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When you check in for the bus, DCL will be able to print them right there. DCL uses airline style luggage tags, so it's no big deal for them to print them out. In case anyone else finds this post, if your going directly to the port, the curb side porters will print them out as well.

So the 3/4 night sailings are just to get a taste of what DCL has to offer. I've done them on the Dream and also done the 7 night sailing on the Fantasy (same class), and the overall feeling is very different. With the short sailings, most of the people on board are attacking the activities simular to the WDW minute by minute touring plans. So it feels so rushed. But with the longer sailings, most people relax into the cruise, they take time to breath and aren't rushing around. The buzz and complaints around the Wish is only because it is new, and soon people will be moving on to the Treasure and then the 3rd ship in the class. If you look at the prices, usually, the 4n on the Wish is priced around 5-7 nights on the other ships. I did the 7night Western Fantasy cruise for my 40th and it was amazing. There's not enough differences in the DCL ships that I would pick any of them over the itinerary and length.

The beer package is the same price as the bucket special or beer mug onboard. The water on the ship is made thru reverse osmosis and is very tasty.

The post covid restart DCL had someone by the turn into the terminal checking your PAT. But has since moved that person near the check in area.

DCL enforces the early PAT times, due to people showing up early and needing to spread out the workload/crowd. Once they transition to open boarding, they stop looking at the PAT. The exact time this happens varies on each cruising based on a lot of things. My rule of thumb, is anything before noon, don't arrive before your PAT. For the early PATs, if your lucky, they will let you arrive 15 minute early. I've arrived 16 minutes early and the guy held us there for a minute before we could drop off our luggage.

Before 9pm is when most of the family friendly activities happen. After 9pm, most of them switch over the adults only. In the USA we still suffer the affects of Puritan and Prohibition, so our cultural norms are to not have kids around alcohol. This will be the norm for Carnival, Celebrity and most other cruise lines when sailing out of the USA. I'm just happy DCL allows liquor sales on Sundays.

The hair drier onboard is 220V, make sure you are using the outlet that says "Hairdrier". Anyone that complains that it doesn't have any power plugged the drier into the 110v outlet.

Given there are now 2 vaccines approved for 6months to 5 years old, the previous exemption might not apply. Wait about a week and ask if the 6 week window still applies.