DAY 6 ST MAARTEN 8AM-5PM

We decided to head to Little Divi Bay for our day in St Maarten from suggestions of people here on the boards. It looked and sounded perfect to us and I really liked that it was so close to port, providing us with a longer stay there if we liked it.

I woke up around 6:30am HA! Up before I heard any.....nevermind, there was clanging and that's probably what woke me up and I just didn't realize it because about 2 minutes later, my alarm was going off....which of course meant that I didn't actually wake up due to the alarm. Sigh

Woke the family up and we headed to breakfast. For some reason I made a note that only 2 sides were open at the buffet "Oh great". Now, I would think that 2 sides being open would be a good thing right? So I have no idea what I meant by that and it must have not been all of the buffet? I'm making a note to myself to take better notes next time.

There were plenty of seats in the buffet area this time, so I guess that was a good thing.

This lady was walking around offering to refill your drinks. I thought that was a nice added touch for Carnival to do. I know NCL sometimes does things like this.

We started docking at 7:15am but couldn't get off the ship yet. 

....And then look who pulls in...her majesty herself...the Allure. Man she is massive. I.WILL.SAIL.HER.SOME.DAY!!

She started "backing up" and people around us were making comments like "You know that's one bad-a§§ captain when you can take a ship that size and just "backer-in" like it was nothing.

As soon as she moved, this appeared.

Wow, now THAT'S what you call an entrance! Well done Allure.

We were able to get off the ship at 8am and we headed toward the taxi stand.

The taxi stand:

The cost to get to Little Divi Bay was $5pp. We hopped in and we were on our way.

Well, it looks like Celebrity made it to the dock as well.

Today we are headed to Divi Little Beach and off we went. Click the following tab to read my full review:

I had to laugh at the size of the Breeze when I took this picture.

She looked so small, but it was the perspective of her being parked so far back from Celebrity.

We were back on the ship by 4pm, headed to the shower and then upstairs to try out the ropes course. It was closed of course. I started to wonder if they ever opened it up. We never experienced this on NCL before...unless there REALLY was very high winds.

So we hung out for awhile and Sakari worked out for awhile.

Celebrity pulled out

And the Allure was right behind her.

We were next to go around 5:25pm and we left the other "X" in port.

We dropped off Sakari at "dinner" with the kids and this time we were able to find food on our own.

I was making up for lost "food time".

I had to try a little of everything for desert. I'm not a big desert person, but like to try them just in case I find something appealing. Of course if I did, I would probably not find it again on the cruise because I was lucky to find anything during the evening to eat.

We headed to the casino for about 45 minutes and nothing eventful happened so it was time to go find our pictures from the day.

We then went to catch a show "The Two Men Without Assistance" The Funtimes said it was a comedy and magic and that's my kind of show! The beginning of the show started out pretty neat and was in the dark with lights. Then the guys started their "talking/magic" part of the show and I quickly lost interest. I mean these guys talked as if everything was scripted to the tee and they were reading off a teleprompter or something. It was not entertaining and even some of their magic tricks were "bloopers" in my book because they weren't far enough back on the stage that I actually watched them switch places in a cage and when the curtain was pulled off, they had switched places, but yet I watched them do it. The show was just bad. All the people on our roll call even complained about the show. Where do they find these people? This is one thing that I don't think Carnival exceeds in...their entertainment. NCL is so much better and more professional. I really wanted to leave the show (as many did) but the chairs we were in sat straight up and down, there was no leg room and you had to sit sideways and there were people on both sides of us. I felt trapped. 

It was time to pick Sakari up from the kids club and we knew that tomorrow was a sea day and we could sleep in. We ask if she wanted to stay longer and of course her reply was "No, I want to go with you guys." I told her we were going to check out a dance party and if she wanted to go and dance she could. So off we went to the pool deck (which is directly outside of the kids club).

The party was already started and the CD had everyone dancing....how low can you go?

Everyone looked like they were having a good time, but Sakari was refusing to come down and dance. Once again I reminded her that she wanted to leave the kids club and come do what we were doing and this is what we had planned on doing. She pouted and didn't want to dance all of a sudden. This is really weird for her because she is always out there dancing and having a good time and we usually have to drag her off the floor to leave. I'm not sure what's going on with her these last 2 cruises.

I knew tonight was the night they had the Blue Iguana Mexican Fiesta and the last cruise the nacho's and dips were great and I wasn't about to miss it. I had to put my foot down with Sakari and tell her that tonight, we're not going anywhere and definitely not going back to the room yet.

They opened up the food at 10:30pm and we were some of the first people in line. It was yummy like always.

We made it back to the room to find a stingray towel animal.

The rest of the towel animals must have been scared off by the stingray and were gathered in the corner of Sakari's bed.

Well, there was nothing to pack for the following day, there was nothing on t.v. and we had a cranky child. So, off to bed we went on this night that could have been full of dancing fun and a late night due to not having to get up the following morning...but here we are going to bed like an old couple. 😅