We did this/similar tour with RCI several years ago and it worked out great for us, who usually don't book cruiseline excursions. You'll be glad you booked this one.
I've usually used VT for booking the Hyatt Place in Fort Lauderdale. But am now even more impressed with their customer service.
I booked 2 rooms with them for mid May two weeks ago and requested double beds in both for 4 adults/2 kids. I called Hyatt Place yesterday to confirm since I hadn't received VT original confirmation yet (I know it usually takes about 10 days) and they confirmed but had us booked in king beds and said they could not change it only VT could. I emailed VT last night and got a confirmation email today verifying the double beds. I then called HP and they confirmed double beds and confirmed VT called HP this morning and confirmed. I had no idea they would do this especially so quickly.
So let me just say VT is great !!
These large shuttle bus's your 5 year old will be fine with a seatbelt. If you want a child car seat you'll have to book with a private company that provides them.
We just sailed out of POM on Feb 23rd and again May 4th. Luggage handler's waiting as we got out of our hotel (Hampton Inn Suites Blue Lagoon) shuttle and again out of our Avis car rental shuttle. Couldn't have been easier for us.
Sorry you weren't as lucky.
I'm fine with staff serving the soft serve. However they need to do it correctly. The round & round method isn't correct and why you see many times it falls off the cone cause it's just sitting on top.. They need to do the up/down method which fills the inside of the cone first...no spillage this way and it makes a nice serving.
Whatever the product that Celebrity uses tastes much better than the one RCI uses.
We were just on both cruiselines and could tell the difference in taste.
It used to be with a 7:00am arrival you could expect to be able to get off around 7:30am. However we've noticed on our last few cruises docking at 6:00am it's been 7:30am.
So it seems like disembarking (self assist) has been getting later. But again this can and does vary depending on number of passengers and port,
We cruised 7 times 2022, 4 times in 2023 and 2 times (so far) in 2024 and have yet to see a line or problem getting tags from the luggage handler taking our luggage. Lucky I guess.
Our choice to get tags this way...so far so good but each to their own.
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I've priced out packages before and they've always come in higher.
We love Home2Suites in Cape Canaveral.
Hyatt Place is a great location next door to the Publix market which is in the Harbor Shopping center. Very quick and easy to walk next door. We just stayed there again March 3rd. Check rates through ValueTrips.
Have it booked again for May...it's our go to hotel for pre/post cruise.
We used Avis at 99 SE 2nd Street and it couldn't have been easier. I think having to do this at MIA isn't worth it for us adding on the booked shuttle cost to get there. Just our recent experience this month using Costco to book.