BELIZE: We booked the ship excursion for the Lamanai Mayan Ruins and River Safari. I was really happy with his tour. We had the second tender off the ship for our 9:00am tour. We met in the theatre at 8:45 and boarded the tender by 9:00am. The tender ride was 30 minutes and we were immediately ushered onto the bus to take us to where we would meet the boat. 

The bus ride was a little over a hour long. We saw the city of Belize; I was not impressed. The bus ride itself was not very scenic and we saw a lot of trash dumped on the side of the roads along the way. We then stopped at a restaurant for a quick bathroom break and coffee. Then we boarded the high powered boat for a 45 minute winding ride to the ruins. The ride was a lot of fun, sitting in the back you feel like you are on a roller coaster for parts of the ride! 

At the ruins they had another quick break for a restroom stop before beginning that part of the tour. They did give us a bottle of water as we were leaving the boat. There were approx 34 people in our tour group. Larger than I would normally like, but the peace of mind on the timing made it worth it to me. We toured the site, which I felt was incredible. I have been to the ruins outside Costa maya previously and these were much larger and many more sites. On one of the palaces, we were able to climb up to the top. This was a HUGE STEEP ruin and one section you need to use a rope to help you up and down. The view from the top was amazing. I have to admit, I about freaked when I turned around at the top and saw how far up I was and how steep the stairs were to get back down. I'm not afraid of heights but I had a twinge of panic looking straight down! 

We also were lucky and saw a couple different families of howler monkeys in the trees. After we were finished we boarded the boat again for another 45 minute ride back to the restaurant. We had a quick lunch that was just ok then back on the bus for the 1hour 15 min ride back to the port. We arrived at 5:20 at the port and caught the next to last tender back to the ship. The last tender was 5:30pm. We did not have time to shop first, but the shops did not look that exciting anyway. I have been to several cruise ports in my time and I have never liked any of them--I even love Nassau--but I do believe this port is truly for excursions only. And fortunately, the excursions seem to be very good. I'm definitely doing the cave tubing if I have the opportunity to go back to Belize.

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COZUMEL: we booked an independent excursion here with Cozumel Bar Hop where we had a group of 12 people in a nice van. We went to 5 bars on the windward side of the island. I chose this your because I have never been to that side of the island and wanted to try something different. It was awesome! We absolutely loved it and would do it again in a heartbeat. You do get a free shot or small drink and each stop and then can order your own drinks and food, if you wish. There was plenty of time to explore the beaches on this side at each stop as well. Each stop was unique with a few that had some great sandy beaches and others that had natural rock arches and lagoons. The bars themselves were unique as well. Coconuts is at the highest point of Cozumel--41 feet above sea level! They even had a zoo like area with a crocodile and many birds. If you are planning on staying on the ship in Cozumel, I highly recommend you reconsider and go see this side of the island. You don't have to drink, it's not a booze tour necessarily. The operators are not forcing liquor on your or anything like that. It really is up to the folks on the tour. Ours was "moderate" where I was probably (not probably more like certainly) the drunkest on the tour and aside from talking a lot I think I held my own just fine  The tour dropped us back at our pier with about 1 1/2 hours to spare where we did more shipping and had another drink at Senor Frogs.

1321-Accessible inside cabin on 10th deck.  We had booked a guarantee inside cabin and were assigned the accessible cabin.  It was huge!  My late husband used a wheelchair and I would have loved to have this cabin back then.

The dining room was pretty and we did have a really good location for our table on the center of the main floor, but the 6:00 time was just not going to work for our port activities and sail away day.This is my first review after being on this board for 12 years so hopefully it works out OK 

Background: This is my 13th cruise and 7th on Royal Caribbean.

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