AmyJA Posted September 6, 2023 #2351 Share Posted September 6, 2023 56 minutes ago, Saint Greg said: After that I am ready for a break from the airports. Fortunately four of my next five cruises I'm driving to. I will be flying to Miami in April for an ABC on Horizon. Another that is on my list. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balcony bound Posted September 6, 2023 #2352 Share Posted September 6, 2023 1 hour ago, BohJang said: My homeport is Galveston and I think I have been to just about everywhere possible from there. I wish that there were longer cruises from Galveston so I could explore more places without having to fly. I cruise mainly for destinations, not ships. I despise flying. I keep telling my husband that we should move to Florida so we could drive to all their cruise ports. Maybe some day. We live about 15 minutes from Port Canaveral. We no longer cruise out of any other port. Reading things like Saint Greg's difficulties only reinforces our choice LOL. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelGirlinDallas Posted September 6, 2023 #2353 Share Posted September 6, 2023 I hope work is being kind to you today after your rough couple of days. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted September 6, 2023 Author #2354 Share Posted September 6, 2023 2 hours ago, BohJang said: My homeport is Galveston and I think I have been to just about everywhere possible from there. I wish that there were longer cruises from Galveston so I could explore more places without having to fly. I cruise mainly for destinations, not ships. I despise flying. I keep telling my husband that we should move to Florida so we could drive to all their cruise ports. Maybe some day. Yeah my first 10 cruises were from New Orleans and Galveston. It got old and I had to start flying around. At least jubilee is coming. If you can’t get excited about the ports, it helps to have a new ship. At some point you run out of places to go from Florida as well. I’m getting close. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dallasdan Posted September 6, 2023 #2355 Share Posted September 6, 2023 @Saint Greg Now that you have done Alaska twice, what month did you prefer for the weather. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depplep Posted September 6, 2023 #2356 Share Posted September 6, 2023 2 minutes ago, Saint Greg said: Yeah my first 10 cruises were from New Orleans and Galveston. It got old and I had to start flying around. At least jubilee is coming. If you can’t get excited about the ports, it helps to have a new ship. At some point you run out of places to go from Florida as well. I’m getting close. Absolutely! We're going to Alaska partly because I've seen most all of the Caribbean ad nauseam and that's where you can get to from a Florida port other than a TA and we unfortunately don't get that kind of vacation time to use all at once. We always said we would do Alaska when we got old. I guess late 50's is old. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare eileeshb Posted September 6, 2023 #2357 Share Posted September 6, 2023 23 hours ago, AmyJA said: And airlines. Think anyone that travels a bit knows that pooh happens. I remember traveling form Ireland to England I missed a connection to the US. She could get me to Vancouver BC. I told her that was not good enough. She told me "You can just rent a car to get home." I told her I was not driving over 300 miles to get home. Now imagine an Irish person arranging a business trip from Ireland to the US and an American Express travel agent in the UK saying London to Phoenix.. I’m left saying “and how do I get to London? “ this while I was working in an office within spitting distance of Shannon Airport which has US preclearance. 22 hours ago, Saint Greg said: I had to go e to c. You follow b/c signs and end up in b. But then you go down two floors below b and b’s luggage claim and fast walk it under b then back up stairs to c kind of feels like you’re entering a casino down there. I remember that walkway… I went through it in 1994 and it looks the exact same!! you have my sympathies for the travel travails… I’ve traveled to the USA from Ireland over 20 times on a mix of work and leisure and have had a variety of “fun” experiences. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hogladyrider Posted September 6, 2023 #2358 Share Posted September 6, 2023 21 minutes ago, Saint Greg said: At some point you run out of places to go from Florida as well. I’m getting close. That is exactly what happened to us as Central Florida residents..same ol same ol ports just a different ship. Now trying out west coast destinations and loving it! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted September 6, 2023 Author #2359 Share Posted September 6, 2023 3 hours ago, ninjacat123 said: Looking forward to your upcoming reviews! When and where is the next cruise? Standard western Caribbean (Cozumel, Belize, Roatan) but on Princess in November. 15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted September 6, 2023 Author #2360 Share Posted September 6, 2023 For those keeping score. The post office held 0 pieces of mail this time. 1 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Traveling Man Posted September 6, 2023 #2361 Share Posted September 6, 2023 4 hours ago, Saint Greg said: After that I am ready for a break from the airports. Fortunately four of my next five cruises I'm driving to. I will be flying to Miami in April for an ABC on Horizon. What port can you drive to from Dallas? Galveston? New Orleans? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted September 6, 2023 Author #2362 Share Posted September 6, 2023 3 hours ago, AmyJA said: Another that is on my list. It's been on mine for awhile and thanks to that sale from spring last year, I'm getting it for about a third of what it's normally listed at. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rulers Mom Posted September 6, 2023 #2363 Share Posted September 6, 2023 4 hours ago, Saint Greg said: After that I am ready for a break from the airports. Fortunately four of my next five cruises I'm driving to. I will be flying to Miami in April for an ABC on Horizon. ABC - ? I’ve never heard that term. Google says it means Aruba Bonaire Curaçao? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Traveling Man Posted September 6, 2023 #2364 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Just now, Rulers Mom said: ABC - ? I’ve never heard that term. Google says it means Aruba Bonaire Curaçao? Exactamundo. 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BohJang Posted September 6, 2023 #2365 Share Posted September 6, 2023 8 minutes ago, Saint Greg said: Standard western Caribbean (Cozumel, Belize, Roatan) but on Princess in November. We are doing that same cruise on Thanksgiving week. What week are you going? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BohJang Posted September 6, 2023 #2366 Share Posted September 6, 2023 7 minutes ago, The Traveling Man said: What port can you drive to from Dallas? Galveston? New Orleans? Yes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HxFx Posted September 6, 2023 #2367 Share Posted September 6, 2023 1 hour ago, Saint Greg said: At some point you run out of places to go from Florida as well. I’m getting close. I know you mentioned your ABC cruise next year but I’m not sure what other Southern Caribbean islands you have gone to so far. If you’re going to have to fly anyway, I highly recommend cruises out of San Juan (a relatively short distance flight with minimal time change) . A lot of different ports from Florida ports. I loved Dominica and Grenada especially and they have a lot of varied scenery to offer. Ships out of San Juan routinely hit St. Lucia, St. Kitts, Antigua, and Barbados. I’m hoping to hit Martinique in the not too distant future. They are often very port intensive cruises. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommapadraig Posted September 6, 2023 #2368 Share Posted September 6, 2023 11 minutes ago, BohJang said: Yes We winter in Mission,Tx. I’m looking at Galveston for future cruises. We could also drive to New Orleans. We’ve never cruised the Caribbean or cruised out of Florida. After our last Europe cruise next April it may be time. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted September 6, 2023 Author #2369 Share Posted September 6, 2023 14 minutes ago, BohJang said: We are doing that same cruise on Thanksgiving week. What week are you going? It's not Thanksgiving. Mid-November. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted September 6, 2023 Author #2370 Share Posted September 6, 2023 8 minutes ago, HxFx said: I know you mentioned your ABC cruise next year but I’m not sure what other Southern Caribbean islands you have gone to so far. If you’re going to have to fly anyway, I highly recommend cruises out of San Juan (a relatively short distance flight with minimal time change) . A lot of different ports from Florida ports. I loved Dominica and Grenada especially and they have a lot of varied scenery to offer. Ships out of San Juan routinely hit St. Lucia, St. Kitts, Antigua, and Barbados. I’m hoping to hit Martinique in the not too distant future. They are often very port intensive cruises. I have done San Juan, St. Kitts, St. Maarten. The one cruise I was looking at with CruiseNext was Viva out of the DR hitting some of those Southern Caribbean ports I haven't been to. But I did not purchase CruiseNext. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted September 6, 2023 Author #2371 Share Posted September 6, 2023 31 minutes ago, The Traveling Man said: Galveston? New Orleans? Yeah. Three of mine are Galveston but I'm also going to drive to Mobile. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BohJang Posted September 6, 2023 #2372 Share Posted September 6, 2023 That's too bad. I would love to meet your monkey! @TxTeach79 will be on the Thanksgiving one. I don't know if he has a monkey I could meet but he does have some cool shirts.. 10 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted September 6, 2023 Author #2373 Share Posted September 6, 2023 1 hour ago, eileeshb said: Now imagine an Irish person arranging a business trip from Ireland to the US and an American Express travel agent in the UK saying London to Phoenix.. I’m left saying “and how do I get to London? “ this while I was working in an office within spitting distance of Shannon Airport which has US preclearance. I remember that walkway… I went through it in 1994 and it looks the exact same!! you have my sympathies for the travel travails… I’ve traveled to the USA from Ireland over 20 times on a mix of work and leisure and have had a variety of “fun” experiences. My favorite military refueling stop was at the airport in Shannon. It was about 2am. Everything was closed. But they opened one bar. We packed it and drank a lot of Guinness. I was....19. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted September 6, 2023 Author #2374 Share Posted September 6, 2023 4 hours ago, Mommapadraig said: We have decided not to stay in Barcelona overnight after the cruise next April.I’m wondering if we’ll be lucky enough to get one of the 11:00 am flights (which is doable..we did it last time we ended in Barcelona.) or a 27 hour flight to get home. It’s a NCL crap shoot but right now it saves us 1500. I check airline prices all the time and so far it hasn’t changed. I doubt the cruise line is going to book you an 11am flight on debarkation day. They'll probably stick you with a late one. Before I booked my Barcelona flight with Carnival the best deal for me was going to be Air Portugal. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted September 6, 2023 Author #2375 Share Posted September 6, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, dallasdan said: @Saint Greg Now that you have done Alaska twice, what month did you prefer for the weather. I don't know if my answer would be fair because I probably got a warmer than usual week in May and a colder than usual week in August. I had better weather in May but two weeks ago they got up into the 70's in Icy Strait. But different things come with both of the times of year. May you may see more ice/snow but not the glacier calving I saw at Hubbard last week. In May fewer bears but more eagles. That's something I really didn't mention. I saw a ton of eagles last year. I only saw three this year. One of the guides told me that's because the eagles are feeding on the salmon now. Maybe there's a time in the middle when there's a good balance of everything. The glacier walk I went on is better when it's colder because you can go inside ice caves. This time of year it's too dangerous. Edited September 6, 2023 by Saint Greg 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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