After 25 years of trying, I finally won the Bricker cruise in 2012. Having never traveled further south or east into the Caribbean than the Bahamas, it seemed like the logical choice to head south. We took a Western Caribbean cruise after the Biloxi conference in 2004, but the southern Caribbean is gorgeous. There are some very cool cruises that will take you to places like Columbia, Panama, and Costa Rica. Picture it...a nice tropical cruise in January or February when it's crappy, cold and snowy.
As and example, we could get a 7 day cruise from San Juan, Puerto Rico to St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Aruba, and Curacao (balcony) for $849 (and that's without a sale or freebies). Spend the weekend in San Juan and visit El Yunque (the rain forest which is amazing), and going over MLK weekend means only 5 days of vaca.
Or, a visit to some of the "Saints" and Martinique - which is a newer stop on the Caribbean cruises. You leave out of Fort Lauderdale, which is an easy flight for most of us.
Out of Puerto Rico...
Someone recently told me they wanted to visit the Turks & Caicos...
Some of you have asked about South America and it's somewhere we've never been. But it's a big-ass continent and there's no way to see it all, so you pick and choose. 14 nights to Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile. Or You can do a 7-8 night in Brazil and Argentina.
So many choices, so little time and even less money!
I'm game for a South American cruise/trip at this point. Watching the cruise prices for the Baltics/Med seem totally outrageous right now and I don't suspect the pricing will come down - although fuel costs have gone down.
ReplyDeleteLinda Rodriguez and I leave in 9 days for our 7 day Norwegian cruise out of Houston. It has stops in Cozumel (been there, done that), Belize City (new country for me) and Roatan, Honduras (another new country for me). I'm a tad concerned about Roatan as I've seen lots of negative "security" type issues on that island. More to come after November 15 - when we're back.