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Easy to cancel on order history page. Refresh page and should show a refund. If OBC will show up immediately, if credit card will take a few days. Be aware that "sale" prices may or may not include the 18% gratuity. You won't see actual price until you get to the payment part. Folks have reported buying at a price that included gratuity, canceling, and then finding new price was higher than their old price.

The USVI web site that describes Water Island can't be linked on these boards but if you search for the water island ferry you will get all the information you need, including ferry times. Very close to Crown Bay port for RCI ships, but timing is important. We have been there with only two guys stocking the bar for the weekend.

Port buildings are very close to the pier that Royal uses (two piers, a skylift runs between them if you are at the far pier). Decent shopping in the old cannery building. You might want to start both in this forum and here: https://icystraitpoint.com/ For things like whale watching, the cruise ship boats can hold over 100 guests. Independents are 6-23 guests, usually for less than cruise ship charges. Our last two trips had pouring rain.

We did give ship our flight info and they assigned us to a later bus only 2 hours plus travel time before flight. Not comfortable, so quick trip to Guest Services and we had our choice of departure times. Picked the earliest and got into the large waiting area around 1 1/2 hour before flight. They didn't post gate until an hour before and gate wasn't open for checkin then, but nice pub out there that had really good food and fast service.

Our TA took care of this for us. Note that road in Denali is still closed so you don't get into good bear country (or good viewing of the mountain) on the Tundra tour. Only go to mile 43 instead of 88. Going to be at least until AFTER 2026.

Same thing during covid restart. We tried to spend more money onshore to help out the local businesses.

Around $55 for Nintendo, and $79 for Atari on Amazon. These new consoles include hundreds of old games and can connect to modern HDMI TV connectors.

Just did one an hour ago (ship and sail date on subject line) and they responded in around 15 minutes.

Up to around 8 PM on embarkation day.

The problem is that booking two people in a cabin that holds more costs more than a two person cabin. So you will pay more even if the other passengers are "free."

Last time we stayed at Captain Cook they had two conference rooms packed 10' high with luggage from cruise tours. And a couple of bellhops just to organize the luggage.

While we like aft cabins, the motion is very different from side cabins. As the ship rocks your bed rocks head up and down rather than side to side. Plus is heavier seas you get the up/down of the stern. So effect is a corkscrew motion. And you do get loud thruster sounds/vibration when coming into port.

That porthole definitely could NOT be opened! And need a wrench to open the cover!

If you are really thinking of classic they might want to bring their own unit and hook up to TV. I've seen a fair number of the immersion (pod-type) games on ships and they might be too intense for your client's son. And arcade can be either loud or quiet with inop machines.

A lot of the private operators are not taking bookings yet for 2025, so cruise lines don't know what is available yet either. Our current favorite is Alaska Shore Tours - they cover several ports. Sort of a consolidator - they own several tour companies and contract with others.

Airplane mode is just to prevent connecting to cellular service. Most phones will switch back and forth between cellular and wireless calling depending on signal strength and you won't even know which is being used. On a ship, Cellular at Sea runs up big bills, especially when your apps decide to update.

Sometimes see repositioning through San Juan. So potentially something out of the East coast to San Juan, then next going to Galveston. You would need to fly to San Juan since a New Jersey to Galveston trip would be illegal. Sometimes the ships do several San Juan Caribbean cruises before heading to Galveston, and those could be used as a B2B ending in Galveston. Obviously these are rare. Disney Magic 15 Nov San Juan to Galveston (could do 7 day San Juan-San Juan sailing on 8 Nov before it). I see a few San Juan to Florida over the next year and some San Juan transatlantic eastbound. I don't see any of these for Royal ships except 2026 Harmony Galveston to Barcelona and a Jewel Galveston to San Juan move.

Probably a large cake in the Windjammer. And depending on your location you could see a Disney ship doing fireworks - it is normally fairly close to Coco Cay, so once you sail check around you at 9.

In Ketchikan you can follow the stream above Creek Street to the old hatchery, then a bit south to the totem pole museum. Then downhill back to Creek Street. Museum has lots of original totems.

Float trip through Eagle Preserve in Haines is a cruise line tour from Skagway. Expensive, but we have been on it three times.

Seem to recall a Russian store that sold stacking dolls in Juneau. House of Russia on Franklin. Military vet runs it.

First night in Whittier always has open seating, because lots of folks are not there yet for early seating. They just send people to tables as they arrive. Assume Reserve/Suite dining area will still be there, separate line.

Meeting point for Aqua Cars was in front of the WHSmith store to right as you leave international security in Terminal 2. Hard to see them - behind a couple of signs.

Soda package on Princess used to be $6/day. Now that they have combined it with a mocktail package we no longer buy it. Bring a 12 pack, convert entire minibar to Diet Coke and if we needed extras now buy several 6 packs pre-cruise (much cheaper than bar price onboard). On our 14 day Norway cruise we called per the card and sodas were delivered within an hour or so. Swapping out the minibar didn't happen until after dinner.

For us, United checkin was just inside the door they dropped us off at. Kind of weird terminal - huge row of separate identical stations, all with tiny electronic signs above them saying which airline. So actually identifying United was hard from the entrance to the terminal. Once we got a bit closer it was easy. Premier line was much slower than regular line.