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As Horseman says, many trains a day and quite easy. For your stay in Montreal, if you want to avoid a lot of cabs/Ubers and if fits in your budget, you can stay at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth. The hotel is directly on top of the Gare Central and you can literally take a discreet elevator from the lobby to the train station.

It’s also not practical in that you’ll pay the hefty airport rental car taxes twice (that are usually not shown in your initial rental cost when booking). Not as much of an issue at a non airport rental location but in all likelihood the overall cost would be more expensive than 2 days on the same reservation,

I would agree here-- there is zero reason to purchase an expensive ship tour in Newport unless you have some onboard credit you are trying to burn.

Inside The Breakers, Marble House, and most other mansions operated by the Newport Preservation Society you can take pictures without flash and exterior pictures however you want. They do not allow pictures in Hunter House but that's not usually on the agenda for most folks that are touring. Another very interesting option is to tour Doris Duke's Rough Point mansion, which is located further down from Marble House. It is run separately from most of the other mansions but it was lived in by her as recently as 1993, so provides a different more "modern" perspective than the other mansions which were stuffed and mounted in the 1950s and early 60s.

Alaska has a much longer history with gambling and loose women than Hawaii does...

Way too broad-- what's the budget? Rooms in Charleston can run from low $200s for a 2-3 star to $700-800 a night for a 5 star and everything in between.

The bus works or it's like a $12 Uber for up to 4 people to Whalers Village if you don't want to wait for the bus.

With Dial7 and Carmel the driver doesn't work for the company-- everyone who drives for them is a third party independent contractor. So it doesn't surprise me that issues like this come up.

Similar to what you said I was going to say that there is a small sand area (tough to call it a beach) at the very beginning of the breakwater behind the elementary school. You access it by walking down along the harbor along Wharf and then onto Canal St. I was just there a few weeks ago to catch a glimpse of the old Rotterdam (now Borealis) that was anchored off Lahaina. It is VERY rocky-- not recommended but if you must get into the water in Lahaina proper you could in theory do it there.

Currently yes, but they will be charging 5 euros per person starting soon-- was just announced. No timed tickets but there will be an entrance fee.

Yes-- you can of course visit on your own. I believe they sell combination tickets that include both the Colosseum and Forum. It's been since 2018 since I was there so I'm not sure if they are timed or not. Our hotel concierge took care of getting them for us but I'm sure someone has a website.

The question is a bit broad-- what is your budget? You could get a hotel near that station but it puts you outside of, but just on the edge of, the main tourist area. From a walking and touring perspective there are more centrally located options if you head a little more into the center of town. From the station you would be about a half hour walk from the Colosseum and 45min+ to the Pantheon. My point is you could avoid having to use multiple taxis/Ubers from a hotel near Ostiense each day by just taking one to a more centrally located hotel the first day. Again-- this will also all depend on your budget and touring plans which we don't know so its hard to make a specific recommendation.

The locals are going to crucify you for saying San Fran (or even worse, Frisco).

While it's a little off the beaten path, and I agree that you should take a cab or Uber, it isn't necessarily unsafe. Its a quasi residential area with parks, residential buildings, bars, and restaurants. The chances of something not great happening to you is low. I used to live on the other side of Times Square and would frequently walk to the cruise terminal for weekend cruises they used to do. That being said you will have zero issue getting a cab or Uber from Times Square at any time of day or night-- I would not base whether you see a matinee or later show on transportation. It is readily available there and a pretty inexpensive ride over to the passenger ship terminal.

Just running Uber right now its $120 for an UberX or $150 for an UberXL. An Uber Comfort (most likely the best comparison to a Carmel/Dial 7 is $137 and an UberBlack is $158. Based on this, personally, I would use UberX to save $ but if you were considering a Carmel or UberBlack the difference going up to Blacklane isn't that much and the quality will be much higher.

Torcello is lovely. Make a lunch reservation at Laconda Cipriani-- stunning to have a meal under the flower trellis in the garden.

Agree with what 1025cruise said. If you want good cannoli the usual suspects, Mikes Pastry and Modern Pastry there for you (and will have lines). My personal favorite from my time living in Boston is Maria's Pastry which gets sometimes overlooked since it isn't on Hanover Street but I think is of a higher quality than Mikes or Modern. Also agree that Uber/Lyft are the best bet for quick, easy ride from the pier into town. From the North End you can walk pretty much anywhere of historic value in Boston. Chinatown isn't one of the country's best-- was a bit of a war zone when I lived there a number of years ago but my guess is its a bit better now. But not atmospheric-- only worth going if you plan on eating there.

I'm with Scott on this one-- if the first rental is for transportation only, just use Uber/Lyft. Will be a push cost wise (and you might even save some $$) and save you a bunch of hassle. Felt that pain a couple weeks ago-- needed to rent an SUV to get some extra folks to Hana with us and it was brutal.

This. Cabs in New Jersey are awful. Stay away from them. Plenty of better options above and some, like Uber/Lyft, at better pricing than taxis.

If you want to stay in Venice proper, and not deal with hauling luggage, you'll need to find a hotel with water taxi access (which isn't hard) which will allow you and your bags to be deposited right at the hotel entrance. What's your budget? It will run the gamut from a couple hundred a night for a budget option to several thousands a night for a 5 star. Venice is not inexpensive. The ride from Marco Polo to the city in a water taxi is a lot of fun.

If you want something that's of a higher quality than the mainstream dispatchers like Dial7/Carmel an app called Blacklane works quite well-- you get newer model cars (basically Mercedes E/S Class for the sedans and Cadillac Escalades for the SUVs) but you do pay more. Have used them quite a bit and have had a great experience. If its a price play, Dial7/Carmel or Uber/Lyft are going to be the best options.

There will supposedly be the island's first land based casino at the St Regis resort near St George's-- the license was granted in October and as a few months ago, published in the Royal Gazette it is still (sort of) on track. There was also one in the plans for the Hamilton Princess but that looks to be not happening at the moment.

In all likelihood they are the same as Dial7 and Carmel-- a dispatch service that pulls from the same pool of independent drivers that the other two do. There is nothing on their website, such as fleet info etc, that suggests that they are a brick and mortar operation that owns/operates their own cars.

As Lois said-- not walkable-- they won't let you and there is no sidewalk outside. They would both enter the JetBlue Terminal 5 together-- the Delta one would then go upstairs to the top level and follow signs to the AirTrain while the JetBlue one would go to the departures level for security. It takes about 15 minutes, with most of it walking to the AirTrain, to get from the TWA Hotel to Terminal 4.

Especially when you consider that there is a small stretch once you leave Front St onto Honoapiilani Hwy that you are walking along the exposed shoulder of a busy 4 lane highway with no sidewalk or path before you get to the path that brings you into Kaanapali.