Friday, September 22, 2017

Hurricane Damage

My thoughts are with all the people who live in the path of the past three hurricanes!  If anyone is planning a trip to the Caribbean, here is the latest map showing damage:

Our 50th wedding anniversary cruise leaves in 43 days.  I am happy to be on a cruise ship and to me the ship is the destination.  We are scheduled to go to Labadee, Haiti; (it's fine), San Juan, Puerto Rico; (not so fine) and St. Maarten (I'm pretty sure it won't be allowing cruise ships in). We should find out in the next couple of weeks where we will dock. They are substituting ports so we will stop somewhere.  I'm more worried about the people and the islands than our vacation.  All those island depend on tourism and it's going to be a long time until it's back to normal!

I follow cruise price drops and right now I am getting a lot of emails from cruise lines saying cruise prices are dropping.  Royal Caribbean is having Travel Agents Friends and Family fares which are good.  Princess has also shown a lot of price drops.  If anyone is interested in flying to Florida and doing a Caribbean mystery cruise let me know.  These good prices are until Dec 2017.

Starting to plan next year's vacation

With the Canadian Dollar/US Dollar exchange rate at 1.40 before the credit card surcharge, we've decided to stay in Canada next year.  W...