Re: Off-topic: need vacation advice

Joel I knew you were going to bring that one up! LOL! I haven't had a
problem here in the half a dozen years we have been cruising. It's worth
it, it's a fun trip! UM MOM Susan
"Joel M. Eichen" <joeleichen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Sdores" <sdores@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> The cruises out of South FL are wonderful, and even though it is
>> hurricane
>> season the ships have alternate routes and even islands to go around and
> get
>> away from the path of any storms coming. I've had a couple times, like a
>> couple years ago, that we had to leave Mexico a few hours early to stay
>> ahead of the hurricane. We just spent more time on the ship doing the
>> activities on the ship. The cruise line definitely know the Atlantic
> storms
>> well and work around mother nature gracefully. UM MOM Susan
>> "Charlie Oster via MedKB.com" <forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > Is it OK if I post something like this here?
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>
> REPLY
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> Excepting for this of course!
>
> Joel
>
>
> Cruise ship back in N.Y. after being damaged by huge wave
> NEW YORK (AP) - Passengers disembarking Monday from a cruise ship that was
> struck by a freak seven-story-high wave said the stormy weather that
> smashed
> windows and sent furniture flying reminded them of the Titanic.
>
> The Norwegian Dawn, on calmer seas.
>
>
> The Norwegian Dawn arrived with more than 2,000 passengers still on board
> after some 300 others decided to leave the ship early in Charleston, S.C.,
> and fly or drive home. It docked on Manhattan's West Side, near the
> floating
> Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum.
>
> The 965-foot white ocean liner was sailing back to New York from the
> Bahamas
> on Saturday when a storm pounded the vessel with heavy seas, including a
> rogue 70-foot wave. The wave sent furniture sailing through the air and
> knocked hot tubs overboard. Some passengers slept in hallways in life
> jackets.
>
> Passenger Robert Clark said he was trying not to be angry about the cruise
> but had one question: "Why would you go through a storm?"
>
> Clark, a New Yorker who disembarked with his wife, Estelita Villafane, and
> their 7-year-old daughter, Myah, said the storm "woke me up. ... We were
> going back and forth, up and down. And then 'boom!'"
>
> He said he ran into the corridor and found passengers from flooded cabins
> who were wearing life preservers.
>
> "It looked like the Titanic," Clark said. "That was what was going through
> my head."
>
> Norwegian Cruise Line said the freak wave broke windows in two different
> cabins. It said 62 cabins were flooded and four passengers had cuts and
> bruises. The wave reached as high as deck 10, company spokeswoman Susan
> Robison said Sunday.
>
> The Norwegian Dawn docked at Charleston for repairs and a Coast Guard
> inspection before continuing its voyage to New York early Sunday.
>
> Bill and Ellen Tesauro of Wayne, N.J., said they went to the ship's casino
> when the storm started slamming the vessel.
>
> "We figured it would take our minds off this (and) that's when the captain
> announced that drinks are free all night," Bill Tesauro told the Daily
> News
> of New York. "But then there was another horrendous slap on the water."
>
> The panicked couple returned to their suite.
>
> "A desk went flying across the room," Ellen Tesauro said. "And a glass
> table
> toppled down, with glasses and food on it."
>
> Stacy Maryland of Hamilton, N.J., woke up to find shoes and magazines
> floating in a foot of water.
>
> "I thought I heard water sloshing around, and then I woke up and saw it,
> and
> it was surreal," she told the newspaper.
>
> The cruise line said passengers whose cabins were flooded were flown home
> from Charleston and the safety of the ship "was in no way compromised by
> this incident."
>
> Each passenger got a refund of half the trip's cost and a voucher for half
> the price of a future cruise, Robison said.
>
> The ship left New York on April 10 with 2,500 passengers aboard. Robison
> said about 300 passengers decided not to return by ship from Charleston.
> About 100 were flown back to New York and the rest made their own
> arrangements, Robison said.
>
> "I rented a car and drove nine hours," said James Fraley of Keansburg,
> N.J.,
> who was taking a honeymoon cruise with his wife. "No more time on the
> Titanic for me."
>
>
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> Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All ri
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>
>> >
>> > The Mrs. & I are coming up on our 30th & we want to take the kids (aged
> 24
>> > & 26) somewhere we'll all enjoy ourselves for 4-7 days.
>> >
>> > And I don't know where to go! Haven't done the family vaca. thing
>> > since
>> > they were teenagers. I need a place that would be fun for young adults
>> > who
>> > like clubbing, water sports, shopping, maybe a casino,.
>> >
>> > Maybe we should go back to Orlando? Always fun, but been 3 times.
>> > I've
>> > heard Cape May or Vegas? Cozumel?
>> >
>> > I am so resort-ignorant. I was thinking 4-5 day cruise, but we're
>> > going
>> > in
>> > August and my wife checked the Caribbean storm patterns of the last 5
>> > years.....so I think we're not doing that.
>> >
>> > Any advice most appreciated!
>> >
>> > Charlie
>> >
>> > --
>> > Message posted via http://www.medkb.com
>>
>>
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