Royal Caribbean Cruise

[94form2000z]

I snuck my alcohol on. Google rum runners. I got a little more than 3 bottles of liquor and I still spent another $500 on alcohol.

Did you just put these in your luggage?
Wife and I are going on one out of Houston in March, Princess Cruises aboard the Emerald Princess. The task of figuring out sneaking the booze on was at the top of my list.

[BP]

I've done it on Carnival's Triumph.

Roatan gets bumped a lot due to weather. It's a very narrow shipping channel and if there are strong winds they'll go somewhere else. The beaches are all man made and well groomed as is the reef. Otherwise the port area is just like the one in Cozumel with the same stores.

Belize is a dump and it's a tender port. Do an excursion for sure. Altun Ha is a fantastic ruin site and it's in a actual rain forest. Very impressive and worth the visit. They also do cave tubing and have a river cruise. There is also a big casino but it's shady looking.

Cozumel is tourist central. You can do pretty much anything you'd want. The busy side is expensive though, like you'd think you are in Las Vegas on the strip expensive. Of course it is a city though so if you are brave enough to wander off there are better deals. I've had many $2 beers there but I've also had a bunch of $10 margaritas.

[CWO]

cave tubing in Belize is a lot of fun, take water shoes if you have soft supple feet.... trust me on this

[347Mike]

Did you just put these in your luggage?
Wife and I are going on one out of Houston in March, Princess Cruises aboard the Emerald Princess. The task of figuring out sneaking the booze on was at the top of my list.

Everywhere really. Stuffed them into pants in luggage, carry on, I think gf had one on her person.

They do random checks as you go through boarding from Galveston. I had 2 carry ons and they went through both. I just got lucky I guess. Just put them in as many bags as possible.

I also brought 24 bottles on sprite/coke. I think 24 is the limit.

[BP]

cave tubing in Belize is a lot of fun, take water shoes if you have soft supple feet.... trust me on this

Sometimes it's offered in Cozumel but you have to take the ferry to the mainland.

[V3GA]

I know there is a youtube video showing how to sneak booze on. They empty a bottle of scope mouth wash, fill it with vodka and put a drop of food coloring in it. Every port you can purchase bottles of liquor, if you bring it on the ship and they see, they will take and bring it to you at the end of the cruise.

[94form2000z]

Everywhere really. Stuffed them into pants in luggage, carry on, I think gf had one on her person.

They do random checks as you go through boarding from Galveston. I had 2 carry ons and they went through both. I just got lucky I guess. Just put them in as many bags as possible.

I also brought 24 bottles on sprite/coke. I think 24 is the limit.

Sweet, thanks.

[V3GA]

Also, I'm not sure if Royal Caribbean offers it, but with Carnival, you can purchase an unlimited soda fountain card before you get on for like $15

[War Machine]

I went on that exact same cruise on that exact same boat in Sept. It was already remodeled when we went, it was nice. We had the balcony, and we enjoyed it.

Book your excursions through an outside source, not the boat.

[War Machine]

Oh BTW, Honduras is a shithole

[KBScobravert]

Our first time in Belize, we did the zip lines and cave tour. It was a lot of fun. Our second trip there (Oct '14) we shopped at the pier and went back to the ship. Our hands were tied by a 2 year old.

Honduras. Our first trip was to Roatan. Again we did zip lines and had a blast. Our second trip this past Oct, we ported at Banana Coast (Trujillo). We were the second ship ever to port as it had just opened. The place was very new to tourism but they did a great job. We went by their botanical gardens / animal preserve built right on the beach. The guide, even though she was only 19, was the best we have ever had.

Cozumel is Cozumel. W ed have been there 5 or 6 times. This last trip I did the Xrails (for the second time. It had been raining for a couple days and the course was a huge water and mud pit. I still had a blast even though it heat me up pretty good and a fell down a flight of stairs on my ass into the cenote.

[JC316]

The royal ships are more stuffy than the carnival, but there aren't near as many kids running around. The shows and the crew were awesome on royal. That said, the one time I took royal, it was a clusterfuck. The Oasis of the Seas had just came back from overseas and they were trying to get rid of their food. Trying to serve a bunch of british food to texans is never a good idea, so I lived in Johnny Rockets.

I nearly started a fight upon debarkation. Got up at the asscrack of dawn to line up where they told us to go, waited for a freaking hour, and then they told us that we were in the wrong area and put us at the back of the line, which stretched around the length of the boat. Said fuck this shit and just merged with the people that were leaving.

Some guy lost his shit when I did that and I told him to fuck off. Neither one of us was amused and he wound up doing the same merge technique. 3 hours later, we discovered the source of the slowness, everyone was lining up to take ONE FUCKING ELEVATOR, rather than walk their fat asses down the stairs.

As for the ports of call, they are nice. I wouldn't wander the cities in Honduras or Belize, people will try to sell you hookers and blow in those areas. That is no joke either, they're brazen about it. Cozumel is pretty safe. There is a private beach in Honduras, basically a zoo, an island, and a beach all in one, it's awesome. I recommend the dune buggy tour around cozumel, it's a lot of fun for a first time visitor.

[GrayStangGT]

Some cruises allow a couple bottles of wine to be brought on board.

[SS Junk]

Won't step one foot onto a floating petri dish.

[Mike]

Won't step one foot onto a floating petri dish.

Exactly