Carnival Breeze Cruise Vlog 2018 - Part 17: St. Maarten, Water Taxi, Yoda Guy, Beachin' - ParoDeeJay
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2018
- In this episode, we've got no firm plans for our day in Sint Maarten (as the Dutch spelling goes), so let's wander and explore! Time to hope a water taxi, explore Front Street, visit That Yoda Guy museum, and hit the beach, before grabbing a Guavaberry drink, a DI charm, and heading back to the ship for a rocky evening!! :D
We're off on our first one-way cruise adventure aboard the Carnival Breeze for its repositioning from Galveston, Texas to Port Canaveral, Florida! We sailed from September 16-30, 2018 on a 14-Day Southern Caribbean itinerary with stops in Grand Cayman, Aruba, Curacao, Grenada, Barbados, Dominica, and Sint Maarten. This was a Carnival Journeys cruise, with all sorts of extra throwback fun to be had...
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Top 5 reasons why you guys are my favourite RUclips channel!
1) You both are so quirky sweet.
2) You are never opinionated or critical of others.
3)You don't make us wait for your videos. There is usually one every day when you have recently cruised.
4)You don't have a long intro!
5) No commercials, you truly do it for the love.....not money!
Keep doing what you are doing!
Well, thank you so much! Dee teared up a little when I read this to her, and we appreciate you enjoying following along with our silliness. We always try to stay positive on vacation, as well as in everyday life. We love the one-per-day because we're just as excited to share as folks are to watch. Our intro has always been exactly 3 1/2 seconds long, with the logo and the boom sound, and we intend to keep it that way, ha ha... And we do have the single ads at the beginning of the videos sometimes, but I've never been a fan of what they call "midroll" ads, right in the middle of the video. It would mean more money, but I have them disabled on purpose because they annoy me, ha ha... Again, thank you for your sweet comment!! :D
#6 You both find the good in all of it, even when things don't go as planned.
@@parodeejayI would be happy to have extra ads. I can't contribute financially - but I can watch ads to help contribute. I wouldn't mind if you accepted sponsors either. I'd really enjoy a more comprehensive website. Ads on there would provide you more income as well.
That bleep was PERFECT timing with the Oh lmaooooo I laughed so hard I cried! "Are you filming sir?" "Oh.....bleeeeep"
That was funny. I should have kept recording because she was totally cool with it. I thought I was in trouble!! :D
Enjoyed the tour of the museum. The beach that you guys went to that's pretty amazing quiet and peaceful. Thanks for sharing sincerely Adventures of David and Aaron
Needed this video to learn that dad and I will surely be lost with the water taxi.. but no worries as eventually we will end up back at the port. Lol. Thank u.
A Real cozy scene in their Cabin
Love St Maarten beaches...Can't wait to go back soon. Enjoying your Breeze vlogs.
Thankee thankee! We'll be touring the island again next month. Been curious to see Marigot and some of the other places we've visited before, and how they're doing these days!!
You were post hurricane, you could have seen stuff that had been blown in....maybe?? One time we were visiting St. Maarten on a cruise stop.. Walking back up the pier to the ship someone's cap blew off and a random guest dove in and retrieved it. The guy dove off the pier!!! That is the biggest no-no of all time!!
Oh, I'm sure. Stuff that had been blown in by some sort of storm. Oh wow, they dove off the pier? Definitely a no no!! :O
St. Marteen is my favorite port to date. I can’t wait to get back. My husband loved the Yoda Guy. We spent quite a while in there looking around . If I remember correctly we have a photo with the Stormtrooper.
That's awesome! We enjoyed the museum and being able to meet Nick Maley, even though I haven't quite gotten around to seeing all the movies yet, hah... not even the original trilogy all the way just yet... :P
Sounds like fun
New subscriber, great job guys really enjoy the Vlogs. I've been on bed rest with an injury and have almost gone back through all your old Vlogs
Oh wow, hope you're recovering swiftly!! I just realized a couple of weeks ago that this Breeze cruise is the 10th one we've vlogged. I didn't even know we had that many, ha ha... Thanks so much for joining our adventures and craziness! :D
Wow! What a cool museum. Not only the great Star Wars and pop culture stuff but that Lincoln face cast is pretty awesome! Good stuff! - Tony
It was pretty awesome, and I think I'll put together a longer feature just on the museum to fill in some gaps while we're out at sea again. We spent a good half hour in there, and I think I got about 18 minutes of footage, ha ha... chopped it down to about 1 1/2 minutes for the sake of this video, thinking of the general audience who might not be all into it, haaah... :D
What’s Yodas last name?.......
Layhehoo. 😜
Oh mercy, I forgot that joke. That's a goodie!! :P
Love you both! Videos and pictures are awesome! Thanks so much! Vickie in Nebraska
Thanks so much! Glad to have you along for the fun!! :D
Love the video, felt bad for Dee with the motion sickness. Hope it gets better for you.
We really only had that one rocky evening, so I figure we're lucky overall. It got better for the rest of the trip, thankfully!!
Kids menu banana split, yay! I usually get that a couple times on a cruise!
Me too, haaaah... I was surprised they still had bananas on day 12, since they usually seem to run on even on our 7-day cruises, but they must have picked some up along the way.
Love the whale socks!!
Yesssss... I need to remember to take those to Alaska next week!! :D
ParoDeeJay I can’t wait for Alaska cruise vlogs! 😍 it’s going to be so pretty!
Yay love getting up of a morning getting hubby and son ready for work and school and sitting down and seeing where the ship is taking us all today!
Woohoo! We've got two more mornings of being "at sea" and then one post-cruise adventure video, and then we'll have about four weeks until the next cruise video adventure starts posting, just after Thanksgiving. But we'll have plenty of random content to fill the gaps until then, ha ha... :D
I have 2 of those pink cups . Those guavaberry coladas are good
They were! We couldn't actually tell if there was alcohol in the one we ordered, but it was good anyway, haaah...
They have alcohol I ask because of meds but they are good
They sell the mixes in the shop. If you have two , you'll feel it.
I play that block game! Total addiction haha
It really is, hah... great way to pass the time! :D
Nice pictures Dee
If you swallowed the salt water it could have caused it also even if its been a while. It happens to all of us at least once. Better to rest then be sick the whole trip!! Love you VLOG!
Thanks so much! Yes, we had a nice evening of rest, and it got a lot smoother after that evening, thanks goodness! :D
That is Balajoo 😊 I was twice in St. Marteen loved
We have been twice also, and always have a great time there!! :D
The most amazing snorkeling I have done was in Hawaii. The huge sea turtles just lay up on the beach and the fish are so large and tropical. Finally gave up when I went toward the rocks and a huge eel hissed in my face "im done"...I never see any amazing sea sea creatures on these island beaches. We did see 2 shark while we were in the water in Bahamas that were about 8 feet from us.. I just jumped on my raft and said every man for himself. They swam away...LOL Table cloths..the things you say kill me...
Ooooh, Hawaii! That's on our eventual list for sure. That's awesome! I've heard that the eels can be territorial, so that's a little frightening, yow!! Yeah, not quite sure why there are so many tablecloth stores, ha ha... but I tend to notice the strangest things, and of course I have to point them out!! :P
On my pc I have a web cam that faces out from one of the hotels just where you guys are in the water. cool
Oh, right there in St. Maarten? Very nice!! :D
If the ship is a rockin don't bother knocking.... booo hisss hisss I know... Feel better Dee..Love all the charms. Can you tell me about them please.... ty Hugssss
We enjoy the little DI charm program, though they're cheap little things, hah. There's normally a coupon on the ship for a free starter bracelet, then you pay $5 at your first port for your first charm (though sometimes they don't even make you pay), and after that all the charms are free, just flash your bracelet. It's a fun little hobby!
Awe...poor Dee! Did you have plans to visit the Yoda Guy museum or was it just something you came upon? It appeared to have a ton of miscellaneous cool sci-fi stuff in it! Thanks for sharing!
We had looked up interesting things to do, and made that part of the plan. Nick has worked on tons of movies, from Star Wars to Men In Black to Exorcist to Harry & The Hendersons, and everything in between, ha ha... that place was cool, and I'm planning to do a longer feature just on the museum for folks that are into the sci-fi! :D
I play that game also Dee. I’m addicted...lol!
It's super fun, sort of like Tetris but not. I ended up getting like a 900, but that's my best so far. And she got a new high score since then too, hah!!
My high score is 1698, not to good but it’s fun.
My 4 year old calls it “high wind mode” when you turn your hat backwards 🤣
Nice!! Yes, I've almost lost the ol' hat a few times on bus rides or even just walking around. High wind mode, activate!! :D
Looking at the old vlogs. Great then, great now. Are you a Star Wars fan? There is a great kinda like a parody video on youtube with Yoda and Luke. You have probably seen it but if not search Seagulls Stop It Now by Bad Lip Reading. I think you will appreciate the creativeness. It's a classic.
Hey Y’all! I totally understand Dee’s seasickness. Was it because of the hurricanes or what? We are sailing MSC eastern Caribbean next year in a September. I’m worried 😟
I know there was a tropical storm moving across Barbados two days after we left it, which would have been St Maarten day, so that's prooobably the case. We've got those two cruises out of NOLA next September, so we're keeping our fingers crossed too... but the weather overall on this past cruise was almost perfect. We lucked out sooooo much, for it being a September cruise!!
Ahh, dont look behind you....Pirate Ross Roy has followed you to the next island ;)
Oh mercy, don't scare me like that! Hey, if he had showed up in St Maarten, we might have gone with him, ha ha... since we weren't already on a paid excursion that day... hmmm, he missed his chance!! :D
I call the ship a boat too , hee hee
So I assume the snorkel mask is Dee approved? What brand is it? What do you do with your stuff on the beach if you are both in the water? Sorry if you have answered these already. Looks like so much fun. So jealous
Thankee! The mask was a brand we'd never heard of called Vangogo, which we only bought because a friend sent us a promo code for it, ha ha... they've got them around Amazon and eBay and places if you search "vangogo full face". It did surprisingly well!! For beach safety, we bought little travel combo locks that you can lock your backpack zippers together and lock your bag to your beach chair, and things like that. Just small deterrents. We also have waterproof pouches for around the neck to keep cash and ID cards, plus some waterproof bags for larger items that we can float out with us in the water, but we don't use those big bags as often. I know a lot of people recommend either the KYSS bags or the Safego bag, and those look interesting but we haven't tried them yet!
Visiting St. Marrten next summer....what would you think is the best way to get to Maho beach? Taxi or bus? And do you have to take a water taxi from the ship or is it too far to walk?
Awesome! If you're just interested in Maho Beach, I would say catch a taxi from the main port area. That definitely doesn't require a water taxi, you just follow the signs for the normal taxi area right there inside the port, and the port folks will get you set up. The water taxi is just a convenient way to get from the pier, away from the port, over to the freebie beach & shopping area, but it's not too far of a walk if you choose to check that out as well, either before or after your visit to Maho.
Ironic, when you got on the water taxi to go back to the ship and put Kevin on the screen, I'm in the background. I've enjoyed reliving the cruise with your vlogs.
Oh wow, that's too funny! We enjoyed reliving the whole thing again, but now we have to be sad for a second time because it's over again, ha ha... dang!!
Dee, I love your swim shirt! Where did you get it? Sorry if you covered this elsewhere :)
Thanks so much! It's an Old Navy rashguard, but they don't sell it anymore that we can find. It must be from a couple of seasons back, but it can still be found around eBay, Vinted, Poshmark, and places like that sometimes.
@@parodeejay thank you! Next question is how you cruise so much...lol
Haaaaah... well, we're both pretty fortunate in our work lives right now. Dee has been with her company long enough that she gets 5-6 weeks of paid leave time each year, and I work from home and can also work from a ship or wherever I have internet. If we didn't have that going on, we'd probably be a liiiiittle bit more grounded, ha ha... :P
We are going to there on January 2020 on the Harmony of the Seas. Are you guys going on that trip with us
Ah, that's awesome! We've got January 2020 clogged up with DisneyWorld dreams with the rest of the family, and we won't get to cruise until February that year, on the Mariner of the Seas... dang!!
I want to go to Hard Rock and the Yoda place when I go in November. Looks like I could just take the water taxi over and there would not be much of a walk. Would that be accurate?
Yes indeed! Ironically, the method we accidentally did was the least amount walking... water taxi to Bobby's Marina, walk down Front Street to That Yoda Guy, continue down Front Street (or the boardwalk) to the center pier where Hard Rock is, then water taxi straight back to the ship. I guess it's not really that far of a walk one-way, so if you wanted to save a couple of bucks, you could walk straight to That Yoda Guy, then follow the rest of the plan and only pay $5 for the one-way water taxi, hah. But $7 for the round trip wasn't bad. Woohoo!!
Cool, thank you. Saving money is always a good plan. By the way, your videos are awesome.
Is there still a stand alone Mcdonalds Ice Cream at the beach? I had not seen one before this port and have not seen one since.
We didn't see one when we were there, but we didn't wander too much of the beach. I know there was a McDonald's over on Front Street close to the center of the beach, but they were damaged in the hurricane. I saw an article stating that they planned to reopen late last year, but I don't know if they did.
Was there ALOT of jelly fish and maniwars? Isnt this port Maho beach?
I think everything we ended up seeing was trash or cloth in the water. We really only confirmed whatever that white thing was in the water that was trash, and then that dark thing that looks like a swimsuit coverup maybe. I don't think there were jellyfish out there, hah. This was the beach that you can see from the ship, but Maho Beach is in St Maarten on a different part of the island, yes. We'll be back there next month to check out that beach!
good morning
St Maarten still not completely back.
We're excited to do the full island tour next month, to check out a little more around the island, but I'm pretty sure they're still slowly recovering. We enjoyed it so much when we toured in 2016, and it's difficult to see them still in the shape they are. We're hoping for smooth and steady rebuilding!!
Oh No the DEE fish
She's native to pretty much all the waters everywhere, she's so frequently spotted!! :D
How do you spell the port?
Like the island? Sint Maarten on the Dutch side and Saint Martin on the French side.
Da Dee was sickly 🤢.
She managed to sleep it off, and it got better after that one rocky night... whew!!