UKWLDCruise

Just now, UKWLDCruise said:

 

5 hours ago, Mim Lloyd said:

I did post this question on the Florida discussion port and it was suggested I post it here. We'll be docking back at Port Canaveral after our cruise on the Harmony of the Seas. Our flight back to the UK from Orlando airport doesn't leave until early evening so we're looking to do an excursion to the Space Centre at Cape Canaveral followed by a drop off at the airport. We'll have all our luggage with us. Do RCI offer this? There's nothing showing on my cruise planner so wonder if it's something you can only book when on the ship. Or are there any independent operators that offer this that anyone can recommend? If so, would they be cheaper than any the ship may offer?

I have done that run a couple of times and they do offer the excursion you were asking about. 

5 hours ago, Mim Lloyd said:

I did post this question on the Florida discussion port and it was suggested I post it here. We'll be docking back at Port Canaveral after our cruise on the Harmony of the Seas. Our flight back to the UK from Orlando airport doesn't leave until early evening so we're looking to do an excursion to the Space Centre at Cape Canaveral followed by a drop off at the airport. We'll have all our luggage with us. Do RCI offer this? There's nothing showing on my cruise planner so wonder if it's something you can only book when on the ship. Or are there any independent operators that offer this that anyone can recommend? If so, would they be cheaper than any the ship may offer?

15 minutes ago, LorraineP said:

What are blue light cabins on Anthem?

There are some free cruises being set aside for NHS workers that you could apply for

Nov/Dec 19 Celeb Rome to Dubai was my last one.  It does seem funny not to have a cruise booked.

The earliest I am looking to book is winter 2022, if they had committed to departures from Barbados for then I would have booked by now. 

8 hours ago, Coralc said:

Is the movie in Spanish? It looks entertaining. 

Spanish and Polish languages, subtitled in English and others

13 hours ago, Domino D said:

How was the Suez Canal cruise?

very interesting with the armed guards, the pirate drill and the amazing sites like the acropolis and Petra but I was disappointed with fellow passengers who went on excursions they had no chance of keeping up with.  The visit to Petra was cut short because people kept dropping out including one who had worn flimsy sandals and fell out a few yards on the path in and the visit to the white mosque was incomplete because the guide kept on having to wait for people to catch up.  I would go again but most lines seem to have dropped this repositioning cruise 

Nov-Dec 2019 Suez Canal,  should have been away on the Boston Tampa repositioning a couple of weeks ago.  First time in 30 years I haven't got a booked cruise.

2017 leaving Empress to tour Havana, pity about the water rolling down the window

On the other hand normally there are not that many shore excursions without at least one shop on the itinerary.  Limited number of cleared shops perhaps for supervised visits, like the cleared buses, drivers and tour guides.  

I was lucky enough to catch Gene Anthoney Ray's act in the early nineties.  

Or enough ports declare bans for large passenger number carrying ships and the big boys are all redundant apart from ferrying people to and from Coco Cay and Labadee.  No one really knows and the way they are all losing money the idea that the companies  we know won't be around much longer is not that wild.

15 hours ago, justKirbo said:

I'm sure you could go to NY anytime you want. You might have issues getting home, but you could certainly visit NY. What does your country require now for coming home from the US? If it's just a 14 day quarantine, you could come now or wait till December.

 

I don't think you'll cruise from FL in April.

The 14 days on return is one thing but as the UK is saying no travel outside the 57 approved places any travel/health insurance would be void for anyone going to the US.  Sitting on a soon to be cancelled October cruise myself.

A few other lines have ships that home port in Barbados 

7 hours ago, Airbalancer said:

In Canada , they do call you to check And possible go and check on you 

 

 

In England and NI we do that as well.  No answer a few times then perhaps a visit by the police, can't find you well we do know your passport number for next time

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On 4/22/2020 at 8:13 PM, rimmit said:

Just out of curiosity, what are the vaccine requirements like in the UK for public schools.  In the US it is state dependent.  Some allow religious exemptions, some don’t.  Just curious.  

While there has been talk of introducing some legal requirement no government has taken the plunge as yet so no legal vaccine requirements in state schools in the UK. 

I have an October cruise from Boston to Tampa and I am almost giving up on that one so no chance for April

Empress is a special case but it seems to me that the main reason that UK and Australian based ships have non smoking casinos is the law banning indoor smoking in public areas/work places where they are home ported.  A little tighting of the Florida clean indoor air act perhaps.

The trans run I went on was the other way round but we had a different menu a day and different entertainment each day.  I will say though that the entertainment did vary in quality as we had dance troops from some of the islands which were brilliant and one night the incredibly bad Aussie boys,  their disco beat version of the Seekers 1967 Goergy Girl is still burn't into my brain from five years ago.  In the day there were talks about the islands, the history and their people.  Even the wifi held up for the entire trip and of course you get to meet King Neptune at the line crossing.

up until three days before

Quite frankly as a passenger that wasn't from the local area and hadn't cruised on her for x number of times I found it the worst RC cruise I have been on.  It started with check in, when I was told they don't get many people from outside the US, and got worse from there.  Generally the ship and crew seem to have been ported in one place too long

I have known it done two ways for end of cruise tours.  They either put it on a truck and you meet and collect it at the airport for no extra charge or more normally they put it into the coach you are travelling on.

I have done it the other way round.  I usually cruise with RC but I am open to travel on other lines if they are going where I want to go.  My single cruise on Celebrity was a minor disaster with docks booked with insufficient depth water for the ship, a written apology from the captain, everything running late, the crew disorganised and final disembarking that was a joke.  It was the first cruise after a TA so perhaps I should have known better.   That was a few years ago and I am about to give Celeb a second chance, of course this cruise may be the last with the line as well if this one is as bad as my first but I am hoping for better.

As a solo traveller I object to the way they want to charge you 200% even when you are almost doing them a favour by paying extra for an unsold room.