Essiesmom

Savannah to Singapore; Savannah to Buenos Aires. Also Savannah to Tonga, but that wasn’t for a cruise. Savannah to Kathmandu, also not a cruise. EM

This is the far end of the parking lot Drive to the cross hatch place by the blue awning and unload your bags to be checked, and passengers. The cream cover leading off the blue is the walkway to the terminal. You can tell the HC spaces by the painted lines. Ramp from terminal to ship is at right. These were taken from Spirit in March. Directions to the port will have you getting on the bypass and getting off at Heckscher Blvd, but I prefer to stay on I95 to the exit for Zoo Parkway/Heckscher Blvd and approach from the west. It's about five miles, but there are two places where you cross on a causeway and get good views of your ship. The second place is in the last two pictures. Unfortunately, since they widened the road to four lanes, there is no place to pull over and take a picture, but if the person in the passenger seat has their phone/camera out and ready, you might get a shot. Especially if traffic is not bad and you can slow down. EM

Parking is right by the ship. Lots of HC spaces. $17/day, don’t know if they have special deal for HC cars. EM

The OP has continued the discussion on the Royal Caribbean board. She appears to be on Voyager of the Seas, probably in Europe as they are in Ireland. EM

If so, it would be a cruise line thing, because MSC and Costa embark new guests at every port in their itineraries. EM

Unless I am on a ship myself, I’ll be on the cams. The forum is sea cruise chat dot com. Just leave out the spaces. That takes you to the canal schedule, and in the upper left, click on forums. Then scroll down to Panama Canal transits, and you will see what we do. I take the screen shots for that forum, but if there is a live from thread here, I’ll post there too. EM

It sounds as if you have worn yourself out because you didn’t/don’t understand that if you are not Aurea or Yacht Club, you have fixed dining, and that’s it. No changing. You adapt, they don’t. EM

The Pan American pier, across the harbor, is usually for Royal and Celebrity for their ships that sail R/T from San Juan. EM

Go back three pages to a thread Celebrity lost all my luggage. There is discussion there about tracking tags. EM

Pier testing doesn’t work in Carnival requires 24 hours before. EM

Take along the proctored home tests. Check to see if Royal will test on ship and if not, use the proctored ones. EM

The passageways around the bow on deck 3 of Spirit class ships. The piano bars. EM

If you want the title of the thread changed, click on the three little dots in the upper right of your original post. Click on report. In the comments, ask the mods to change the title and suggest what you would like. EM

Tap on the three little dots in the upper right of your original post. Click report. Ask the mods to close the thread because you have your answer. EM

Jacksonville because it’s a two hour drive. EM

Suggest you do some reading on the West Coast departures board, under North American Homeports. EM

I’m an old lady who has sailed a lot of lines, to a lot of places. If I were still young, I would be looking to cruise exotic destinations. My heart wants to do that. But my purse and body say restrain yourself. Prior to Covid we had sailed MSC, Carnival, Celebrity. Cancelled by Covid were Celebrity, Cunard, Carnival, and Windstar. When things opened up again, we got a bargain and sailed Crystal. My personal choice now is to drive to the port, which means Jax, Port Canaveral, or Tampa. Which means mostly Carnival from Jax, plus Carnival and MSC from PC. I like MSC, even though I’m not overwhelmed by their food. I don’t go hungry, though I tend to dine a lot on appetizers, soups, salads. The only time I have almost gone to bed hungry was one dinner on HAL, where the menu was not inspiring, and I didn’t like the best of he worst that I ordered. That’s the only time we left the MDR after desert and went to the buffet so I could eat. EM

Although NCL Sun spent a lot of time docked at the new pier when in Covid hiatus, and the occasional Viking ship did dock there, many others tendered their guests ashore still. I track ships through the canal for another website, and would see them anchored and tendering. EM

Old San Juan piers. EM

You might ask this on the Royal Caribbean board. Madame G2U last posted there a month ago. If she does not have notifications turned on, she won’t get your query. EM

There is not a large variety of excursions available for the Panama Canal transits. You are looking at a full transit. You don’t say when you are cruising, I assume you are on Encore or Bliss? I also assume that NCL hopes the terminal building will be finished when you arrive, otherwise you will tender to Fuerte Amador. Pier is done, but terminal was not. I suspect more excursions will be added later. But that is not something we are likely to know until after one of these cruises has sailed and someone comes back to report. EM

Did you read the whole post? She was on a partial transit, which means they transited through a set of locks into Gatun Lake, where they tendered ashore to the Gatun Yacht Club, and were picked up by the buses to their excursions. The ship then locked back down out of the canal and only docked in Colon/Cristobal to retrieve the excursion passengers. EM

Did you read the post above yours? EM

Get a copy of Rick Steve’s’ Mediterranean Cruise Ports. It is written for cruisers and he tells you what the ports are like, what there is to do and how to do it in the time you have. EM

The above is not true..all Princess ships can enter Glacier Bay. Even larger go there, such as NCL Encore. The largest of Princess cannot do the true inside passage from Vancouver, so sail from Seattle. Suggest a cruise from Vancouver, on a ship with wrap around promenade deck. Pay attention to port times, and flight costs. Also hours of daylight. It may be cooler in May, but more day.Ishtar than in Sept, Oct. Lots of info on the Ports of Call board for Alaska. EM