We booked an ocean view cabin but were forced to keep the curtains shut for “navigational purposes.” This directive rendered it a virtual inside cabin at a greater cost.

Embarkation and disembarkation lacked enough personnel. Waits to embark were long in lines. In-transit on back-to-back left us standing in line for 45 minutes.

Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)

Since we've been here several times in the past, and we didn't like the tours Holland America offered, we booked the Grand Turk Food History and Bus Tour through Viator. We learned about the traditional food and drink of Turks and Caicos Islands while tasting authentic dishes and circumnavigating the 7x1.5-mile island on a private tour. We took a shot of the capsule John Glenn splashed down in when he made his first solo flight around the earth and landed near Grand Turk.
The tour allowed us to get close to the people on the island instead of being in a cast of thousands trolley tour.

Window Cave Experience tour visiting two caves, native Indian petroglyphs, and the fauna and flora of Arecibo. It was an arduous two-mile hike over uneven stones and 400 steps of varying sizes making for dangerous footing in some spots.  
Marisio, our excellent guide, explained that many of the species were destroyed or starved to death after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. The cave area lost only four trees, but most lost their branches, so the forest canopy was destroyed. Fruit bats, fish and insect-eating bats, a small garden snake, and boas that live on the bats and swallows inhabit the area. A highly endangered Puerto Rican parrot was also negatively affected by the storm.


We've been here repeatedly. There are all sorts of horse-back riding activities and shops, glass-bottom boats, and a beach barbecue.

Half Moon Cay

We went downtown and bought an embroidered tablecloth and 12 napkins for $60! It's really beautiful.

St. Thomas

No one in Guest Services indicated when it was returned and the cabin number.I sent an email, got a message, got a call, and got a note asking me to call Guest Services for the information because no one had told anyone else that I had gotten the answer to the question.

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