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elizabethtaylor
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Posted: Sun Jan 6th, 2008 07:29 am | 26th Post |
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sailing away wrote: ALL done! Everything is booked, air fare, hotel and holding on the tours. Would like to find some place to do some parasailing! Scared of heights but son and D-I-L did it on their honeymoon and they just loved it. So would like to try. Anyone ever done this in any ports?
We parasailed 10 years ago on our honeymoon. The strange thing is I'm not
afraid of heights, but I HATED parasailing because once my feet left the boat.. uh,
water, uh, ground??? I felt really upset the higher we kept going.
come to think of it, that happened to me in the one and only hot-air balloon
ride.... Really, I'm not afraid of heights. I guess if I'd just relaxed a little
more I would have enjoyed the exhilarating feeling of airborne-ness
glad you got all your airline stuff squared away -- that must be a big relief.
Airfares are aborrhent this year. I'm trying to decide whether to purchase
our tickets to Hawaii now for ourSeptember trip or do the usual wait and see
thing until June, but who knows what will happen with prices.
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sailing away
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Posted: Sun Jan 6th, 2008 03:40 pm | 27th Post |
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I am afraid of heights but since my choices are either to try parasailing or to do one of the rip cord tours I think this is the shorter of 2 evils!
I am sure that the price of gas doesn't help the air fares but I have alerts on Kayak.com for fort lauderdale and it has gone up $67 in the last 2-3 days. Seems like alot. I did notice that the price of gas around here has shot back up by about $0.20 a gallon. Are you going to Hawaii to catch a cruise? I would like to cruise the hawaiian islands and Fiji. Maybe in a few years will try that one. I am so glad that our flight down and back to Florida has only 1 stop. Less chance of lost luggage!
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Posted: Sun Jan 6th, 2008 11:42 pm | 28th Post |
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sailing away wrote: I am afraid of heights but since my choices are either to try parasailing or to do one of the rip cord tours I think this is the shorter of 2 evils!
I am sure that the price of gas doesn't help the air fares but I have alerts on Kayak.com for fort lauderdale and it has gone up $67 in the last 2-3 days. Seems like alot. I did notice that the price of gas around here has shot back up by about $0.20 a gallon. Are you going to Hawaii to catch a cruise? I would like to cruise the hawaiian islands and Fiji. Maybe in a few years will try that one. I am so glad that our flight down and back to Florida has only 1 stop. Less chance of lost luggage!
We're going on a land-based trip to Maui. We never cruise the islands -- we just
like to plunk ourselves at one place and beach it for a week or two. We've been
10 times to most of the islands.
that's outrageous how the fares have increase so much in 2 - 3 days. Wow.
I read an article in our local paper yesterday speaking to that fact, of increases
beginning in '08, but I checked for tickets to Maui and those fares haven't increased.
In fact, they've gone down for May, but it all comes down to supply and demand,
I guess.
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Posted: Mon Jan 7th, 2008 04:24 am | 29th Post |
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We have been to all of the islands except Kauai (sp?). We just love Maui. Went there almost 30 years ago for our honeymoon! Have taken the kids back a few times and neverr get tired of it.! Did a great submarine ride off of Maui as well as took a helicopter ride. That was great even if I don't care for heights.
I am so looking forward to this cruise and just having some R&R. Really don't even care if we have any tours booked, we will just wing it and what will be will be! 89 days till we launch!
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