Today was the primary port on our Carnival Celebration cruise — Cozumel, Mexico.
I bought up and headed as much as the lido deck for my first BlueIguana Cantina burrito of the cruise — the poolside venue’s breakfast burritos are my favourite breakfast on Carnival, and rank excessive for me amongst any cruise ship breakfast possibility.
This is my tenth cruise, however imagine it or not it’s my first western Caribbean itinerary ever — that means it’s my first time to all three of the ports on this itinerary.
When I go to a port for the primary time, I typically prefer to guide a tour-type of tour to get a really feel for the vacation spot and see a few of its highlights. Today, we opted for a five-hour open-top bus tour across the whole island of Cozumel. According to our tour information, this open-top bus tour has solely been working for 2 months and has already turn out to be the highest cruise tour in Cozumel. It was straightforward to see why!
With this tour, I really feel that we bought a little bit of every part. First, we rode over to San Miguel de Cozumel, which is the one metropolis on the island.
We walked round a little bit bit as a gaggle, seeing Cozumel’s iconic clock tower and the city corridor. Then we had a protracted drive across the island as we discovered about its historical past, flora, and fauna. We wound up at a seaside membership on the japanese aspect of the island for lunch, which had glorious fish tacos and margaritas.
The seaside was stunning — a few of it had rocky coral-like formations the place the waves crashed and sprayed into the air and a part of it was an precise sandy water entrance. The waves have been loopy although, so not many individuals really swam. I bought plenty of actually fairly pictures and movies there!
Next up, we drove additional across the island and inland a bit to a village referred to as El Cedral to go to an natural tequila museum and luxuriate in a tequila tasting that was included within the tour.
Organic tequila is one thing else — it primarily doesn’t burn taking place in any respect, which is SO unusual to expertise relating to what’s mainly a mini tequila shot — and in response to the information who labored there, it doesn’t trigger hangovers both. It was actually clean and possibly the most effective tequila I’ve ever had.
Once we bought again to the ship, we had a late afternoon snack at Big Chicken and frolicked for a bit exterior on the deck because the ship departed Cozumel.
For dinner tonight, we snagged a desk at Chibang, which is the complimentary Mexican/Chinese venue aboard each this ship and sister ship Mardi Gras.
Reserving a spot was straightforward within the app — we signed up for a desk at round 6 pm and have been referred to as right down to be seated at round 6:30. I had kung pao rooster with a aspect of broccoli and my dad had beef and broccoli with a aspect of rice. We actually loved our meals!
The restaurant was completely packed and the one factor I observed was that it appeared a lot louder than the principle eating room, even when the MDR is full additionally. I appeared round to see if I might inform why the acoustics may be a bit off and couldn’t actually pinpoint something. It wasn’t an enormous deal although, as a result of it wasn’t so loud to hinder dialog.
After dinner, my dad headed as much as the pool deck to look at Top Gun: Maverick and I went again to the cabin for some down time.
We had deliberate to go watch the Majestic Circus present on the atrium Center Stage, and bought there round 9 pm for the 9:30 present. But it was already completely packed! The few seats that have been empty have been reserved with individuals’s belongings, and on each deck there have been already individuals simply standing ready for the present to start out.
I checked the HUB app and found that the identical present shall be taking part in tomorrow, so we plan to attend then. And now we all know to reach MORE than 30 minutes previous to showtime! I knew Majestic Circus could be fashionable as a result of I’ve heard it’s the most effective reveals on Carnival Celebration, however I didn’t understand it could be fairly this excessive in demand — particularly for the reason that 9:30 showtime was the second displaying of the night — Majestic Circus was additionally carried out at 7:30 this night.
Now I’m again within the cabin and preparing to fall asleep. Our tour in Costa Maya tomorrow begins at 8:30 so it’ll be an earlier morning than common!