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<\/a>Do arrive early enough for your cruise to allow for problems like delays, lost luggage, traffic. It happens. It happened to us after a Transatlantic flight last month.<\/p>\nDon't order glasses of wine with dinner…order a bottle and save what's left for the next night (cruise lines will bring out your unfinished bottle even if you're in a different restaurant the next night).<\/p>\n
Do take a highlighter with you, to mark what interests you in the daily newsletter so you won't miss or forget events.<\/p>\n
Don't be afraid to take local transportation in most ports.<\/p>\n
Do pack light (or at least sensibly)! It plays a role in the enjoyment of your cruise.<\/p>\n
Don't forget to take ID when going ashore…it could be critical.<\/p>\n
Do make photocopies of all your important papers (passports, credit cards, health insurance, prescriptions) before you leave home, and leave them with someone you can reach if you need them.<\/p>\n
Don't restrict shore excursions to the ones the cruise line endorses — check other options before you leave home.<\/p>\n
Do take comfortable shoes, and forget about fashion statements.<\/p>\n
Don't throw in the phone-home towel because it's expensive: Video Skype (for example) is free on your cel phone or iPad when you have WiFi, available in many ports…and phoning on Skype is cheap (so far).<\/p>\n
Yesterday was the final round of the U.S. Open. It was also Father's Day. In other words, the right thing to do was give Bob the day off. So I did. That made it a good time to go into my notebook and extract some "do's" and "don'ts" about cruising… Do arrive early enough for… Continue reading Cruise Things To Do and Not Do<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,36,19,15],"tags":[137,154,738,912,72,591],"class_list":["post-13229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-liberty","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-tips","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
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\n\tCarnival Liberty<\/a>
\n\t7 nights
\n\tSeptember 22, 2012
\n\tMiami<\/a> (return): Cozumel<\/a>, Belize<\/a>, Roatan<\/a>, Grand Cayman<\/a>
\n\tInside: $479
\n\tCost per day: $68<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"