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Southern Caribbean Cruise

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Carnival Victory 7-Day Southern Caribbean Cruise March 6th-13th, 2011 Departed: San Juan, PR Stops St. Thomas, USVI Barbados St. Lucia St. Kitts & Nevis St. Maarten/St. Martin We were not originally looking at a Southern Caribbean cruise because of how expensive they can be. We were looking into a Western but those were even really expensive. We keep wavering between a Western and Southern when this specific cruise hit an extremely low price and we decided to go for it!  We fly into San Juan two days beforehand since we found inexpensive airfare plus it gave us a few days before to explore. After a day and half of laying on the beach and swimming in the hotel pool we headed into Old San Juan the morning of our cruise early so we could could check-in and site-see. Getting to the port was pretty uneventful. We had a taxi from our hotel take us and drop us off at the terminal. Once we were there we got into the lines to enter the port to check-in. This d...

Carolina, Puerto Rico

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Carolina, Puerto Rico InterContinental San Juan Resort & Casino March 4th - 6th We started our vacation by getting up really early for our 6:05 am flight to San Juan. We arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico at 1:00 pm to beautiful blue and sunny sky! We started our trip at the InterContinental San Juan Resort &Casino in Carolina, Puerto Rico. The area is also known as Isla Verde. This is the front of the InterContinental. Lobby Area of the Hotel Lobby Area The hotel is updated in the common areas such as the lobby, pool, and restaurants. The rooms are older, which I did not think you could really tell. We had a smaller standard room for our first stay and then on our second stay we had  a bigger room similar to the first one. Other side of the room The best part of the hotel is definitely the pool area and beach! That is where we spent most of the time at the hotel.  The awesome pool area! The hotels has fo...