Travel Forum / Destinations / Caribbean Islands / December 2004

I just got a potential timeshare matchup at the Coconut Palms resort in
Cabarete, Dominican Republic.
Has anyone been here or know anything about it?

The first port for our Royal Caribbean cruise of the western Caribbean was
Labadee, Hispaniola which is actually a part of Haiti.  This specific port
is leased out to Royal Caribbean so only their cruiseships come here.
Labadee is actually a peninsula with a few beaches.  Getting ...

One of the ports of call for our Royal Caribbean cruiseship during the week
of November 28/04 was Ocho Rios, Jamaica.  Probably the most famous site in
the region is Dunn's River Falls and we chose to tour it on our own rather
than through one of the cruiseship tours.  Once we ...

This is from the Friday Dec. 3 issue of the Winnipeg Free Press.

Hubby and I are just back from another great holiday in Barbados :o)
We stayed at Crystal Cove This year and it was awesome :o) We also gave
Sarah from Glory Tours http://www.glorytours.org a call before we left
and had her organize another tour of the Island for us.

Just got back from a (short) 5 night stay at St. John.  This was our
second trip to this Island in the past year... our first time being
this past Feb.  We booked our second trip within weeks of our return.
Thought I'd share some photos of our trip:

Just wanted to mention a useful site set up by 2 sisters (born and bred
Dominicans) recently launched, it's a free info site for anyone thinking
of visiting the Dominican Republic for a vacation or house hunting. The
site at:

My travel report about my trip to the Caribbean (Turks & Caicos, BVI,
USVI) in 1996 is at:
http://www.geocities.com/adelaide.geo/
I have written some travel reports about great outdoor destinations in

We have a large sailboat that we are on every weekend.  Even if we stay at
the dock and don't go out sailing, we experience the motion about 2 hours
after getting off the boat.  Not a big deal tho.
We've experienced it after sailing in the ocean on Windjammer or Star

Can't find a whole lot about Antigua village.  One post (in 1997) said
that Antiqua Village had gotten a bit run-down and the beach wasn't
"great".
Current prices for Antigua Village range from $290 to $330 (studio)

It appears that Travel agents sell the Royal Caribbean cruises ( July
05 cruises) for the same price or more than Royal Caribbean itself.
This is surprising !
I thought one could get a lower price from Discount cruise sites.

We are going nex monday. Will any of you guys be there at the same time?
Leif Arild
Norway

I'm going to be in Aruba next week on business (Dec. 8 -14).  Does any
one here know  any of the local climbers (or anyone) interested in
climbing (or belaying) there at that time?

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I have some friends who will be staying three days in Isla Mujeres then
moving down to Cozumel for three more days.  Question is:  How do they get
there?  I have been to Cancun a few times.  I figure they will have to ferry
from Isla Mujeres back to Puerto Juarez on the mainland. ...