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Everything posted by navybankerteacher
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Ordinarily, a cruise ship is dry docked every five years. I would be surprised if a line would sell spaces on a cruise and then cancel because of scheduled drydocking. In your case, it would seem that some unanticipated major maintenance was required. The line’s management should know well in advance when routine maintenance would be required - and would have no way of anticipating unexpected problems.
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Caribbean weather in August
navybankerteacher replied to Soozy Croozy's topic in Ask a Cruise Question
Expect hot weather - but very little different from rest of the year in the Caribbean. You will be in peak hurricane season, but the fact is that the odds are that you will not be impacted - and if you are, it will generally mean a change of one or more ports of call. You go on a cruise: you take your chances; if you cruise during hurricane season you add the chance of a hurricane impacting your itinerary. Enjoy. -
Penn Station NYC to Brooklyn Cruise Port?
navybankerteacher replied to LB_NJ's topic in East Coast Departures
I am inclined to agree: the whole point of taking a cruise (likely costing thousands of dollars) is to spoil yourself with a good time. Does messing with luggage up and down stairs and on and off subway trains to save yourself about $50 fit in with that intention? While I am glad to suggest ways of using public transportation to people who ask about it, I am not a committed advocate of penny pinching. That said, for an out-of-towner who wants to spend a night in New York before sailing from Brooklyn, I will recommend a Wall Street area hotel and the passenger ferry across to BCT. -
Penn Station NYC to Brooklyn Cruise Port?
navybankerteacher replied to LB_NJ's topic in East Coast Departures
IRT #2 train to Wall Street station - which is about 4 short blocks (straight east on Wall Street) from Pier 11. -
New York Cruise Check In - Fail
navybankerteacher replied to kilkoyne's topic in East Coast Departures
I have never seen any attempt to adhere to scheduled check in times - in several NY sailings. -
I am sure there are folks living in uptown Manhattan who also would like to be able to contribute to the air pollution and heavy traffic which now comes close to strangling midtown and down town - while ignoring the abundance of public transportation. If people were more adept at arithmetic they would also be less likely to insist upon being able to drive into the area.
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If your port is Brooklyn you might want to stay in lower Manhattan - inexpensive hotels, Wall Street area. Interesting part of town, lots of good restaurants and very easy passenger ferry across to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal.
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I find it hard to understand why NJ folks think they have a right to clog NY streets and pollute NY air - without paying the same fees anyone from anywhere else is charged.
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NYC Carnival Port Terminal Venezia
navybankerteacher replied to jm2341's topic in East Coast Departures
Unless it happens to be Pier 90 - they are both used by MCT - and neither are dedicated to any particular line. -
NYC Carnival Port Terminal Venezia
navybankerteacher replied to jm2341's topic in East Coast Departures
The pier number doesn’t really disclose its location. Go to 711 Twelfth Avenue, New York, NY; at 54th Street - taxi drivers know how to get there. Lots of luck in avoiding long lines - that size of ship, boarding thousands of passengers (many of whom have little regard for assigned boarding times) means an almost unavoidably long boarding process. -
Isn’t it one of the basic cruise traditions - to come home with authentic “souvenirs” of places which were made thousands of miles away?
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Baltimore ships temporarily using Norfolk
navybankerteacher replied to shipgeeks's topic in East Coast Departures
Who do you imagine would provide it (cruise line, port authority, someone else), and why would they do so? -
Post Cruise Travel London
navybankerteacher replied to Teachertmart's topic in British Isles/Western Europe
You might consider Windsor - about 10 miles west of Heathrow - a fair amount to see there. -
A cruise ship you can’t swim in.
navybankerteacher replied to Actuality251's topic in Virgin Voyages
I have never seen a “full size” pool on a cruise ship (about 30+ cruises, 25 ships) - and 20 people would make any of them pretty crowded. No one cruises to swim on the ship. -
Cabin door and or wall decorations
navybankerteacher replied to Noledad77's topic in Ask a Cruise Question
From the comments on this thread it might appear that the notion of door decorations itself is controversial. -
Private tours in Europe cash only.
navybankerteacher replied to GreenFamily's topic in Ask a Cruise Question
Of course the person wanting the tour does not want to risk paying in advance - and perhaps not getting what he wanted. Similarly, a really good tour operator would not want to wait for the last minute to see if someone shows up at the pier. Why should he take a risk you’d not accept. So: you either take your chances on finding a worthwhile tour when you get off the ship - or you do your research and pay a reasonable deposit and have something ready to go. -
Cabin door and or wall decorations
navybankerteacher replied to Noledad77's topic in Ask a Cruise Question
I am able to ignore most graffiti on buildings (usually in run-down neighborhoods) - it doesn’t hurt me, although I am inclined to think that it rarely improves the ambience of an area. Of course, in New York, for example, you very rarely see it on Fifth or Park Avenues - or in up-scale neighborhoods generally. I wonder if door decorations on cruise ships are as common on the upper decks (where pricier suites are located) as on the lower deck, inside corridors. -
I had the opportunity to ice skate on Mariner of the Seas - but passed: no skates my size=no bragging rights. Since I was only on that strange ship (I think one of my Navy ships, a DE, would have fit inside that Royal Promenade) in the first place to get from Rome to my step daughter’s in Houston that fall in time for Thanksgiving, I wasn’t that upset.
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Transportation from Civitavecchia to Rome for excursions
navybankerteacher replied to traveluphill's topic in Italy Ports
I would suggest you try to locate others on your cruise and share a van from CV to Rome - try talking it up on your cruise’s roll call - and then line up the appropriate size van with Romeinlimo or Romecabs. We have done this several times when boarding ship in CV after several days in Rome. Otherwise, you can take your own taxi or, to save money, take the train.