Not all drinks on a cruise ship have to be taken on the ship. Many ports have excellent bars with signature drinks made with local ingredients.
And while it's hard to justify the expense of buying a drink on land when you have an all-inclusive beverage package on the ship, some drinks are worth the extra expense. Dennis and Amy Post of Come Cruise With Me's travel partner, Postcard Travel Planning, spent late July and early August sailing on Celebrity Beyond.
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This is an Edge-class ship with several fabulous bars, including Craft Social and Celebrity’s famous Martini Bar, but when they stopped in Aruba, they couldn’t pass up the chance to try a Coconut Martini. It’s a drink we’d never seen on a Celebrity Cruises ship, so Dennis and Amy jumped at the chance to try something new.
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Meet the Coconut Martini
Minouska from the Netherlands demonstrated how to make a coconut martini at one of the bars at the Aruba Renaissance Hotel. She started by rubbing the rim of a martini glass over a honey-covered surface and then rubbed the glass several times with coconut flakes to create a coconut glass rim.
She then pours the coconut rum, Smirnoff vodka and coconut cream into a metal mixing bowl. Minouska then adds ice and shakes the drink using a second metal mixing bowl.
Once the drink is shaken, Minouska strains it into a glass filled with rum.
Coconut Martini Recipe:
- 1.5 ounces coconut rum
- 1.5 ounces Smirnoff vodka
- 1 ounce coconut cream
- Honey
- Coconut flakes
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