Coming back from a back to back cruises on the Eastern Caribbean/Carlos Pueblo

Coming back from a back to back cruises on the Eastern Caribbean/Carlos Pueblo

On the Thanksgiving Eve, I came back from a back to back cruises on the

Eastern Caribbean Islands. The cruise started in the chilly Boston, Massachusetts

and ended in the sunny warm San Juan, Porto Rico. I must admit that the long

cruise journey is not merely for the scenery of the Caribbean but my interest of

visiting of adoptive daughters on board of the ship. I have been with the ship 5

times and some of my daughters are transferred from another sister ship Jade

recently that makes certain excitement for the entire trip and in addition to that,

I keep on adopting these adorable staff as my daughters and I estimate that I have

had over 150 them overall. I am very fortunate indeed.

I missed to get a ticket to board on Jade in the United Kingdom in late August and

was very confused of the quote price of the cruise line on every day’s e-mail. It

was by British Pounds instead of the U.S. Dollars. I suspected that was more costly

than the purchase in Texas; therefore, I cut short of my 3 months European trip to

one and took the last plane of the year of a discount airline back to Austin, Texas.

I found the deal even better than what I expected of the cross Atlantic and I took

it right away, from Boston to the Eastern Caribbean and back to Boston for 14 days

then from Boston to the same Caribbean ports and to the winter home port of the

ship, San Juan Porto Rico for another 9 days. I stayed additional 4 days in San Juan

to avoid paying higher cost of airline ticket and enjoyed the warm climate.

One of the most interesting activities on board is observing the busy operation of

restaurants under one of my daughters. On the first route, the ship was almost full

and I stayed at her home restaurant on deck 7 mid-ship for the entire night for

several days till I felt that I shouldn’t take too much of their seat time. I have had

the eye witness experience of a 350 seats restaurant turned over more than 3 times

a night in full capacity, from the hostess assignment of seat, escorting, waiting staff,

table cloth changes, etc. I have been amazed.

I found a permanent seat on a 24 hour restaurant on deck 8 mid-ship where I could

sit and listen to a life singing performance at the grand atrium at deck 7. I could also

see the guests passing by to have their drink at the bar. I have seen all the happy guests

at their vacation. Only the ladies of the American common family to express their delight

of drink, music, and dancing on the floor or walking to their seat at the exclusive drinking

balcony.