Shelby’s Blog for SinglesCruise.com

Shelby, Onboard Group Activities Specialist for SinglesCruise.com

What a trip on the Costa Fortuna!  We spent seven days visiting some great ports of call and getting to know each other. 

I know everyone enjoyed Ocho Rios, Jamaica.  We had a good size group visit Dunns River Falls followed by tubing down the white river in inner tubes. The weather was great and the climb up the falls was one good time.  Tubing down the cold waters of the river was a blast too.  We had some really funny guides who loved to sing and play jokes – you gotta love Jamaica Mon.

What a great group of single cruisers on the Carnival Freedom!

The ship was fantastic, perfect size, elegant interior, and to top it all off – a serenity section for adults on the top deck featuring a beautiful adult pool.  This was the perfect ship for singles cruising!

Our first stop was Cozumel – what a great day of partying at Carlos n Charlie’s beach club. We all enjoyed the great weather, music and massages on the beach in the sun, what more can you ask for?   

New Years Eve 2009!  We had a whole heap of people ready to celebrate and bring in the new year on a fun singles cruise.  There was a fantastic buzz in the room at the Bahia Mar Hotel the night before we left. I met a few new SinglesCruise.com guests from Canada, Darrel and Dennis.  Canadians are always so much fun, they sure do know how to party!

Remember when it took five minutes for the TV to warm up, when a quarter was a decent allowance? Running through the sprinkler, circle pins, bobby pins and the Mickey Mouse Club? The 1960’s is the decade that defined the Boomers. The music, events, and the social changes made a permanent impression on us. However as we all know its attitude, not age that defined this singles group. To define it any other way would have been to deeply underestimate them!

Thank you to all who joined us on our recent Halloween cruise – what a blast we all had!  I loved our pool party at the Bahia Mar, it was a great venue for a nice meet and greet before we set sail on Halloween 2009!

The entire week of weather was fabulous! The highlight was most definitely Halloween night when we paraded around in our creative costumes, sang the night away, and chose our costume contest winners!

For a short cruise, our recent weekend Singles Cruise to the Bahamas and back was a blast!

We landed in Nassau on Friday and our group traveled all over the island to explore the Atlantis mega-resort, snorkel in the warm Caribbean water, or just kick back at Senor Frogs.  Back on ship, we had a great time during our cabin wine crawl and took so many fun pictures.  I know some of our cruisers even returned to the island to party after dinner and most of our group joined the deck party that night! Some of us even ventured off to go cliff diving!

I had the pleasure of escorting this great bunch of people on our five day cruise from New Orleans. First of all, let me advise you to never let the size of a group at the time you make your reservations stop you from going! You may forfeit the chance to meet some very cool, fun and interesting people if you do. Although small in number on this particular sailing, we were mighty in spirit and everyone had a terrific time. It seemed everybody became really good friends easily and quickly so that the whole week was a riot. It may have had something to do with most of them getting to know each other prior to the cruise on our SinglesCruise.com message boards and making plans to meet up in New Orleans one or two days before the cruise.

We just got back from our singles cruise to Mexico on the Carnival Splendor, CCL’s newest ship, and a beauty she is!  They created this ship with all the best attributes in mind. The layout is fantastic.   

Off to Mexico to the fun-filled ports of Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Cabo San Lucas. The weather was only in the 60’s as we left Long Beach, a bit chilly for California, but by the time we reached Puerto Vallarta it was well into the 90’s!

Our 2009 European singles cruise was a great time had by all.  All of the singles in our group enjoyed vacationing together and seeing the amazing sights on this dream itinerary through the Mediterranean.  Check out next year’s Greek Isles and Turkey itinerary.

We started out in Barcelona. You can tell as soon as you land in Barcelona and take a taxi from the airport that this city is a magical place and I could not wait to get out of the cab, drop my stuff at Hotel Victoria and hit the street to take it all in.