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South America Blog: Day 3

Feb 11, 2010 01:36

Sunday, January 17 (Embarkation)

Somehow, my BlackBerry alarm got set for low volume, and Shelley and I both slept through the 6:15 alarm. When I miraculously awoke on my own, it was 7:43, and we had 17 minutes to be down at the lobby ready to leave in the tour bus! Shelley hadn’t even packed the night before. Somehow we made it with a few minutes ( Read more... )

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vavaverity February 11 2010, 18:01:39 UTC

The mocha-chinos made the drink package ok, I think. Maybe not. Actually not. I'm still trying to justify it. I was 20-something on that other cruise, single and with a girlfriend. I should have known better. Next time, water package, or no package even, all the way!

I, too, and quite distraught at the fact that ferreterias contain no ferrets. NO FUN!!!

Seriously, when Carlo said "You would think we Chileans could accomplish more given how many hours we work, but unfortunately we are incompetent” I definitely thought I was dreaming since I did sleep most of the way on that bus. That is just too funny!

iceplanets February 12 2010, 00:04:24 UTC

Our tour from Santiago to Valparaiso via Viña del Mar was probably the most disappointing part of the whole trip. There was no place to get any food because of the election, and we ended up asking our tour guide to cut it short because we were starting to get cranky from hunger.

Considering how many additional mocha-chinos they sold to the rest of us after Shelley told us how good they were (especially with Baileys), they should have given her a kickback! I think on a nice Caribbean cruise with no Scrabble tournament and lots of sea days, it wouldn't be too hard to get your money's worth from the frozen drink package.

baudekin February 12 2010, 05:21:28 UTC

Shelley chose the frozen drinks package because she was under the mistaken impression that we'd have temperatures in the 80s for the whole trip. She had no idea how close we'd be to Antarctica...

tolarjev February 21 2010, 13:55:31 UTC

I don't get the "water package" at all. Aren't drinks included in the cruise price? Are you paying for little plastic bottles of water?

baudekin February 22 2010, 03:06:09 UTC

The water package is bottled Evian. The only drinks on the ship that are included in the cruise price are tap water and juice from the fountain in the buffet. That's what I subsisted on for almost the whole trip!

The water package was actually quite a good deal, because Shelley drinks a lot of water, and the Evian can be readily taken off the ship on excursions.