cruisin0504 Posted February 5, 2018 #1 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Hi - coming to Bermuda in late May for 3 days on the Summit. My mom is 80 and gets around slow, but OK. Can't step down in to a boat from a dock etc. We are doing an island tour on the middle day. What would be best ideas for Wed and Friday? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poohdreaming Posted May 13, 2018 #2 Share Posted May 13, 2018 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles4515 Posted May 14, 2018 #3 Share Posted May 14, 2018 (edited) 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. Edited May 14, 2018 by Charles4515 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njhorseman Posted May 14, 2018 #4 Share Posted May 14, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles4515 Posted May 14, 2018 #5 Share Posted May 14, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njhorseman Posted May 14, 2018 #6 Share Posted May 14, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles4515 Posted May 14, 2018 #7 Share Posted May 14, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sand and Seas Posted May 15, 2018 #8 Share Posted May 15, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marco Posted May 15, 2018 #9 Share Posted May 15, 2018 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". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njhorseman Posted May 15, 2018 #10 Share Posted May 15, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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