let someone else drive the boat

ric · **Posted:** Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:29 pm

Went with my friends Frank and Betsy, 7 days on the Allure of the Seas to Nassau, St. Thomas and St. Martin. Best cruise I've ever been on, I highly recommend!!

Purchased the Panasonic TS20 just for this trip because of how highly rated it was. It leaked around the lens and quit working a few days in, I have some cool pics/vids of the airplanes landing overhead on his cameras I'll get soon.

chrisvs · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 5:44 am

Looks like fun! I have a few months to wait, but we are booked on Liberty of the Seas in February, which will be our first cruise. I would really like to do that trip that you have just finished on Oasis or Allure..... someday..... :mrgreen:

298VISTA2000 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:22 pm

"let someone else drive the boat"

As long as it isn't the disgraced Captian of the Costa Concordia. Could you imagine if he sunk that mammoth of a ship? I bet that thing is twice the size of the Titanic. Looks like a blast but one of these days....

ric · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:08 pm

Well... we did lose a passenger the first night. What the news doesn't say is she jumped off the top nearly 200ft above the water while we were doing 20 knots, 100% fatal that's why nobody searched too hard. Not even a .000000000001% chance of survival. It was more just a recovery operation so the family had something to bury.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2 ... overboard/

298VISTA2000 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:34 pm

ric wrote:

Well... we did lose a passenger the first night. What the news doesn't say is she jumped off the top nearly 200ft above the water while we were doing 20 knots, 100% fatal that's why nobody searched too hard.

You would have thought she would have waited a few days and rung up a nice bar tab before jumping. I bet the passengers were pissed:

"The Allure of the Seas missed its scheduled stop to the Bahamas, but is now back out to sea and is scheduled to arrive in St. Thomas, as scheduled, Wednesday."

Bliss36 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 9:26 pm

We took that same cruise back in 2010 for our honeymoon! We also missed the Coco Cay stop because of 10-12 waves and waterspouts :shock:

Every time we go on a cruise I just sit on the balcony and try to think of ways to sell everything, buy a sailboat, and live in the Caribbean. Of course I'm sure 90% of the other passengers are thinking the same thing

ric · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 9:43 pm

Bliss36 wrote:

We took that same cruise back in 2010 for our honeymoon! We also missed the Coco Cay stop because of 10-12 waves and waterspouts :shock:

Every time we go on a cruise I just sit on the balcony and try to think of ways to sell everything, buy a sailboat, and live in the Caribbean. Of course I'm sure 90% of the other passengers are thinking the same thing

That's what my father did. He currently has a 30-31ft sailboat. Stays docked in FL most of the time but once and a while goes out for an adventure. He's making talks about staying in the USVI for a while.

I was told I could complain and get compensation for missing Nassau, but no way. I'm not accepting money for the death of someone's daughter.

rpengr · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2012 2:41 pm

What's that "simulated surfing" like? (or whatever they call it) I always wondered why they don't have those on land anywhere that I know of. I think that would make it as an attraction in Kissimmee/Orlando area, or SE Florida.

ric · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:07 pm

rpengr wrote:

What's that "simulated surfing" like? (or whatever they call it) I always wondered why they don't have those on land anywhere that I know of. I think that would make it as an attraction in Kissimmee/Orlando area, or SE Florida.

The "worlds best" flow rider facility is in Old Town (Kissimmee). Fantasy Surf. I have yet to go but my buddy that went on the cruise with is a pretty avid flow rider, even brought his own board on the cruise. Goes there a few times a week.

What's it like? Snowboarding on hard snow/icy conditions is virtually the same.

joet · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:43 pm

rpengr wrote:

What's that "simulated surfing" like? (or whatever they call it) I always wondered why they don't have those on land anywhere that I know of. I think that would make it as an attraction in Kissimmee/Orlando area, or SE Florida.

An indoor waterpark in Ohio has 2 of them.

www.iFourWinns.com

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