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Please can anyone tell me what the deck 5 and 6 Ocean View cabins on Aurora are like?

I am interested to know which ones are quiet and don't move too much in rough seas?

Hello, does anyone know the current cost of the Dart to Dublin?

I have been recommended Bar 21 beach bar, but having searched for it on the net, I cannot find it. Does anyone know if it actually exists?

Please can anyone tell me roughly what time in the morning you have to put your 'join me tonight' case outside your room. 

We are doing the 3 night Anchorage, Denali land tour before we cruise. So I am interested in the answer for this question for those 2 places.

If you live in the UK and are starting a cruise in Australia then the app will not accept +44 for our country code. I have spoken to Princess who tell me this is a known problem. Therefore at present my contact number has +1 in the country code box, and the number +44 followed by my number in the box for the actual number. Even so I have been given green lane status.

Does anyone know if the XD grade outside cabins on the Crystal have got mini-fridges?

We will be on the MSC Musica docking in Fortalezafor the day on Saturday 25 November 2017.

Having read several reviews and articles about this town we are a bit worried about how safe it will be.

A couple of ideas we are considering are to go to the Mercado and visit the attractions in that area, or go to Praia do Futuro for a few hours.

Does anyone have any information or advice, and also recommendations of things to do and see?

We are on the Cruise & Maritime Magellan which is docking in Halong Bay on 24th March.

It looks as if we will dock at the Commercial Pier.

Does anyone know if there will be people on the pier selling Halong Bay cruise excursions?

Please can anyone tell me if there is a washing line in the bathroom shower on the Carnival Vista such as they have on other ships?

Do you know the taxi costs from the cruise pier?

 

Thanks,

 

Tom

Sorry no because we walked, but there were lots of taxi's and mini-buses going from and returning to the port.

Did you go to the Coco Beach Club? If so, how was it!

Yes we did as I already mentioned in the original post.

Thank you for the replies.

Having read though the other threads on this matter, I have decided I will take my jacket off if I am too warm or if the dance is something fast such as jive.

We are on the QM2 in February and this is down as a tender port. Does anyone know where the tender drops you?

Please can someone tell me if men are allowed to take their jackets off when dancing on both formal nights and smart casual nights??

We have just been assigned cabin 4138 on the QM2 for the world sector from Rio to Sydney.

Does anyone have any information on this cabin? Location, noise etc??

Does anyone know if it will be chaos embarking in Rio?

We have a time on our e-ticket of 1530, but feel that is too late. Our transfer from our hotel has already been booked as part of our package, so I guess we will arrive at the pier early?

Visited Bonaire on the Royal Princess last week, and went to the Spice Beach Club. On arrival we found that most of the beds in the beach area had been reserved by the ship, and the few that hadn't were in use. There were some beds round the pool, but most of these were broken, and anyway the pool was small and dirty.

We ended up next door at the Coco Beach, which was much nicer. It was $5 each for a bed and some shade, and there was free WiFi.

The beach at both the Spice Club and Coco beach is rocky, and beach shoes are recommended.

I have read lots of the threads on Emerald Beach and have a couple of questions.

Are showers only available if you book a day room at the Best Western?

If so how much is a day room there?

Has anyone been they recently and can tell me the latest prices for a taxi from Crown Bay and the cost of chair rental on the beach?

The main thing I need to know is about showers, because the wife will not swim in the sea unless she can shower afterwards.

We do realise how lucky we were that they had a few empty cabins and that we got an upgrade.

We have just been assigned 1110 on the Zuiderdam. It is a bit of an upgrade, but we are not happy because it appears to be below the galley.

I posted the above on 20 August, and below is our experience.

Our fears of terrible noise were correct.

On the first night, even with ear plugs, we could hear all the banging etc. After trying to sleep for several hours I went to the front desk, and they moved us into an emergency inside cabin for that night so we could get some sleep.

The next afternoon we were offered a move to cabin 5046, which we gratefully accepted.

The rest of the cruise was fine, and I have to say the front desk where excellent in dealing with this issue.

Our fears of terrible noise were correct.

On the first night, even with ear plugs, we could hear all the banging etc. After trying to sleep for several hours I went to the front desk, and they moved us into an emergency inside cabin for that night so we could get some sleep.

The next afternoon we were offered a move to cabin 5046, which we gratefully accepted.

The rest of the cruise was fine, and I have to say the front desk where excellent in dealing with this issue.

Thanks for the replies. We will see what the first night is like, but if is as noisy as I fear it will be, I will be at guest relations first thing the second day.

I feel that as a 3-star mariner we should have been treated better than this.

We have just been assigned 1110 on the Zuiderdam. It is a bit of an upgrade, but we are not happy because it appears to be below the galley.

Does anyone know if cabin 1110 on the Zuiderdam (Vista Class) suffers from noise problems?

It looks from the deckplan like it is underneath the galley, and also being so low down and near the back of the ship I am worried about engine noise.

Many recent reviews of the Explorer of the Seas have been poor. Does anyone have any comments?