Norwegian Dawn Review

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Spring Break 2013...Without our kids!

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Sail Date: Mar 2013
Cabin: Balcony

Dawn Western Caribbean March 10-17, 2013

Background: I'm 42; my first cruise was on a Princess ship at the age of 17. Since then I have cruised Disney, RCCL, NCL-POA, and one of the smaller Carnival ships. Our cruising party consisted of myself, my DH of 23 years and 9 of our closest friends; 4 of whom had never cruised before (we are all 40 something). This was a first for us as we left the kids at home! Our group has vacationed together for the last 20 years, too many camping trips to count...I suggested we kick it up several notches and take a cruise! We all arrived to the Tampa area at various times on Saturday, March 9th and we chose to stay at the Ramada Inn Westshore based on price and location. The location was fine, but even at $80 the price was way too high! Lets just say the picture of their rooms on their website does not reflect the rooms that were assigned to us...maybe there is a room within the hotel that looks like that, but not ours. It was the kind of place that was so grimy and dirty that you didn't want to take your shoes off or put anything on the floor! DH and I had planned to stay here one night after the cruise as well, but that was not going to happen! After arriving DH went on a run and found a nearby Marriot that we booked instead. Score for DH!!! Through our CC Roll Call we discovered that a few members were also staying at the Ramada Inn, so we planned to meet for drinks and ended up having dinner at the on site restaurant. It was fun to put faces with some of the people that I had been sharing info with over the last several months! One more thing about the hotel...upon check in we were offered reservations for their shuttle to the pier the next morning at $10 p/p. Thanks to CC I had an idea that we might get a better deal by calling a taxi...it was a much better deal! I called yellow cab and arranged for two mini-vans to pick our group of 11 up at 10:30 Sunday morning. The cost was about $20 total for each taxi...somehow one taxi was only $18 and the other was $23???

Sunday, Day 1, Tampa

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