Barb and Ed's Travels: Mar 3, 2009

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Aruba - Day 6

The pictures are:
. . . On our way to town.

. . . Feeding
. . . Just one of hundreds
. . . A turtle just walking around.

Well we started this day like all the others – and it is not boring!!!

We were both down to the beach by 10:30 and stayed there until 1:30, eating a hot dog on the beach for lunch.

For the first time we went to using oil, only for the last ½ hour and it was spf 2, a product we had never used. Anyway, the oil felt good and ½ hour is all we could stand.

Then it was back to the room to clean up and catch the 2:30 bus towards town where we stopped at the Butterfly House. It was really neat. They took us on a 25 minute tour and the guy was very knowledgeable about butterflies.

Back on the bus we headed for town to see what we hadn’t seen the first day. Not very many shops there except tourists shops. Every day they have at least one cruise ship dock right on the edge of town.

This will be the last entry because tomorrow we are heading for home and we really enjoyed the trip, but we are ready to get home. Six days at a destination resort is a couple too many.

Our opinion of Aruba is it is a very clean country. There isn’t a lot of grass because it is really a desert country. The fences are even made of cactus! It is a country built for the tourists who use the beaches and ocean. I am sure there are some cheap places to stay; however, the Marriott attracts a lot of money from the east coast. Most of the people we met were from either Boston or New York. There is a huge Marriott timeshare developmen

t adjacent to the hotel so the casino was jammed every night and boy did the people staying here have lots of money. The casino staff is not interested in people at all. They are very distant and we never had anyone introduce themselves to us - we did not like this casino and probably will never be back. We would go to San Juan first as it is probably the best casino in the Caribbean

The Marriott staff, as well as the people who live in Aruba are very nice and friendly and we enjoyed them a lot – especially eating at their restaurants. We were lucky in getting an upgraded room. The regular price on the room is $800 a night, and there are people here who pay that and a lot more – not us!

Anyway a great trip – miss everyone and we will see all of you soon.
Love – Mom (Barb) and Ed

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October - 2024

On September 30, we will fly to Barcelona for a couple of days before boarding the Celebrity Equinox on October 2. We will cruise to Marseille, France, Nice, France, Santa Margherita, Italy, Florence, Italy, and Naples, Italy before arriving in Rome on October 12. We are overnight in Florence and we plan to take the train to the city and stay in the city overnight before going back to the ship the next day. We then plan to fly to Marrakech, Morocco for a couple of days before flying home. Come cruise with us!!

Spring - 2024

On February 28, we will fly to Miami for a couple of days before boarding the MSC Seascape for a 7 night Easter Caribbean cruise. We will cruise to Nassau, San Juan, Dominican Republic and Ocean Cay, MSC’s private island. This will be our second time on an MSC ship and once again we will be in the Yacht Club. We hope our experience on this ship equals our experience in Europe last October. It was the best cruise we have ever taken - the cruise, not the people as we love the people who have cruised with us before and hope to in the future

October 2022

We are planning on flying to Rome on October 3 and spend a few nights there before a 12 Night Israel & Mediterranean Cruise on the Celebrity Apex going to the following ports ROME (CIVITAVECCHIA), ITALY OLYMPIA (KATAKOLON), GREECE ATHENS (PIRAEUS), GREECE EPHESUS (KUSADASI), TURKEY HAIFA, ISRAEL - From Haifa, we will travel by car to JERUSALEM (ASHDOD), ISRAEL and stay overnight right outside the entrance to the Old City. LIMASSOL, CYPRUS. and finally depart the ship in Rome. We will spend 2 days in Rome before taking the train to Venice for 5 days and then fly to Prague for 4 days before coming home.

July 2022

On July 19 we will fly to Seattle for overnight before flying to Fairbanks for 2 days. Then we will travel by Dome car train to Denali for 2 days. After Danali, we will again take the train to Anchorage for 2 more days. Then the train again to Seward for 2 days until we board the Celebrity Milennium on and have a tour until boarding the Celebrity on July 29 for a 7 night Alaska Southbound cruise. We will cruise to the Huybbarb Glacier, Jueneau, Skagway, Icy Strait Point, Ketchikan the Inside Passage ands arrive in Vancouver to 2 days before before flying home on August 7.

October - 2021 -

We had planned to travel to Venice for a couple of days and then take the Celebrity Constellation on a Venice to Rome 9 night cruise that begins Oct 14. After the cruise we will spend a few more days in Rome before heading to Prague for a few days before flying to Lisbon for one day before flying home. We would have been gone from Oct 9 - Oct 30.

As that cruise has been moved to October of 2022, instead on Oct 15 we will fly to Ft. Lauderdale, stay at the Residence Sunny Isle beach for a few days and then board the Celebrity Equinox for a 9 night Southern Caribbean cruise taking us to Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and Grand Cayman.

We will return home on October 29

July 4 - 2016

For the first time in many years, we will not be visiting a city for the 4th of July fireworks.
Instead, we will drive to Bayonne, NJ in two days and they we will be leaving on July 3 from Bayonne which is just across the river from New York City for a 7 day cruise to Bermuda.
We sail on July 3 and are at sea until arriving at Kings Warf, Bermuda on July 6. We will spend the 6th, 7th and leave in the afternoon of the 8th in Bermuda and then arrive back in New Jersey on July 10 when we will drive home.

New Years - 2016

We will celebrate New Years Eve by boarding a plane on Dec 31 and arriving on Jan 1 in Buenos Aries, where it will be summer time! We will stay in Buenos Aries until Jan 3 when we will board the Celebrity Infinity and travel to:
Montevideo, Uruguay, Punta del Este, Uruguay, Puerto Madryn Argentina, Cape Horn, Chile, Ushuais, Argentina, Punta Arenas, Chile, the Strait of Magellan,the Chilean Fjords, Puerto Montt, Chile and arriving at Valpariso, Chile on Jan 17 when we will go to Santiago for a couple of days before flying home on Jan 19, arriving on Jan 20 at 10:46am

Greece, Turkey and Croatia Cruise - Oct, 2015

On Oct 8 we will fly from Chicago to London and then board another plane to fly to Istanbul, Turkey, arriving on Oct 9 in the morning. We will stay at the Marriott Istanbul Hotel Sisli until we board the Celebrity Constellation on Oct 12. During the cruise we will visit:
Katakolon, Greece
Corfu, Greece
Slit, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Athens, Greece
Ephesus, Turkey

and arrive in Istanbul and leave on October 23 flying back the same way from Istanbul to London to Chicago on October 24 after we stay the final night in Istanbul.

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Aruba - Day 6

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