Marlene and I have 4 cruises booked for 2025. Tomorrow we embark on the first and shortest of the four – a mere 7 days. It is on the Carnival Venezia, a new ship for both of us. This is a sister ship of the Carnival Luminosa which we took across the Pacific Ocean a year ago. These ships were both purchased by Carnival from Costa so they don’t look like Carnival ships. But we liked the Luminosa and I expect we will like the Venezia as well. Especially since it reportedly has a gondola in the dining room – a feature that Marlene finds very romantic.
The itinerary is a fairly common “western Caribbean” route – Roatan Honduras, Belize City Belize and Cozumel Mexico. We have been to all of these ports before so only the ship will be new to us. But we love cruising so the ports are of little consequence. We will dine and we will dance. And we will have a fine week.
And it will be warmer than the bitter (for Florida) weather we have had for the past 2 weeks. We can warm up.