There has also been a problem with crime on board some ships - being
foreign flagged and with foreign nationals involved it makes finding
guilty parties difficult. Also, the Captain is ultimately in charge of
all legal investigations making things difficult - especially in major
crimes.
Sincerely,
Larry
On 3/22/2014 12:37 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
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.
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On Mar 21, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Curt Raymond <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] I'm back in Miami
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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.
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