My guess is it's probably Dominican Republic (Hispaniola) and half of the island is Haiti...also Labadee is a port there....although I have heard and read that it's gorgeous and getting into Labadee can depend on the weather (being a tender port)....I can definitely understand your parents' concern -- a lot of civil unrest in Dominican Republic. Some friends of ours were there recently, flew there and their hotel was surrounded with barbed wire and a lot of warnings not to venture to far out. But hey, it was the same way in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
My guess is it's probably Dominican Republic (Hispaniola) and half of the island is Haiti...also Labadee is a port there....although I have heard and read that it's gorgeous and getting into Labadee can depend on the weather (being a tender port)....I can definitely understand your parents' concern -- a lot of civil unrest in Dominican Republic. Some friends of ours were there recently, flew there and their hotel was surrounded with barbed wire and a lot of warnings not to venture to far out. But hey, it was the same way in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
I've been to Labadee. It really wasn't as good as I expected. It was fun shopping though, how you can bargain down the prices and stuff. That was a new experience for me.
I bet it's a lot like Jamaica....like go to Wal-Mart and stock up on lotions, shampoos, soaps, flip flops and tee-shirts and there's your bargaining tools!!!
We took a southern Caribbean cruise 2 years ago, and it was great! We did Aruba, Curacao, St. Martin/Sint Maarten and St Thomas, starting and ending in Puerto Rico.
Curacao and San Juan, Puerto Rico have a lot of history, and their old towns are fun to walk AND window shop. San Juan has some outlet shops, and we did some clothes shopping for my husband there, because he packed shirts with LONG sleeves. What can I say, we weren't married long. But we went over every fort, and had great meals, and loved the blue cobblestones, unique to San Juan.
We didn't have as much time in Curacao, but it has a view of Dutch history instead of Spanish and US history in the Caribbean, which we liked getting to see very much.
Aruba is more of a party place, and since we had about 18 hours there, we really took it easy. LOTS of shopping places close to the pier and lots of good restaurants, if you want to have a night off the ship. Many people go on the KuukuuNookoo bus ride to every bar imaginable ( an "I say 'bar', you say 'HOP'!!!!!" kind of trip) and come back very happy. I'm not sure they get to visit the port scheduled for the next day though. There's lots of places to rent jeeps and lots of beaches to visit, so we will probably do that when we go back in October.
I can write about the other islands we went to, but since they are really Eastern Caribbean, I'll save that for another post.
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What can I say, we weren't married long. But we went over every fort, and had great meals, and loved the blue cobblestones, unique to San Juan.
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