{"id":684,"date":"2019-12-12T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jadeusa.net\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2026-05-03T12:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:35:48","slug":"norwegian-cruise-2019-5-night-western-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jadeusa.net\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/12\/norwegian-cruise-2019-5-night-western-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"NCL &#8211; Dec 2019 &#8211; Western Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we got back from a 5-Night Western Caribbean cruise departing from Port Canaveral on the Norwegian Sun. We joined three other couples from our ward, so we had a group of 9.<\/p>\n<p>On our way to the port, we dropped Daisy off at her hotel &#8211; Heart of Florida Pet Resort.<\/p>\n<p>We stayed in stateroom #8217 (Cat O1 &#8211; Family Oceanview Picture Window), located on starboard side of deck 8 forward.<\/p>\n<p>Our ports of call were (1) Costa Maya, Mexico, and (2) Cozumel, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>While visiting Costa Maya, Joe got a new ring from Diamonds International. We also got a wolf sculpture for our collection.<\/p>\n<p>During our visit to Cozumel, we took a taxi over to Paradise Beach with one of the couples in our group. They had a very reasonable charge for a chair and umbrella. Lizzy also got the package that included floating obstacles, paddle board, snorkel gear.<\/p>\n<p>Although Disney includes the ability to text others using their app, Norwegian&#8217;s app has a &#8220;Phone and Messenger Package&#8221; that allowed us to keep in contact for $9.95 per person for duration of the cruise.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the entertainment on the ship included Julie Barr (comedian), Phillip John Eaton (juggler) and the Sun Production Cast (singing and dancing).<\/p>\n<p>This was our 16th cruise, and the first time on a cruise outside of the Disney fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we got back from a 5-Night Western Caribbean cruise departing from Port Canaveral on the Norwegian Sun. We joined three other couples from our ward, so we had a group of 9. On our way to the port, we dropped Daisy off at her hotel &#8211; Heart of Florida Pet Resort. We stayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruising","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jadeusa.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jadeusa.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jadeusa.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jadeusa.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jadeusa.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jadeusa.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/www.jadeusa.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jadeusa.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jadeusa.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jadeusa.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}