Greetings and Salutations!
So
Been a tough couple of months… I mean for a while I was cooking w/gas so to speak… International Man of Mystery and Vagabond on The Loose…
Well today I said “Fuck It”
Went back onto GovX dot com
(I make nuzzing for the mention)
Now GovX is a website that one you proof your bona-fides, you can get some pretty good discounts. This is where I found the “Heroes Sail Free” on Margaritaville At Sea.
Now if you go to YouTube and put “cheapest cruise ever” you’ll get as the second choice this fucked up gem:
Now these assholes sort of annoy me as I’ve done two cruises on with the Margarita Crew as well as the other ‘reviewers’ who’ve trashed it…
Now the thing about it is it -is- cheap AF.
AND
Because of it having a BIG play with veterans and Active Duty personnel, well… lets just say there hasn’t been on the two cruises I’ve taken ANY chimpouts nor Australopithecine Shenanigans.
In fact while I was on board, the first being the Bahamas Cruise on an older ship out of Cape Canaveral, and the second on a Mexican bound trip on their newest barge, the thing that got me was that nearly everyone on board was a Veteran or Active Duty on Leave.
I mean on one of the cruises, I saw this black dude… mad gangbanger looking kid… waaay younger than me… however
He had a 4th ID patch on his carry bag. That’s the “4 LTs Pointing North” patch.
I went over, said “Yo man! Where and when?” He turned and looked at my overweight ancient whyttedude ass, and I could tell, he was like “WTF!?!” until I rolled up my left shirtsleeve, and showed my Rakkasan Torii tat. It/he went from ‘potential hostile’ to “Let me buy you a drink muddafucka!” and we hung out at the bar and pool on the regular. His boys were also all vets, so we had quite a bit of fun.
The second trip, I went to a “Meet the Veterans” thing that they have on all the cruises, where I met a 1SGT from 75th Ranger Batt on his first cruise, and we’ve exchanged numbers so as to possibly meet up again. His wife was awesome, and we traded stories about Iraq and Affy as we’d both ‘chewed the same dirt’ if at different times…
To give you an idea of -how cheap-?
Yep.
$117 per person
Total for just the cabin was $234 for a 4 night 5 day trip.
God-DAMNED!!!
Then, since my travelling companion isn’t ‘locked in yet’, I went back to check on ‘upgrading’ from the smol interior cabin I usually have. The interior cabins as far as I’m concerned are fantabulous, as I only spend time there crashing out in between partying.
However, I wanted to see what I could upgrade to.
Now I’m not sure, but I think the website ‘glitched’
It offered me a 4th Level Balcony Suite for only an additional $62 per person!!!! Now if I had booked a Balcony Suite to begin with?
Yeeeeeeeeeeeah
So when presented with an upgrade to a Balcony Suite for $124 more? Yer God-Damned SKIPPY I jumped on it.
And the reason I think it was a glitch?
I bought and paid for the whole thing… total cost?
$358 for a 5 day 4 night Cruise to Mexico.
All food included.
As I was saying, I paid for it, closed out, and then went back IN to the website. THIS TIME the upgrade was $262 PER PERSON to get a similar balcony suite.
No idea how that happened, but for less than 4 bills, leaving out of Tampa, on their newest ship, with a sundeck/private balcony???
OH FUCK TO THE YES MOTHERFUCKERS!
And as far as booze?
Well… guess I’ll play my “Load the Isopropyl bottles with Everclear” and I’ll be good. I mean it did work on the last trip.
So anyone wants to join, we got about 23 days +/- if you’re a Vet.
Considering how shitty the world it turning, I figure make the most of it before it really catches fire amiright?
So More Later
Big Country
there may be something to this:
“Several of my former colleagues in the Intelligence Community told me today that they are hearing things are going to turn very quickly in the USA. They said the government should be telling people to stock up and get prepared for terrorist attacks, but they are just as bad as the terrorists.”
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/stock-up-on-freeze-dried-and-shelf-stable-foods-while-you-still-can?catid=20&Itemid=101
Set up for a false flag to stir the sheeple to anger?
911- part deux
Good on ya BC. Have a great party – erm, I mean cruise…..
I mention every so often to the wife unit, hey – would it not be neat to do an Alaska cruise, or maybe one in Norway? Yeah, goes over like a lead balloon, she is not into boat adventures.
Was all I could do to get her on the ferry from Wales to Belfast back when we were just hitched. Loves land travels, hates planes, trains and boats, tolerates the planes so long as it is to some place she REALLY wants to go see. Sigh.
ALASKA…..Just do it! Get a balcony. The views on the inside passage are incredible. Do a one way trip to Seward. Take the train or bus to Anchorage, then go up to Denali. Best time Jun, Jul, Aug, & first 2 weeks of Sept. 1st trip was back in 2010. 1/2 a day in I said we’re coming back.
Spent 2 seasons in Ketchikan as a boat captain 2018-19. Tried to get to Juneau this year……could not make it happen. Might be doing the cruise thing this summer.
We always use vacationstogodotcom and pick off the 90 day ticker when they’re trying to fill the boat.
Well done, lad. Hope it all goes well and you have a blast. Also hope the world doesn’t go pear shaped while you’re aboard and you don’t get stuck in a floating resort out at sea.
My wife & I love cruising, it’s a blast and these ships are really floating resorts.
Margaritaville is serving a different demographic than some other lines. For example my wife & I are professionals in our 50s with some money. We sail mainly these days on Celebrity and Princess. When we were younger we sailed on Royal and loved it but now the ships are too big and they are geared to a younger crowd than us.
Celebrity and Princess serve an older crowd and the ships are very nice and food and service are fantastic. That said, they aren’t cheap, on our last cruise to the Panama Canal, it was $7k for the 2 of us for a balcony cabin for a 10 day cruise.
These vloggers are comparing Margaritaville to Celebrity or Princess !!
Totally different products designed for different demographics. It’s like comparing airlines between cheapo Spirit airlines to Emirates 1st class service in an A380. Spirit is $100/ticket, Emirates like $20,000/ticket.
Go have a blast BCE and hopefully you find a fun loving woman to be your “companion” for the trip kind of like Dr. Who. 😃
You’re obviously of the YOLO mindset and that’s fine – your life, your money, your business. Personally, I’d much rather watch paint dry than be trapped in a floating hotel with a random group of people and their problems.
I think it was Samuel Johnson who said “being on a ship is a lot like being in prison with a chance of drowning ” besides my Dad was in the navy in WW2 and he had some real horror stories about life on the waves. he told me of the sharks that lived in “iron bottom sound” and the storm of 44 where they “lost” a few ships. yup, just gone in the massive waves. all in all, it was enough for me to stay away from
the “fucking navy” as he often called it.
You are still recoving from Pneumonia and you want to take a floating petri dish cruise? Gotta say you got balls.
Well my wife would love to go on a cruise … but I just hate the idea. You got off on the cheap. Lucky dog. I’m thinking maybe I offer to take her to Key West for a weekend. Maybe stay in a high zoot joint. But never leave the mainland – ha ha ha.
Take the cruise, have a good time. Unless the fabled muzzie death squads run rampant thru the country we’ll just be right here enjoying the slow decline of what used to be a republic. Maybe a huge spike in food prices this fall and some acute hunger will stir the masses to hang their “representatives” when they come looking for votes in October. Thomas Jefferson recommended a good dose of rebellion every so often to remind .gov who was actually in charge. Good advice.
I don’t drink, song and dance shows bore me to tears, and I don’t gamble. Cruise ships have nothing to offer me. Furthermore, after 20 years in Uncle Sam’s canoe club, and literal 4 plus years of accumulated time underway, paying out of pocket to get my sea counter ticking again is not on my agenda.
my Dad left the same way after 8 years. never set foot on any boat again. then again he did just about all of WW2 and got dragged back in for Korea !
anyway, the navy did him right at the end. he buried in Arlington with the whole deal . they put Mom up for the night , dinner and whatnot and 2 commanders to “help out”. funny thing was me, and my brother where in dress greens as where the brothers in law. one asked me why no navy guys ?
so, I told him, my Dad ALWAYS called it the “fucking navy” . to which he said, well with what he had on his shirt, he could call it whatever he want to and no one would give him any shit.
that was when we found out Dad had 2 navy crosses for valor and like 15 or more battle stars.
never knew that bit until then. I still miss having a beer or two with him and shooting the breeze.