tonygcharles

I can tell you in May we did a shared Uber from the port in Bayonne to the Wall St area. It worked fine but cost us $70. My impression was if you can get to the NJ side of the river using public transit it would save a lot of money.

 

 

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Looks like it's going to take some planning!

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It was MTD so I guess they could do that but they put us in regular dining between services one night, then in someone else's area the next. I think I prebooked times but it seemed like they were sticking us in random places.

I thought that what MTD was supposed to be ? , U can go for dinner when U like , but U just have a randoms table when it came free.

We do the normal BOGO quite often

We where given the option mid cruise recently when the food was below standard in the main dining room , the head waiter offered it, we obviously had to pay , it was for the 2 of us just for 1 night

Here it is from someone that lives in the area. Depending on where you are staying in NYC and how much baggage you have, take the Path Train to Hoboken. At Hoboken take a cab to the ship. Very easy and stress free. A single trip on Path is $2.75 and I would guess $20 for a cab to the cruise terminal. That's how what I would do it.

That sounds like a cheaper way of doing it

We have 1 large suitcase and one hand luggage each

and staying at the "premier hotel times square nyc"

Hoping that there a not any stairs that we would have to carry our bags up ?

When I went on the Anthem, we took Dial7 car service. The cost was reasonable considering it was a Sun morning and the port is in the middle of nowhere. Car was prompt and expect around 30 mins from NYC to Bayonne.

Good to know they where prompt

When joining the ship I would find that important

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I live in Bayonne.

 

Best way? Hire an Uber or Lyft.

 

Public transit is a hassle. You'd have to take PATH from 33rd to Newport in Jersey City, walk over to the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, take that to 34th St. in Bayonne, and you'd still need a cab or an uber to get you to the Port because otherwise it would be a 2.5 mile walk.

Hi

That's great bit of advice seeing u live there

Where I live in UK we don't have uber , So I will have to get it set up

My son lives in London , he uses it all the time so he can give me some pointers

Please post on the East Coast Board with your exact cruise date and number of people. Usual recommendation is a car service like Dial7 or Carmellimo because it's a trip between NY and NJ. NY taxi is not recommended because it's not a metered fare and they can charge extra. Tolls run in the $20 range and 18-20% tip is expected on the base fare.

 

Public transit plus cab/Uber into the port is also an option.

Thank you

Have got a quote from Dial7 , as u said not cheap , so hopefully find an alternative

Just to clarify, but you will be departing from Cape Liberty which is located in Bayonne New Jersey https://www.cruisecritic.com/ports/newport.cfm?ID=137

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I've done the Bogo a few times

Only can be done on the 1st 2 nights . I done chops twice [emoji3]

I am doing the first night offer . But that's on a 3 night sailing

There was no Bogo offered on that cruise

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We are staying in Times Sq . Then going on Adventure of the sea from Cape Jersey NYC in the summer

And returning to Times Sq at the end of the cruise

Any advice how to get to and fro would be appreciated

Thanks in advance

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I find booking early as possible, I get the best prices . But I do travel high season

If you book direct if u need to change your booking rccl are very helpful

Some agents you will lose your deposit

I just booked mine recently direct via a cashback website and got 6% of my total cost back

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We been a diamond member for a couple of years now and done at least 6 cruises at that status. Soon to be diamond +

We have never found the lounge to get that busy . In between 7pm / 8pm it gets pretty full at times and they opened a door and taken a little area to overflow in to the bar next door

I hope that it not going be so busy as what some of you have experienced. As I fear that Royal might take away this facility. And replace it with something less in our favour

The free drinks save us a lot and love meeting new people in the lounge how regularly attend

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Can anyone provide information on the men's spa and fitness setup on Royal Caribbean's Adventure of the Seas? Is it similar to any of their larger ships like the Navigator, or the Freedom Class?

I'm going in July /Aug for 2 weeks . So I hope that that is correct

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Hi Tony,

Apologies for the delay on our response to your question. You do have complimentary sauna and steam room available in the gym. You do not need to pre-book this as you can just turn up and use it as long as the gym is open.

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I'm sailing on her in July . I asked rccl this question

They replied saying the complementary sauna steamroom was remaining

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I seen I guy wearing a track suit refused entry on rccl last month . But I recon u get in with the jeans

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Awful situation . Cruise company's are going the wY of airlines it seems . !?

We had booked to go Asia for my 60th next year .with Rccl . I discovered recent that the had reduced our cruise from 8days (6 stop)to 4 days with complete different itinerary (1 stop ) they tried telling me that's what I booked . After I challanged them. They amitted there was a change of itinerary. They Offered $200 obc to a future cruise .booked in the next 14 days . But my agent I booked with had to deal with it . They didn't contact me until the deadline after me chasing them to sort it . So they apologied to and gave us a further $200 obc and free WiFi on our next cruise

We have now booked a 2 week back to back of NYC to Canada then NYC to Bahamas .

All very frustrating

I would write to them and try to get more compensation. They won't want to lose you

Hope u have a great cruise.

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I've just booked Adventure of the sea for next August. I see it's having a $60 million refit before then . Does anyone know if it will affect the free sauna / steamroom ? 🤔

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Looks like they are quite late at assigning the rooms ,

but at least with the saver fare you pay less and you know the cabin grade you will get

and upgrade is a bonus

We are all set to go, just a week to wait

We brought the package off Cunard , so have chartered BA flights from London to Athens then transfers

Tony

Sounds good to me . Are u on the queen Victoria too📻 ? 😎

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Which ship are you sailing on ?

If it's a upgrade. I guess it must be a better cabin for some reason 😎

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I was the same . Kept checking hourly 😀 .. on the website it tells you what to do . Like put your booking code on your baggage

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UPDATE

Just checked and I see they have assigned us our cabin

It's what we payed for in a decent position

So it was worth doing as it cost a lot less than us choosing our cabin :cool:

Seeif we get the dinner time we prefered now :p

We must be very lucky, but we have been offered an upgrade on most of our Cunard cruises, unless we have specified not to.

We have only done a couple on Cunard , we vary on which itinerary and ship , like to try different ones

We will be returning to Victoria tho because we had a great cruise from Dubai to uk a few years ago on her :cool:

Wow ..thats a nice cabin / suite? ..If it anything like that i'll be well happy :D

We cruise about 4/ 5 times a year , and try to get a balcony , last year we chose a ocean view because of the price difference and where lucky enough to get up graded to a balcony , but thats a rare occasion to get upgraded we find :confused:

Same here for our TA crossing last December.

 

We were very happy with the allocated Q5 (9040)...

 

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