First Time Review-Conquest June 8-15

[BoozeNCruise]

Thanks! We do have Aldi, so I'll definitely check there this week.

 

Did you feel like the golf cart was worth the money? I think this would be fun, just not sure I could justify the price. GT will mostly be a beach day for us.

 

Was it worth the money? Probably about as much as all the other inflated purchases on the cruise. I offered him $60 for just 4 hours, he wouldn't accept. I justified the $80 because I hadn't spent much money in the other ports and this was our last port. The four seater golf carts are $100. Also, you start with 1/2 tank of gas (gas carts not electric) and you are to return the cart with 1/2 tank or pay $20. My first stop was to put gas in it. Gas was almost $7 per gallon. I filled it up, which I shouldn't have, cost me $18 and I gave her a $20. I probably only needed $5-8 if that. When I returned, it had nearly a full tank, so I did not leave a tip, I justified the extra gas in the tank would be fair enough whether it was or not. We did have fun, you drive on the left side of the road, that was different for me. If you don't want to do a beach thing there, then yes I would do the golf carts. I saw a group of ATV's but they had to follow a guide and I think that was as much or more than a golf cart. Horse back riding is available, but those creatures scare me. Had a great time with it, wouldn't do it again next time but would do it again.

[BoozeNCruise]

We walked around the cruise port for a few minutes, including Margaritaville which is right there when you exit the ship.

 

 

The have a large free pool that looked very inviting but I didn't have my speedo. The timing was good at Margaritaville for me, when we entered they were playing The Wobble and a lot of the hotties were dancing.

 

We got back to the ship around 4 pm and I went up to deck 11 to snap a few shots as we departed Grand Turk.

 

This is part of the cruise port area and the beach where the Conquest docks. There are loads of lounge chairs and it looks like a nice beach, but I did not actually go there or enter the water.

 

 

Next up the beach you will find Jacks Shack, this is what to look for

 

 

 

Here is the abandoned boat that is at Governor's Beach

 

 

You will clearly see all these as you dock.

A further shot out as we depart GT

 

 

I thought GT was a nice little island. The beaches seemed to be very nice, the water beautiful shades of blue. The horses/donkeys that travel the island is a bit crazy for me. I tell you, they are very respectful. As I was driving the golf cart back to the cruise port, a donkey was walking in my direction. He was already walking off the road, but as I approached, he started to walk up a side walk just to give me more room. I told my DW, look at that, I don't think a person would have done that. The terrain is flat and the town is nonexistant IMO. Next trip, I will probably go and stay at Jacks and play with Topher.

[laurrbarr]

Where did you rent the golf cart? Does the business have a name? Going to grand turk on glory end of july and was looking for an excursion like that but couldn't find one through carnival. :)

[luvmywifey]

You should cruise more often. You're reviews are entertaining.

 

 

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[BoozeNCruise]

Where did you rent the golf cart? Does the business have a name? Going to grand turk on glory end of july and was looking for an excursion like that but couldn't find one through carnival. :)

 

 

I had no reservations and do not know the business name. You will need to walk through the main port area and keep walking toward the parking lot. Just as you exit the road into the cruise port area, they will be there on the side of the road. You will not be able to ride the cart or scooters into the cruise port area. While I was paying for the cart on the side of the road, a policeman came over and asked us to hurry it up and move. There were only about 2-4 golf carts, about 6 scooters and a jeep. The carts looked to be in good shape, unlike what I read on these boards. The scooters too looked to be in good shape. I saw only one other couple rent a cart. I never saw a scooter or the jeep being rented. If I do it again, I would smuggle a small box or two of cheerios or something to feed the donkeys.

 

Enjoy your cruise

[BoozeNCruise]

You should cruise more often. You're reviews are entertaining.

 

 

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stop it, you're making me blush

[BoozeNCruise]

We continued our normal routine of taking a short nap after our port excursions. This is the time of the cruise that I started feeling a little depressed. It seemed like the vacation was over, we had visited all four of the ports and headed home. Back to reality and work on Monday which was fast approaching.

 

Not much to do on this evening. There was no feature show, not much of sports going on in the EA bar and the movie on the Lida deck was The Vow...Hit me with a monkeyhead drink and throw me overboard will ya.

 

We did end up going to Hasbro, The Game Show. There were a lot of people that could and did win prizes. Prize was a mini Hasbro game, like a deck of Uno or something. There was one big winner, a big bruiser looking guy that beat out a 12 year old asian girl. I hope he slept good that night.

 

I did attend 2 of the 3 adult comedy nights with Comediens Mark Simmons and Kim Harrison. They both did a really good job.

 

I wanted to play PokerPro but again no one was playing. I don't usually play the slots, but I saw 2 ladies (sisters) that I had met and they were playing the $1 slot machine. Two women playing one machine. That machine was lighting up. She hit like $40, then $60, told me she hit $100 earlier. I told myself, self, if they can do it, you can do it. I put $20 in the same type of machine right beside them. Two minutes later I had won nothing. Then self said, well, you didn't put enough money in and give yourself a chance, so I put in $40. Well, five minutes later I had won nothing again. I wish self would have left me alone.

 

I stayed up late again, finished off what little bit of smuggled liquor I had left. I went to the lido deck to get my late night ice cream fix before I retired for the evening. Let me stop right here a minute. The Conquest has 3 ice cream machines, thats right 3. On the first day, I spotted the first machine, fixed me a cone and walked around a bit and right when I was about to finish off that cone, I found a second ice cream machine. I know what you are thinking, and yes I fixed me another cone. I am glad I didn't find the third one right away. I tore all three of those ice cream machines up. I was making friendly bets with kids on who could have the tallest cone.

Off to bed and await for the last sea day.

[Ms. Fun Bunch]

I am really enjoying your review.

[court921]

Love your review, I just went on that cruise on the conquest at the end of May. I had read a lot of people say they weren't impressed with the CD Gary, but he was on a two week break during my cruise. We had Noonan, and he was AWESOME! He works in the cooperate office now & was just helping out. It seems like a big loss to me that he's not on a ship full time, because he was excellent! I also enjoyed The Brits show, but was otherwise unimpressed with the shows. Your pics are definitely making me miss those islands!

 

 

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[BoozeNCruise]

So here we are, the last full day, day at sea enroute to Miami.

 

If you have never eaten Brunch in the MDR, you really need to try it. I find the Carnival Brunch at sea day to be very relaxing. The DW will always order a breakfast item as I always go for the lunch menu. On this last sea day we got a table to ourselves, the first sea day brunch we sat with about 6 other cruisers. The menu seems to be much better than the ordinary lunch menus.

 

Later in the afternoon I went to the casino, which was actually quite busy. Both of the PokerPro tables were in use. The nonsmoking table had 5 guys playing with money from $80-$300 while the smoking table had 4 people playing with no one having more than $25. Ironically, no one was smoking at the smoking table but someone was smoking at the non smoking table. I went to the cheap table and started with $30, this actually made me the chip leader at the table. In just a few hands I knocked out one player, wasn't much less than $10. A few hands after that I knocked out another player, another $10 or so victory. That left me and two others, one being a woman. I ended up knocking out both of those players as well, now I am up over $60 in about 30 minutes.

 

With no one left at my table, and me wanting more action, I turned to the other table. Knowing these were better players and gamblers, I started my bank roll at $80. Unlike the table I just left, I played a non aggressive role and let the other players do the raising. After about an hour of this table and only catching about 2 good hands, I had more than doubled up. I left the table with $ 165. Not bad and feeling good.

 

I wanted to stay at the Poker table some more but the DW had other plans. We went to our YTD early so we could catch the last show, Latin Nights. Honestly I don't remember much about this show, I was kinda bored with it. I guess I expected more out of it being about sexy latino stars like J Lo, Shakira, and the likes. The main thing that I do remember and was cool, was on the final number, the cast dance out into the atrium and asked to be joined. The music kept playing and they kept dancing all the while other cruisers snapped photos.

 

After the show we went back and packed up to be ready for our early morning disembarkation. All packed up, I went back to the Poker table. There was a different group of guys playing and I jumped in for $80 again. One guy had over $500 on the table. I had not seen him play before. He was playing really reckless but catching cards like you would not believe. I didn't want to play in a pot with him, not that I feared him but rather he was getting so lucky with his cards. He finally left, with almost $800!!! I played with the remaining 4 players up to about 2 am, I had gotten up to $180 but after a couple of bad losses, cashed out around $ 100.

[jimbri]

Thank you for the review. We were in St Thomas, San Juan and Grand Turk in May - great memories

[NeuroQueen]

This is great review. You are quite the comedian. I love the line about the bruiser beating the little girl. The golf carts are called Nathan's golf cart rental Grand Turk. Just google that and you can reserve. It's my favorite thing to do on GT with a stop to play with Topher, of course.

[BoozeNCruise]

Sunday morning brought on all kinds of crazy stuff. I had set my cell phone alarm to go off at 6:15, we wanted to get off the ship asap due to a long drive home. I woke up with no alarm to use the bathroom and looked at my cell phone and it read 11:26 am! I went crazy, I pulled the covers of the DW and told her we were extremely late and needed to get off the ship, it was nearly lunchtime. I then found my watch to verify the time, it read 7:36 am. I don't know what happened to the cell phone time, I had kept it on airplane mode the entire cruise. We were still a little late so we opted to not grab breakfast on the ship but just hit a drive thru on the drive home. We had the FTTF pass and we were going to self assist, so we could be one of the earliest ones to leave. We left the cabin just a few minutes after 8 am, went to the forward elevator to go to deck 3 to depart. It was already chaotic trying to catch the elevator, but when we did and we arrived at deck 3, we could barley get off the elevator, the hallways were totally packed with people and luggage. This is THE WORST disembarkation I have ever been a part of. There were few if any of the Carnival staff helping or giving directions. CD Gary, whom I blame, was making anouncements to make sure that if you were not priority or zone 1 and self assisting do not leave your cabin. I think his announcements came too late, there was no way that many people qualified for the early exits. It was very unorganized trying to leave the ship.

 

Once off the ship, customs was very fast and easy. A quick look at your declarations card and your drivers license and you are off the street. At the street and wearing our green stickers on, we look for our shuttle. One came and loaded up but I noticed everyone else was wearing yellow stickers. The last thing I wanted was to get on the wrong shuttle so I told the DW let's get into the taxi line. We jumped on a taxi in an instant and he took us right to the Port of Miami Parking. It was a $9 fare, I gave him $15. Our car was there, in one piece with nothing wrong.

It was right at 9 am at this point and according to google maps, we had a 9 hour and 50 minute drive ahead of us. Going a little faster than the speed limit and making 5 stops before we got home, I made it in 8 hours and 40 minutes.

 

I am already looking to book the next cruise. I will end this review with the original pic I posted, maybe next cruise I will go down that slide!!

 

 

I thank you for reading and I really appreciate all the nice comments especially the ones about my tent, lol.

 

Happy cruising to you,

 

Bruce

[sportzmom]

Thanks for taking the time to write the review. I enjoyed reading about your cruise and am looking forward to mine :)