The Grand Turk cruise center was built by Carnival in 2006.  It is a very nice facility with the typical Caribbean cruise port shops.  There is a huge Margaretville with what is said to be one of the largest swimming pools in the Caribbean.  Unfortunately, the morning was damp with rain on and off and heavy at times.  There were also high winds.  We did get off the Eurodam to walk around the port and snapped a bunch of photos, but returned to the ship about an hour later quite wet.

Grand Turk

We dressed for our port call in San Juan and enjoyed the sail-in past El Morro from our balcony.

We docked right on time (if not a few minutes early) in San Juan.  I had printed off an extensive walking tour of old San Juan and we started off to tour.  Just a few blocks from the ship we spied a tourist info office and stopped in.  They suggested we take the free trolley/bus up to El Morro and walk back using our tour.  We followed her suggestion.  The wind on El Morro's walls was ferocious - we had to hold our hats on our heads!  While on El Morro's walls, the Celebrity Solstice sailed by as they were due for a 3:00 docking.  We were back on board at 5:05, after buying a few bottles from the duty free shop in the terminal.

San Juan

Wednesday brought us to St Thomas.  Seven ships were scheduled here today.  As late as a week before the cruise (the last time I checked the St Thomas Port authority's web site) we were scheduled to dock in Haven sight (which is not the usual dock for Eurodam).  On Monday we heard that Eurodam would be tendering in to St. Thomas.  The tender process was quite smoothly, but it greatly added to the transit time from ship to whatever guests had planned for the day.  We anchored way off shore, 20 minutes by tender.  Coming back the wind had really whipped up the waves in the outer harbor, and that tender was moving around like an amusement park thrill ride.

On St Thomas, we took a group taxi over to Sapphire beach.  The wind was extremely strong at the beach and as much as I wanted to go in and enjoy the much stirred up water we were quite chilled while dry.  So after two hours or so we headed back to downtown to walk around a little and get back to Eurodam, lunch, and the hydro pool.

St. Thomas

Outstanding location - quiet even though convenient to elevators.

Something I've not experienced before is that the main dining room staff seems very concerned when someone misses a dinner, and, one of the couples at our table for four was eating elsewhere three evenings in a row.We would have gone back ashore after changing out of our swimwear had we been docked, and this was not possible with a rough 20 minute tender ride in and out of port, so that lost the good ship Eurodam a half star.

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