I'm going to be eating some crow today. I originally was very skeptical about Royal Caribbean's new concept for Coco Cay. Coco Cay was one of my favorite stops because it felt like a remote island. When I saw the drawing concepts and new photos, I was like great! They have turned one of my favorite places into a theme park. This past Sunday I was there for a wedding and I'm here to tell you, ...
Cruising
How to Spend a Port Day in Kona, Hawaii
We are finally here! My favorite party of my Hawaiian repositioning cruise with Celebrity Cruises. To recap, this cruise was on the Celebrity Solstice. It started in Honolulu and went to Hilo, Kona and Maui. Each of the Hawaiian islands are a little bit different from each other. Even though Kona and Hilo are on the Big Island, the locations were very different. After this post, you are ...
Why you should try the Celebrity Solstice
Up until the last year, I was a die hard Royal Caribbean fan. One of my best friends is a travel agent and he kept telling me that I needed to try cruising with Celebrity. I dipped my toe in with the Celebrity Infinity over Thanksgiving in 2018. I loved it so much that I decided to try another class of ship with Celebrity, the Solstice Class. After reading this, I can just about guarantee that ...
5 Tips for Taking a Repositioning Cruise
A repositioning cruise is a lot of fun.ย ย Just the fact of starting and ending in different places leaves you with a sense of adventure.ย ย Repositioning cruises normally happen in the late spring and mid fall.ย ย In the late spring you have ships that move from North America to Europe and ships that move from South Pacific destinations to Alaska/Canada.ย ย Then in the fall, they do it all over again. I ...
5 Things I wish I knew before staying on Oahu
Honolulu, Hawaii is the dream right? You've heard songs about Waikiki Beach and have probably walked past an airport gate and longed to be on that flight to Honolulu. If you lived on the mainland in the United States and had a dollar for every honeymoon couple you've heard that were headed to Hawaii, you could be a very rich person by now. I had my chance to travel to Hawaii a few days before ...
Why a Private Snorkeling Tour is Best-Cozumel
Welcome to any newbies and hello again to those of you have been with me for a long time. I devoting this post to one of my favorite travel activities, snorkeling. If you have seen past periscopes and vlogs, I love bringing my own snorkel gear and creating my own shore snorkel itineraries. However, there are some snorkel locations that you cannot get to from the shore and this is what we are ...