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I am on the Emerald arriving back at Houston on Feb 1. Does anyone have information on embarkation times? I am looking at a flight out of Hobby that leaves at 1:45PM and am thinking that by taking my own bags off I can make this flight. I have not cruised out of this port or with Princess so it is new to me.
Barring a fog delay it's no problem. It's only 20 miles from Bayport Terminal to Hobby.
Use the cruise ship's transfer.
If you're flying Southwest Airline, sign on the day before using the ship's internet café.
I sign on to my flights exactly 24 hours before departure time.:)
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We are flying into Houston Hobby Airport. Need a hotel for one night before our cruise. We would like a hotel that has an airport shuttle and then a shuttle the next day to the cruise ship port.
Does such a hotel exist?
Thanks,
Reba
There's a Marriott hotel between terminals B and C.
You can find shuttle availability here:
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The itinerary depends on your druthers.
For shopping: Option 1
For snorkeling or diving: Option 2 is world class
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the coffee card:D
At the International Café and some lounges:
Brewed coffee is $1.25/cup, most specialty coffees are $2.50-$2.75 for a regular size, espresso $1.75.
$33.35, including gratuity, buys a coffee card with fifteen punchouts for specialty coffees, and unlimited brewed coffee at the cafes and lounges that have brewed coffee.
You can also use it in the dining rooms for specialty coffees. The server is directed to take two punch outs for double shot orders, some do, some don't.
Since the coffee card is for a discrete quantity it's not time limited. If there are punch outs remaining at the end of the cruise the card will carry over to the next cruise.
The “unlimited” brewed coffee does not carry over.
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If you are accustomed to good quality coffee, you definitely will want a coffee card. The vile concoction in the Horizon Court (buffet) is syrup based. Room service is also syrup based.
Not that syrup-based coffee is always a bad thing. My hometown source, http://www.javacoffee.com/, informs me there are different grades for syrup coffee, just as with ground coffee.
Regardless of grade, the taste of syrup based is always going to be somewhat inferior to an equivalent grade of ground. Based on flavor, Princess must use the lowest grade (cheapest) available.
Not all ships have the Int'l Cafe. They do, however, have a Coffee Bar for regular and specialty coffees.
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The closest Enterprise office is at Seabrook on Bayport Blvd. See location 4 on map:
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FYI - They take all the beverages. I'd like an option to swap the alcohol drinks for one coffee card, but leave the sodas and tonic water.
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FYI - All of the beverages are removed, including tonic water and sodas.
I don't imbibe alcohol, but I would have liked if they had left the non-alcohol beverages.
An option to take only the-alcohol beverages and leave one coffee card would work for me.
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Kemah hotels
La Porte
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Don't forget Perry Mason. :)
I catch it only occasionally, but it comes on at midnight.
When I dissed current programs, I forgot about The Big Bang Theory.
That is the best humor program of all time!!
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I think about safe deposit boxes.....they are safe keeping all our valuable so we can retrieve them on a moments notice. Very nice, very useful, very safe.
How many of us have a co- owner/signer on the box contract,so that in the event of a terrific accident that cause both husband and wife to lose their lives, a survivor can access those important documents?
I recorded my daughter as a co-owner.
Checking and saving account, too. Avoids going thru probate.
BTW - The bank official who added her went through a mountain of paper work.
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I went on tvguide.com and checked the listings. It's on Me-TV' date=' which is a channel available around here on digital cable.
I once checked youtube to see if the episode that was shot during a Med cruise was uploaded (one of the "smiling faces" in the credits worked for our account group back then as a temp in between any gigs. He got a free cruise out of it, but didn't know he was going to be in the credits), but it never was.[/quote']
Love Boat reruns are Sunday, 1PM central time.
Some of my favorites are on daily: Dragnet, Adam12, Rockford Files, Mash, and Andy Griffith.
I'm an old F*rt, but I know quality when I see it. Any one of those shows is far better than current offerings!!!.
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To make espresso in a kitchen on board ,will take to much time for the number of espressos asked for.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Forums mobile app
My most recent walk thru a kitchen I saw an espresso machine.
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A safety deposit box at your bank is an essential.
I keep all important documents.
A partial example: Birth certificates, last will & testament, Power of attorney, title for house, marriage certificate and passports.
We can cruise with a birth certificate as proof of citizenship. But be darn sure not to miss a sail away.
It's gonna be a long swim home.:p
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Gelato (Italian pronunciation: [dʒeˈlaːto]; plural: gelati) is the Italian word for ice cream, derived from the Latin word "gelātus" (meaning frozen). In American English this word commonly refers to varieties of ice cream made in a traditional Italian style. Gelato is made with milk, cream, various sugars, and flavoring such as fresh fruit and nut purees. It is generally lower in calories, fat and sugar than ice cream.[1]
Gelato is a type of soft ice cream containing a relatively small amount of air.[2] By statute, gelato in Italy must have at least 3.5% butterfat, with no upper limit established.
The sugar content in homemade gelato, as in traditional ice cream, is balanced with the water content to act as an anti-freeze to prevent it from freezing solid. Types of sugar used include sucrose, dextrose, and inverted sugar to control apparent sweetness. Typically, gelato—like any other ice cream—needs a stabilizing base. Egg yolks are used in yellow custard-based gelato flavors, including zabaione and creme caramel, and non-fat milk solids are also added to gelato to stabilize the base. Starches and gums, especially corn starch, are sometimes also used to thicken and stabilize the mix.
In the United States there is no standard of definition for gelato set forth by the United States Food and Drug Administration, as there is for ice cream. Whereas ice cream in the U.S. is defined by the Federal Code both by its ingredients, which includes milk fat (also known as butterfat) of 10% or more, gelato in the U.S. covers a wide range of products including frozen desserts eaten like ice cream; products that are identical to ice cream with the exception of their butterfat contents; and premium ice cream containing butterfat far exceeding the minimums set forth in Italy.
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Did a round trip in early June.
Week one temperature was in the 90s!!!
Week two was cold.
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At the International Café and some lounges:
Brewed coffee is $1.25/cup, most specialty coffees are $2.50-$2.75 for a regular size, espresso $1.75.
$33.35, including gratuity, buys a coffee card with fifteen punchouts for specialty coffees, and unlimited brewed coffee at the cafes and lounges that have brewed coffee.
You can also use it in the dining rooms for specialty coffees. The server is directed to take two punch outs for double shot orders, some do, some don't.
Since the coffee card is for a discrete quantity it's not time limited. If there are punch outs remaining at the end of the cruise the card will carry over to the next cruise.
The “unlimited” brewed coffee does not carry over.
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If you are accustomed to good quality coffee, you definitely will want a coffee card. The vile concoction in the Horizon Court (buffet) is syrup based. Room service is also syrup based.
Not that syrup-based coffee is always a bad thing. My hometown source, http://www.javacoffee.com/, informs me there are different grades for syrup coffee, just as with ground coffee.
Regardless of grade, the taste of syrup based is always going to be somewhat inferior to an equivalent grade of ground. Based on flavor, Princess must use the lowest grade (cheapest) available.
Not all ships have the Int'l Cafe. They do, however, have a Coffee Bar for regular and specialty coffees.
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Well if you like to live dangerously - take that flight; however I wouldn't even think of doing it. Even if the ship docks at 7:00 doesn't mean you will be off right away, Heathrow has more security than any airport I've ever been through you need a good 1.5 hours just to get through the mass of humanity there. There is a reason why Princess no flights before 2:00 p.m., do yourself a favour and spend a night at a hotel close to the airport then fly home the next day.
Total agreement.
There's a Hilton hotel at Heathrow's terminal 4. You can walk from luggage carousels thru a tunnel to the hotel.
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Hi, we are sailing next feb .and the snorkeling tour company we had wanted to use is booked already (woodwind) .can someone recommend a company ,we prefer a small group tour and we wanted to go to Klein where we thought the snorkeling would be better. Thanks for any info.
Try Renee:
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At the International Café and some lounges:
Brewed coffee is $1.25/cup, most specialty coffees are $2.50-$2.75 for a regular size, espresso $1.75.
$33.35, including gratuity, buys a coffee card with fifteen punchouts for specialty coffees, and unlimited brewed coffee at the cafes and lounges that have brewed coffee.
You can also use it in the dining rooms for specialty coffees.
The server is directed to take two punch outs for double shot orders, some do, some don't.
Since the coffee card is for a discrete quantity it's not time limited. If there are punch outs remaining at the end of the cruise the card will carry over to the next cruise.
The “unlimited” brewed coffee does not carry over.
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If you are accustomed to good quality coffee, you definitely will want a coffee card. The vile concoction in the Horizon Court (buffet) is syrup based. Room service is also syrup based.
Not that syrup-based coffee is always a bad thing. My hometown source, http://www.javacoffee.com/, informs me there are different grades for syrup coffee, just as with ground coffee.
Regardless of grade, the taste of syrup based is always going to be somewhat inferior to an equivalent grade of ground. Based on flavor, Princess must use the lowest grade (cheapest) available.
Not all ships have the Int'l Cafe. They do, however, have a Coffee Bar for regular and specialty coffees.
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My last two cruises, I was at the airport @8:30- 8:45.
However, stuff can happen. I was on a ship that docked late due to a life boat problem at our last port, Princess Cays.
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Should I opt for the cover at the Bayport lot in Houston?
in Gulf Coast Departures
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I felt the protection worth the ten bucks.