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Typically most major carriers will just automatically kick into a $10 per day international plan in Canada without having to enable anything.

Was there 3 weeks ago-- Uber works great. No need to prebook an expensive black car if you don't want to. It was CA$38 from the airport to our hotel downtown.

I agree and second doing it from a boat. We've rented from Somerset Bridge Watersports several times before and had a good experience. https://bdawatersports.com/ Very close to Dockyard. They provide ice/water and bread to feed the fish. The snorkeling near the wreck of HMS Vixen is fun.

As said, MCT can only handle really 3 large ships at a time and even then it's pushing it-- as ships have gotten bigger its become more problematic there. It was really designed with the largest ships in mind at the time being the SS France/Norway or QE2-- 2000-2500 passenger ships. Not the 3000-4000 passenger ships that call there now. Carnival Corp wanted a reliable alternative they could call home for the majority of departures, and not have to compete with other lines for space, which is how we got BCT. Also, there is considerably less maneuvering required for Brooklyn than Manhattan-- ships can arrive and depart much more quickly. Also the QM2 is so long it also juts out considerably from the end of the Manhattan Cruise Terminal into the channel when docked there-- I think someone told me that it required a patrol boat present anytime she was docked at MCT which I'm sure didn't help the argument to keep her in Manhattan.

If it had to be Fisherman's Wharf I would second the Argonaut.

That can backfire though-- booking the day rate will ensure the early check in. Booking for the whole night they could technically freeze you out until the 3-4pm check in time which would defeat the entire purpose. Most high loyalty statuses will guarantee a late checkout but early check in is usually only by availability. The OP is best off here booking the day rate because of how early they would like to check in.

I guess anything is possible but the parking lot surface there is significantly above the waterline. Baltimore is an extremely inland port-- you should be fine. My guess is they wouldn't let you park there if they anticipated any issues. There are plenty of options in town in multilevel garages but you will most likely pay quite a bit more for them. If you're coming from Delaware the other option would be to just take a car service and not worry about having your car there at all.

Unless they want to go to Whalers Village.

At the end of the day though, transportation from Lahaina to this stretch of beach is going to be about $30 total round trip in an Uber. At $150pp, I'm hard pressed to figure out what resort is going to add $270 in additional value. There aren't any all inclusive resorts in Kaanapali so that makes me think that lunch and drinks aren't included. There are cabanas at the Sheraton, Westin, and Hyatt-- the ones a the Hyatt are fairly useless unless for the pool since the beach is eroded away there. The Westin would be the best case scenario. At best you are getting some sort of lunch voucher and at worst you are paying $270 extra for pool access and a beach thats free to go to anyway.

Agree with you on taking an Uber-- its only a 10 minute ride to Whalers Village from where the tender is dropping you off and costs $14 for up to 4 people. You could wait twice that for the bus to show up. You're on vacation-- spend more time at the beach.

It can be significantly more than that if you hit it at the wrong time of day with traffic. It's essentially a medium sized park with a Tar Pits museum-- it won't take you very much time to see. If the trip up was only to see the Tar Pits themselves I'm not sure if would be worth the time invested in travel but... You do though have some great sites nearby that are arguable much more impressive like the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Petersen Automotive Museum, and Academy of Motion Pictures Museum-- all within walking distance. Also for lunch you have the nearby LA Farmer's Market which has great food options and will have something for everyone. Transportation wise you are best off either renting a car of using Uber/Lyft. If you did use a driver there isn't anything I mentioned above that isn't a short walk from the Tar Pits so its not like you would need several car trips-- just the one from the pier and the return.

You could absolutely get a day rate at a hotel that allows early check in and use that as a home base. This could be at the airport or at another LA area hotel that might have more amenities like a pool etc. Typically check in is around 10am (although my guess is they would take you earlier) and checkout is around 4pm-- it will vary from property to property.

Uber and Lyft are the easiest (and most likely cost effective) options for what you're describing-- worth considering downloading either of the apps and giving it a try. Otherwise there should be taxis available at the front of any major hotel along the beach.

And what will you do when your AirTags start showing a growing distance between you and your bags as your ship backs away from the piers? You have electronic documentation to present to the Purser to demand immediate action and have the bags shipped to your next port of call. Our experience with BA is that it got them to act immediately and to stop making excuses. Positive results came much quicker than they did for those who couldn't identify exactly where their bags were.

Uber/Lyft work very well in Honolulu and will take the guess work out of finding a cab.

Yes-- the gangway is open 24/7 while docked. They offer sunrise excursions so you might actually have a bottleneck.

A first for the island casino is supposedly going to open sometime soon at the new St Regis resort-- it wasn't open when we were there last.

It depends-- a bunch of taxis may be in the queue that morning or they might not-- they aren't required to line up so it will vary from cruise to cruise. You could get off the ship and be first in the taxi line for one of you could be behind a hundred other fellow passengers. My experience at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal the past few times is that it was very uneven-- the line would move quickly for a few minutes and then grind to a standstill while they waited for more cabs to enter the queue. If you want things to move quickly and avoid the potential of a wait or line I would just book another Carmel or Dial 7. If not saving $10 isn't a big deal they will be much more predictable than a taxi will be.

I would if I were them-- its a much nicer place than most other islands you find further south in the Caribbean save maybe St Barts, Anguilla, or Mustique which are significantly more expensive overall. I'm not trying to justify them continuing what has become something of an arduous and unnecessary process, but what I think is lost on this thread quite often is that the main Bermuda economy is around insurance, reinsurance, and banking. Think about this-- Bermuda has the fourth highest per capita income in the entire world. Only 28% of the island's revenue is from tourism. Unlike a lot of other islands that cruise ships call on, Bermuda does not rely on tourism revenue to keep the island going. And and as such they treat tourism as a secondary revenue stream.

You can get a curbside pick up at LAX with a licensed black car-- UberBlack/Lux, Lyft black car equivalent, or a traditional car service. Regular Uber/Lyft pickups have to be at LAXit offsite area so a little more of a hassle to save a bit more on the ride itself.

Right now we're at the top of the market for 4-5 star hotels-- there is going to be an adjustment. Hotels have been taking advantage of a repressed market where folks were looking to travel again this summer with a vengeance and charged an arm and a leg. That will change as we head into a light (hopefully) recession and overall spending goes down. I would book something now that is cancellable-- there is a good chance you might find something in several months that will be lower as you get closer to departure.

NCL's own website states that any testing for the unvaccinated is completely at the passenger's own cost and ranges from $95 for an antigen and $199 per person for a PCR test. Most proctored online testing the results are fairly quick. In theory if you went to the pier without any testing you wouldn't be allowed to board. Thank you-- thats what I meant (but didn't articulate well).

For unvaccinated passengers it's 2 days-- in order to disembark you'll need to be 2 days or less so that will require a negative test the day of embarkation (usually what happens if you are a day at sea and then arriving) or while onboard-- depending on how long you'll be sailing down. You'll also need to show proof of additional travel health insurance in order to disembark.

Currently yes-- you must be both fully vaccinated and have a negative test within a 2 day window to board. See requirements here: https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/cruise

If your ship is accepting other passengers at noon-- like early boarding for suites etc then you should be able to drop your bags when that commences. Alternatively the Montreal cruise pier is right in the middle of the major tourist areas. Off the top of my head you could always go to the W, Westin, or Intercontinental which are less than a 10 minute walk to the pier and just hang out there and check your luggage with the bell desk while you grab lunch or a drink.