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RayColey

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About RayColey

  • Birthday November 28

Personal Info

  • First Name
    Ray Coley
  • Last Name
    Hobbs
  • Gender
    Male
  • State
    Maryland
  • Country
    United States

Cruising

  • First Cruise Year
    1969
  • Cruises Sailed
    8
  • Days Cruised
    54
  • Favorite Cruise Line
    Oceania
  • Favorite Shipboard Activity
    Ocean watching
  • Favorite Itinerary
    Mediterranean - Eastern
  • Favorite Port of Call
    Kusadasi, Turkey
  • Favorite Port Activity
    Walking & sightseeing
  • Places I've Cruised To
    Belize, Guatemala (first cruise); Stockholm (second cruise, on Baltic); Santorini, Rhodes, Kusadasi, Istanbul (third cruise, on Renaissance - now Oceania); Nassau, Key West (fourth cruise, on Royal Caribbean); New England, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia (fifth cruise, again on RCI); Lisbon, Gibraltar, Cartegena, Malta, Split, Venice (sixth cruise, RCI), Cozumel (seventh cruise, on Carnival); Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia (eighth cruise on Royal Caribbean)
  • Last Cruise Date
    2014-07-13
  • Next Cruise Date
    ?

Details

  • Hobbies & Interests
    Music, Woodcarving, Ballroom Dancing, Church, Outdoors
  • Music
    Almost all classical and jazz. I perform some pop music, but I don't listen to much of it myself
  • Movies
    I'm a Trekkie!
  • TV Shows
    I don't do a lot of TV watching... but I did when the Star Trek series were running!
  • Sports
    Most team sports, but especially Nationals' Baseball!
  • Food
    I dote on great seafood. Other than that, I love middle eastern cuisine.
  • Pets
    3 kitties
  • Books
    History or sci-fi
  • Quotes
    All's well that ends.
  • Occupation
    Entertainer / Teacher

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  1. We had poor service on our one and only Carnival cruise. Well, that can happen simply because there are one or two disaffected employees sailing on one particular cruise. What was truly awful, though, was the muster (or, really, the lack of it) when almost nobody was paying attention, where they continued to serve drinks poolside and had crew not only tolerating it, but encouraging it - no wonder Carnival has so many mishaps at sea and in dockage! They apparently did not care then, and I won't risk them not caring now. This may be a result (unintended or not) of the company's insistence on bigger ships and more party attitude. (and in the aspect of it, Royal Caribbean is certainly not far behind). A shame, also, because they both at one time had nice, smaller ships, pleasant cruises and interesting ports..
  2. He's a she (one photo holding a drink with an umbrella - a dead giveaway!)
  3. I will ask about Crazie. I have his brother here, and these bears talk to each other...
  4. The train from Vienna is a very fast train... But yes, it's from Venice, and the station is adjacent to the bus terminal right up a short flight of stairs from a vaporetto stop. (It's real close to the cruise ship terminus - of course, Venice wants that cruise ship facility moved to who knows where?)
  5. Plus, we're scoping out a side excursion to Verona (home of Romeo and Juliet) which is just an hour outside of Vienna!! Cost, about $24 per person round trip...
  6. I got the Cliff Notes version, and my eyes glazed over from just reading that.
  7. "Viking has come on the scene with a game changer!" View full cruise review
  8. Hi Ray! We absolutely loved our Christmas Markets river cruise a couple years ago and are hoping to do another one in 2015 or 2016. And a trip to Asia sounds amazing! Keep us posted on your plans! Planning this cruise was a cinch! Jan did all the researching rates and schedules and arranged it all for us - Thanks, Jan!
  9. I'm planning to cruise on the Rhine River for the Christmas Markets in December. Also, there's a possibility of an Asian cruise covering at least China (Yangtze) and Korea (Pusan), perhaps more ports if there's enough time and cash.
  10. I have to assume that they are using older, smaller ships for these cruises - some of the docking facilities along those rivers aren't all that large...
  11. I got the same message too, when I was trying to post a review of my Baltic Sea cruise on Legend of The Seas. I suspect that the narrative portion was too long for the program to handle. Anyway, I offered to email the review to anybody who was interested, and got several requests (to which I responded.) Maybe it will get fixed, maybe not... Over the entire site there are a number of issues.
  12. "Four day jaunt to Key West and Cozumel" Click here to view the cruise review
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