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njhorseman

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  1. The potential problem with not having a passport isn't with USCBP, it's with the airlines, which can impose more stringent requirements than mandated by law and regulation just as cruise lines can...and sometimes do. From the document you are citing: "While CBP does not require the passport as noted above, the airlines may have their own requirements, please check with your airlines prior to travel."
  2. Which cruise port are you sailing from, Manhattan, Brooklyn or Cape Liberty (which is in Bayonne, NJ) ? That may have a role in choosing your airport. The ferries for Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island tours depart from both Battery Park in lower Manhattan and from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, NJ, so you can stay in either nearby NJ or lower Manhattan and be conveniently located for your touring. You should purchase your tickets only from the official source, Statue City Cruises, at https://www.cityexperiences.com/new-york/city-cruises/statue/ .
  3. Taxis from Manhattan to JFK are flat rate. Other options are car service such as Dial 7 and Carmel Limo, as well as Uber or Lyft.
  4. Driving, flying, Amtrak train or intercity bus. Are they planning to arrive the day before the cruise? (That would be preferable.)
  5. What someone may have experienced in the past on Oceania or any other cruise line is irrelevant because we have no idea what terms and conditions were applicable to your booking. That having been said it's not impossible that certain heavily discounted rates might exclude some inclusions that would be offered if you were paying a higher fare. Your travel agent should be able to tell you the exact reason, or Windstar's website may have an explanation in their Terms and Conditions section.
  6. How is anyone here supposed to answer a question about another cruise line's upgrade process, particularly when you haven't named the cruise line ?
  7. If you blow up the picture you'll see the name. It's (Windstar's) Wind Star.
  8. The OP's hotel is not in San Pedro, it's a few miles away, and their cruise embarks in Long Beach, not San Pedro so the reference to the USS Iowa being near the cruise port might be confusing, because it's not near their ship's cruise port.
  9. Your cruise will be embarking in Long Beach...so it's about an 8 to 10 mile trip from the hotel to the port...perhaps about 15- 20 minutes, dependent on traffic . I'd take Uber or Lyft. Also take Uber or Lyft from LAX to your hotel, but note that ordinary Uber/Lyft cars at LAX in most cases have to pick up passengers at the LAX-it lot, not directly in front of the airline terminals. Uber Black or limo services can pick up directly at the cruise terminals. It's probably about a 25 or 30 minute drive from LAX to your hotel...But LA traffic, and traffic within LAX itself can make it considerably longer.
  10. Sometimes car services are permitted to pick up directly at the cruise terminal, but sometimes pick ups have to be done across the street. It depends on the amount of passenger traffic that day and it's a decision made by the police. If there are multiple ships in port or even if there's only one very large ship in port the police may not permit pickups. If you have to cross 12th Ave. a porter can be very helpful.
  11. The immigration clearance requirement is not limited to cruises starting in a foreign port. The immigration clearance has to be done because the cruise will be calling on foreign ports prior to its port call in Los Angeles.
  12. If you're primarily looking for convenience, the Newark Liberty International Airport Marriott is right on the airport grounds.
  13. For starters you may want to look at Cruise Critic's Spain and Portugal Ports board : https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/465-spain-and-portugal-ports/
  14. The poster said "concierge level" in their first post on the topic...post #942 on this thread.
  15. The start of ETIAS has been postponed for years, although it is now expected that ETIAS will be implemented in 2025. Further, the website you are referencing is not the official European Union ETIAS website, it's the site of some Canadian company so it's not an official, reliable source of information. The company is quite possibly looking to rip off travelers by charging outrageous fees for filing the travelers' ETIAS applications. Unfortunately these types of companies can be found all over the internet. Here is the EU's official ETIAS website: https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias_en . If anything, i would expect that the implementation of ETIAS will mean that those with criminal records who wish to travel to Europe will be more likely to be rejected, as is the case for those applying for ESTA to enter the US or eTA to enter Canada.
  16. Yes, that was correct 5 years ago when that informed compliance document was published, but the law includes a provision for adjustment of the fine for inflation and the latest value, which is is documented in the regulations...CFR means Code of Federal Regulations...is $971. That's why I cited the regulation, 19 CFR 4.80 (b) (2) , so that anyone would be able to verify the $971 fine. If you enter 19 CFR 4.80 (b) (2) in an internet search engine you'll find it.
  17. BTW, the PVSA violation fine is now $971 per passenger. Reference: 19 CFR 4.80 (b) (2)
  18. Huh? A decent gesture since it was the cruise line's screw-up? That makes no sense. The cruise line didn’t know it screwed up until it was too late...the passenger had already changed their plans by canceling the last segment. And no cruise line is going to knowingly violate the PVSA to sooth a passenger's ruffled feathers.
  19. It would have taken a Disney employee who understood the PVSA less than 30 seconds to determine that the cruise was legal. It took me less than 10 seconds. You can't get a PVSA question that is much easier than this one was.
  20. You're wrong. Per cruisetimetables.com there are 110 cruise ship port calls scheduled for St. Croix in 2025, as well as 25 calls scheduled for St. John.
  21. They can try all they want. You can't get a refund of something that doesn't exist. You also won't get a refund of port taxes when O misses a port call because O also bakes the port taxes into the base fare. This isn't Holland America.
  22. Since gratuities will be baked into the base fare and not a separate line item on the bill there will be no way to remove them.
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