Category: Mariner Cruise ‘19

Today we get to visit Royal Caribbean’s newly renovated private island, CocoCay. We’ve never visited here before but previously it was mainly just a standard relaxing beach resort kind of setup. Now it has several nicely laid out beaches, large pool, several complementary dining areas, and that extravagant water park.[…]

Today is the first of 2 ports we will visit. Amy and I have been to Nassau once before and did the clear kayak excursion. On that we paddled against currents the whole time and didn’t see much of anything through our “clear” kayak. This time we planned on just[…]

Today is Ethan’s birthday! Due to our late night last night we woke up later than planned this morning (9am). We didn’t have much planned for early in the day so sleeping in was just fine with me. It’s easy to stay sleeping in a room that can be almost[…]

Since this is a 4-night cruise (shortest we’ve done), I decided to drive our family to port instead of flying. It’s a 16+ hour drive that we gave ourselves 3 days to do. On our first day we made it to Clarksville, TN. For the car entertainment I had checked[…]