Peter's Travel Blog

Today, we arrived in Cozumel, a small island off the coast of mainland Mexico. It was changeover day, which means it was the end of the holiday for those passengers who were doing the two-week ‘Contrasts of Latin America’ cruise, and were due to fly home. I’ve worked on back-to-back cruises before, and they never get any less weird. It’s...

Today, we arrived in Costa Maya, in Mexico. As we hadn’t been assigned any tour escorting duties, we decided it would be a great opportunity to go in search of a beach and perhaps enjoy some swimming that we’d intended to indulge in in Roatan, but missed due to being drafted into escorting duties at the last minute. The ship...

Today, we dropped anchor some distance from the Port of Belize. We didn’t have to use our own tenders from the ship, however, since fast, local boats were available to get everyone ashore in double-quick time. As Tracey and I were on escorting duty (billed as ‘Lamanai Archaelogical Site and River Safari’), we were ready and waiting by the gangway...

Today, we arrived in Roatan Island, a long, thin slither of an island, no wider than four miles at its thickest point. We weren’t down to be escorting a tour and had no particular plans other than checking out the local township and hunting down a nearby beach for a swim. This changed rather suddenly when Karin, from the Shore...

Today was our last Sea Day for this cruise. To explain; Quiyaquil to Cozumel is a single two-week cruise, and in Cozumel, when the majority of passengers disembark (some will have booked for the two back-to-back), a new cruise begins, when we will be sailing to Cuba and a handful of Caribbean islands on our way to Barbados, where we...