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take care of my husband, want to see the world, meet people, love to snorkel, I adore nature.
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RCI
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Carnival excursions booked through the website Sandras Cruise Tours do not buy them! Buyer beware: do not buy any excursions from sandras cruise tours There is a large group of 800 people who booked Greenland tours there, which were billed as REFUNDABLE if the ship didn’t port. The Legend didn’t port and we didn’t get our money back. Please be very careful. The vendor Sandra Oleary did change her terms of agreement after these tours were cancelled and kept money a vendor in Greenland did return her the money of one of these excursions money she kept for herself. She advised people to claim their insurance which is fraude. And no there was no option booking tours with carnival directly as they announced when this cruise was published there would not be any tour to book through Carnval. I can send proof of everything I wrote in this message so I hope I can safe people from the same situation we are in now. Please I do not want to offend anyone and hope this post is not inappropriate. Thank you.
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Cape Liberty, New Jersey Cruise Terminal
fvandewouwer replied to fvandewouwer's topic in East Coast Departures
At this moment we find the service of carmel very tempting, price is really not that bad compared to a combination of bus train and taxi and we do not have any worries if we prepay this up front. So I am going to concentrate now on finding a hotel for 2 nights. Also in our case a difficult search, it should have soundproof windows and clean those are our top priorities. Thank you all for your amazing tips ideas and time to write it down, I wish you all a great Sunday ! -
Cape Liberty, New Jersey Cruise Terminal
fvandewouwer replied to fvandewouwer's topic in East Coast Departures
just checked uber it calculates me the price +/- 80 usd From what I have learned now is that there is no easy way to use public transportation between Manhattan and the Jersey Cruise Terminal, we always have to take a taxi or uber for the last part of the journey, right ? I have seen so many solutions, thank you for that : what would be the best possibility with the least hassle we do have 2 suitcases and one carry on and we are used to walk with them so we do not mind covering a "short" distance I do not have booked our hotel yet because I need to know in which area we should stay to avoid a difficult transfer to the Jersey cruise terminal I wonder if Royal Car. does not provide a shuttle service between the cruise terminal and Manhattan, they must have tons of people arriving from a cruise trying to get into Manhattan I need to give them a call have a wonderful weekend -
Cape Liberty, New Jersey Cruise Terminal
fvandewouwer replied to fvandewouwer's topic in East Coast Departures
Wow you are all so informative thank you so much for your replies and time to get my this great advice. I just got a message back about the car pricing : "Tolls would be $23.2 while tip is discretionary" so this the total price would be 75.20 adding a tip of 20 % that would be 90 / 100 usd ... where I live that would be extremely expensive but this is not NY😄 -
Cape Liberty, New Jersey Cruise Terminal
fvandewouwer replied to fvandewouwer's topic in East Coast Departures
note to my previous post it does say tolls and tips are not included but the price does not seem to be that bad ......thoughts ?? -
Cape Liberty, New Jersey Cruise Terminal
fvandewouwer replied to fvandewouwer's topic in East Coast Departures
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Cape Liberty, New Jersey Cruise Terminal
fvandewouwer replied to fvandewouwer's topic in East Coast Departures
I thank you both for your reply especially Mick B for this amazing explanation luckily we only need a one way transportation to Jersey as we do a TA from there 😀 I am trying to figure out what a taxi will charge and I found the website Carmel ( Taxi / Limmo service ) If I calculate the price from somewhere around the Empire State building to the cruise terminal for 2 people and 3 x luggage ( 2 big and one small ) I get 52 dollars which is not that bad but I see the toll is not incuded so I wonder : how much do I need to add for toll tried to find it but it is not clear to me. Could you give me an idea about what to add ( toll and tip ) thanks again all the best from Belgium -
A very good day, We are cruising out Cape Liberty, New Jersey Cruise Terminal next year in April ( RCI ) and need transportation from Manhattan ( not sure yet which hotel ) I read somewhere that RCI provides a bus service to the cruise terminal from Times Square but I cannot find anything on the website of Royal so before I call them is there anyone who has used this service ? if not what is the best way to get from Manhattan to the New Jersey Cruise Terminal it seems that a taxi is very expensive and there is no public transportation we can use. ( I checked google ) thanks for your tips and ideas have a great time
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thank you for your answer I did contact the supplier they do not answer that is why I am trying to see if we can walk from the shuttle to their location or if we need to take a taxi. I have no idea if I can put the name of this company but let me try and if this was inapropriate please remove this post : the name of the cy is discover northland I contacted them through messenger and email and their website no response ......
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hi everyone, I have done some research on google I am trying to find out where the tender will drop us off being in St Anthony, does anyone knows ? Our time is limited so our only option is to do a whale safari but therefore the weather should be great so we might wait until we are at St Anthony and walk to the company who is offering a discovery whale tour but I have no idea if we can walk to their office or if we need to take a cab any advise on other tours is also welcome our time is limited ( 7 till 4 and a tender port ) thanks for your time
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This is my very first "bad" review and I write it because the add is a scam ! Everyone needs to know what you get is not what they published and certainly not what we have paid for. We booked through Safaga Shore Excursions a 2 day tour to Luxor from Safaga Port the add : " Enjoy a PRIVATE 2 days Luxor tour from Safaga Port to enjoy a wonderful experience in Luxor city joining a PRIVATE tour guide to .... "All transfers by a PRIVATE air-conditioned vehicle" "You will be transferred back to Safaga Port by a MODERN A.C vehicle." what we got : there was NO private vehicle waiting for us there was NO private tour guide and there was NO modern AC vehicle there was no one waiting for us with a plate with our name on it. When I called their emergency phone number someone said to wait in the lobby which we did, after half an hour we started to look outside the parking lot and found a lot more people who were looking to find a private car. I called the number again and they said to look for a bus, they said that our tour was a shared tour and that they never confirmed that our booking was going to be private. We were pushed in an old and dirty bus with 45 people and some of them also had booked a private tour some of them booked through TripAdvisor some of them booked through other companies and we all paid different prices. We left the parking lot after 1.5 hours waiting for other people who never showed up. The drive to Luxor is about 4.5 hours which we hoped to do in a decent car. The tour itself was ok the guide tried to make the best out of it as he had to deal with a lot of disappointed people. What bothered me the most is that they lied they asked too much money for a bus transportation to Luxor and a shopping tour which this mainly was. This is a warning : don't book with this company unless you are fine with a shared shopping trip to Luxor.
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if you have the chance to visit one of South Africa's NP please consider Addo because this park has it all . So much wildlife and such beautiful scenery.We had only one day while being in Port Elisabeth on a cruise stop and I was so lucky to find Blu Pebbles Tours and transfer online https://blupebblestours.co.za/If you explore Addo please do this with a great guide and a wonderful host and Blu Pebbles Tours delivers all that. They brought us exactly at a spot where we saw some lions chewing at a warthog in front of playing elephants in a lake, we could have stand there for ever.Crystal and Jaco from Blu Pebbles tours deliver an outstanding service and on top of that they are so kind and thoughtful.Please check out their website if you need anything related to South Africa and if they can, they will help you out with whatever your want or need.Do yourself a favor do not look any further but take a look at the website https://blupebblestours.co.za/