Princesses of the Caribbean P&O Arvia February 2024. Day 9. Antigua.

[vampiress88]

We were up a bit later today than usual at 7am. We did the usual with the shower and muffins etc and off the ship by 8am. We wanted to try and beat the crowds. We were in Antigua today.

We walked through the port and lots offered to take us. We ended up choosing a woman to drive and said we wanted to go to jolly beach. It was a toss up between this and Dickinson’s bay and I don’t know if we chose wrong, jolly beach was told to us as more of a child friendly beach. We made a deal with her to pick us up at 3pm since that’s what time we left the other beaches. It was $80 then we left a tip for 4 of us.

When we got there it was deserted apart from one other couple. There was two bars next to us with a toilet in one. We bought some chairs and an umbrella $30

It was windy and cloudy. The girls did go in the sea but it was absolutely full of seaweed, but to look at the photos you wouldn’t think that. You literally couldn’t go in there without getting covered in it. I was regretting my beach decision and I really wanted to just leave but I didn’t know how to contact the taxi person and Scott wouldn’t let me get someone else.

It rained at least 3 times while we were there and we got soaked, the kids weren’t bothered as they were in costumes but I was clothed at this point. I didn’t even bother to go in the sea at this beach I just really wanted to go home actually and I was quite upset and mardy. The kids tried to make the best of it though.

How we passed 6 hour there I will never know. The kids enjoyed it though luckily I was just ridiculously annoyed for picking it.

They made some pools like hot tubs in the sand. They buried each other in the sand, mainly Georgia got buried. They also made a big castle with a moat. Who needs bucket and spade. I was worried that mine at 9 and 8 wouldn’t want to play like this. But they were just so happy to play and dig around.

At midday we went and got a drink. A strawberry smoothie for me and girls then a daiquiri for Scott. They weren’t brilliant. It cost $15 for both and the person behind the bar was pretty rude. I didn’t really want to go back for food so we went to the other bar and they had stopped taking food orders already. So this wasn’t looking so good.

We went back to the first bar and now that one wasn’t serving either. I was pretty annoyed by this point, as there was no other way of getting any food at this point. The food didn’t look great anyway and looked over priced but the kids were getting hungry.

There were a few coming around and selling things. Also a bloke singing “it will be alright now the coconut man is here”

I went and took a little nap on the sunbed, mostly because I was mardy and fed up, then we got dressed and ready to go wait for the taxi. This was the beach day I had least liked.

On the way back we looked at all the houses and they looked pretty run down. We forgot to buy a magnet and just got back on the ship. I was unfortunately in a mood and just couldn’t shake it.

We went straight up to get some food. We brought pizza and burger down to the room and had those before having a shower, especially the kids who had been crawling in sand all day I thought their costumes were ruined.

We went to Brodies for a drink and did the 5pm quiz. We played some pool. Unfortunately as I was in a bad mood we started arguing as I don’t like how loud Scott gets when he’s had something to drink and I probably didn’t say things in the nicest way so he went straight to bed instead.

Me and the kids got some chicken from the pool grill and then watched a film with snacks while he snored away. As most of the time it will blow over in the morning when we aren’t both wound up.

$85 to jolly bay
$30 umbrella
$15 2 drinks

Punk ipa £5.55
Tea £2.40
Tango £2.70
Punk ipa £5.55
Punk ipa £5.55
Tango £2.70
Punk ipa £5.55
Nobbys nuts £1.45
Total £31.35

[cornishfrogboy]

So sorry to hear that you had a lousy day.

I feel sure that things will pick up.