hi....
Well i agree and disagree with some of the stuff thats been said,. I was on both the 29th cruise and the 8th cruise last year. I was only 17 but i found if you didnt act like you were doing anything wrong the security guards dont check your armband. I managed to drink excessively every night for nearly 20 nights, without drinking in my room (or a bathroom :S) once.
Just wrap your lanyard around your wrist so that they have to stop u if the want to check it, drink some sort of mix with a non alcoholic beverage so u can claim "its just pineapple juice/red bull/oj" and drink quickly.
If your drinking cocktails try and get one that looks kind of like the mocktail of the day (you will understand once your on the boat). You will still have to get someone else to buy it but i was having between 6 and 10 drinks a night and didnt get in trouble once. Security sometimes came over but because i talked to them, didnt run away and just acted as tho it was fine they just assumed it was. Also i recommend drinking at the bar, your more likely to get noticed if your walking around with a drink in your hand. You grapb the straws while ur friend buys the drink
I had the advantage of being on there for 20 days so i was on a first name basis with most of security, but just try and make friends with a couple at least on the first day..most are pretty cool and you can work out which ones you have to look out for pretty quickly.
With the armbands, i thought i'd be clever and keep the ones off the first cruise, as you can see they changed colour and arm! Very annoying! But seriously i couldnt believe the amount of people that had to sneak around to drink, i didnt find it difficult at all even on the first cruise. I cant talk for the boys because that may have been different, but there was about 10 girls in our group of 20 that were underage and we all drank and not one of us got in trouble.
As for the talent (boy wise), i thought there was plenty. I was expecting a heap of ugly boys (thinking that we couldnt escape off a boat!) but there was sooo many beautiful boys. Plus once you've got the beer goggles on.... lol only joking. Seriously a lot of the boys were mighty fine.
what else? I never got seasick, it was the best 20 days of my entire life, the food is great, i only spent $1100 on the 2 cruises ( but im a really cheap drunk). Cocktails are only $6.50, and rest of the drinks are pretty standard price, bout $5.
The islands are awesome, i didnt do any shore tours and am happy that i didnt. i will to answer questions too, seems like its different for everyone so get as many opinions as you can, but i bet we all agree it is absolutely awesome! I would go over and over again if i could afford to.
Sorry its such a huge reply, hope it helped xoxo
Theme nights are heaps of fun, i didnt kno what mine were before we got there, most were pretty typical ie. island night etc its good fun but its not like u have to dress up, i didnt dress up as superhero, and i wore a dress on board short and thongs night.
If you go to noumea dont stay in the city get on a bus and go aroun to the bays get off at the second one (bai de citron i think) the food at the absinth is awesome!
