Charles4515

I have a passport but I am traveling to Santa Fe which is 600 miles by car next month and my passport will stay home. In September I will be flying to Baltimore 1200 miles away and I won't bring my passport. I don't travel with anything I don't need. I can fly to Alaska without a passport and I am looking at a trip to Anchorage or Fairbanks and then up to Denali. I definetly won't take my passport. Of course I take it on every cruise. It is a much better document than a birth certificate if you have to go through customs or immigration. That however was not the question asked in this topic.

You don’t understand because you are European and I would not expect you to understand. Same as we don’t understand many things about Europeans. It is not standard or normal for every American to have a passport. Only one third of American adults have a passport.

What are the odds though of having to be off boarded at the single Canadian port on a round trip Seattle itinerary? A port that is 75 miles from Seattle?

It is a closed loop cruise so he can cruise with an official birth certificate and government issued photo ID.

Prima is NCL's hot ship right now and probably their best chefs and crew were deployed to Prima. Management is likely watching everything on Prima right now. What will food and service it be like in a year or so?

I am sorry you were stalked. I am not a YouTube influencer but I watch a lot of YouTube videos and I have no problem with them earning money or getting recognition for good work. If you go out in public you are being photographed and videoed all the time. All my neighbors have Ring doorbells and no one has asked me permission about being on their feed that goes to the neighbor net or Amazon. The only thing that is not permitted is video or photos in places where privacy is expected like restrooms or photos of minors. So if you don't want to be recognized all you can do is where a mask in public. As far as location I have it turned off in social media apps.

We don’t really have a different take. I don’t care much for NCL and have never been on MSC.

I was in quite a few of those on Celebrity and Royal Caribbean. They were sold and I never got a note.

As I said people on all the mass market lines have been complaining about cutbacks since I took my first Royal cruise in 1996. None of the mass market lines have been consistent over that time. Royal, Carnival, Holland, Celebrity, Princess or NCL lots of variations meal to meal ship to ship, year to year. The only cruise lines I have been on that were consistent were Azamara, Cunard and Oceania. All the meals on those cruise lines were not amazing but I was rarely disappointed.

I think the note is a courtesy. I have never gotten any notes in over 60 cruises and there have been occasions where the cruise line was taking videos. There are thousands of passengers taking videos and photos and the cruise line only say’s don’t take them during shows. That is because of copyright. Legally in the US you don’t need consent, I can take video in a grocery store for example without consent. On a cruise ship unless they tell me not to I will take as much video as I please. I have taken lots of videos and photos since 1996 and no problem. Not for commercial use though.

I posted recently about a couple of cruises I took on Crown Princess some years ago out of different ports the same year. The spring sailing the food and service were great. The late year sailing it was very disappointing. The crew including the head chef had rotated off. Who the head chef is can make a difference.

A lot of the chefs these days are Indian. That is why I think the Indian food is usually good.

People have always been complaining about the food worsening since I started cruising in 1996. It is not recent. Nothing to do with Covid or inflation. Mass markets lines are not cooking to order. It is banquet food on a mass scale that must satisfy the mainstream demographic. People’s expectations get somewhat unrealistic.

Maybe in Germany? If it is for commercial use they need your consent to use them but not to take them. Otherwise no consent needed. If the cruise line takes videos you are in and they use them you gave your consent and waived rights in your cruise contract.

It is hard to ruin breakfast. Royal Caribbean has the lessor quality dining of any of the mass market cruise lines in my opinion. I only book Royal these days with a group I cruise with. Royal is good for groups because of entertainment and activities.

Mine does not.

I always try to find the actual websites for the ports like the one you located for St. Lucia. I used to look at third party websites like OP linked to but found they were sometimes not accurate. The schedules from the port are more reliable but even then as someone else posted port schedules change and the external sites lag being updated.

I think there is a vending machine. Homeports don’t usually have anything more. Many cruise ports where passengers get off and back on have shops. Cape Liberty is primarily embarking and debarking. Passengers don’t stick around and embarking Summit which I have done four or five times there to Bermuda is relatively fast as it is a smaller ship. Debarking is fast too as they use facial recognition. There won’t be any other ships. Celebrity does one sailing a week during the summer and Royal Caribbean does about one sailing a week. Bayonne is an industrial port where they built a cruise terminal in a warehouse. Other cruise lines use Manhatten or Brooklyn. So there would not be enough business for any businesses. Some busnesses nearby have been mentioend but they are not walkable from the port.

Nothing at the cruise port itself. If you are driving to the port there was a Costco, Starbucks, CVS and supermarket near the road junction turn in.

The porters hang out in the area where the bags are put out.

My thought is that you would see some of the eclipse but maybe not the total eclipse. The captain could probably make it happen for Volendam to be in position for total. The next one over North America after 2024 won't be until 2044. If you really want to see it for sure I suggest coming to north Texas because it tends to be sunny weather. Today one year away it is sunny. Right now I have the shades down in my living room because of the bright sun.

Nice map. The total eclipse will be right over my home at 1:40 CDT.

I suggest an island tour with Heidi Cowan, https://www.bermudabyways.com/tours/ Depends what you mean by limited. If they can do a little walking, St.George is nice and compact. The National Museum at the Dockyard. There is a free trolley that runs around the Dockyard if they can't walk much. If they like beaches you can take a taxi to beautiful Horseshoe Bay. Taxis go right down and up to the beach. They would not have to walk far. Famous Homes and Hideaways cruise https://www.islandtourcentre.com/sightseeing-cruises/famous-homes-hideaways/

There are minibus shuttles running back and forth between the Dockyard and beautiful Horseshoe Bay all day $7 per person each way whch to me is a much better option than $15 admission fo a mediocre beach. The shuttles drop off right off and pick up at the beach so I think Horseshoe is accessible for most people who have mobility issues. The snorkel park's draw is that it is convienient and some people are on 5 day cruises, Baltimore sailings have the worst Bermuda itinerary that leave at 12 or 1 their last day in Bermuda and they don't want to venture far from the ships. That makes sense not to venture far if your ship leaves at noon. The cruises I have been on left at 3 or 4 and I did go to Horseshoe because I was familier with the island and knew it would not be a problem. If they had left at 12 or 1 I would find activities closer to the Dockyard, not snorkel park but other stuff close by. I think snorkel park is a good beach for toddlers. Toddlers won't notice it is mediocre, they willl love playing in the sand and parents with toddlers probably would not spend hours there anyway. I can't say for sure because the new owners of snorkel park are still something of an unknown but I think they will be open for busness. Because of the convience of being a short walk from the ship people are going to find it even if they don't have a fancy web site. Maybe in the off season they have been cooking up new ideas.

No one has posted that it is closed. It was open last November. It has not been beach weather since then so with cold water temperatures and air temperature in the 60s probably few would be heading to a beach that charges $15 admission plus $$ for rentals. Also perhaps they don’t open in the winter. Some Bermuda beaches the concessions don’t open until the end of April. No point in paying employees to staff until beach weather. When is your cruise? It will be easy enough for you to check if it is soon. @latebloomer56is planning to go at the end of April and probably will post something. I would not draw much conclusion by their website. When the new management took over Snorkel Park last year I am not sure that they took over the old website. I seem to recall there was only info leftover from the previous management and was not accurate. They really don’t need a website for that place.