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Looking to book a provate tour with them. Anyone have any good info, pics, options of where to go. Also a price for 2 people

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Thank you all for your responses. We may end up.going to the botanical gardens and then beach...maybe turtle farm too

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I just opened a carnival credit card just to get the 10,000 points to get a $100 gift card. I am now trying to redeem my points for the gift card and its saying the $100 is sold out. Does anyone know how often they replenish them, and if this happens often?

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Thank you for your review thus far! I will be on the dream jan 15th! I have cruised on the dream back in 2014 as well and love this ship!

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Looking for ideas...we generally like to do some sort of island tour where we see lots of places. Is there anything like this on Grand Cayman?? Is it safe to just do it on our own?

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I love Roatan...both times there we used Ronys tours! This has been my favorite excursion thus far and ive cruised 3 times and been to many all inclusives. You customize the tour to do what you want and the price was the cheapest i could find!

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Awsome thanks for your responses

Need some help...anyone who has been to NOLA, while me and my 2 siblings are gone (8/25) it will be my moms Birthday! We though it would be a fun idea to have something shipped home while we are in New Orleans. So my questions are....what can we have sent, and Is there a post office near the port? We at flying in on sat morning. (What time do post office close on sat there?)

Wow!! Idk how you are keeping a secret but that's awesome!! Your son is going to be so excited!! :-) where are you staying?

I am really enjoying your review Megan! It has been a number of years since we cruised on NCL and your review is bringing back some fond memories!

 

How much do they charge for a weekly spa pass? It sounds divine!

 

I am also curious as to whether they have umbrellas available for shade on GSC or do you need to rent a clamshell for shade?

 

Thanks!:)

The spa pass was around $150 (don't quote me on that) but it was absolutely worth it!!! Like Andrea mentioned GSC has changed quite a bit so I'm not sure about shade/umbrellas.

Thanks Megan you brought back nice memories of a great sailing..

 

 

GSC has clam shells you can rent and there is a lot more shade there now than there was a year ago.

 

Andrea

It really was a great sailing!!! I will be finishing the review hopefully tommorow been so busy!!!! I'm just about at the part where Cherie (I know I spelt that wrong) threw us an amazing party in her unbelievably amazing room!!! Had so much fun with you guys!

Yes, they will give you a tour before you purchase

The door is air tight and I didn't smell the eucalyptus unless I went into the steam room, didn't really travel into the locker area at all

Ok so now I will talk more in depth about the spa. It was unbelievable. It was never ever crowded, and it was always so relaxing. They had a therapy pool which basically is a pool that has jets for every part of your body. It has jets for your calves, thighs, lower back, upper back, then one that shoots down so hard on your shoulders (feels like a massage) and one where oyou lay down on the lounger and the jets shoot up at you!! It was Amazing! They also had a hot tub in the same area. Now, they have a mens locker room, a womans locker room, and then a common area. The common area is where the therapy pool, and hot tub are. Also in the common area are these heated tile loungers that look out at the front of the ship. They are so relaxing that I fell asleep many times on them!!! Your whole body just melts!!! In the Womans Locker room there was a sauna which also looks out at the front, and a steam room which smelled like I wanna say eucalyptis (I could be wrong but it was really nice and calming) They also had personal hot tubs which were nice, and showers. There were also lockers in here for you to put your stuff.

Personal Hot Tubs:

Steam Bath:

Womans Locker Room:

Sorry i dont have any pics of the common area in the spa but there was always someone in there and i didnt want to disturb their privacy!!

The only thing i would change about the spa would be there hours. i would rather open early and close much later!

My ex hated salt water (I know who the heck goes on a cruise and doesn’t swim in the ocean) so I enjoyed the water by myself! After that we went to walk around the island. Ok well this was not possible considering it was pretty much under construction. There really wasn’t much to do at all here, so we ate at a little buffet they had set up for us, and then went back to the ship. Tendiring back was super easy because there was no line. However when we got on all of a sudden they brought a lady on a stretcher screaming in pain on the tender with us. Well come to find out she was Jetskiing, hit a wake and came down really hard and messed her back up bad. I felt so bad for this poor woman who was in such pain!!!

Cabanas on GSC

When we got back to the ship we went to the pool which was empty because everyone was still on the island. It was pretty nice to have the whole pool to ourselves for a change!!! Once again the ex didn’t like salt water so after the pool (which is salt water) we headed to the spa.

Great Stirrup Cay:

Ok, so today it was HOT!!!! We got off the tender and walked around a bit. We grabbed some chairs and layed down for a few.

The next morning when we woke up we were just dropping ancor in GSC. Since this is a tender port I wasn’t sure how it was going to go. We had our same routine (coffee on balcony, then to buffet,, then spa, and by the time we were done it was time to board the tenders) This was a little frustrating but not as bad as I expected. We all pretty much formed a line and just walked out onto the tender (the whole thing probably took 30 mins. The tender ride was quick and we enjoyed the view of our ship just sittin out at sea!!

Tender Boat

When we got back to our room we found our little lobster friend waiting for us!

When we went out on our balcony tonight we saw the boat that was guiding us out of port. It was pretty cool to see how they just ride along side of us. I don’t know how true this is, but we were told that someone gets on board, steers the ship out of port and then this little boat pulls up next to us, the man who was steering the boat then hands it over to the Captain and then jumps onto the little boat…well we got to watch this all happen from our balcony!

They also bring out bread with different infused oils for you to try. My favorite was the Roasted Garlic!!!! We went through like 4 Loaves of bread!!! We both got the Chicken Parm and it was amaxing!!! For Dessert I got chocolate cake and he got tiramisu. Our waiter here was amazing, we spoke to him almsost the whole dinner! Then time for the club and then bed!!!!

I keep forgetting to mention the hours a day that we spent in the spa which were amazing!!! When we woke up, we went to the spa, when we got back from port…we went to the spa, and almost every night after dinner before the club we went to the spa…it was the most relaxing part of the whole trip!!! I have many pictures I will share later in the review!

Now the treck back to the place we got the Taxi…it was quite a hike in very very warm weather, but once again we made it!!! We boarded the ship early, went in and showered and then went to dinner.

A Carnival Ship pulling out

Tonight we went to the Italian Place where we had to pay I think $15 but it was WAY worth it. It was my favorite meal of the whole trip!!!!

I got Tomato and Mozz for an appetizer, and the ex got Minestrone soup. We both really enjoyed it.

We walked through the little shops on the pier and then paid the money to walk to the end (yes you have to pay but I think it was only a dollar so we did it. At the end of the pier there is a Tiki bar and we enjoyed this a lot!! We could sit down relax and watch the surfers which was really neat! There was a Pelican just chilling on the pier and even let us close enough for a picture.!!

Next it was time to go to Cocoa Beach. We under Estimated how long of a walk it really was in this hot weather, but we made it!!!

This is what the Pier looks like when you first walk up to it!

We could have gone all the way to Cocoa Beach but we opted to get out here and go to the stores. Ron Jons was cool, nothing special and very over priced but we had fun walking around. The store that they dropped us off at was much better price wise and had some great souvenirs for us to bring home. We saw a little restaurant on the beach and ate there. It was delicious we got chicken nachos and margaritas (just $1 why not!!) It was a fun little place!

These were our nachos!!! HOLY HUGENESS!!!

We didn’t have any excursions planned and just wanted to go to Ron Jons and Cocoa Beach Peir. It was beautiful weather and we just wanted to explore. When we got off the ship we got a taxi which took us to a little shop near ron jons.