{"id":1091,"date":"2019-11-19T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T21:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2019-11-20T13:53:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T19:53:13","slug":"magical-mystery-tour-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/2019\/11\/19\/magical-mystery-tour-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical Mystery Tour &#8211; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Finally&#8230; I\u2019ve recovered and caught up on all the things I should have been doing while I was \u201cplaying hooky.\u201d Now that I\u2019ve paid for my sins, I can get this review out to you&#8230; and then start dreamin\u2019-n-schemin\u2019 on my next adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Before I get going, I want to tell you I had tons of fun on this cruise. The big reason&#8230; nights in the piano bar (PB). In particular&#8230; Ben Gentry in the PB. I booked this cruise only because he was the PB entertainer, and this was my last chance to cruise with him for several months. If he hadn\u2019t been in the PB, I wouldn\u2019t have booked this cruise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ben1-scaled.jpg?fit=584%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ben1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ben1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ben1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ben1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ben1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ben1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ben1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ben1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">So&#8230; it was a blast! I wish I could have this much nighttime fun on every cruise. But&#8230; rather than just giving you glowing reports on the Piano Bar, as I always promise you, my posts will tell you of the \u201cgood, the bad, and the ugly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Since I\u2019m writing this as a review rather than my usual day-by-day \u201clive from,\u201d I wasn\u2019t sure how to proceed. I decided to break it up into three segments. I\u2019ll let you decide what you want to read. I\u2019ll give you a quick synopsis here, and you can click into the part for the details you want to read. Or perhaps you\u2019ll just click \u201cgoodbye.\u201d (Goodbye takes you to a Ben Gentry Youtube Video.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each part, except goodbye, links will open in a new tab. <\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/2019\/11\/19\/magical-mystery-tour-the-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Good:<\/strong> I love Cozumel and have never found a place on the island I don\u2019t like. Of course, more praise for the piano bar.<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/2019\/11\/19\/magical-mystery-tour-the-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Bad:<\/strong> Carnival gets cheaper and cheaper. Amenities are going to \u201cdown the tube\u201d&#8230; corporate greed rampant.<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/2019\/11\/19\/magical-mystery-tour-the-ugly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Ugly:<\/strong> Progreso is awful&#8230; Carnival crap loyalty reward items awful&#8230; Carnival coffee awful.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QAaiNfpZig8\"><strong>Goodbye &#8211; Ben Gentry Being Silly<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>So there you have it. Of course I will cruise with Carnival again. I already have the Piano Barbarians cruise booked for next January. I don\u2019t care where the cruise is going because I\u2019ll be with friends and the great PB entertainers. AND&#8230; I\u2019m already eyeing my next cruise with Ben Gentry&#8230; I may not get off the ship on that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally&#8230; I\u2019ve recovered and caught up on all the things I should have been doing while I was \u201cplaying hooky.\u201d Now that I\u2019ve paid for my sins, I can get this review out to you&#8230; and then start dreamin\u2019-n-schemin\u2019 on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/2019\/11\/19\/magical-mystery-tour-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,9],"tags":[30,18,31,16,28,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}