njhorseman

Try Carmel Limo, Dial 7, Uber or Lyft. With four people and their luggage you'll need a larger vehicle such as a mini van, so $100 including tip would probably be a low side minimum, but shouldn't very much over that, say no more than $125 to 150.

From LGA the fare will be on the meter, not flat rate, so it will vary by distance and time sitting in traffic. As a ballpark number the quote from Dial 7 is about what an average taxi fare might be .

I'm looking at the itinerary currently displayed on ncl.com for your cruise. Both your cruise and the previous week's cruise are shown having identical Sunday to Sunday itineraries. Perhaps ncl.com is wrong or perhaps they've changed the itinerary since you booked.

We love Bermuda, and it sounds like you do too, but you should look carefully at your itinerary so you're not disappointed when you get there. You're not spending nearly as much time there as you think...fewer than 40 hours. You arrive Wednesday at 3:30pm and depart Friday at 7am . You're only there two nights, and really only have one full day in Bermuda, Thursday. There's not much you can do on Wednesday with the late afternoon arrival and you might as well not be there at all on Friday given the 7am departure. It seems that NCL has been using this type of deceptive scheduling on Bermuda itineraries more frequently in recent times, particularly for off season cruises.

I've cruised on probably a dozen cruise lines over the course of more than 35 years, ranging from mass market lines to what I would call upper premium/lower level luxury. In all that time on all those cruise lines over more cruises than I can even count or remember at this point I've never seen the price of a cruise broken down into $A for food, $B for beverages, $C for officers salary, $D for loan amortization, $E for corporate office salaries, $F for fuel, $G for the cabin, etc. What I see is the total price of the cruise, and that's what you see too. Let's say I'm booking a mass market cruise and have a base fare and port taxes budget of $2,000 per person. I see an NCL cruise that I like that costs $2,000 per person. I also see a cruise on Royal Caribbean that I like costing $2,000 per person. I want to add a basic alcoholic beverage to my booking. Which cruise will cost less when I do that? The answer is very simply NCL...and that price gap is even more significantly in NCL's favor if I want to bring my own wine on board. After all, the original question asked on this thread is about bringing wine on board.

Some simple math comparing beverage package costs shows that you are wrong. The $21.80 per day gratuity charge on NCL's included beverage package is a fraction of what you pay for a basic alcoholic beverage package and gratuities on any other mass market cruise line, and once again, NCL allows you to bring unlimited wine on board with no corkage fee, something no other mass market line permits.

Agree...and you wouldn't be sharing the vehicle with 10 or 15 others you don't know.

The Viator rates are per person, not per hour and the tours would be similar to a cruise line's shore excursion...a group sharing a van.

That recommendation was made in post #2...the first reply to the OP's question, so the question was addressed and correctly answered long ago.

Those "masters of the nickel and dime" actually allow you to bring unlimited amounts of wine on board with no corkage fee if you have their beverage package. I don't believe any other mass market line has a similar waiver of corkage fees...not to mention an unlimited quantity to be brought on board. So where's the nickel and diming there? In reading Holland America's FAQs it appears that they also charge corkage regardless of where the wine is consumed...and their corkage fee is $5 more than NCL's...and of course they don't have the corkage fee waiver either..so Holland America should be accused of nickel and diming, not NCL. Oh yeah...it's so easy to accuse NCL of nickel and diming...until you start looking at some facts.

Very simply it's typically one of the differences between mass market lines and upmarket/luxury lines. You're usually paying more for the latter so you might expect to be treated differently.

Sure...just recommend using a site that is more likely to be wrong. I'll recommend the one that's more likely to be right, thank you. By the way that website has at least one thing I saw that's wrong but not because it recently changed. What the site says has never been right for that cruise line.

When you go through the security line if they see bottles in your carry on you will be sent to an adjacent table where you will be given a cabin charge slip to sign for the corkage fee. If your wine or other bottle that appears to contain alcohol is in your checked luggage you will be summoned to the "naughty room" where you will open your bag in the presence of security. If wine is found you'll be charged for corkage. If liquor, it will be confiscated and held.

You managed to quote something you said and somehow it was attributed to me. Let's assume that you were trying to say that your post acknowledged that the website could be wrong when you said "But it could change quickly. " That means you knowingly recommended a website that could be wrong. How is that a good idea ?

Why should anyone rely on a third party website's article that is almost a year old. The official and current rules can be found on cruise line websites.

Some cruise lines charge a corkage fee regardless of where you drink your wine. One example is NCL and I believe there are others.

They have been investigating some integration of the loyalty programs but to date nothing's been done.

711 12th Ave. is just the mailing address for the port offices. Ignore that and just go to the pier where your ship is docked, whether it's Pier 88 or Pier 90.

No. They use biometric facial recognition for disembarking passengers. The same is true at all major cruise ports now. I'm not sure they bother with Global Entry anywhere since they started using facial recognition.

Viking is in the upper premium or luxury categories of cruise lines, which typically require six months remaining validity for all itineraries, and per their Passenger Ticket Contract that indeed is the case: https://docs.vikingcruises.com/pdf/3-220317_PassengerTicketContract-US.pdf From paragraph 8 on page 5 of the contract: "8. PRE-BOARDING AND EMBARKATION REQUIREMENTS. Upon initiation of pre-boarding procedures, you shall have in your possession the Passenger Ticket Contract, a passport valid until six (6) months following disembarkation (if leaving the United States at any time) or a valid government-issued identification (if not leaving the United States at any time), any necessary affidavits, visas, inoculation or vaccination cards compliant with the requirements of the destinations visited, proof of travel insurance where required by the itinerary and allowed by law, and all other documents necessary for the scheduled ports of call and final destination." So...even though your passport meets all validity requirements for entry to Iceland and return to the USA, it does not meet Viking's requirements. You'll need to renew your passport before your cruise.

If you're going to be in the NY/NJ area and using any NJ Transit service whether train, bus, or light rail from 8/26 through 9/2, Governor Murphy has declared a fare holiday. https://www.njtransit.com/fare-holiday

For purposes of entering the US , a US passport is good right up to its expiration date, so that's not an issue. For Iceland per the US Department of State at https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/International-Travel-Country-Information-Pages/Iceland.html three months remaining validity is required: "PASSPORT VALIDITY: Three months required, six months recommended beyond your planned date of departure from the Schengen area." Also some cruise lines...particularly upper premium and luxury lines, require all passports to have six months remaining validity even if the ports being visited do not, so it's necessary for you to check your cruise line's requirements.

Norwegian Joy already departed Bermuda, a day earlier than scheduled. Carnival Pride is still there, but there's not a single taxi or mini bus at Dockyard waiting for passengers so I suspect that ship will be departing today, also a day earlier than scheduled.

Correct.

No one will be denied boarding the ship in Seattle because the cruise line doesn't have access to the NCIC database, which is where such criminal records are stored. Nor will Canadian officials receive the passenger manifest until sometime after the ship departs Seattle so no one can be denied boarding because Canada doesn't want to admit them, as Canada won't know which passengers may potentially be denied disembarkation in Victoria. Canada does have full access to NCIC, and before the ship makes port in Victoria, Canada Border Services Agency officials will review the manifest and determine if anyone will potentially be denied disembarkation privileges because of their criminal record. They may decide that a person is approved to disembark and no further action is necessary, or they may decide to interview any particular passenger with a criminal record before making the final decision on disembarkation privileges. At worst what will happen to anyone is they will be denied disembarkation privileges in Victoria due to their criminal record.