Carnival Valor Review
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Arrived in Miami a day early, we drove down from Atlanta, and stopped and spent time in Orlando. We stayed in the La Quinta close too the airport, free parking, car was ok when we picked it up there. About $30 for shuttle to port, but we saved money on the parking. We got to the port about 11:30 and on the ship 30 minutes later, eating on the Lido deck. Ship was clean and ready for our cruise, we got into our room about 2:30. Luggage started arriving after that, we had all our luggage by 6pm. We ate at the Lido deck and they have a good deli bar and we lived on the sandwiches from the deli. Hamburger and fries are great, the pizza was not as good as other cruises. The show the first night we had seen on another carnival cruise we took a few months back, singing and dancing show. The other carnival ship was better, talent was not that good on Valor, we went back another night and left the show early.
Nassau Bahamas- first stop, we went on the snorkeling excursion, water rough that day, we were in the water for 15 minutes and back out, had to keep swimming to stay close to our boat, the current was pulling us away from the boat. If you were a good swimmer it was ok, but half the people never stayed in the water, we were gone about 3 hours from the time we left the ship. St Thomas- We took the Sunny Liston tour booked it before we left, through Sunny Liston tours, he was very funny and for the money cannot complain, shopped for 2 hours and he takes you to the top of the mountain, the view was great from the mountain top, and then to the beach for 2 more hours, or you can go back to the ship ,he came and picked the ones up that stayed at the beach, there is no food there but plenty to drink, some people order pizza and had it delivered, I will take this tour again the next trip there and order pizza the next time.
St Maarten- No excursion scheduled we love St Maarten to do our shopping. Several people there offering tours to Orient beach a tour of the Island, six to a taxi for the tour, they first wanted $85 dollars a person and then he dropped it to $45 dollars, we told him no because we wanted to shop and he then said he would give us the tour for $20 dollars a person, we still decided to just shop, but next time I will take it for $20 dollars a person.