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This one was a decent webinar unlike some of the others.

Every ship out of Bayonne or New York goes under the bridge. You don’t see another way because there is no other way in or out.

There is no reason to use the Hitch app to go from the Dockyard to either Horseshoe Bay or Hamilton or to any location unless you don't want to pay cash. There are plenty of taxis available at the Dockyard (where Kings Wharf is located). The Hitch app is taxi dispatch app. You are calling for a taxi when you use the app. Your ride is metered, it is not like Uber where you know the cost up front. If you use the Hitch app the taxi fare will have about 15% added on. The best way to get to Hamilton though is by ferry which costs $5, not by taxi. Where the Hitch app could come in handy would be if you are somewhere that don't hang around.

Two more cruise stops cancelled. "The two one-day stops understood to have been struck off are the Norwegian Escape, scheduled to call on Dockyard on November 15, and the Gem, also booked for King’s Wharf on December 20." https://www.royalgazette.com/tourism/news/article/20220915/more-cruise-ship-cancellations-as-businesses-slam-ta-form-requirements/

If that is the October 15 sailing it is listed now on the Travel Authorization website. Passengers on that sailing better get their applications in if they want to embark as at this late date it is unlikely Celebrity will drop Bermuda for that sailing and Celebrity has no reason to drop it as they won't have to do any testing.

That is logical. If the points are added and your status shows Elite then you won’t have to wait.

The cancellations: • The Celebrity Beyond, scheduled for October 22; • The Celebrity Silhouette, for October 30-31; • The Celebrity Edge, for November 4; • Norwegian Cruise Line Sun, for November 5; • The Celebrity Reflection, for November 10. https://www.royalgazette.com/tourism/news/article/20220913/two-cruise-lines-pull-bermuda-stops-over-covid-testing-rules/

Monday will be a public holiday to mark the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. https://www.royalgazette.com/politics/news/article/20220913/governor-declares-a-public-holiday-for-the-queens-funeral/

I don't bother looking for free Wifi anymore, I use the $10 a day travel passes my carrier offers which gives me cell service everywhere in Bermuda. And it is secure. When I did look for hotspots it was available at most restaurants. Just ask for the password. For example at the Frog and Onion at the Dockyard or Flanigans in Hamilton.

Here is a picture with their prices. This was taken a few months ago.

The watch does not have to be synced to the phone over Bluetooth for the fitness and workouts to work. You can also download muscic and podcasts and listen unconnected to the phone. Apple Pay works without bluetooth or internet. The watch can't connect to Cellular at Sea. They are adding International Roaming but I suspect that will be through your phone. Or maybe only on the new Series 8 watches shipping this Friday. I just installed Watch OS9 and they did not add it to my current watch Series 5.

There will be limitations without an internet connection and a phone nearby but it will do workouts and activity without an internet connection. It uses the accelerameter for those. It will measure heart rate. If the phone has an internet connection and it is nearby it will do everything except international roaming. International roaming is coming though.

Looked at some 1 day passes that I saved and they are green, not green and yellow. Yellow may have been on one of the other passes. They do use differrent colors for 2 and for 3 day passes.

If they don't punch them then they are still good. I have had bus drivers not punch them but usually they ended up being punched by the last trip I took that day. More often with the ferry they have not got punched one way at the Dockyard but they were punched on the return. They don't change the color yearly. I had some that Holland America handed out free, every time I got off they handed me one. That was to make up for their screw up not being able to dock in St. George. Ended up with 5 or 6 unused. I was using them years later. I don't know if they ever change the colors. I stopped buying bus passes about 7 years ago. As I recall one day passes were green and yellow. Change may be coming though an e-ticket system is on their wish list.

I think it was noted in many posts that Walkie Talkies are not the solution. They won't work well on the ship unless both users happen to be on the top outside deck. There are many obstructions. The reason that the "you can't hear me now" is often bothering people is because they can't be heard and keep trying to be heard. The ships paid WiFi as bad as may be is the best solution because there are access points all over the ship.

That was streaming. The basic was good enough for emails and text but I did not have the patience to wait for it to finish downloading the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. It would finish but it took too much time and sometimes the downloads would time out and I had to start over.

That's nice. I don't stream on a cruise. I download content in advance and watch off line. I have done FaceTime calls with no problem at all so I believe you. Have you tried any Zoom meetings?

I said I got 2 to 3 mbps not 5mpbs. The 25 mpbs is what the experts advise but I have not tried to stream onboard. I don't stream but I download the New York Times and Wall Street Journal to read offline at my leisure and it would always be painfully slow.

They count days. They don't count hours.

I have done speedtests and they were 2 to 3 mpbs. Pretty darn slow and it is pretty outrageous what Celebrity charges for that. On Royal Caribbean they charge about one third of what Celebrity charges. For video you need 25 mpbs.

Bermuda is deciding. Royal Caribbean has to follow Bermuda's requirements. Bermuda protocols overide Royal's requirements.

Sorry that does not fly. Bermuda enacted the Travel Authorization in the summer of 2020. The fee in 2021 for air visitors and then cruise visitors when cruises resumed was $75. All cruise visitors in 2021 had to do the TA and pay the fee which was $75 in 2021. If you somehow managed to book your cruise in 2020 you have had plenty of time to cancel your booking. The restrictions have been changed a number of times to lessor requirements throughout 2022. You had a long time to cancel your booking before final payment.

There are usually big discounts on that type of one way repositioning cruise. I don't know if that was the case with their sailing but I took one like it and it was a bargain. Wish they would stop their whining. They should have known what they were getting into.

Two days. They don’t want you to test too early. Saturday does not count so I believe that would be Thursday.

People lived for thousands of years without electricity and indoor plumbing. They did not miss it because they did not know about it. It had not been discovered or developed. We had not advanced to that yet. There are millions of people living now without electricity, indoor plumbing and internet now. Since it has been discovered and developed that is terrible . They need all three. It is arrogant to think that those who don't have something don't need it because they have not had it.