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Half Moon Cay, Bahamas (Private Island)

Half Moon Cay is as beautiful as expected! We didn't do an excursion here, we just hung out on the beach, enjoyed the music, had a couple drinks, some lunch and did some swimming.

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

We were in Fort Lauderdale for a short period of time before the cruise. We arrived to our hotel 9pm the night before we sailed. Once we returned we did stay an extra day and did a Water Taxi Tour to see the Christmas Lights. This was a wonderful tour.

Oranjestad, Aruba

While we enjoyed our excursion bus driver/music and the bus, the tour itself & what we saw of Aruba was disappointing. I was expecting to see beautiful sites, gorgeous teal water and amazing beaches. What we saw was a church for 10mins, a lighthouse for 10mins and then a 2 hr stop at Moomba Beach that had murky water and too many boats around to really swim too far. Once our tour was over we did venture back out to the shops area but it was the same items in pretty much every store for a different price. Aruba definately wasn't what we expected. I have seen photos of Eagle Beach which were amazing, we saw nothing close to that.

Grand Turk Island

This was our 2nd time in Grand Turk and just swam and relaxed. I highly recommend talking the less than 10min walk up the beach away from the main ship crowd and hang out near Jack's Shack. We had another ship in port with us so the area right near the beach was super busy but near JS it wasn't busy at all.

Willemstad, Curacao

Curacao is beautiful and we wish we could have been there longer. The day before we sailed our port stop got changed with Aruba so instead of being in Curacao for 14hrs we were there for 7hrs. This was still sufficient time to look around the cruise port area briefly and enjoy an excursion but we would have loved to had more time to explore on our own as well. We will def go back! We did an Island Tour that included a stop at the Blue Curacao Distillery and a 2hr stop at Mambo Beach.

Grand Turk Island

LOVED Grand Turk so much!! The aqua colored water was as warm as bath water & we saw fish! We didn't do an excursion, we swam to the left of the pier for a few hours then we had lunch in Margaritaville before making our way to Jack's Shack which is about a 15min walk up the beach.

Basseterre, St. Kitts

We thoroughly enjoyed Basseterre! We did a Carnival tour, Brimstone Hill Highlights & our tourguide Bertgrum was awesome. He was extremely funny & very knowledgable. He went out of his way to add on a little extra to the tour just so we had the full island experience. I highly recommend a tour while here.

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan is stunning!! We explored on our own & made our way to the San Juan National Historic Site to explore one of the 2 Forts on site. The view from the top of the fort is amazing! We then made our way to a beach that was only a mile up the street from the Fort, directly across from the Capital Building. The beach was Playa Pena, a small private beach right off the side of the road. No lifeguard supervision here, it is use at own risk but it is worth it. It is gorgeous.

Port Canaveral, Florida

We didn't get to explore this port much or do an excursion, it was just our embarkation/debarkation port but it was beautiful & everything went smoothly.

Amber Cove (Puerto Plata), Dominican Republic

Loved this port, the pools area is gorgeous & we had so much fun relaxing in the pools. My daughter & husband also enjoyed the zipline which is a flat rate of $20/day so you really need to go a few times to make it worth it but they said it was a lot of fun.