20090218 - Western Mexico Cruise Part 1

We took an 8 day cruise starting January 31 down the western side of Mexico from San Diego to Acapulco, Zihuatanejo/Ixtapa, and Mazanillo. This is the first of several blogs I plan to do on that cruise. Today I am talking about the ship. Upon arrival to the ship Rich and I usually try to walk the shipand to discover as many things about the ship as we can. The ship we took for this cruise was the Carnival Spirit: not the largest or the smallest of cruise ship available. It is not real new (someone told me that it was going to be refurbished fairly soon. It is very elaborately decorated.


This is the interior atrium. It was very nice. Our stateroom was very near these elevators so I was always able to find my way to the Atrium and the dining rooms. Not so much the exercise area.


We especially wanted to find the Sports Bar to see if that was where we were going to watch the Superbowl. Unfortunately all they had were small TVs and smokers. So we ruled that out fairly quickly. In the end we watched most of it in our stateroom (Missed the end for dinner & as it turned out we were not sorry to miss that end).


This is a photo of our room and its balcony - pretty standard


This collage shows several other interior views of the ship as well as our towel critters (love those little guys)


On the first day of the cruise - before you leave the dock, you must attend a Life Boat Drill. They are so much fun - thought I’d share.


The Carnival Spirit has a water slide. It was a little odd in that you did not slide into a pool. Instead the slide just ended. This is a picture of the top of the slide.


And this is Rich arriving at the end. This picture is before the big splash back


And this is Sue arriving at the end This picture is after the big splash and as you can see the photographer is hiding behind a shield.