Taste, Travel, and Theatre: I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It s one of those places I d always wante

Taste, Travel, and Theatre: I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It s one of those places I d always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts. Tony Parsons
I d been promising the girl-child a cruise for quite a while, but she didn t have a passport and I could swear that I d heard you need a passport or passport-card now. But I found I was wrong and you can still cruise with a birth certificate if you re sailing from/to the same port.
So I booked the cruise and gave her the option of inviting a friend along she picked her boyfriend. Yeah three nights in a small cabin with my daughter and her boyfriend thank god for the Fun Ship Special:
We met up at my place around 12:00 Thursday and drove over to Port Canaveral. With much less waiting than I ve had on previous cruises, we were onboard and, yes, I picked up my first Fun Ship Special within twenty feet of the gangway.
We left port and there s not a lot to write about a cruise. Pretty good food and a lot of it. Shows, casino, and fruity-rum drinks which maybe they d had too many of when they decided on the description of this show:
Epic is one of the ways I m considering for a trip to London next October or April (2014). Round-trip airfare, Orlando to London, is around $1000 but Epic repositions between Miami and Barcelona those months. When I checked for this year s 4/20 sailing, it was $399 / person sta travel insurance for an inside cabin 11-days, Miami to Barcelona; $50 on Ryan Air from Barcelona to London; and $600 one-way from London to Orlando even with a few hundred sta travel insurance for taxes and fees, that s pretty close to just airfare, but you get an 11-day cruise too.
I went into Nassau sta travel insurance to do some shopping, including Cariloha bamboo sta travel insurance sheets , and visit the pirate sta travel insurance museum, while Aryn and Michael went to Atlantis on Paradise Island (formerly Hog Island, which doesn t work as well for marketing purposes), where Aryn took advantage of the 18-year Bahamian drinking age to get somewhat plastered.
More food, more shows, more drinks, and more time in the casino. Carnival actually has a player-friendly blackjack variant, called Fun 21. The dealer has to hit on soft 17, blackjack pays 2-to-1, and the player wins a tied 21 all of which are positive-expectations for the player.
So I played some of that and some Let It Ride. Saturday I played both those again, along with some craps and even some roulette. After totaling things up, I was down for the trip, but that can be attributed to heavy tipping and dealer-bets, something I find myself doing more of lately.
I ll sit down at a table and start placing a $1 bet for the dealer sta travel insurance alongside mine, then see how long it takes before others at the table begin doing the same thing. Usually, sta travel insurance at a full table, two or three others will soon be placing regular bets for the dealer. It s an interesting exercise.