JBethM Posted April 13, 2022 #101 Share Posted April 13, 2022 32 minutes ago, CruiseCriticAaron said: Great question -- and the answer varies by port. In Kahului, I took both taxis and Ubers -- and taxis were the easiest by far as they're allowed into the Port area, whereas Ubers seem to pick up about a half-mile away at Long's Drugs. My taxi ride was also cheaper -- about $11 to the airport each direction, not including tip. Bring cash; drivers are really reluctant to take credit cards for the short trip. Here in Hilo, there is a free shuttle to car rental agencies, presumably at Hilo Airport, which is just a stone's throw away. Naturally, I didn't rent a car today! Both Hilo and Kahului are industrial ports; I definitely recommend taking a shore excursion or renting a car. We walked around today and found a nice place to eat lunch, but probably should have taken a tour. Here's a sign today in Hilo advertising the rental car shuttle: Thanks so much! Will you update us on situation on stops in Maui & Kauai, as well, please? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da1425 Posted April 13, 2022 #102 Share Posted April 13, 2022 45 minutes ago, Cindy said: We’re on the October 1st cruise that is staying overnight in Hilo and skipping Kona. We’re thinking about having dinner off the ship that night. Really? Why are they skipping Kona? Is it only that one week? I'm booked two weeks later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da1425 Posted April 13, 2022 #103 Share Posted April 13, 2022 37 minutes ago, JBethM said: Thanks so much! Will you update us on situation on stops in Maui & Kauai, as well, please? Kahului is the Maui stop. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Sweethearts Posted April 13, 2022 #104 Share Posted April 13, 2022 2 hours ago, JBethM said: Thanks so much! Will you update us on situation on stops in Maui & Kauai, as well, please? What would you like to know? Perhaps we can help. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwms Posted April 13, 2022 #105 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Good news is the ship is only 50% capacity. Bad news is the ship is understaffed and those working are over worked. This has not been a smooth sailing and we are onboard with friends who have sailed POA twice before and they are not happy either. NCL has a lot of work ahead to iron out the problems they are having. Can’t confirm but we heard some workers quit and walked off the ship before leaving Honolulu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindy Posted April 13, 2022 #106 Share Posted April 13, 2022 7 hours ago, da1425 said: Really? Why are they skipping Kona? Is it only that one week? I'm booked two weeks later. It’s because the Ironman World Championship is in Kona that week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go4ak Posted April 13, 2022 #107 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Did they do a lei greeting when you checked in or boarded the ship? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare CruiseCriticAaron Posted April 13, 2022 Author #108 Share Posted April 13, 2022 4 hours ago, go4ak said: Did they do a lei greeting when you checked in or boarded the ship? There was a lei greeting at check-in. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare CruiseCriticAaron Posted April 13, 2022 Author #109 Share Posted April 13, 2022 10 hours ago, cwms said: Good news is the ship is only 50% capacity. Bad news is the ship is understaffed and those working are over worked. This has not been a smooth sailing and we are onboard with friends who have sailed POA twice before and they are not happy either. NCL has a lot of work ahead to iron out the problems they are having. Can’t confirm but we heard some workers quit and walked off the ship before leaving Honolulu. This is very much a return-to-service cruise and they're definitely still working out the kinks, which does include some venues being short-staffed. I haven't heard anything about crew walking off the ship in Honolulu. I'd be very cautious about spreading information that can't be confirmed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare CruiseCriticAaron Posted April 13, 2022 Author #110 Share Posted April 13, 2022 A few more photos from around Pride of America...very happy to see there are some local brews onboard from Kona Brewing, and that numerous cocktails are made with Pau Maui Vodka. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zounds Posted April 13, 2022 #111 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Thanks very much, Aaron for the info and lovely photos ! We're really looking forward to our May 28th sailing and expect the bugs will be worked out by then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice2348 Posted April 13, 2022 #112 Share Posted April 13, 2022 22 hours ago, mfon1 said: Yes, we sail on June 4th and are anxiously awaiting our flights booked through NCL. I guess if you haven't received yours yet, I won't get mine soon either. We are hoping to go to Pearl Harbor on debarkation day. This Saturday is the first day we can book on the national parks site, so we'll go ahead and book a morning time and hope our flight home allows us time to do so. We did Pearl Harbor on the last day through NCL. It was an all day tour. There is a lot to see there. We ended up having to book a red eye flight home. Glad we did it, but we were up almost 24 hours. Just something to consider. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2spring Posted April 13, 2022 #113 Share Posted April 13, 2022 23 hours ago, mfon1 said: Yes, we sail on June 4th and are anxiously awaiting our flights booked through NCL. I guess if you haven't received yours yet, I won't get mine soon either. We are hoping to go to Pearl Harbor on debarkation day. This Saturday is the first day we can book on the national parks site, so we'll go ahead and book a morning time and hope our flight home allows us time to do so. You should be getting your flights in a week or so. We were told 35 to 45 days out and got them somewhere around 48 days. We are flying home to the East Coast and our flights are true Red Eyes, going out between 8:30-9P. I wouldn’t be surprised if yours are similar. It DOES give us a day of touring though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfon1 Posted April 13, 2022 #114 Share Posted April 13, 2022 1 hour ago, 2spring said: You should be getting your flights in a week or so. We were told 35 to 45 days out and got them somewhere around 48 days. We are flying home to the East Coast and our flights are true Red Eyes, going out between 8:30-9P. I wouldn’t be surprised if yours are similar. It DOES give us a day of touring though. Thank you. That’s what I figured would be the case which is fine with me. Then we could enjoy the day in Honolulu and hopefully sleep on the way home. I’ve been checking out google flights to see what the possibilities are. Let’s see which one we get. We may wind up booking a tour through NCL anyway because of the luggage situation. I wouldn’t know what else to do with them while we take a taxi/Uber to Pearl Harbor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBethM Posted April 13, 2022 #115 Share Posted April 13, 2022 17 hours ago, Silver Sweethearts said: What would you like to know? Perhaps we can help. Thank you. I was just wondering if there were shuttles, taxis, or ubers at all the ports taking passengers to get rental cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBethM Posted April 13, 2022 #116 Share Posted April 13, 2022 18 hours ago, da1425 said: Kahului is the Maui stop. Okay, thank you! I don't know why I was thinking Kona. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracelyn Posted April 13, 2022 #117 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Is anyone else having a problem finding this thread. I don’t see it on the topics threads I have to keep going into my profile where I have commented on it to read updates. What am I missing? Gracelyn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Paula_MacFan Posted April 14, 2022 #118 Share Posted April 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Gracelyn said: Is anyone else having a problem finding this thread. I don’t see it on the topics threads I have to keep going into my profile where I have commented on it to read updates. What am I missing? Gracelyn I haven't been getting notifications either, so I just saved it as a favorite on my computer and have been checking manually for updates. Glad I'm not the only one having issues 🙂 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinmanp7 Posted April 14, 2022 #119 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Could you please check the taxi situation for us tomorrow in Kaua’i? We are going to need to get a taxi for our private excursion when we are there. Thanks in advance. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Sweethearts Posted April 14, 2022 #120 Share Posted April 14, 2022 2 hours ago, JBethM said: Thank you. I was just wondering if there were shuttles, taxis, or ubers at all the ports taking passengers to get rental cars. Cruise Critic Aaron would be the one to ask about that since he seems to have been utilizing those services this week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfon1 Posted April 14, 2022 #121 Share Posted April 14, 2022 50 minutes ago, tinmanp7 said: Could you please check the taxi situation for us tomorrow in Kaua’i? We are going to need to get a taxi for our private excursion when we are there. Thanks in advance. Yes our family has a private excursion as well requiring a taxi in Kaui. Thanks for checking for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracelyn Posted April 14, 2022 #122 Share Posted April 14, 2022 2 hours ago, Paula_MacFan said: I haven't been getting notifications either, so I just saved it as a favorite on my computer and have been checking manually for updates. Glad I'm not the only one having issues 🙂 Phew it’s not me…it’s weird. Where are people seeing this?? It’s not in the thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeroWA Posted April 14, 2022 #123 Share Posted April 14, 2022 4 hours ago, Gracelyn said: Is anyone else having a problem finding this thread. I don’t see it on the topics threads I have to keep going into my profile where I have commented on it to read updates. What am I missing? Gracelyn It shows up as the 1st topic on my page when I log onto NCL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracelyn Posted April 14, 2022 #124 Share Posted April 14, 2022 34 minutes ago, GeroWA said: It shows up as the 1st topic on my page when I log onto NCL 34 minutes ago, GeroWA said: It shows up as the 1st topic on my page when I log onto NCL Hmmm it doesn’t show up anywhere on mine. Really odd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisonalm Posted April 14, 2022 #125 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Is it cold on board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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