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  1. Can go to City of Arts and Science. Science Museum and Oceanographic (aquarium) are open. Also Fallas museum is open. It's one of a kind collection of floats from the winners of yearly Fallas festival. This area is beautiful with park, water and walking trail. Also El Saler mall is open on Sunday. Has few restaurants open for lunch

     

     

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  2. I buy RENFE tickets quite often. Just keep checking when your date shows up and buy right away. I don't have a RENFE id and have no trouble with payment on Spanish page but English one may reject CC from time to time. Also they ask for passport # which is completely optional and no one checks it. Final AVE ticket doesn't have names but has assigned seats.

  3. Unlike most other national rail sites cp.pt needs user id/password in order to purchase ticket. Also try to use Portuguese site and pay with PayPal in case CC gets rejected. There is a possibility that tickets for certain departures are not sold online but sold for others for the same day. Also there lots of buses that run daily; they are slightly slower than express trains http://www.rede-expressos.pt/ but quite comfortable.

  4. Here is good link for all storage facilities http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/transport/baggage-storage-barcelona.html

     

    If you are coming from the airport there is direct train to Sants train station where you can leave the stuff. Cab from Sants to port is about 20 min. Can also ask RCL if they can store suitcase for you. If I remember MSC offered to store any inadmissible alcohol for free till the end of the cruise. They gave claim ticket and delivered to the cabin on the last night.

  5. The only sure way to know what bank will charge is to check on http://www.oanda.com/currency/historical-rates/ (click on Table tab) after you come back home. What you refer to buy and sell rates is the markup from that interbank rate for the day. I am TD customer and can tell you that ATM "rate" is not that great on Euro but much better on USD (1% from interbank).

     

    The F/X free CC that you are referring to will probably give the best exchange but again check on oanda site.

  6. Minimum that I found in Aug 2016 is 3 days, there is 2 day in Sep. Can always check with sites like cruise. com that have month and duration filters.

    Also there are small pleasure boats on lakes like Como and Garda mostly for day trips.

     

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