njhorseman

I don't know what happened when you posted, but I wasn't the one who said "...has anyone else experienced this".

Never. Not on Oceania, nor on the 10 or 11 other cruise lines we've sailed on.

First, as the previous poster said, MSC sails from Brooklyn, so you can just drive from wherever you're staying to the cruise terminal and park there. There are no ferries or other ways to get your car from your lodging to the cruise terminal. Second, please permit me to disabuse you of the idea that NY City is "very unsafe". In fact per this recent study NY City is the safest big US city for gun violence: https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/nyc-ranks-safest-among-big-us-cities-gun-violence-new-research-nyu-tandon-school-engineering#:~:text=New York City ranks in,efforts to mitigate homicides there. Other measures of violent crime also consistently show NY City to be one of our country's safest cities. Obviously you'll be in a big city and crime rates vary by neighborhood, but someone driving from one location in Brooklyn to another should have no concerns...and your car will be in a secure parking lot at the cruise terminal.

I don't see anything about Connecticut in the post. The title says Bayonne CT...again CT meaning "cruise terminal"

I suspect they're using "BCT" to mean "Bayonne Cruise Terminal", which as we know is not the name of the cruise port in Bayonne.

Bus #119 runs from Port Authority Bus Terminal to Bayonne. You would take this bus to the stop at 27th St. and JFK Blvd in Bayonne. From there you would need to take a taxi or Uber/Lyft to the Cape Liberty cruise terminal. Here's a link to the bus schedule: https://content.njtransit.com/sites/default/files/bus_schedules/T0119_0.pdf . However, if you're traveling with anything more than an absolute minimum amount of luggage I don't recommend taking the bus as it's almost certainly going to be a city bus without any place to store your bags. Another possible way to go requires multiple transportation modes...without all the details, NY City subway, PATH (a subway-like service that can take you from Manhattan to New Jersey), Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and finally taxi or Uber/Lyft to Cape Liberty. Again, not something I'd recommend to do with anything but minimal luggage. My personal choice would be to take Uber, Lyft, or a car service such as Dial 7 or Carmel Limo directly from Port Authority Bus Terminal to Cape Liberty. This would likely cost about $75 to $85...maybe even a bit more, including tolls and tip

The ship would anchor in Great Sound, not Hamilton itself.

If you had read more of the thread before posting you would have known that the poster admitted they were wrong about Celebrity ships docking in Hamilton and St.George. you

This happens several times every year: https://www.royalgazette.com/court/news/article/20240904/visitor-fined-thousands-for-drug-violations/ Please don't be foolish enough to being marijuana or other illegal drugs on your cruise to Bermuda. Authorities do check and if you're caught the fine can be substantial. This passenger is fortunate to have only been fined as he also was found to have MDMA and PCP. Remember that marijuana may be legal in your home state, but by international maritime law it's illegal on cruise ships, and it's illegal in Bermuda.

You need an extra set of eyes on watch with the fog. Not sure how they hold their binoculars using their wings though.

No one's ever reported the Brooklyn terminal parking lot being sold out, so no need for reservations. However, if you'd feel more comfortable having a reservation don't be concerned about the 12pm time shown on the parking reservation web page. the lot will be open if you arrive between 9 and 10.

Incorrect. Under the PVSA, even if you are embarking and disembarking at the same port...in other words taking a closed loop cruise, a foreign-flagged cruise ship must make a call at a foreign port. If embarking at one US port and disembarking at a different US port, the ship must make a port call at a distant foreign port. No ports in Canada, Mexico, Central America, the Bahamas, Bermuda or the Caribbean qualify as a distant foreign port, with the exception of the ABC islands...Aruba Bonaire and Curacao. In any event the Passenger Vessel Services Act is irrelevant to the OP's question as this is not a cruise originating and ending in US ports.

They're not on the itinerary except for the "R" ships that are still porting there. The Vista itinerary shown in post #14 says "Royal Naval Dockyard. "

Yes, I mentioned Nautica in the last sentence of the post immediately preceding yours.

The larger Oceania ships can still go to Bermuda and use the Royal Naval Dockyard .

Yes, it could have been with Viking. Their ships are smaller than Oceania's Marina, Riviera and Vista in all key physical measurements: draft, beam, length and gross tonnage. Viking's ships are small enough to dock in Hamilton but not St. George's. Marina, Riviera and Vista are too big to dock in either Hamilton or St. George's. In the summer 2021 when cruising resumed after the COVID 19 shutdown, Viking homeported a ship in Hamilton and the itinerary was essentially a slow circumnavigation of Bermuda plus a port call at the Royal Naval Dockyard. IIRC they anchored off St. George's once or twice and attempted tendering in, but that may not have been successful. Oceania's "R" ships are capable of docking in both Hamilton and St. George's and for a few years Insignia has made roundtrips from NY to Hamilton and St. George's, although they have recently cut that back to only twice each summer with two trips from Boston on Nautica also sailing in 2024.

This isn't terribly important, but I was also a regular cruiser to Bermuda on the Zenith for a number of years. Zenith was sold by Celebrity in 2007 and I'm certain that 2007 was the year that our reservation was moved from the Zenith to Azamara Journey. Confirming that, I found some Cruise Critic reviews of Azamara Journey sailings from Cape Liberty to Bermuda dated in 2007. At one time Celebrity had both Horizon and Zenith doing the NY to Bermuda run from Manhattan, with Horizon sailing on Saturday and Zenith on Sunday. In any event the poster who said they were on a Celebrity cruise perhaps as recently as five years ago that was scheduled to dock in St. George is mistaken.

Don't pay too much attention to forecasts for Bermuda on US-based sites like Weather Channel and Accuweather. Most of the time if there are showers they're brief. The Bermuda Weather Service at https://weather.bm/ is a more reliable forecast source.

Is the sentence above I've highlighted in bold a misstatement? Did you intend to say you're an Indian passport holder with a multiple entry visa for the US ?

I'd suggest a Blue Flag taxi tour. Blue Flag cabbies are certified as tour guides .

May I suggest that you post your question on a new thread rather than tacking it on to a thread that's been inactive for 6 years. An old thread like this one may contain misinformation as laws and regulations can change over time, so it's possible that something you've read here is no longer accurate.

Another example of a country's tourism agency omitting mention of the exception to passport requirements for US citizens on a closed loop cruise, and it's a biggie...Bermuda. Thousands of US citizens cruise to Bermuda every week, and no doubt hundreds do so without a passport...but here's what Bermuda's tourism agency says" https://www.gotobermuda.com/bermuda-arrival-card "Getting to Bermuda has never been easier! All you need is your valid passport and the Bermuda Arrival Card" No...sorry...US citizens on a closed loop cruise do not need a passport and no cruise passenger, regardless of citizenship, has to complete a Bermuda Arrival Card...it's for airline passengers and those arriving by private yacht.

If you want to rely on magazine articles over cruise lines' FAQs and the Department of State good luck to you.

You're missing the point that it is NOT a government of Barbados website that is saying a passport is required, it's a tourism marketing organization. Huge difference. I also suggest always using a passport when undertaking international travel, and said so in my first post of this thread in my comments directed to the OP. Further, "STRONGLY suggested" is not the same as REQUIRED.

How many visitors to New York would be knowledgeable enough about potential routes, tolls, etc...not to mention what the traffic situation is at the moment, to direct a driver.