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    Quote Originally Posted by HockeyGirl View Post
    Yea Pcp, since you sail a lot i see it probably didnt feel worth it for the 7 day.
    I was more excited for the destinations than the cruise itself so i had to take the long one.
    Ive done the three day cruise and I think thats the perfect amount of time, but you cant go too far.



    I love this so much
    The destinations were great, we did Cozumel, Grand Caymans and then Montego Bay in Jamaica. By the time we got to Jamaica we were done with the "excursions" as some of them were a rip off. & days to me was just too long, it was fun though and V really liked it, probably more than me. The thing that tripped me out is how you would meet some people on a ship with like 4500 people on it and see them everyday and party, that was pretty cool. Here are some pics.

    View out of our suite, Galveston Bay before departure



    Suite..



    At sea with V



    Lulz



    Formal dining, it was so awesome. Most people skip it but it's like five star food and free.



    Hammered in Cozumel, that was the best excursion. $30 each for unlimited drinks. We ordered margaritas and then had them pour a shot of mezcal in it. Smoked some real cubans, sailed a Hobie, soaked up sun.



    Voyager of the Seas, immense ship.



    beach in Jamaica




    On ship



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    Do you have to bring your own V, or does the ship provide one for you?
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    Ron was the best part, hands down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron_NYC View Post
    Do you have to bring your own V, or does the ship provide one for you?
    I imported mine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PCP777 View Post
    I imported mine.
    What a ripoff. False advertising I say.
    Quote Originally Posted by bowieluva View Post
    Ron was the best part, hands down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PCP777 View Post
    I did a seven day cruise, yes it was fun, but I felt like I was trapped inside an expesnive bar, and yes I did smuggle in booze. Still dropped about $1,200 on tips, excursions, beer booze and wine though. Cheaper just to hang on my boat for shizzle.

    Oh and we did the formal dining every night, amazing food. We lucked out to have our own private table.
    I spent a few hundred dollars on drinks and trinkets/souvenirs/whatnot. Most expensive were the excursions, but they're optional.
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    An audio recording of a conversation between the captain of a stricken Italian cruise ship and a coast guard official on Friday night




    Infrared video shot from an Italian Coast Guard helicopter on Friday night showed passengers evacuating a stricken cruise ship.


    http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/201...a/#more-153915
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    Wow, that night vision video is crazy. They look like ants.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zeebee View Post
    Wow, that night vision video is crazy. They look like ants.
    It's all relative.

    Quote Originally Posted by bowieluva View Post
    Ron was the best part, hands down.

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    Just the way they are lined up on the ship. Like a trail of ants.
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    the captain really sounds like such a selfish dick

    as for the 'who should be allowed off the ship first'
    it should be the least abled bodies first, then other ship guests, then staff, then captain
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    HAHAHHA That coast guard is amazing. ''OH DOES SOMEONE WANT HIS MOMMY AND HIS BOTTLE GET BACK ON THAT BOAT ASSHOLE."

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    Quote Originally Posted by bowieluva View Post
    HAHAHHA That coast guard is amazing. ''OH DOES SOMEONE WANT HIS MOMMY AND HIS BOTTLE GET BACK ON THAT BOAT ASSHOLE."
    Pretty much.

    Man, this "captain" has some fucking stones on him, huh? The Coast Guard was great right there. He had NO time to play games with that coward. Haha.
    Quote Originally Posted by bowieluva View Post
    Ron was the best part, hands down.

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    "OH ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK YOU FUCKING PUSSY?" I can't imagine an American Coast Guard getting that repulsed at someone. And well-deserved, too. He pretty much said everything everyone wanted to say to Bush after September 11th.

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    haha this is golden:

    Cruise Captain Says He 'Tripped' Into Lifeboat, Couldn't Get Out

    The captain of the Italian cruise ship gave a slapstick explanation of how he ended up safely in a lifeboat instead of going down with his ship, saying he tripped and fell into the boat as it was being lowered into the sea, Italian media reported today.

    "I had no intention of escaping," Francesco Schettino, 52, said during his first court hearing Tuesday, according to Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper.

    "I was helping some passengers put the life boat to sea. At a certain point the mechanism for lowering it, blocked. We had to force it. Suddenly the system unblocked itself and I tripped and I found myself inside the life boat with a number of passengers."

    Once in the lifeboat that was lowered into the sea, Schettino insisted to the court that it was "impossible to go back onboard."
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    http://news.yahoo.com/cruise-captain...-abc-news.html

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    This guy is amazing. Cue the Benny Hill music.
    Quote Originally Posted by bowieluva View Post
    Ron was the best part, hands down.

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    Man, they should have that coast guard call and belittle him daily.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bowieluva View Post
    Man, they should have that coast guard call and belittle him daily.
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    Gonna' have to go back and read this thread to find out why the captain was expected to go down with his ship. I thought that only happened in the Titanic days...
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    Its his job to make sure all passengers are evacuated safely.

    Homeboy left the ship before it was even done sinking

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    Costa Concordia Tragedy: Capt. Francesco Schettino Sparks Outrage

    STOCKHOLM ? Seafaring tradition holds that the captain should be last to leave a sinking ship. But is it realistic to expect skippers to suppress their survival instinct amid the horror of a maritime disaster? To ask them to stare down death from the bridge, as the lights go out and the water rises, until everyone else has made it to safety?

    From mariners on ships plying the world's oceans, the answer is loud and clear: Aye.


    "It's a matter of honor that the master is the last to leave. Nothing less will do in this profession," said Jorgen Loren, captain of a passenger ferry operating between Sweden and Denmark and chairman of the Swedish Maritime Officer's Association.


    Seamen have expressed almost universal outrage at Capt. Francesco Schettino, who faces possible charges of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning his crippled cruise ship off Tuscany while passengers were still on board. The last charge carries a possible sentence of 12 years in prison.


    Jim Staples, a captain for 20 years, who spoke Wednesday from the 1,000-foot (300-meter) cargo vessel he was captaining near New Orleans, said captains are duty-bound to stay with the ship until the situation is hopeless. When they bail early, everything falls apart.

    "I'm totally embarrassed by what he did," Staples said of Schettino. "He's given the industry a bad name, he's made us all look bad. It's shameful."

    Schettino should have remained on board "until the last passenger was accounted for," agreed Abelardo Pacheco, a Filipino captain who was held hostage for five months in Somalia and now heads a seafarers' training center in Manila. "That is the responsibility of the captain. That's why all privileges are given to him. But he has together with that an equal burden of responsibility," Pacheco said.



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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/costa-concordia-tragedy-francesco-schettino_n_1215770.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by HockeyGirl View Post
    Its his job to make sure all passengers are evacuated safely.

    Homeboy left the ship before it was even done sinking
    He tripped! This is not his fault!
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    lol at Nestle being some vicious smiter, she's the nicest person on this site besides probably puzzld. Or at least the last person to resort to smiting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by puzzld View Post
    He tripped! This is not his fault!
    Hahhah this is what I was going to say.

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    "Leave Captain Francesco alone! Just leave him alone!"
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    Captain was seen eating and drinking with a female crew member right before the crash.



    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Schettino.html

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