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Tamarind is our favourite restaurant. We always dine there at least 2 nights on any HAL ship that has it. The setting is lovely and the service is wonderful. Everything we have eaten there has been delicious. They are very careful about allergies and always ask if we have any dietary concerns. Our next cruise is on a HAL ship that doesn't have a Tamarind and it makes us sad!

I buy Bonine (or the generic meclizine) and it works great for us. It isn't available in Canada, but we live close to the border so we can go across and get it in any US pharmacy. Very reasonably priced. We also have ordered it online for Amazon.com. (not .ca) The other option is to buy it on the ship - we have seen it many times in the on board shop. We used the patches once and hated them. Awful dry mouth and just a funny feeling overall.

If you can change cabins I think you should do it. BB Kings and the Rock Room are LOUD.

We just booked our covid tests for our September cruise to Alaska at the Shopper's Drug Mart near our home. Anyone coming to Canada and needing a test to cruise - try Shopper's Drug Mart. They are a Canada wide chain and many of them do offer testing. They charge $40 per test for the antigen tests, more for the PCR. You can book it all online.

You could use the leftover credit to upgrade to a higher cabin category. You can use it to pay for flights if you booked air through Princess. You can use it to buy the Princess protection plan - that's what we did with our unused portion. Our TA said anything that is added to the invoice can be paid using the credits. So probably Princess transfers would count too.

I would vote to go ashore on HMC. We love it there. They do a bbq lunch that is good. They have the big shoreside tenders there so it goes faster than if you had to use the ships tenders. The beach is gorgeous and very clean. Grand Turk is nice too, but in our opinion not nearly as nice as HMC.

We would pick Tamarind.