" Laissez les bons temps rouler "  ( Let the good times roll )... is a very apt saying for a town like New Orleans!!! When we woke up on Sunday 19th the ship had docked back in New Orleans, one last breakfast at raffles and then around 10am time to leave ... disembarkation was pretty straight forward and easy, no problems with customs. Our motel this time is the Hilton Riverside which is only a block from the cruise terminal so close enough to walk. A ...

Thursday 16th…. Roatan, Honduras….. My favourite port. Another tender port however much closer and much more organised today… once again we thought we were off the ship really early but were the last in the group to arrive at the meeting point! One of the other couples in the group was Aimee from CC, I hadn’t yet met her but she’d booked this tour after reading on CC that I had booked it. Todays tour was through Ronys Independent Tou...

Monday 13th was a full sea day. We didn’t have any set plans, just wander the ship and see what we can. At 10am though there was the meet and greet in Henrys’ Pub. This was the Cruise Critic get together where we met all the people that had signed up for the roll call. All the heads of “departments” were there to introduce themselves which was pretty cool. We were sitting with Ginny and Bill so after the official stuff we had a nice long...

The day started with all the normal boring stuff... a bit of a sleep in, breakfast and making sure we had packed everything. Around 10.30 we jumped in a taxi and headed for the Cruise port... easier said than done because with mardi gras parades going on there were streets blocked everywhere and the traffic and foot traffic horrendous but we did get there eventually. Handed our bags over to a man that just took them out of the taxi boot, he did make sure we had p...

We have one full day in New Orleans before the next big leg of our itinerary... a 7 day Caribbean cruise!! I woke up fairly early feeling great and went downstairs to the free continental breakfast in the hotel sitting room. There was a pretty good spread of breads, danish, cereals, fruit etc. All I really needed was a good cup of tea to start the day and thanks goodness I managed to have one!! I took Rodd some tea and pastries back up to the room but he was sti...