Author: Shargal39

                                               Relaxation At Sea

We decided to take our fall cruise on the Carnival Miracle down to the Mexican Riviera for 7 days. It was a new ship class for us and we have been on this itinerary before and enjoyed it in the past. It was just the 3 of us this time myself, husband Jamie and son Matthew. We went during the week of Matthew’s fall break from school. We just wanted to keep it simple and relax. We had already planned not to do any excursions this time and just get off the ship and go to the beach or just hang out since we had been to these ports a few times and have done different excursions in the past. This cruise was all about relaxing for us. So unfortunately, I won’t be talking about any exciting excursions we took this time. I will focus mostly on the ship and some of the differences from other ships. We had booked this cruise over a year ago and we were able to book a premium balcony (cabin 7301) which is hard since there are only 2 cabins like this on the ship. The cost was not much more than a regular balcony and well worth the money.

Besides having a suite, this has been our best cabin in all of our 18 cruises. It felt like more closet and storage space, and with 3 of us it worked out great and let’s not forget the awesome huge balcony. Well more on that later. Continue reading “Carnival Miracle Review”

Thanks for stopping by to check out my most recent cruise review. This time we sailed on the Carnival Magic out of Port Canaveral, Florida and what made this cruise particularly “Magical” was that we were cruising with our dear friends, The Saunders Family. Here is a little background on this cruise with the Asmus family trio (Sharon, Jamie, and Matthew)….We had planned this cruise over a year ago with our longtime friends.  We met the Saunders family on the Carnival Valor in March of 2006.  We cruised back then with  2 of our older daughters Melissa and Brittany and it was Matthew’s 1st cruise, he was 13 months old.  We were very nervous when we saw that our dinner table was for 10 people.  We had never been seated with others before and all kinds of thoughts were running through our heads about who these people would be.  The Saunders family consists of Marti, EJ and they have three daughters which are now Samantha 22 and twins Sydney and Sarah that are 18.  We ended up enjoying their company so much at dinner that by the end of the week we decided to spend our last port day in St. Maarten together at the beach.  We had so much fun and have continued our friendship over the years with daily text messages, etc…We also continue to cruise together every couple of years.  Now that the kids are getting older we are hoping to cruise together more frequently.  This was our 10th year anniversary cruise from when we met as well as the twins graduation cruise so we had big plans for a lot of memories and there were a few good ones to put in the books…..We originally were booked on the Breeze but with the repositioning of some ships we changed to the Magic which we were also all on together 3 years ago.  We were excited to hear that the Magic went in for dry dock and came out with the 2.0 upgrades along with the new Pig & Anchor which I might add was amazing.  We were stopping at 4 ports, Amber Cove which was new for us, St. Thomas, San Juan, and Grand Turk with 2 sea days.  So on to my story/review…. Continue reading “Carnival Magic Review (Cruise + Friends = MAGIC!!!)”

Carnival Freedom

Our 1st Blogger’s Cruise & Matthew Turns Platinum

February 20-27, 2016

My goal of starting a blog is to share some of my adventures while doing what I love to do, which as you know by now is cruising…but ironically, our most recent cruise was one of the least adventuresome cruises we have ever taken, and it turned out to be one of our best cruises ever. As with any vacation, the planning and researching is part of the fun, and getting ready to take our first “Bloggers Cruise” made things all the more exciting. We were lucky to be part of the group of about 700 or so people that would get to interact with Carnival’s Brand Ambassador, John Heald and to be part of his planned festivities throughout the week. I’ve enjoyed following John on Facebook and laughing along with him each day as he shares the good and the bad of his very important role with Carnival. Continue reading “Carnival Freedom Review, February 2016”