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11 hours ago, bluemarble said:
Oh, it just occurred to me that it's always possible to prepay any amount you want to be appiled as a credit to your onboard account prior to a cruise. Is it possible that's the situation here, rather than your specifically prepaying the service charge (like you'd prepay for an excursion or a drinks package)?
Just thinking out loud here. If that's the case, Cunard could still end up charging you the increased rate for the hotel and dining service charge during your cruise. That would leave you with a net charge of $3 per person per night compared to what you have prepaid into your onboard account to cover that service charge at the current rate.
I even have the email that says it is prepaid gratuities. It is listed as a special service order summary as the title of the email.
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12 hours ago, bluemarble said:
Thanks. I didn't know it was possible to pay the gratuities when you book a Cunard cruise.
Is the Ice White on July 1 and the Masquerade on July 5?
That is correct.
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11 hours ago, bluemarble said:
Oh, it just occurred to me that it's always possible to prepay any amount you want to be appiled as a credit to your onboard account prior to a cruise. Is it possible that's the situation here, rather than your specifically prepaying the service charge (like you'd prepay for an excursion or a drinks package)?
Just thinking out loud here. If that's the case, Cunard could still end up charging you the increased rate for the hotel and dining service charge during your cruise. That would leave you with a net charge of $3 per person per night compared to what you have prepaid into your onboard account to cover that service charge at the current rate.
It's prepaid gratuities.
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1 hour ago, bluemarble said:
Inquiring minds would like to know. How did you go about pre-paying your hotel and dining service charge? I wasn't aware that was possible to do for Cunard either. Is that something you arranged through the Cunard call center or through your travel agent?
Or was that part of one of the promotions where Cunard offers to pre-pay the hotel and dining service charge as part of the promotion? That's fairly common with North America promotions.
On a totally unrelated matter, would you mind letting me know what the dress code and theme schedule is for your June 30 QE cruise? That's one of the remaining gaps in my QE 2023 Dress Code and Theme Schedule document. Your itinerary is a bit of an outlier for QE's Alaska season since it's only seven nights. Thanks for any help you are able to provide with this query. You can find the schedule in the Day Calendar section of your booking in My Cunard.
When I was booking the cruise, I also paid for my gratuities.
Theme schedule is 2 formal. White Ice and Masquerade.
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On 3/10/2023 at 3:52 AM, Host Hattie said:
I'm not aware of an option to pay them ahead of your cruise on Cunard.
I have prepaid mine for my upcoming cruise in June.
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1 hour ago, Mike45LC said:
The Central Market in Mazatlan is called the Mercado Pino Suarez, to give it its full name. It is of historic interest -- google it if you'd like. I highly recommend it. It is in walking distance to the Cathedral, if that is of interest to you.
Thank you. I will google it.
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12 hours ago, Ashland said:
We love the shopping at the Central Market/Mercado in Mazatlan. Take a local taxi at the port very quick and easy to do. After you shop go to the Panama Bakery/Restaurant just around the corner...ask and a local will point you in the right direction.
When you're ready to go back to the ship just flag down a taxi. This is all very safe and easy to do. We were just there first of the year.
At your other two ports (just at those on our Panama Canal itinerary this month) take a shuttle taxi at the Puerto Vallarta port to the beginning of the pedestrian Malecon..lots of shopping but be sure to go all the way to the bridge and go down the steps to lots of stalls for some more great shopping. Again when you're ready to return go a block behind the Malecon (one way traffic) and grab a local taxi.
Cabo just get off the tender and walk into town no transportation necessary and lots of street stores.
Taxi USD $10.00 for the two of us one way at both ports. Ask price before getting in the local ones off the street . The shuttle at the Puerto Vallarta port holds about 8 people and is a set price they'll be many of them lined up and they do one drop off very close to the beginning of the Malecon.
Please don't do an excursion just to shop at these easy do it yourself ports !!!!
Enjoy... we'll be back to the Mexican Riviera in January on another cruise.
Thank you so much. Will jot down your suggestions.
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11 hours ago, Ine said:
Much depends what kind of market you mean. In Puerto Vallarta there are daily markets, mostly with food etc. One os not too far from the terminal at Aramara. The other one is more near old town.
If you mean items like clothing, shoes etc. you can visit the flea market near the river Cuale near old town. Also you will find many shops with that along the Malecon.
Depending the day and time there is a very nice farmers market with music, food, clothing, paintings etc. at the Marina, just a short cab ride or even walking ditstance from the terminal. But....ttis one is only in winter on Thursday night from 6-9.
No food...we get plenty on the cruise LOL. thank you for the help. Will do some research
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7 minutes ago, crystalspin said:
@stefndougI don't have the answer, but wanted to clarify that you are looking for "local" (not tourist?) markets? I will leave the answers to our expats and repeat cruisers!
(PS I reported your duplicate post for removal, or merging if they both get replies!)
i tried to figure out how to delete the post, but it wouldn't let me delete it. Not sure how it duplicated, but it did.
local market would be best 🙂
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My mom loves markets. We are doing Mexican Riviera in February with Carnival. We are doing Cabo, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta. Which one would have the best market to go to? I am thinking Puerto Vallarta if I remember correctly, but love opinions on that. Also, how would we get there. I checked the shore excursions with Carnival and they have nothing that would do that. I was thinking a city tour and market stop if they offered it, but they don't seem to. So we would consider taxi if that is an option. There are 4 of us doing this. Would love some ideas and opinions on how we could do this.
Thank you so much
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My mom loves markets. We are doing Mexican Riviera in February with Carnival. We are doing Cabo, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta. Which one would have the best market to go to? I am thinking Puerto Vallarta if I remember correctly, but love opinions on that. Also, how would we get there. I checked the shore excursions with Carnival and they have nothing that would do that. I was thinking a city tour and market stop if they offered it, but they don't seem to. So we would consider taxi if that is an option. There are 4 of us doing this. Would love some ideas and opinions on how we could do this.
Thank you so much
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9 hours ago, tert333 said:
We have something similar where we leave Vancouver, stop at Victoria and end up in LA. I did not think that you needed to do the Arrivecan app for Victoria as you are not leaving Canadian water between Vancouver and Victoria?
Do you normally do US customs in San Diego in your case?
yup, we normally do US customs in San Diego.
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Our cruise does Vancouver, Victoria, at sea (2 days) and then San Diego. I am just going to use Victoria as my arrival port. Normally you don't do US customs at Canada Place with this itinerary (I have done it 3 times already), but I am just going to pretend that we do and then consider that we are entering Canada again in Victoria 🙂 Boy, what a pain in the ass. Can't wait until all this is done.
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23 hours ago, turnin50 said:
Yeah seems like BC is always behind the rest of the country which is why I asked barely who is from Vancouver how they all got their 2nd boosters
I went to Bellingham and got my 4th shot last month
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11 hours ago, Kate-in-Canada said:
That’s part of what I’m trying to figure out.
some of the other sims say they don’t even though use the mobile network….this one doesn’t say yes or no…and I went through the reviews and couldn’t be sure…
another option...buy a SIM when you get to the first port.
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9 hours ago, Fouremco said:
it's not their Sim specifically, it's just their network. I had a question about a sim from Amazon on their TMobile network and that is what they told me.
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10 hours ago, Kate-in-Canada said:
That’s part of what I’m trying to figure out.
some of the other sims say they don’t even though use the mobile network….this one doesn’t say yes or no…and I went through the reviews and couldn’t be sure…
problem with Alaska is there is only 1 provider and any of the other ones (like
TMobile) have to run on their lines. Depending on the plan is dependant on if it will work. I have the TMobile Pay as you go plan for $15/month. It only works on the TMobile network and does not work in Alaska. Maybe look for a specific Alaska sim? -
during the pandemic I used a few different Sim's from Amazon through the TMobile network. Now I just get them direct from Tmobile since I can cross the border now. I pay $15US/month for 2.5gb data and talk/text (US only).
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8 hours ago, Kate-in-Canada said:
In first browse through Amazon, this sim seems like a good option.
will be on alaska cruise with a few extra days at end of cruise, so need longer than 7 day.
want data and calls in case I need to call hotels / tour operators etc.
anyone bought from this provider and have feedback before I go ahead and order?
cheers!
make sure you can use that one in Alaska. I would just double check that
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we were on the same cruise. We had a great time.
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i was going to, but then I found out you can't use the verifly app using a positive test...so we just decided to do the antigen test (it will be negative) so that we can upload it on the verifly app.
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turns out i can't use it. They don't allow a positive test as a bypass for a negative test. So printing out everything it is 🙂
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4 minutes ago, brisalta said:
Can you remember what information was in the report from CityHealth? (As you said it was free I assume you did not pay extra for the report that is specially formatted for Hawaii and has passport ID).
Thank you.
Everything on the report was what was required by the Canadian government. Nope, didn't have to pay anything for it.
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28 minutes ago, 3JCruiser said:
How long does it take before the receipt email arrives after submitting your information to arrivecan ?
Need to make sure we have access to internet to receive/print it as we don't have data on our phone
seconds usually for me
Increase in Hotel and Dining Service Charge (aka Auto-Gratuities)
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it shows as being prepaid, so I would assume I am grandfathered in. I had no choice for prepaying. Because of the rate I got it at, I had to prepay.