TamaLee

On 8/8/2023 at 9:30 AM, Lost in Italy said:

This sounds great! Food AND City Tour. Would you share which tour you took? Will be there later this year on a cruise.

We did the Signature Taco Tour.

Great tour in P.V.    So much food and a great tour of the city as well.  Can't say enough great things.

 

https://www.vallartaeats.com/

We use Scootaround for our Alaska cruise out of Seattle last year.  They had a booth right outside the terminal.  Easy to pick up and easy to drop off.

Hi there.  Just wanted to share our experience from our first cruise with a renal scooter.

 

Both the cruise line and the rental company said the scooter would fit through the cabin door.  

 

Let me tell you that it did not.  Even if it did there would have been no where in the room to store it.  This was in a standard balcony cabin.  

 

However, our stateroom attendant told us that we could leave the scooter in the hallway during the day when we weren't using it and he would store it it out of the way and charge it at night.  Every morning it was parked out side our door ready to go.

 

I think this was possible since we had an aft cabin and there wasn't a lot of traffic.

 

We are not in an aft cabin for our upcoming cruise in October.  So fingers crossed we are able to make the same arrangement.

 

Just know that if you are not in an ADA cabin that the scooter will NOT fit inside or even if it did would take up a huge amount of space in the room.

 

 

And the test results are in........Negative!  See you on the ship!

This has been a great topic.  I didn't know that Carnival promotes you at the start of your cruise and not after completion.  Yeah for being Platinum on my Panorama cruise in February!

Thanks for taking the time to do a review.  We are sailing on the Anthem in October.  Can't wait.

We took the train provided by Royal.  It was the a great option.  Drops you right off at the airport.  If that is available for you based on your flight I would recommend it.  Great views and a relaxing way to end your vacation.

Does anyone have thoughts on staying at the Hilton Newark Airport?  I have the Embassy Suites booked right now but the Hilton Newark Airport is about $50 cheaper and has a restaurant on site.  We are flying in the night before our cruise on October 23rd and just need a place to crash and have dinner.  

Don't wait for the formal email.  Send an email asking for a cabana and the type you'd like.  If you know the number include that as well.  If you wait until you get the formal email lots of times they are already all gone and you get put on a waiting list.  We love the Cabana's and Labadee.  

Clinking on the ship name doesn't get you anything.  I just saw a listing of posts with the word "Royal" in them.  So that code isn' working.

 

I was able to get champagne so a Bloody Mary shouldn't be a problem.

I also believe you have only 30 days from the time the certificate is issued to book the cruise. This was a new requirement they just implemented recently. We received a free cruise certificate from our April Freedom cruise. We could not sail on any of the published cruise in 2018 on the back of the certificate so we used the $1000 off for a cruise in 2019. This was for a free balcony. You also have to sail within one year of the issue date.

You can still use the old URL

 

https://secure.royalcaribbean.com/mycruises/processLogin.do

People on the ship are saying that it's a propulsion problem. Probably why there are divers in the water..

Does anyone know if you get free internet? I know you do on the Oasis class ships.

Cruisegirl6 - I'm trying to find out if the Harmony stays on ships time while in San Juan. Do you remember? I am booking a private tour and San Juan will be on Atlantic time vs Eastern/Ship time in November. I'm guessing she stays on ships time but would like confirmation.

Does anyone know if Harmony stays on ships time while in San Juan? I'm guessing yes but would like confirmation. I'm booking a private tour in San Juan and San Juan will be on Atlantic time vs Eastern time/ship time.

I see you are still in port? Do you know what they delay is?

It's also good to know what Pier/Terminal your ship is docked at. In November we were sailing from Terminal 3 in FLL. I didn't know this at the time and when I requested our Uber just put in Port Everglades Terminal.

 

The driver was deaf and we couldn't help him with directions. He took us all the way to the other side of the port. Instead of a five minute trip it was a 35 minutes trip and three times what it should have been.

 

My bad and I've learned my lesson.

If you forget to put your booking number on your redemption request should you call to make sure it gets applied to your sailing?

On the redemption site where does it show when the points expire? I don't see that anywhere.

Can't wait to read the rest!

Thanks for all this information. We are sailing on our first Princess cruise in November.

We are Diamond and have always purchased the drink package. We do enjoy the drinks, water, specialty coffee's etc. So you just need to calculate how much you drink in an average day and decide if it's worth it for you.

 

I don't like the wine that is offered in the CL so we don't usually have drinks there. I also don't like the atmosphere of the CL's on the newer ships so tend to not get drinks here before dinner.

 

A typical day for us is an adult beverage such as a Bloody Mary in the morning or maybe an adult coffee. One or two drinks with lunch. Drinks by the pool. Drink before dinner. Drinks with dinner. Drinks after dinner. You get the point :p:D:eek:

 

For us it's a bargain. But as you stated in your post it's an individual decision.