Considering weather for a February cruise, we decided to fly to Miami a day early. AA flight change in DFW was delayed over 2 hours. At first they announced the seats needed attending to and later the oxygen masks in row 8 wouldn’t stay up. We all finally agreed the pilot was drunk and AA couldn’t find a replacement even at their home base of Dallas. Finally arriving in Miami at 12:30am, we were all disappointed to walk 20 minutes to luggage claim as no trams or customer service wagons were available. I felt sorry for the elderly with canes. AA should be ashamed! I also need to mention my luggage was pilfered at DFW. Usually when TSA inspects, they leave a letter so I don’t know if my property was stolen by them or American luggage handlers. There’s really nothing I can do but post everywhere thieves are at work in DFW. BEWARE!

We’d booked a night with the Miami Doubletree and they were there to pick us up. What a pleasure after the flight to find a nice room ready! The concierge booked a shuttle the next morning for our ride to the cruise port. Arriving at the port, we dropped off our luggage, got through security and were on the ship by noon. What a great experience. Carnival’s Miami port really knows what they’re doing. The Breeze is certainly a sight to enjoy. It’s not as gaudy as some ships, think Freedom with blue heads everywhere. The warm colors, straight lines and occasional bling for splash are well done. We’d booked a balcony on deck 9 but were moved to Lido deck 10. It was my first experience with a connecting cabin and can’t imagine Carnival thinking it could ever be considered an upgrade. We had trouble with the family of idiots next door quite a bit. The yelling and door slamming through the night wasn’t as bad as the kids trying to come through the connecting door at odd hours. I asked them several times to leave the door alone and they remembered for maybe a day and a half at a time. The only thing negative about this cruise were the passengers. Not only the neighbors but the other idiotic, rude people.

First stop, Grand Turk. We were there last October and had such a great time snorkeling, we decided to do it again. Most passengers headed to Margaritaville to the left so we went to the right for more “breathing room”. We soon discovered low tide is not a good time to get in the water at Grand Turk without water shoes due to the rocks. Knee deep is as far as you get without injury. Remember – bring water shoes to Grand Turk because when Margaritaville fills up, you’ll need them to enter the water. The Dufry’s duty free shop you pass through to get to the beach sells small airplane size bottles of liquor but be advised since everything is duty free, you can’t take them to the island, only the ship. I don’t want to knock Grand Turk as it is a wonderful place but want to pass on helpful information. We had a great time lying in the sun listens to fantastic live Caribbean music. Read more