This was for sure the vacation of a lifetime! The
Regal Princess is a big and beautiful ship with a delightfull crew.
This dream cruise had a fantastic itinerary. The ports of call included:
Barbados, Mayreau (Grenadines), Martinique, St. Maarten, St. Thomas and
San Jaun, Puerto Rico.
The things we heard about cruise's were true. There is great food, and
more of it, at more times of the day than a person could possibly take
in. The service was wonderfull and our steward kept our room spotless.
The only hard part was deciding between all of the activities, tours, shore
excursions, ship board shows, shopping , well you get the idea!
Donna made an immediate impression on the Executive chef by explaining to him the marvelous quality of ostrich meat. She told him she had brought him some literature all the way from Texas just for him!
The next
day she gave the Maitre D' copies of the Culinary rewiew, Chefs magizine
and Ostrich news all with Articles on the qualities of ostrich meat. The
next evening the Chef had delivered to our room a tray of huge choclate
covered strawberries and a tray of hor'derves with caviar, pate', and smoked
salmon for his new special lady passenger!
Touring the islands was great adventure! All of the islands have great
shopping and Donna showed that she is a professional at this! Curtis had
to learn how to drive with the steering wheel on the right, the shifter
to his left and to drive on the left side of the road. Many of the main
intersections were these circles called roundabouts with roads and cars
coming in from all different directions, sometimes we would go around them
2 or 3 times before we could get off on the right road, it was wild! Of
course the islands and coastlines were beautifull and we took rolls and
rolls of pictures. The most picturesque island was Martinique. There is
a volcano there that has erupted and destroyed the local towns on several
occasions. But the volcanic lava has made the island rich and fertile and
lush green.
St.Maartin had the world famous "French Riviera of the Carribean"
which is the Oreint Beach, where we saw toppless, and bottomless vacationers
enjoying the warm sun.
On St.Thomas Curtis went scuba diving with the New Waves scuba tour from
the ship. Exotic corral reefs and a shipwreck awaited him on this 2 tank
dive day.
Back at San Juan (our port of departure) we toured the old spanish forts,
did some more shopping and got ready to go back home. The week went by
too fast and we wanted to get back on the boat and do it all over again!