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Great cruise with wonderful staff and great islands

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6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: May 2017
Cabin: Owner's Suite

We flew in a day early so we didn't have to worry about delays and missed flight connections. We stayed at the Sheraton Old San Juan which is a great location and a nice hotel. The breakfast wasn't all that great but we did get to walk around old San Juan for a bit the day before the cruise and really enjoyed the location of our hotel. We went thru embarkation without any problems. We booked an owners suite so we went thru the suite check in but even the other lines weren't too long. We boarded quickly and went to eat and check out where our seating was in the main dining room. Once that was done we went and checked out our room. It was great. The only problem we had was our balcony had a steel plate that went through about half of it so the balcony didn't have a lot of room as far as seeing out. It was the standard balcony for an owners suite but the plate ran up and down and cut the viewing out on about half of it. The room was 1608 in case anyone wants to know. It was a little aft but the location was excellent. About 10 steps to get out of the hallway to the elevator/stairs. One floor down to the suite lounge, one floor up to the windjammer. It seemed like on this ship most of the things we wanted to do were on this end. Roman our cabin steward was very nice and always attentive. Our waiter Joel and assistant waiter Manjula were great in the main dining room. The ship was very nice and clean. Our Jacuzzi tub did not work as my wife went to use it one day. We had our 22 year old daughter and her 23 year old friend who slept on the couch. It was plenty of room for us as we have done this for quite a few cruises. We have been to St Thomas before and had a city sightseeing and shopping excursion that was cancelled so we just went to town and shopped some. Our daughter and her friend did the tree liming zip line excursion and that was their favorite of the trip. Next was Curacao and my wife likes to have a day on the ship when we are at an island as she says no one is there and she can do whatever she wants and it isn't crowded. I booked massages with Anouk with Bamboosage. She was great. She picked us up at the port, took us to the beach, and gave us massages. She charges $48 for a 60 minute massage and $70 for a 90 minute Swedish massage. They were excellent. The beach wasn't to crowded as this was Tuesday and not many people there. We ended up getting three 90 minute massages. I highly recommend Anouk as she dropped us off in town and we did a little shopping for T-shirts. She has a mobile massage service so she can do the massages wherever you would like and the price was great. We got 3 90 minute massages for almost the same price as my wife got her 60 minute on the ship. Next up was Aruba and I had booked the Trikes of Aruba and it was awesome. This was my wife and I's favorite thing on the excursion and was just slightly behind the zip lining my daughter and her friend enjoyed the most. We followed the hosts who led us with a dune buggy. They took us down the beach, thru town, down the highway and to the light house. When we drove around town, the beach, and everywhere people would look and wave. It was a blast. The last port we went to was St Kitts and we did the train and sail excursion. It was ok but after a little bit there really wasn't much else to see but we were on the train so we had to continue to the end. The sail was just on a catamaran but no sails were put up and we just drove around the edge of the island back to the dock. Both the train and catamaran had drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic to drink at no charge. We did a couple of shows and they were ok but the kids didn't like them so we really didn't see many of the shows. When we got back we stayed 4 nights at the Renaissance LaConcha Resort. It was awesome. The balcony looked out onto the beach. We walked out told them we wanted two chairs and an umbrella and they asked us where and set them up. There were plenty of places to eat and about 4 pools on the property. The food was a little high but I read about Kabanas and we decided to walk there one day. When we finally got the kids up to go and we got there it started to rain. If you haven't checked Kabanas is a truck food vendor that has been permanently put in this location. You eat outdoors. Everyone was mad and wanted to get their food to go but it stopped raining so we set down and our food was delivered. While we were waiting my wife talked to a couple that were there eating and they said they at every day there while they were in San Juan and they were leaving after they ate. We had a cheeseburger, nachos, beef and also pork tacos and they were all awesome. Everyone said it was the best they had ever had. It was so good we walked down the next day in the rain and ate again. The pork tacos were probably the best. I'm not sure what made them so good but they were the best I have ever eaten. I highly recommend this place. We took an uber drive one day and they lady we rode with told us to eat at Waiters. It was about a block closer to the hotel from Kabanas and we ate there one day and it was also very good food. We didn't do anything we didn't enjoy. We also did the peacock bass fishing trip that was a lot of fun. We didn't catch a lot of peacock bass but we did catch quite a few jaguar bass and a couple of red devil tail fish. I would recommend this trip to anyone.

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Owner's Suite

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The cabin was great. It had lots of room for clothes and to put up our suitcases. The only problem we had was the Jacuzzi didn't work.

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