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DrivesLikeMario

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    England, Scotland and Europe

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  1. Air Tags are great. They've helped us in the past. Just make SURE you can very easily lift your suitcase to the conveyor belt for the scanner. Too many people struggle with it and all their other belongings and it holds up the line.
  2. No. I did ask but they didn't. I tried just about all the hotels in the area and no one wanted to rent a hotel room for the day - even those that say they will do it. Maybe if I booked one about 2 wks. prior but I was trying to book a little farther out. Even the small hotels refused to let us book for 1 night (for example, the Swiss Hotel). The Hilton was definitely a treat. So glad we did it.
  3. Yes, that’s what I’m discovering. Have sent the company an email and they said the same thing. I’d like to do both the train and the flight if possible. Hopefully, we can work it out. Thanks so much for your help. I’ve enjoyed reading your Aus/NZ blogs!
  4. That's really helpful, thank you! I thought you'd be going from Yorkey's Knob but Airlie Beach would be much better for us since we want to do the Kuranda Railway from Yorkey's Knob. I found Daintree's website and will definitely look into it. As much as I love water, sitting on a boat for 6 hours in one day to get to the GBR is just too much IMO.
  5. That's a great idea. How did you get to Daintree Aviation? Was it a short taxi ride or did they pick you up? That might be a better way to go as I really don't want to spend a whole day at the GBR.
  6. Thanks. Appreciate the expertise you have in the area. Thanks, capriccio too.
  7. We learned an important lesson after a 4 hr. Sabatini's dinner. What we do now when ordering at the specialty restaurants is tell the waiter that there's a show we want to get to at a certain time and then they know to get the lead out. Our last Crown Grill dinner took a total of 45-50 mins.! It was almost a little too fast, but so nice to get out of there in a timely manner.
  8. With the Princess shore exc. being so expensive, do you think it's better to go with another company for the Great Barrier Reef tour? Or is this one that is better to go with Princess? If anyone reading this is planning to take the Kuranda Railway, it's suffered a lot of damage due to ex-tropical cyclone Jasper and will be completely closed until late April.
  9. Your luggage problems are why we got Air Tags. I follow our bags along every step of our trip. If they get lost, the bag information the airline has can often be wrong. You show them where they are on your Find My App and voila! Also, AA sends you text messages that show the progress of your bags. Your sister probably didn't get that service since she started with AK Air, but the texts are really helpful. Between that and the Air Tags, the chance of problems are minimized.
  10. I don't think so. We were just on a few weeks ago and had the Plus Package and paid the $60/pp pd rate. The $25pp OBC is separate from that which is nice that they even offer that, IMO. We went prepared not to drink alcohol until in international waters so the extra $50 for us was a win-win. ;)
  11. Agree. It's those on the ships for many B2Bs that know all the answers. It's frustrating for those that aren't on many B2Bs. We have also been told the person running the trivia for that session picks the questions. They can add their own if they want but generally, it's a bank of questions they have to choose from on a regular basis.
  12. Interesting. We were on the Regal just 2 wks. before you and were very pleased with the food quality and food service. Everyone we ate with at night seemed pleased with it too and many commented on how good it was. Compared to the Emerald Princess which we were also on recently, we were thrilled with how well run the Regal was.
  13. Just find another place to read or play games. There are plenty of cozy little quiet places onboard.
  14. We were on the Regal recently and had a really, really good cruise! The crew were really good and you could tell the management on this ship run things well. The drink thing as of a few weeks ago is this: there's a short list of alcoholic drinks they can make you. They will cost money and will go on your onboard account even if you have a beverage package. Once the ship is in international waters which is about 6:30-7:00pm, all drinks are available and all beverage packages apply. It wasn't any hardship for us but some people (newbies mostly) were very shocked they'd have to pay for the drinks. What many of the waiters failed to tell people is that everyone got a $25 OBC to cover a few drinks for those first few hours onboard.
  15. It depends on what ship you're talking about. Generally speaking, mini-suites are not obstructed. Also, don't expect a "suite" experience in a mini-suite. They aren't real suites. There's a few perks which you may like if you don't have any status with Princess. The perks depend on what category of mini-suite you pick. The "Reserve Collection" which used to be "Club Class" have a few perks but nothing that great IMO. We usually go with them due to the location of the cabins though and being able to dine without making dinner reservations.
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