12 night Southern Caribbean cruise in February 2018 onboard the Celebrity Reflection roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale where we visited:
This cruise was the 4th Annual Wilhelm Family Vineyards Wine Lovers group cruise.
Destinations/Ports Series: 2018 Southern Caribbean Cruise It had been about 40 years since I had visited Grenada, so it was a wonderful treat to try to jog my memory and find familiar sights. In those 4 years, ship sizes have more than doubled, so the town built a new dock to accommodate the larger ships,…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2018 Southern Caribbean Cruise Antigua, with its 365 beaches, one for every day of the year, might just be the prettiest of the Caribbean islands. A group of us walked off the ship and picked up a tour from the many sellers on the dock. Our driver was quite the character and quite…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2018 Southern Caribbean Cruise St. Croix was a last minute substitution for our cruise, as a few of original ports had been hit by the 2017 hurricane that devastated much of the Caribbean. We kept things simple in St. Croix with a taxi ride to a local beach front pub where we enjoyed…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2018 Southern Caribbean Cruise This was one of the first cruise ships to return to San Juan after the devastating hurricanes of 2017. The news was so full of the disaster, that some in our group were concerned about the readiness of the Island to host our ship. Those concerns were not needed,…
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Destinations/Ports Series: 2018 Southern Caribbean Cruise This cruise was for a large group of wine lovers and one of the extras that I coordinated for the group was a group rate at the hotel, a wine reception at the hotel and a dinner at the Rustic Inn Crab House. Finding a hotel with a reasonable…
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