I need your help!! I own a restaurant that is super busy at Christmas time so we’ve never been able to take any vacations during those couple weeks. It looks like I’ll be selling towards the end of this year so we should be able to take a cruise in December 2020. I’ve always wanted to do a
DCL Christmas cruise and found a 6 night on the Wonder from 12/24 - 12/30, stops in Key West and
Castaway Cay. I booked 2 inside cabins for our family of 4, at a cost of about $10,000. Plus $1500 for airfare I know, outrageous but it’s kind of a once in a lifetime thing.
Then we started talking about how fun a New Years Eve cruise on Carnival would be and have 3 options. We’ve only been on Vista, 4 cruises, and live her. Here are our options, what would you do?
Carnival Panorama, 7 night Mexican Riviera. 2 inside is about $5000, 2 Havana Cabanas would be about $8800. Long Beach is only a 6 hour drive so there is no air travel for this option. Biggest concern here is, not totally thrilled about the Mexico ports and don’t know how warm it will be compared to Caribbean.
Carnival Horizon, 8 night southern Caribbean to Aruba, Bonaire and both Dominican Republic ports. 2 insides is about $6000, but will need to spend $2000 on air travel to get to Miami. We did a very similar itinerary on Vista and loved it but not totally excited about Aruba or the La Romana port of DR. Very excited about Bonaire and Amber Cove. Love that it’s 8 days.
Carnival Mardi Gras, 7 night Western Caribbean, Cozumel, costa Maya and Honduras. 2 insides $4000, 2 inside Havana $6000. Have to add in $2000 for airfare. Just got back from a similar itinerary. Loved Honduras and am excited to go back, 4th time to Cozumel and can take it or leave, indifferent on Costa Maya. With this, the itinerary is mediocre at best but that will give us a ton of time to experience a totally new ship. Also with this, we’re planning on Mardi Gras for June 2021 but will do the other itinerary of San Juan, Cozumel and Amber Cove.
What would you guys do?