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I never been to Bermuda before. Since your mother is 80 yrs old, would she rather stay at a beach all or most of the day? Have you asked what she would like to do? One of the beach a lot of people mentioned is the Horseshoe Bay. If you Google what are somethings to do in Bermuda, you would get a list. I listed two sites for you:

 

https://www.ncl.com/travel-blog/top-beaches-to-visit-on-a-bermuda-cruise?cid=SM_NCL_PRO_BRA_FBK_BLG_WLP_CRUISEARTICLES_BERMUDABLOG51118_NA_NA

 

travel.usnews.com/Bermuda/Things_To_Do/

 

Have a fun cruise!

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I never been to Bermuda before. Since your mother is 80 yrs old, would she rather stay at a beach all or most of the day? Have you asked what she would like to do? One of the beach a lot of people mentioned is the Horseshoe Bay. If you Google what are somethings to do in Bermuda, you would get a list. I listed two sites for you:

 

 

 

https://www.ncl.com/travel-blog/top-beaches-to-visit-on-a-bermuda-cruise?cid=SM_NCL_PRO_BRA_FBK_BLG_WLP_CRUISEARTICLES_BERMUDABLOG51118_NA_NA

 

 

 

travel.usnews.com/Bermuda/Things_To_Do/

 

 

 

Have a fun cruise!

 

 

 

The US News link does not open so I can't comment on that.

 

 

 

The NCL link is an ad to push and sell their cruise line beach excursions. Don't buy an NCL beach excursion. Horseshoe Bay is one of the top beaches but you can easily do it on your own and get there inexpensively. Snorkel Park beach is not a top beach. It is a man made beach and not that nice.

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The US News link does not open so I can't comment on that.

 

 

 

The NCL link is an ad to push and sell their cruise line beach excursions. Don't buy an NCL beach excursion. Horseshoe Bay is one of the top beaches but you can easily do it on your own and get there inexpensively. Snorkel Park beach is not a top beach. It is a man made beach and not that nice.

 

I think I've mentioned this before, but it's worth repeating. It's not always good advice to NCL passengers to tell them not to take the cruise line's excursions. Many NCL passengers will have shore excursion credits given as a booking promotion. Using these credits can lessen or totally eliminate the cost of taking the NCL excursion to Horseshoe Bay, or elsewhere. I've done it myself...taken the NCL excursion van to Horseshoe Bay, 100% paid for with the shore excursion credit, rather than taking and paying for the Horseshoe Bay mini vans available to the general public.

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I think I've mentioned this before, but it's worth repeating. It's not always good advice to NCL passengers to tell them not to take the cruise line's excursions. Many NCL passengers will have shore excursion credits given as a booking promotion. Using these credits can lessen or totally eliminate the cost of taking the NCL excursion to Horseshoe Bay, or elsewhere. I've done it myself...taken the NCL excursion van to Horseshoe Bay, 100% paid for with the shore excursion credit, rather than taking and paying for the Horseshoe Bay mini vans available to the general public.

 

 

 

I think people with Shore Excursions credits would know they need to use them on shore excursions.

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I think people with Shore Excursions credits would know they need to use them on shore excursions.

 

How does that change the fact that your advice of "Don't buy an NCL beach excursion" isn't correct? Years ago I would have agreed with you, but for the past couple of years it's simply bad advice for NCL passengers.

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How does that change the fact that your advice of "Don't buy an NCL beach excursion" isn't correct? Years ago I would have agreed with you, but for the past couple of years it's simply bad advice for NCL passengers.

 

I think people who have onboard credit can figure out that the advice applies to spending their own money, not to using shore excursion credits or other onboard credit. There are exceptions to all advice. They don't have to be listed every time.

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I think people who have onboard credit can figure out that the advice applies to spending their own money, not to using shore excursion credits or other onboard credit. There are exceptions to all advice. They don't have to be listed every time.

 

It is a personal decision and thanks to this thread I'm rethinking it.

 

 

I'm going to change to ShoreEx credit for our Bermuda cruise as we have plenty of Wifi minutes due to our Plat Plus (60 each) and Casino Ruby Tier (400 minutes). As Platinum Plus we get 15% off of Shore Excursions, then apply the $50 and the small remainder will be easily covered with OBC. We normally do not book excursions through the ship but for Bermuda the minibus to Horseshoe Bay is looking good.

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Not to mention the fact that the OP would have a hard time purchasing an NCL shore excursion since they're going to Bermuda on Celebrity's "Summit".

 

Except Charles4515 wasn't responding to the OP. He was replying to and quoted the second post in the thread, made by another poster, which had a link to an NCL blog...and Charles made a specific statement telling that poster to not buy an NCL shore excursion.

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