Alright who out there is going on November 9th, 2008? We are taking our 4 children, one son in law, 6 grandchildren on the ship.  Who else is going....Its only 43 days until debarkation.  Laurie Decker

Alright Laurie, my partner and I will be on this ship with you. I am also a member of cruisecritic.com and that roll call board does not have alot of people. I hear this cruise will have at least two group theme sales on it. One a belly-dancing group and the other a group of artists. A very eclectic group to say the least. But I love to people watch. I do part time acting for television commercials and get alot of ideas for "characters" people watching. Is this your first cruise?  I have seen the conquest driving by the pier in galveston, its an awsome ship. I look forward to sailing out of houston, but will miss the weekend planned on galveston island. My partner and I will be diving in grand caymen and cozamel. Just hitting a beach in jamaica. I think we are staying on the upper deck. but our room is an L shape near the aft portion of the ship. Looking forward to the extended balcony. We should meet for a drink.

My  husband and I will be on this cruise for our 25th anniversary and our first cruise. We are really looking forward to it.

Hello everyone, we should meet up and enjoy a drink together. Also, we have been on 13 cruises with carnival but never on the conquest. I absoultely love cruising. My husband and i went on a cruise to Hawaii for our 25th wedding last year, it was great. You will enjoy your first cruise and you picked a good company to cruise with. Carnival is called the FUN ship for a reason. We will plan a meeting for a toast, for all. Laurie & Mike Decker Bay City Michigan

This is going to be fun, can our travel agents tell us how we can get to the port from the airport? Also i have been reading that Galveston Port may not be operational until Dec. 1st . I am not sure if i should book a hotel in Galveston or Bayport?

Anyone else out there?

There are direction to the port from the airport on the carnival website. Look under the galveston/houston update section. If you are flying in, I would stay close to the airport and no gravitate to one port or the other as to not paying to much for a taxi going out of your way. I too have to think about a hotel now, due to our good friends house on the island being flooded and destroyed. We will probably stay somewhere close to downtwon houston. But we are driving down from fort worth.

Looks like I will be joining in on the fun.  I cannot wait till the cruise, oh just think of it - champagne with eggs Benedict in a beautiful dinning room, pirate week in the Grand Cayman, swimming in the crystal blue seas of a tropical island, exploring Mayan ruins, watching the sunrise on the ocean.  I am bringing my 3 adult sons, all are bottomless pits, they know there are lobster tails on board, so I would suggest arriving early in the dinning room if you like lobster.   

 

TERI, thats great, i am bringing my family as well.  I have a 21 year old son, 20 year old daughter, 28 year old daughter and a 32 year old.  We will also have lobster and champagne....We will have to meet up with your family. Laurie & Mike Decker

 Hi everyone!

We just booked this past week for the 11-9-2008 Conquest. I'm looking forward to this cruise. We haven't been on the Conquest before. It will be just my husband and myself (Anniversary trip). We are from New Mexico. We stop in San Antonio so I just hope we know where we are leaving from by the 8th. Hoping to meet some one from this board or cruisescritic!

i have read several post from someone that just got off the ecstasy and he had some advice.... call the local hotel/motel.... not the nation wide number. there was people that had confirmation and the motels/hotels were shut down. nobody notified them. probably the closest you will get is houston. the area's around the terminal (bayport) got hammered. galveston is out of the picture for awhile.

good luck

We're from New Mexico too!!!!!  We should meet for a drink or a snack.

That would be fun. We are from Alamogordo. I'm betting you're from Albuquerque. (Am I close ;-))

I live in Santa Fe, NM

My wife and I will be tagging along.