Time to get ready for disembarkation. Passengers were told to come to the Atrium, settle up accounts (if you used a credit card to guarantee, no worries), fill out U.S. Customs Forms and decide what you wanted to do about luggage. Express walk off disembarkation would start at 7:45-8:30 a.m. Once the ship was cleared, [...]
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Disembarking The NCL Norwegian Star Cruise in Los Angeles
April 5th, 2009 
Sheila Simkin 
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The Last Days At Sea on The NCL Norwegian Star Cruise
April 4th, 2009 Sheila Simkin The second to the last day at sea was sunny and warm. Time for all 2,000+ passengers to sun on deck, play basketball, take a tour of the ship (bridge and galley), play Bingo, hit some golf balls into the net, aerobics, play ping pong, team trivia, badminton, lectures, Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament, wine tastings, [...]
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Cruising is All About The Food…Right?
April 3rd, 2009 Sheila Simkin Volumes have been written about cruising and food. My yummy rating on the Norwegian Star was *****. That’s right. Five stars and this is from a person who will choose not to eat when faced with something disgusting or inedible. I did a little reading on Cruise Critic, studied the best cruise ship ratings put [...]
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New Year’s Eve on The NCL Norwegian Star Cruise
April 2nd, 2009 Sheila Simkin It was Adios, Mexico. Adios to the buckets of cervezas on the beach, henna tattoos, parasailing, digging in the sand, playing in the waves, buying and watching the vendors. Adios to the ports of Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta. Inside of looking back, time to look forward to 2009. Yes, it was time [...]
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Have You Ever Parasailed? Give it a try in Mexico…
April 1st, 2009 Sheila Simkin Parasailing is great fun and is available almost anywhere there is a beach with enterprising boatmen. A person is towed behind a boat while attached to a parachute (also known as a parasail). I first went airborne in Acapulco, 1961 and have taken several more “fliers” since then, both solo and tandem depending on where [...]
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The Playas (Beaches) of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
March 31st, 2009 Sheila Simkin Before disembarking with family, ex-Marine and I took a walk over to the closest beach, Playa del Oro, a 15-minute walk from the pier. The beach was perfectly adequate but not exactly what our picky family would love since it was too far from the main Centro area. If you don’t care about heading into [...]
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Shore Excursions in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
March 30th, 2009 Sheila Simkin Puerto Vallarta has always been a haunt for the rich and famous, and shot through the roof when Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton began their notorious love affair. This was our destination with the focus being excellent shopping and a beautiful beach. The Norwegian Star offered quite a few excursions, none of which interested us, [...]
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Adios Mazatlan, Mexico – Hola Norwegian Star
March 29th, 2009 Sheila Simkin We literally danced off the beaches of Mazatlan and back to the pier where even more dancing was taking place in vehicles, shops, pier, everywhere. All passengers in an extremely great mood from a fun and spectacular day in Mazatlan. Mazatlan’s paved, beachfront promenade stretches from the Zona Dorada to Olas Altas in Old Mazatlan. [...]
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Henna Tattoos in The Mazatlan Sands of Mexico
March 28th, 2009 Sheila Simkin A person is never too old to play in the sand. Teenagers set to work building, digging, drawing with sticks, anatomically correct sand people, covering each other up with sand, mud and just having a gay old time. …View image… Before you knew it and satiated with beer, I thought we were going to head [...]
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Parasailing Off The Beaches of Mazatlan, Mexico
March 27th, 2009 Sheila Simkin My last time in Mazatlan was off a Sitmar cruise spending lots of time on the beach trying to coax young son, Joel, that I was not trying to kill him by encouraging a parasail ride. He didn’t die and is the the premier Google Adsense guru and writer of the NY Times best seller, [...]
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