A Tune up cruise before FREEDOM.

The best secret on the Seas.

Our Freedom cruise wasn't until June 25th of 2006 and we found ourselves in late February without our customary cruise booked in April. We were poking around the RCCL website just to see what was going on when we noticed that Enchantment had a four night cruise for a very inexpensive price. We booked it for April 6th, departing from Fort Lauderdale for four nights stopping at Key West and Cozumel.

I phoned George and Marie ( original Mixed Nutz) to see what they were doing in April. George told me they had plans to go to Florida for business. We told them what we were doing and they liked the idea so they booked.

We communicated on the roll calls with a few others and we met them all at the pool bar. Not like the Mixed Nutz cruises, but still fun.

We discovered that Enchantment of the Seas, since it was stretched was quite a delight. The pool deck was large and spacious. The area above the added piece of ship had a steel bridge with flared out sides. They called them Sky Bridges. They were lit up colorfully at night and it emphasized the expansion by making the ship unique in looks. Everything about the ship was like that...... nice.

When we were at Cozumel we took a cab to Paradise Beach. All of Cozumel was just beginning to crawl back to life after the hurricanes of the year before. The piers were destroyed..... most of the beach areas were messed up. The day we were at Paradise Beach they were still working on the structure and were working on the landscaping around the property.

The food at the restaurant was affordale and the food tasty. The weather was superb as usual in April in Cozumel.

The four nights flew by of course. We really don't like short cruises because they end too quickly but it was cheap and we wanted a tune up cruise to get ready for THE FREEDOM CRUISE.