View Full Version : Which Carribean Cruise is best: Jamaica /...
Gold_Nugget
05-15-2007, 06:58 PM
...Grand Cayman / Cozumel or Puerto Rico / St Thomas / St Maarten? (the cruise company is Carnival Cruises)
mycowscanfly
05-15-2007, 07:00 PM
I think I would avoid Aruba.
bluespark
05-15-2007, 11:53 PM
All of them are great destinations for your cruise
lellilove
05-16-2007, 02:13 PM
Carnival have a sister company called Holland America which does a variety of caribean runs some of which include the places mentioned and some combined with bahamas and or mexico
www.hollandamerica.com (http://www.hollandamerica.com/dest/dest.do?dest=C)
Captain Midnight
07-11-2007, 08:15 AM
Unless you have a specific destination in mind, I've been to Jamaica twice on 2 different cruises and it's a very dirty, nasty place. We took a "taxi" (aka a personal vehicle ride from a local) to the Doctors Beach (probably the nicest place we went in Jamaica). For all 4 of us was negotiated at $10.
Some other people from the cruse wasn't so lucky... They got on to a nice bus with the other tourists and paid $4.50/each person (what would have cost us $18)... but here's the kick... The whole bus was later ROBBED and what did the robbers steal?? US Passports!!
So the moral of the story isn't take a shady "taxi" in Jamaica, but to play it safe and be aware of your surroundings. MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR PASSPORT IN JAMAICA. If you're not sure, as the cruise line pursers desk or someone on the boat BEFORE you get off.
Same goes with Haiti in my opinion.
CM.
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