First ever cruise

October 15th, 2006

After a few days of research, finally I settled on the plan of my first family cruise, it is a 7 nights East Caribbean on Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) Jewel, the selection process was pretty hard, since we wanted both good itinerary and good price, after reviewed the profiles of more than 10 ships on cruisecritic.com, it is a no brainer to take the recommendation:

Best All-Around First-Time Experience: Norwegian Jewel These newest and largest ships in NCL’s Freestyle Cruising fleet offer a unique experience that’s more like that of a land-based resort and less like a traditional cruise than any other, allowing passengers to eat where, when and with whom they want in the cruise industry’s widest range of restaurants.

since Jane has to stay at home with Owen, it will be just me and my parents.

Here is the itinerary:

• Nov 26 Leaving Miami
• Nov 27 At sea
• Nov 28 San Juan, (day trip to visit old San Juan)
• Nov 29 Antigua, (take the famous Antigua Eco-Adventure tour as touted on BBC)
• Nov 30 St Thomas, USVI (half day trip to St John’s beautiful beaches, of course include Trunk Beach)
• Dec 01 At sea
• Dec 02 Great Stirrup key (this is a private island owned by NCL)
• Dec 03 Back to Miami

Before I do anything else, the first homework for me is to make plan to attack the good food, since we have only 7 nights, but we have 10 different style restaurants on the boat! (some of them do have “cover charge”)

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