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The ATN restaurant of the upper end of LasRamblas is excellent. It is very near a small square where some Roman ruins are located. It is off the right side of Las Ramblas going North.

I'll second this suggestion. We had an excellent meal at this restaurant during our stay in Barcelona last October.

• Thanks for your fast response: I should have clarified - the flight is not international - it's to FLA. The ticket says "International terminal".
   
  
• I read somewhere on CC that there's a place in FW that checks luggage for a fee - (saved the thread...can't remember it offhand.) They're not guaranteed to have space, but a possibility.
   
  
• The date is Oct 24th - two weeks after Fleet Week. (Shouldn't have said mid-Oct and can't edit post...my brain is scrambled with all the planning the first few days of the trip which IS mid-Oct.)
  

The California Welcome Center at Pier 39 will store your luggage for a fee. Don't recall what the fee is though.

Will be at Copenhagen airport this fall. What is a Chin/Pin card, please? I guess it is some kind of bank card but am not familiar with term Chin. Thanks.

I think the OP meant a Chip & PIN card.

Thank you for sharing. Your pictures are wonderful.

Thanks for your review. We're looking forward to cruise on her again.

Your passport will be stamped entering the Schengen zone

 

We have not gotten our passports stamped in the Schengen area since 2002. France and Germany look at them but do not stamp.

 

UK does stamp but is not in Schengen.

Our passports were stamped when we arrived in Barcelona and in Frankfurt on our way home last October.

Appreciate your review and comments.

Thanks for posting the pic kcfoxy, it should prove very helpful. You're right, this picture is worth a thousand words.

OP here.....truly asking about the passage door that can be open on the BALCONY. Have friends in 103 as we are in 102. Deck plan shows a void between the balcony's but not the cabins????Need cocktail party on the balcony.

In that case, the balcony cabins are not even adjacent to each other so you wouldn't have shared a balcony partition. M101 & M103 are adjacent and do share a balcony partition. I'm not sure what deck plan you're looking at that shows no void between the cabins you're asking about. The deck plan on the Princess website shows the void for both the balconies and the cabins.

M102 and M103 are not adjacent. Were you asking about the (maybe water tight) door in the hallway or about the balconies? Or the space between cabins M101 and M102. You probably won't even see the doors in the hallway, I do not remember them at all and have sailed twice in forward cabins on Royal/Regal.

 

There is a utility closest with electronic equipment between 101 and 102 on both Lido and Marina deck. The balconies for L101 and L102 have wider balconies utilizing that balcony space but I am fairly certain there is something on the balcony on Marina and that space is not used by M101 and M102.

I was assuming the OP was talking about the door in the hallway. Unfortunately, the OP hasn't come back to the thread to clarify.

On the Marina deck the utility closet you mentioned is also a passageway to access a "crows nest" that has equipment installed. The equipment appeared to be for weather monitoring among others.

We were in M103 on the Regal and yes you can go between M102 & M103 or vice versa. That door between them was never shut. Hope I understood your question correctly.

PLUS you get to board with your guests and BVE board after weddings and before Elite/Suite/Platinum/In Transit (if the port personnel know what they are doing).

Thanks. Might be a nice gesture for one of our sons if he drops us off for our next cruise.

I can't figure out why anyone would want BVE if they were already on the cruise.

The only thing I can think of is someone trying to get on the ship before the rest of the cruisers. I did preface my original question as possibly dumb. [emoji6]

It's a "Bon Voyage" experience. That means if you took yourself for the BVE, you would have to get off the ship to wave "bon voyage" at yourself. Or something. :D

Thanks. Knowing me it would be "Or something". [emoji4]

YMMV? I need help with this abbreviation. I've been on CC for a few months, seen it a couple of times and still can't figure it out.thanks in advance.

Your Mileage May Vary = YMMV

BVE is for non-pax. Our son and his wife, who took us to the pier in SFO, did it (we paid as a thank you for taking us and picking us up) so the 4 of us had a great time walking the ship, them getting to see our cabin, having a nice MDR lunch together, etc.

 

The only bad part was they had to get off the ship . . . but our consolation was we got to stay on and start our cruise! ;)

Thanks KruzeKrazy! That makes more sense. Thanks again for answering.

Here's what the Bon Voyage Experience is. For $39 you get to board the ship early before everyone. First there is the boarding photo that you pick up latter. They offer a short tour and you get lunch in the Main Dinning Room with a glass of wine. Yesterday a friend that was traveling with me order 2 expresso's and was not charged anything. You are free to tour the ship on your own just like everyone going on the cruise. I rushed up to the buffet so you can see my buffet photos with nobody in them so you can see what it really looks like. You have to be off the ship around 3 pm. Not all ports or cruises offer this. You need to contact Princess to see what's available as they have limited space. The $39 can be applied towards another cruise if booked within 3 months.

 

 

 

Any other questions please ask.

 

 

 

Tom:D

Tom,

Thanks for this info. Hope this isn't too dumb a question but is the BVE only for those who aren't booked for that cruise? Or can someone who is booked for the cruise can they also sign up for the BVE? I'm sorry if this has already been covered on CC. Thanks.

Joe

Not to be picky - but you can travel 'either' direction, to or from cruise ship, right ?

Yes, you can ride the People Mover to or from P Roma.

Thanks. If we don't go to the PHVC, I think we'll catch a taxi down to the International Market and maybe walk down to Fort Derussey and see the beach and Army museum. I stayed at Derussey on an R&R from Vietnam. I don't think we'll have any problem finding something to do. I'm not sure an $80 tour from the ship along with dozens of others to just the Arizona memorial is worth it and we've already toured the Missouri when it was docked in Bremerton WA back in the 70's.

The International Market Place closed at the end of 2013. I believe a mall is being built at the location.

Our cruise on the Regal Princess last October went through the Strait of Messina.

We were in M103 on the Regal last October and it was a terrific cabin. Quiet location, huge balcony that was half covered. It was the perfect location during our sail in into Venice. We wouldn't hesitate booking the same location again. I believe the Marina cabins that might experience noise would be those from about midship to aft since those would be below the public areas on the Lido deck.

Is the new cruise terminal within walking distance of Pier 39? If so, how far of a walk. Thanks

Pier 39 is less than half a mile from the new cruise terminal at pier 27. If you're fairly mobile, it might be about a 10 minute walk.

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I'm thinking about booking a cruise departing from San Francisco next month. I'm hoping to find a way to get from the Hayward area under $100. BART is a possibility but I'm not sure what station in SF to get off, and then taxi from there to pier. Not easy with luggage and I usually do take more for a cruise than for other trips. Uber apparently doesn't service my town and Super Shuttle which I've used several times apparently only provides transport to and from airports. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Just take BART to the Embarcadero station. Exit the station at Drumm St. The Hyatt Regency is on Drumm & Market so you can grab a cab from the taxi stand there for the short trip to pier 27.

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Very nice. Thanks for sharing this pic.

How would one go about contacting Catherine?

Catherine D'Antuono can be reached at tour.designer@provence-travel.com. We used her services when we were in Toulon last month. We had a great time.

Joe

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