{"id":13792,"date":"2024-05-03T11:57:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=13792"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:16:58","slug":"carnival-cruise-short-vacation-sv1-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/03\/carnival-cruise-short-vacation-sv1-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise\/auto combo vacation (CV1) preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yes, Marlene and I will be embarking on another cruise in just over a week. This is a 6-night cruise on the <em>Carnival Paradise<\/em>, going to several ports in the western Caribbean Sea, including Belize. We plan to take a rare shore excursion in Belize to do some tubing through caves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three ports are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/roatan.online\/mahogany-bay\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/roatan.online\/mahogany-bay\">Mahogany Bay<\/a>, Roatan, Honduras<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Belize City, Belize<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cozumel#Flag\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cozumel#Flag\">Cozumel<\/a>, Mexico<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While I am not a fan of Belize City &#8211; it is a third-world armpit &#8211; the country of Belize is beautiful I am looking forward to the cave tubing excursion. The other two stops &#8211; Cozumel and Roatan &#8211; also rank high on my list of favorite Caribbean destinations. It should be a fun cruise. We follow the cruise with a one-week driving vacation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because this is both a cruise and an auto trip I will give it a trip designation: CV1 for &#8220;first combo vacation.&#8221; It is certainly not my first cruise that has an auto component, but it is the first one with such a long one.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SV1-Plan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"934\" height=\"924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SV1-Plan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13795\" style=\"width:456px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SV1-Plan.jpg 934w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SV1-Plan-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SV1-Plan-768x760.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CV1 Plan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The driving route for the CV1 is shown here. We start by driving to Tampa to board the ship (via Cape Coral FL where I have a medical appointment). We will park the car near the cruise terminal. When we return we have a very long day of driving up to Pigeon Forge TN. Partly because I wanted a break in the middle of this leg and partly because I wanted to take a route that avoided Atlanta, I decided to go via Savannah GA. After 3 nights in Pigeon Forge we will drive to Acworth GA to attend the high school graduation of Marlene&#8217;s grandson. Then we go to Orlando FL for one night to visit a friend, then two nights in Coral Springs FL to visit Marlene&#8217;s brother. Then back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 nights (6 on the ship, 7 on land) and about 1,900 driving miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Marlene and I will be embarking on another cruise in just over a week. This is a 6-night cruise on the Carnival Paradise, going to several ports in the western Caribbean Sea, including Belize. We plan to take a rare shore excursion in Belize to do some tubing through caves. The three ports are: &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/03\/carnival-cruise-short-vacation-sv1-preview\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[114,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise","category-cv1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3As","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13792"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14473,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792\/revisions\/14473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}