{"id":13994,"date":"2024-08-10T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=13994"},"modified":"2024-08-20T13:11:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T17:11:55","slug":"tn_10-hop-1-and-cv2-embarkation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/10\/tn_10-hop-1-and-cv2-embarkation\/","title":{"rendered":"TN_10 Hop 1 and CV2 embarkation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TN_10 Hop 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

193 miles via FL 864. FL 80, FL 29, FL 78, US 27, FL 70, I-95 and FL 528. Auto miles: 203 (10 extra miles doing errands). Cumulative route miles: 193. Cumulative auto miles: 203.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was an easy hop, terminating at the cruise parking lot. We then took a shuttle to the port and boarded the Carnival Vista<\/em> much more efficiently than on our first Vista <\/em>cruise. We were on board and having lunch by 2pm. Easy peasy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Boarding shot, with random person<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Then the bad news arrived: the ship has engine problems. We would be able to proceed on the 8-day cruise, but on a completely different itinerary. Rather than going to Aruba and Curacao – two of our favorite cruise destinations – plus Grand Turk and a private island in the Bahamas we would be getting two Bahamas ports (Nassau and Freeport) and two private Bahama islands. Not interesting at all. Carnival offered a full refund to anyone who decided to leave the ship (but with a lot of uncertainty about whether the crew could find the luggage in time to disembark) and a $400 per stateroom credit for anyone staying on board. The cruise is cheap for us so $400 is almost a full refund. And we have nothing better to do so we will swallow our disappointment and sail on. But Marlene’s son and daughter-in-law paid much<\/em> more so the decision is much more difficult for them.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Norwegian Jade<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It is a huge mess – one of the biggest messes we have encountered on our cruises. And who knows… we might get stranded at sea. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One unexpected bonus: the Norwegian Jade<\/em> was also in port. I don’t think I have mentioned this yet, but we are planning on being on board the Jade<\/em> next April for a 25-night cruise from Tampa to Anchorage AK. It is a small ship, as would be expected for a Panama Canal passage. It was interesting seeing it and anticipating that future cruise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

193 miles via FL 864. FL 80, FL 29, FL 78, US 27, FL 70, I-95 and FL 528. Auto miles: 203 (10 extra miles doing errands). Cumulative route miles: 193. Cumulative auto miles: 203. This was an easy hop, terminating at the cruise parking lot. We then took a shuttle to the port and … Continue reading »<\/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":[50,114,117,41,7,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean","category-cruise","category-cv2","category-fl","category-routes","category-tn_10"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3DI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994","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=13994"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14091,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994\/revisions\/14091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}