Ps, think I would do royal carribean or Norwegian next time, probably more mature crowd. One thing I wonder is about these people who work on these ship. They are from all over the world and since the ships are not registered in the us they probably pay them about 1-2 bucks per hour, which I guess for the 3rd world countries they come from that is probably good. So I figured they probably never get home to see their families. As far as the gratuity added automatically to the bill, cruise line says it goes to cabin Stewarts, workers etc but I bet most just pads the company profits. We complained and they took it off. We tipped cash directly to the guy who took care of our cabin all week.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 21, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Carnival? We did Royal Caribbean last year and Norwegian in 2011. > > The trick with shore excursions is to not book them with the cruise line. If > its an activity like cave tubing in Belize you can book with another > outfitter, have a better experience and spend less money. > For a beach excursion you book at the edge of the cruise port. They'll haggle > and you can find a better spot for way less money. > Cozumel is rocky, we went to the dolphinarium, and yeah it was expensive but > it was worth it. > > -Curt > > Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:11:30 -0400 > From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <ka...@striplin.net> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] I'm back in Miami > Message-ID: > <assp.515729e09f.092aa2fd-4b87-4e29-b024-227fbb640...@striplin.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I do not really drink much myself but they were more like $10-14 for drinks > on this ship. Plus they Charge you 15% gratuity on any purchase, and they > charge $11 per day per person automatically for gratuity. Then the kids > activity past 10 pm cost money. When we got off in Mexico it cost me close to > $300 for a simple beach excursion. I don't know if all beaches in Cozumel are > the same or just this one but it was not a sandy beach like I wanted, it was > one of those rocky beaches, mainly for snorkeling. > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
