Most and Least pushiest ports you've been to

[matymil]

19 hours ago, Extra Kim said:

They move the ship between the ABC - islands. But it's often docked in Aruba.

Meant to say "they must really like Aruba" :)

[MicCanberra]

Yep. A nice spot to spend some time.

[K32682]

Most pushy:  Nassau

 

Least pushy:  Havana

[Itchy&Scratchy]

On 3/12/2019 at 11:13 PM, Saint Greg said:

But on the way out of Dunn’s River Falls a guy was trying to give people wood carvings...tricking them into buying them.

 

my poor husband fell for it.

[Aquahound]

In my experience:

 

Most pushy - Jamaica - all ports.

 

Least pushy - Bonaire and Key West.

[Velvetwater]

 

If you find some Caribbean ports pushy then maybe it would be wise to go further afield for a cruise?

 

I have found Asian ports the least pushy overall.

[Saint Greg]

13 minutes ago, Velvetwater said:

 

If you find some Caribbean ports pushy then maybe it would be wise to go further afield for a cruise?

 

I have found Asian ports the least pushy overall.

 

Asia is more than a 5 hour drive for me.

[MicCanberra]

3 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

 

Asia is more than a 5 hour drive for me.

It is for us as well but still worth doing.

[Saint Greg]

6 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

It is for us as well but still worth doing.

 

Might be worth doing but it isn't as easy or affordable for most Americans.

 

 

Edited March 15, 2019 by Saint Greg

[MicCanberra]

Nothing in life worth doing is either cheap or easy. Expand your horizons at least once.

[Saint Greg]

10 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

Nothing in life worth doing is either cheap or easy. Expand your horizons at least once.

 

You don't know anything about me. I've been around the world. 

 

Edited March 15, 2019 by Saint Greg

[MicCanberra]

1 hour ago, Saint Greg said:

 

You don't know anything about me. I've been around the world. 

 

I took it that you hadn't because you said you are only willing to travel up to a 5 hour drive.

[Saint Greg]

12 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

I took it that you hadn't because you said you are only willing to travel up to a 5 hour drive.

 

Its what we in America call a joke. You can’t drive to Asia from here, mate. But I’ve got over 7 months in Asia, 3 years in Europe and I don’t need you to tell me I need to expand my horizons for once in my life.

[MicCanberra]

1 minute ago, Saint Greg said:

 

Its what we in America call a joke. You can’t drive to Asia from here, mate. But I’ve got over 7 months in Asia, 3 years in Europe and I don’t need you to tell me I need to expand my horizons for once in my life.

Okay. Settle Petal. Next time put a smiley face on the statement and then we know you are joking.

[Saint Greg]

4 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

Okay. Settle Petal. Next time put a smiley face on the statement and then we know you are joking.

 

You can use the smilies. I shouldn’t have to give you a geography lesson. 

[MicCanberra]

1 hour ago, Saint Greg said:

 

You can use the smilies. I shouldn’t have to give you a geography lesson. 

And yet you seem to think you can drive to the Caribbean islands easily??🙄

[Saint Greg]

17 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

And yet you seem to think you can drive to the Caribbean islands easily??🙄

 

I’ll continue your geography lesson by pointing out that I could drive to quite a few western Caribbean ports.

 

But I was referring to the fact that I’m within 5 hours of two ports that have ships that do Caribbean cruises.

 

 

 

Edited March 16, 2019 by Saint Greg

[OCruisers]

At least many of us can drive to ports doing roundtrips to the Caribbean.  

[SPacificbound]

There have been two, one that we experienced on a cruise, was Nassau, that just happened to be a port on a southern TA. We were off the ship for maybe 15 minutes.

 

The other one was Cartagena where we have gone twice, before or after going/coming through the Panama Canal. We had a private tour both times but did have some aggressive peddlers. 

 

We have been to Cozumel several times, and Aruba, and Belize. These were fly and stay, most of the time in rental houses on a beach. They were also all some years ago. In Belize 2009 we stayed on Ambergris Caye. We really never experienced the hassle at all in Cozumel, and we would go into the old town every evening. I think the last time we were in Cozumel was in 2004. Aruba was in 1999 and it was very pleasant.

Edited March 16, 2019 by SPacificbound
correction

[MicCanberra]

24 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

 

I’ll continue your geography lesson by pointing out that I could drive to quite a few western Caribbean ports.

 

But I was referring to the fact that I’m within 5 hours of two ports that have ships that do Caribbean cruises.

 

 

 

Using that logic you can also cruise to any number of places around the world.

[Extra Kim]

Don't feed the troll.

[evandbob]

Back to the OP's question:  The pushiest person I've encountered cruising has been a CD.  He was always interrupting my naps insisting that there was an on board event I simply couldn't miss, or an inch of gold I just had to buy, or a tee shirt sale or towel animal building class I would hate to not go to.  Blah, Blah, Blah.  Enough already, this CD is so outrageous he makes a Bahamian or Jamaican vendor seem like family.

[tip]

I would have to say that the most pushy was the straw market at RCL’s Labadee. This is located on s peninsula of Haiti which is the poorest country in the world.

 

The least pushy would be Martinique, hands down.  Tourism is not important to them.  Heck, all of the cabs were Mercedes!

[matymil]

Wow this went off the rails

 

[matymil]

11 hours ago, tip said:

I would have to say that the most pushy was the straw market at RCL’s Labadee. This is located on s peninsula of Haiti which is the poorest country in the world.

 

The least pushy would be Martinique, hands down.  Tourism is not important to them.  Heck, all of the cabs were Mercedes!

Isnt Ladadee a private area for them? Figured they'd have that kind of stuff regulated, no?