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  1. Thank you for the reply! He also redeemed $2000 worth. Hopefully it will show up before the 8th!
  2. My friend is using his points for a discount on a booked cruise. He went to the website and redeemed the points a couple of days ago. Does anyone know if NCL or BOA lets you know that the transaction went through and the discount was applied? We used a travel agency and the final payment is due on 2/8.
  3. Does anyone know the easiest way to get to Le Havre to catch a ship with luggage? Flying into Paris a few days earlier and will need to find a way to the port.
  4. Please make sure to use a tracker in your luggage! Thankfully all of us had one as we had to tell them that our luggage was at the Budapest airport. They kept saying it was still in London! Will never travel without a tracker!!
  5. Yeah, good luck with the rest of your British Air travel! They canceled my connecting flight from Heathrow to Budapest and then lost my luggage for three days. They did put us up in an airport hotel and paid for our meals but I lost over a day of touring in Budapest. They are the worst airline and I now try to avoid them at all costs.
  6. I also stayed here for one night before my cruise and it was fine. I used Marriott points so it was free. Never noticed there wasn't a phone and I did have the hotel call a cab for me and it arrived within 15 minutes. The rooms are very small but since I was traveling solo it was fine. Had dinner in the bar but there was a shopping center across the street that I could have gone to but I was tired from traveling. It was fine for one night and the price was right (lol).
  7. I did the National Express bus and then took a cab from the coach station to my hotel. The next morning I took another cab to the port. Definitely use National Express and then take a cab to the port! It's not very far from the coach station.
  8. I bring a credit card but also bring British pounds as well. I buy my foreign currency from my bank as I don't want to take the chance of my debit card being eaten (lol).
  9. My mother gave me some left over pound paper notes from probably 15 years ago. I had read that you couldn't use the paper notes anymore but I thought I would try. I was in a store trying to buy some water at Heathrow and sure enough the guy said he couldn't' accept them. I did read where you could take them to a bank and they would give you the new plastic pound notes. You might want to try that in Southhampton as you have almost $117.
  10. Most hotels have a service that can take you but they aren't cheap. I'm kicking myself as the taxi I took in Amsterdam offered to take me for 75 euros. I thought it was too much and was going to use Uber. When I checked into my hotel to ask about Uber they said that since I was leaving very early in the morning they suggested a private limo service. At this point I said fine and it wound up costing me 100 euros with tip. Good news, the guy got me to the airport in plenty of time, but I could have saved 25 euros if I went with the taxi guy.
  11. I was there last September on a cruise and loved it! I did the ships excursion which was great. Not very far from where we docked and there was time to shop. You can do it on own as it is a very easy taxi ride.
  12. I'm glad that I made you laugh but I'm just going by what I did last September for my British Isles cruise and in March for my Central Europe land tour. The 10-day forecast from the Weather Channel was very accurate for me. I was just making a suggestion and the OP and others can do with it what they want.
  13. Have you looked to see what the weather is supposed to be like? If you go to the Weather Channel they have 10-day forecasts which are pretty accurate.
  14. I used National Express last September and my suitcase was pretty heavy. I also was worried if they were going to say anything but they never did. The guy was so busy taking peoples luggage and putting them under the bus he never said a word.
  15. Just went through Schiphol yesterday morning where it took me 90 minutes to go from check-in to my gate. I got there at 7am for a 10:55am flight as I didn't want to miss my flight back to the US. I have to say I think the issue with the long lines has to do with no instructions anywhere telling people what to do. I had checked in online and didn't know that I needed to use their check-in machine as well. Then you had to move to another line to check your luggage which is totally automated. There were instructions on that but most people didn't understand them. There was one employee there going back and forth trying to help people. After that you then go through passport control and then through security. I'm glad I went 4 hours early as I think if I went any time after 8am it would have been bad.
  16. Thanks for the information. I'm arriving Terminal 3 so this helps me a lot. Just one more question. My plane lands at 7:55am. Should I book the 9:45am bus or the 11am bus? The early bus is 18 pounds where the later bus is 23.60 pounds.
  17. Can you tell me if I purchase my ticket online do I just go directly to the coach or do I need to go to the counter to check in?
  18. Thank you so much!! I was stressing about getting to the airport and how much it would cost. This eases my mind a lot!
  19. Excellent! I'm just hoping there is an Uber at 6:30am as I want to get to the airport 4 hours before. I think I can preorder one if I'm remembering correctly. Do you know for sure?
  20. So do you think it would be cheaper to Uber from my hotel near the cruise port to the airport?
  21. I thought COVID tests weren't needed anymore in Amsterdam. Am I missing something?
  22. Thanks for explaining this. I have OBC and will use it to upgrade when I board.
  23. I thought you got a credit for not using their free minutes? Is that not true?
  24. I'm going on a 10-day British Isles cruise in three weeks. I received 150 free minutes but I want to upgrade to the Unlimited Wi-Fi. It says the price is $199. If I go to the internet cafe when I board how much will they credit me for not using the free 150 minutes? Also, I swear in the past the Social Media package included web browsing and looking at emails. Now it is just for social media and nothing else. Did they change that since my last cruise last September?
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