The FREE $25,000 Vacation Part 7

The ship we sailed on was the Celebrity Solstice, and at the time was the newest cruise ship in the World. The ship was so big, and had so much stuff on board that we never even saw everything!! One day we tried to explore the ship completely but we kept getting distracted, and never finished our self guided tour. The food was awesome in all of the restaurants and in the main dining room. The service was a little slow in the main dining room I think because the ship was so new they were not adequately prepared for a COMPLETELY SOLD OUT CRUISE. That’s right in the middle of a so called recession the ship which can carry over 2500 passengers was completely full!!! This is just another reason of why I have been working in the travel industry, and I why I think the travel industry will continue to break record after record as the number of people around the world continue to migrate for business and pleasure to all edges of the earth.
At our first port of call was Sicily, Italy and we booked a tour for wine and cheese tasting. This is one of the top wine/cheese regions in the world, and we met an amazing couple from Dallas named John and Jean. They quickly became our cruise buddies, although we didn’t do that many tours with them because they booked all of them in advance and they all started at 8AM or earlier and there was no way Sara and I were getting up on our vacation before 8AM EVERYDAY for two weeks!!!

Wes Melcher