Places You'll Go: June Royal Caribbean Cruise -MUST READ!

Hmmmmm.... It's snowing in Dallas this morning. Maybe if we had known a few years ago what this winter was going to be like, we could have gotten the Winter Olympics here rather than in Russia.... With a little more snow they could shut down LBJ and Central Expressway and use the High 5 for downhill skiing. That would work, right.... you know, until tomorrow when it melts?

But if you are cold right now and your thoughts are turning to the Caribbean where it's warm and sunny, it might be the perfect time to plan your summer vacation. And for the next 24 hours, I have got a terrific deal for you! I have 4 remaining rooms blocked on Navigator of the Seas sailing out of Galveston on June 8th, that's the Sunday after Texas schools get out. This is a 7 night cruise with the following itinerary:

Date	Ports of Call	Arrive	Depart	Activity
Sun 08 Jun 2014	Galveston, Texas		4:30 PM	Boarding
Mon 09 Jun 2014	Cruising			Cruising
Tue 10 Jun 2014	Cozumel, Mexico	8:00 AM	4:00 PM	Docked
Wed 11 Jun 2014	George Town, Grand Cayman	10:30 AM	6:00 PM	Tendered
Thu 12 Jun 2014	Falmouth, Jamaica	8:00 AM	5:00 PM	Docked
Fri 13 Jun 2014	Cruising			Cruising
Sat 14 Jun 2014	Cruising			Cruising
Sun 15 Jun 2014	Galveston, Texas	7:00 AM		Departure

I have the following cabins available:

Category	Description	Qty	Price
E1	Deluxe Balcony	1	$1219.16 per person / double occupancy
J	Inside Virtual Balcony	2	$849.16 per person / double occupancy
N	Inside	1	$789.16 per person / double occupancy

But here's the significant thing. If you wanted to book these cabins yourself today, the prices are as follows:

Category	Description	Qty	Price
E1	Deluxe Balcony	1	$1450 per person / double occupancy
J	Inside Virtual Balcony	2	SOLD OUT!
N	Inside	1	$1232 per person / double occupancy

You see as ships fill up, the prices go up. I reserved these cabins last year right after the cruise schedule for 2014 was announced and locked in these prices. So, I am able to sell these cabins at a price that you can't get anywhere else. But the catch is, that on February 8th.... TOMORROW, Royal Caribbean will take these four cabins back from me and raise the price to their current prices. So, if this cruise sounds the least bit interesting to you - you MUST call me today! The deposit required at booking is only $250 per person and final payment isn't due until March 25th!

In addition to the huge savings you will get if you book through me within the next 24 hours, I will get you $50 on board spending credit per cabin for booking through me. You can't get that from Royal Caribbean because they aren't offering this. You can only get that from your personal travel agent at Places You'll Go Travel. That's right.... you've happened upon my crazy SNOW DAY CRUISE BLOW OUT!!!!!

I, myself will be on this cruise. You see the prices are so good, I couldn't resist. Additionally, my mom, 2 cousins, 3 aunts and 1 sister-in-law will be with me. We're doing a little girls cruise and you could tag along. But if you aren't a girl or just don't relish the idea of traveling with me and my family, don't worry! Your reservation won't be connected to ours in anyway. In fact, with over 3,000 passengers on board, you may not even see us during the cruise.

Now, you may be asking yourself, What the heck is an inside virtual balcony and why have they sold out?!?!??!!!!! Well, let me tell you. It's an inside cabin with no windows. But one wall in the cabin has been turned into a video screen which will display a live feed from fixed cameras mounted on the outside of the ship that will give you a video feed of the sea as it goes by. While you are in port, you will be able to see a view of whatever is going on outside there as well. If you don't want to see what is going on outside, you are free to turn it off whenever you like. But it gives you the illusion of having a window without the hefty price tag.

Some other things you should know about the ship is that it is just coming out of dry dock where it has undergone an extensive revitalization in which they added these virtual balconies in addition to a Flow Rider. Now, I don't know if you have ever seen a Flow Rider, but let me show you what that is....

The Flow Rider on Freedom of the Seas

It's an onboard surfing simulator. The water in the Flow Rider moves so fast, they say, (I've never seen this happen) that it can actually rip a guys swim trunks right off if the drawstring isn't tied. I will admit, that I have spent a number of hours watching the Flow Rider with my camera in hand just in case such a thing occurred. It's a blast to watch. I don't think I'm brave enough to ever try it although I know a number of people who have. During the dry dock they also added some new dining options and updated a lot of areas of the ship to make it fresher and more modern.

This itinerary is significant too. Let me tell you about it. First of all Grand Cayman is one of my favorite places in the Caribbean. It is one of those British islands in the Caribbean where the cars drive on the wrong side of the road and everybody is always happy. They are famous for their sting rays. I've told you about them before. But just to recap, there is an area a mile or two off shore where there is a sandbar. Back in the day the fishermen would clean their catch on the sandbar and throw the scraps overboard before coming in for the evening. The sting rays would come around and eat the scraps each day and they became so used to this that when a boat stopped near the sandbar, sting rays came from all over in expectation of being fed. Now boats take passengers out to the sandbar which is now known as Sting Ray City and you get in the water with the rays and feed them squid by hand. It's a truly amazing thing to experience at least once in life.

A ray swimming through our legs looking for a squid handout.

In addition to feeding the sting rays at Grand Cayman, they have an amazing turtle farm that I just love to visit and a rum cake factory. Plus if you are so inclined, you can go to Hell.... That's the name of a little town on Grand Cayman where you can mail a post card from and the post mark actually reads "Hell". It's a pretty cool little place with a coral rock formation above ground that is so freakish that the founder declared it to look just like Hell and the name stuck.

One of the other stops is Falmouth, Jamaica. Falmouth is the newest port in Jamaica. The new cruise terminal there is really nice and clean and there are about a million shops and restaurants. Additionally, it is very close to Dunn's River Falls, so you can climb the falls without spending half a day on a bus to get there.

The picture below was taken at Falmouth as we were leaving there last January on board Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas. Do you want to see a sunset like this? All you have to do is call me today. Don't miss out on this terrific opportunity, they don't come around that often.