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Nice video! 🙂 What month did you visit Arizona? We’re going this October & the weather still seems super hot. Also, can you give us an idea on how much should we tip the tour guide? Thank you!
Thank you for watching the video! We are glad you liked it. We went to Arizona the week of 4th of July due to fitting in work schedule. It was in the 100's all week. Hot is hot but we live in the south and enjoyed the dry heat vs the humidity we deal with. It looks like the average daytime temperature for the month of October is 89. We normally tip tour guides 20% like you would do for other services. Of course, it depends on service whether it's more or less sometimes. We loved Leo our guide and gave a few extra $'s. Let us know if you go and your thoughts on the tour.
Informative vid! Was on a TA cruise back in May on the Getaway. And we've booked this cruise on the Joy in January. Hoping to get in snorkeling, somehow. 💁♀️
Thank you for watching the video and are glad you found it informative! If we remember right Belize and Cayman Islands had snorkeling excursions. A TA cruise is on our bucket list. We will definitely have to look into the Getaway. What was your favorite thing to do/memory from the cruise?
@@travelwithdande I enjoyed the food immensely and we went in with low expectations because we are hobby cooks. It is hard to say what my favorite thing was because this was my first cruise. I enjoyed the cocktails, the hot tubs (it was April/May so weather could be questionable across the Atlantic), our balcony and meeting folks. We also enjoyed our excursions which were NCL. Next time, we'll do our own thing or private tours.
New subscriber here. We were on our first NCL ship in May. We really enjoyed it. We are planning a Panama Canal Cruise. We will be watching more of your videos. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for subscribing! The Panama Canal was on our bucket list and decided to check it off the list first. It was definitely worth the long day. What NCL ship were you on and what were the ports of call?
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Hi! My husband and I will going on the same cruise with the same ship. Can you please let me know which excursion you took to see the other locks. Gone under bribes and Puerto Limon?
Y'all are going to love it!! The name of the excursion is "Panama Canal by Ferry". You go through the Gatun locks and get off the Gem in Gatun Lake. They bus you to Gamboa where you board the ferry. You take the ferry down the Guillard Cut, cross the Continental Divide and through the Pedro Miguel and Miraflores Locks on the way to the Pacific. It is a long day but well worth it. Enjoy!!
@@busymom7729 It was $199 per person. If you have Free-at-sea, one would be at $149. It was most definitely the most expensive of our excursions on this trip but it was pretty cool and a once-in-a-lifetime experience. As I mentioned in the video, take advantage of the Grab-and-Go from the Garden Cafe before heading off on this excursion!! Enjoy!!
Good evening! I'm sorry for the delay in my response. I wanted to make sure I gave you the right answer. If you are staying in a inside, ocean view or balcony cabin it will include two lower beds that can be converted into a queen-size bed. When you are booking you let them know how you would like the bed to be set up. Is this your first cruise on NCL? It was our first cruise with NCL and are looking forward to booking another with them. Have a fabulous time!
Hello. I enjoyed your video and found it very informative as we will be taking this same cruise in November. I do have a question did you book you excursion at the Panama Canal thru NCL. If so what is it called. If not who was it booked thru. Thank you so much.
We are so glad you liked the video! This excursion was through NCL. When we booked it, it was Panama Canal by Ferry. We were too nervous to book through a private site since it was such a long excursion. We have watched too may videos of cruise ships leaving passenger that weren't back from excursions that weren't booked through them. Haha! We were late coming in because of a delay with the Panama Canal pilot boarding the ferry. Since we booked through NCL they waited for us. Let us know what your experience on the excursion was when you get back. Have a great cruise!
Just watched your informative video as we’re doing the same cruise in November. It looked great, it was really good to see the excursions so we can decide what we want to do. Must say, we didn’t think the food looked up to much, not as good as other NCL cruises we’ve we’ve been on. Thanks for the content anyway, very useful 👍🏻
Thank you for your comment! We loved the cruise. The staff were fabulous from our cabin steward to the officers. We really enjoyed our excursions. We had planned to do the hop on hop off bus on our own in Cartagena but I'm so glad we booked through NCL. The traffic there is unbelievable. We wouldn't have been able to do the things we did on the tour. I'm glad you mentioned food. We liked most of the dishes we ate but weren't in love with some of it. Since you have cruised with NCL before we are very interested to know what you think about the food after your cruise. We are planning to do more cruises with NCL so please let us know.
@@travelwithdande Thanks for getting back I’ll let you know how we got on when we’re home again 👍🏻 I forgot to mention that it was also useful watching your video and seeing how people were dressed.
My wife and I are NCL Platinum cruisers. Not retired yet but hopefully in 5 years. We have cruised mostly Bahamas, Eastern and Western Caribbean's. We have also gone to Alaska. We are hoping to go to Europe but we know it is very expensive. Living in south Florida we have thought about doing a Panama Cannel cruise. I have noticed that you have done an excursion at every port, I know that could add up so just wondering which ports to do an excursion or just get off the ship and walk the port. As Platinum rewards members we get 4 specialty dinners (including free at sea) and of course open bar. We have also been to Harvest Kay and would probably stay on the ship for that stop.
Hello, do you by any chance know if the Colon Panama cruise port shopping area is for cruise passengers only? Or can members of the public (like Panamanians) go too?
Unfortunately we do not know about the shopping area. We went on the Ferry Excursion and had some delays so we got back to the boat late. The Gem was delayed going back through the Gatun Locks so I don't think the passengers that stayed on the Gem got to get off and explore in Colon either. Thank you for your question.
We are so excited for you! We absolutely loved it!! We would suggest you look through the excursions and book them as early as you can if you are booking them through NCL. We enjoyed the excursions we went on but missed out on one of our first choice excursion because we waited too long to book them. You are going to have a great time! Have you been on the Gem before? Let us know if you have any more questions. Thank you for the comment!
Hi.. can you explain the tender process.. do you just line up or do you have to get a nunber and or time to board the tender and if so where do you get it. Thanks
Sure, on the Gem, they have everybody with an excursion to meet at the stardust theatre at a certain time. Then they send off groups of people by excursion. They sometimes give you a sticker with a bus number if everybody boards buses. If you are not taking an excursion from NCL, they let you go off first. It’s pretty orderly so it all goes well. We never had to wait a long time in line. Hope this answers your question.
You will absolutely enjoy this area. Just keep hydrated as the heat can sneak up on you! We liked the Sunset horse ride and the Valley of Fire, even more than the Red Rock Canyon! Y'all have fun!!!!
7:28 I hope you made a complaint about the CAFE and there service, hate when you get no service like that. enough to piss you off while your hungry for lunch, Happened to me one time me before too, at a Dennys in Galveston TX a few years ago.
Well, everything else at the Twin Arrows Casino and Resort was great, just not the service in this specific cafe that day. I constructively talked with the Manager and that's all that needs done.
5:55 Sorry but I don't Buy that this was a Meteor Impact forming a crater as you described, what raises flags is that there is NO Other debris around or for miles of this site. For something this size, a meteor would have splashed rocks all over the place. I think it's more of an ancient sink hole of some type, maybe not but definitely not from a meteor. I just can't see it, the more I look the more I'm convinced its not a meteor like we're being told.
@@milesdyson5211 .. I suppose you think you're smarter than the thousands of scientists that have studied this crater. I suppose you also ignore the edges of the CRATER that are still pushed up from the impact which wouldn't be there if it was a sink hole, genius.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Also a simple Google images search will debunk your retarded theory about shit you know nothing about. There ARE in fact many boulders and rocks around the outside of the CRATER. I've been there. Smart guy.
@@calmerthanyou6180 For one, Scientist are the last ones to trust anything your told from them, COVID Jabs and useless mask wearing should have taught you a lesson by now about so called Scientist. Call me all the names you want, Again where's the debris? For something that large, Debris would be Everywhere! Not just the edges. An Explosion that size would spread large rocks and debris for miles. Maybe you need to pull your head out your ass and take the blind fold off. Don't believe everything you're told-!
Hey, it's all good! One thing we can agree on is that it's a cool place to visit even if we have differing opinions on how it came about! Thanks for checking out the channel!!
My wife and I enjoyed this railway trip back in 2009. Life was good then, and we splurged. We booked the Caboose!. We were treated like royalty. A complete food and drink buffet, and a personal attendant. This was a pinnacle R.R. excursion for us. She died 7 years ago. This video brought back so many memories.
I can't even try to understand but hope this brings back great memories of your time together!! Thanks for commenting on the video and checking out the channel!!!!
The prince Mural i visited many times Maggie Kean she made the mural in front of prince mural with Michael Jackson Amy winehouse John Lennon Elvis Presley Selena Quintanilla
Many breweries have tins for sale which are basically just a metal version of their logo. I love to hang these up in my shop or backyard. It's great for memories.
Hey Eric, thanks for watching the video. That would be very cool if you could do a seminar!! Real craftsmen are hard to come by. The artwork at the museum requires very intricate detail so do this, you must be very patient!
You ain't kidding! That's what we love about travel and that's learning things we never would have known had we just sat around at home or just went to the most frequented locations!! Thanks!!
You should! Bisbee and the Queen Mine Tour is a lot of fun. Thanks for the feedback! We like your approach to documenting history and educating the kids as well. Good stuff!!
Now foreign owned companies mine a lot of our minerals not held to the same standards for domestic operators chinuh is a big copper miner here hoping for the boom of electric vehicles.
Glad you enjoyed it!! We sure did and am surprised it hasn't gotten as many views as we expected. It is truly a sign to behold and kind of scary when you get up close to it. Thanks again!!!!
How cool your mom is part of the history of the bridge! I'm embarrassed to say I have been going to visit my uncle in Pensacola since I was a kid and never knew the bridge existed. Thank you for watching the video!
