A month on Seabourn? How can life possibly return to normal after doing such a long vacation? Our cruise was the Christmas and NYE 07 Cruise followed by the 2 week trip through the Panama Canal to Caldera in Costa Rica in Jan 08.

This was a special trip for my mother's 60th Birthday, and had been planned for well over a year. We managed to grab a huge discount from Seabourn and combine it with a discount from our travel agent. Seabourn were offering 50% off the rack rate and we gained another 5% from our agent in the UK.

As per normal we arrived in our embarkation port a couple of days prior to our trip. We decided to stay in Miami in a very nice hotel that offered a two bedroom suite (Fontainebleau resort on collins ave) so that we could do some shopping (Sawgrass Mills!!!) Read more