now.

I don’t know you from some woman down the street who I’ve never met, but after reading a few of your reviews, I just KNEW you’d chime in when he mentioned champagne. I don’t recall seeing Sid ever mentioning drinking champagne on previous reviews, though.

Not that there’s anything wrong with a six pack of beer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I seriously didn’t need to buy it on my Vista cruise last summer, because the only drinks I make at home, other than my beloved beers, are gin and tonics. No shakers needed.

I took the easy way out and inserted a picture off the internet. This one is much better, and one I just took myself of the very shaker in my pantry.

Here I am quite thrilled with purchasing one of these what I’m calling “drink shakers”from Carnival last summer. I had no idea that a shaker could make a difference in drinks.

No, I’m well versed in reading these Megan reviews. I think this particular instance exceeds all previous shenanigans.

How the heck are you still standing? 😳 Those mama juanas are potent!

Not this cruise, but it’s still a good picture of the Dream leaving Galveston this evening.

Ok, that makes sense.

Yes, this is cool.