Celebrity Equinox - January 2017 - "Free" 7 night Cruise from Foxwoods!

[CTslotters]

Our adventures in Grand Cayman continued after our excursion. We decided to walk around town and grab a couple of local beers. We noticed a huge school of tarpon along the shore and Adam decided to get up close to them with our underwater camera. Apparently, you don't even need to pay for an excursion to see fish up close in GC.
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What I did while Adam chased fish.
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We have neat underwater video of the tarpon but have to post elsewhere and link to it. Will try to add later. At one point, a 3 and a half foot fish comes right at the camera!
No video of this epic moment, LOL!
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Until next time, Grand Cayman! Next stop, Cozumel! With more excursions!!

[clemi]

Love your cruise TR and photos, what a fun time!

[CTslotters]

Cozumel, Mexico
We have done snorkeling and dune buggy excursions in Cozumel before so we wanted to try something different - a cooking class and beach day at Playa Mia.
We highly recommend this excursion, it was so much fun, the food was SO tasty, the booze were unlimited and flowing freely, and the staff was great!
They actually teach you how to make a full three course meal. (All while serving you anything you want to drink, beers, sodas, margaritas, daiquiris, etc). Not sure how safe it is to serve everyone unlimited booze around open flames but everyone stayed safe.
The food was awesome! First course was a shrimp sopes appetizer, main was grouper with a veggie tamarind sauce (this was incredible, the fish was SO fresh!), and sautéed plantains with chocolate tequila sauce for dessert. We each made our own plates, and then ate our own food, so if we hated it, we just had ourselves to blame, LOL!
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An iguana for @TwoArmedBandito!
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The beach was beautiful and the water had a ton of fun toys to use (given our drunken state, we did not partake in the water toys, HHH).
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Our drinking continued once we were back at the port!
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There was a frog statue with a boner!
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He must have gone shopping here! HHH!
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Up next...final thoughts.

[Georgiagambler]

Looks like you had a great trip and a wonderful time. I have to figure out where I'm going to use my Princess cruise voucher. I'm glad you were able to use the rum runner flasks they definitely saved us some money


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[CPT]

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When in Mexico you can get your Estrogen, snacks, and soft drinks in one location!

[CTslotters]

Adios, Mexico!
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About a half hour after we got back to the ship from Cozumel, the skies opened up!
It began to downpour and the wind kicked up. Until this point, we had amazing weather and calm seas, that was changing that night. The air turned cold and the water turned rough.

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The seas were rockin' and rollin' that night and Adam did not like it. He skipped the late night "game show" that I went to with our dinner mates. We actually hung out with them at a few shows and one couple participated in a hysterical game. They had just gotten married in Vegas before the new year and this was their continuing honeymoon.
Our final day was an at sea day but with the terrible weather and rockiness of the boat, coupled with our sheer exhaustion at this point, we just hung out in our room and on our balcony for most of the day and packed up our luggage. We went for a final try at the casino our last night and proceeded to make the most of my drink sticker with lots of wine and Heineken. One bartender even asked where we've been the last few days and why we hadn't been around, LOL! If the casino paid us or had games we liked, we would have spent more time there.

Overall, the trip was fantastic, the weather was phenomenal up until the end, the room and balcony were great, and the ship was beautiful!
The food in the evening dining room was pretty good but unimaginative. Admittedly, we tend to be hard to please when dining out. The buffet food was actually very good with lots of choices and a great Indian food station. They also had afternoon tea with little sandwiches, scones, etc. It was so cute! Our dinner mates definitely made our nightly dining more enjoyable!
The staff at the bars are very nice, the martini bar bartenders even put on shows with their drink making.

For our first Celebrity cruise, it was fantastic! If anyone has any questions, let us know and thanks for reading!

[CTslotters]

I can't wait to see more pics of your vacation.

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We took so many! Having an underwater camera sure comes in handy!

Glad you are using them! Good start and great pics look forward to the rest!!


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They are awesome! We love them!

Great report so far! Looking forward to more.

Thanks Elf! Glad you're enjoying it!

This trip looks perfect. Weather is beautiful (an way better than what you left back home). Did you try and exotic food on the cruise?

It was so nice to leave 20 degree weather and land in 80 degrees! We didn't try anything exotic (we tend to eat pretty exotic at home, LOL!) but they did have escargot, some carpaccio and ceviche dishes, some beef cheeks (yum!) that I think might be considered uncommon. It was all pretty good, but fairly basic preparations. Believe it or not, we think the food on Disney Cruise ships is much better and more upscale and adventurous!

What beautiful scenery! Thanks for sharing your cruise with us
Look forward to the rest of your trip


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Thanks sassycat! Always happy to have something to share since everyone else has shared so many great trip reports on here!

Great photos, I love going on cruises!

Thanks Diana! We had a wonderful time!

Love your cruise TR and photos, what a fun time!

Thanks clemi! It was great to getaway from the cold for a little while!

Looks like you had a great trip and a wonderful time. I have to figure out where I'm going to use my Princess cruise voucher. I'm glad you were able to use the rum runner flasks they definitely saved us some money


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They saved us a ton of money, and actually kept us from drinking a ton which we would have if we had the drink package b/c we would have been chasing more drinks to get the most use out of it. With the two bottles of champagne we carried onto the ship, the flasks and the casino drink card, we had plenty of booze!
Have fun planning your next Princess Cruise! If you hit up any of the same ports we did, we recommend the excursions we went on, they were so fun!

When in Mexico you can get your Estrogen, snacks, and soft drinks in one location!

It's Mexico's CVS! I don't think they have coupons CPT!

[Laurie]

Love all the pictures! Balcony rooms are the best! The cooking class sounds like fun! Glad you had a great cruise


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[Nhcris]

What a fabulous report! I am so glad you had a great time. Your pictures are exceptional and really show off the ports. I really love that one of Adam at the shipwreck, and the one of you after snorkeling with your hair braided drinking a beer. You guys are just the cutest!

Like you, I loved Labadee, and Grand Cayman and Cozumel are fantastic. Jamaica (was it Falmouth?) not so much. Your Cozumel cooking excursion is now on my must do list for next time I am there. Cooking, drinking and the beach - that's Heaven right?

Thanks for taking the time to share!

[TwoArmedBandito]

I gwanna see more lizard pics! Hhh!

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