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I found it. Nevermind. https://www.faxafloahafnir.is/hafnaradstada/harbor/sundahofn-skarfabakki/ easy walk for us. https://maps.app.goo.gl/7CfeXr7QYvzHHffA6

Sort of topic question. 🤔 But where does ship dock? We have tour starting at Harper Center in downtown.

The Eurostar site allows a through ticket now. But it did not until after we had already booked. The Through ticket was also cheaper. Oh well, so much for advance planning. I contacted them about rebooking, but we bought the non-refundable tickets to save money.

We definitely concur with @onyx007 . When I consider the process of getting to the airport early, then security, then the risk of not getting our carryon bag on the plane because of space or size, the plane is just more stress. Then there's the risk of it not leaving on time. I don't want to fly on the small KLM City aircraft. From the port to the train station via the Tram is only 15-20 minutes. And then we're on, shortly after. I feel more relaxed on the train. Yes, we have to go through immigration off platform, and then connect to next train. But that's not that bad. We have musical tickets for two shows in London. But neither is on the day our train arrives.

We got the drink package with our cruise. So I guess 'every hour' is happy hour. 🙂

I happened to be traveling on July 20. That's the last day that EuroStar is going from Rotterdam to Brussels. 🙂. After that the trip will be on only on SCNB which is about 2hrs rather than the roughly 1hr on Eurostar. We have 1.5hr layover in Brussels. So not too concerned if first leg is a little late.

Yes, I found it has to be booked as two tickets.

I was just dealing with this exact situation. And by chance thought I would see if any threads were discussing this on CC. Our cruise to Iceland on the Rotterdam from Rotterdam is from Jul 6 - Jul 20. Afterwards, I did the research on the Eurostar is still traveling from Rotterdam to Brussels and then can get the Brussels to London connection. From what I can tell a 45 minute platform change is all that's required. Here's the schedule we are going to do: Rotterdam to Brussels Train #ER9328 9:59 - 11:08 Brussels to London Train #ES9135 12:52 - 13:57

One thing that I don’t care for on some older celebrity ships like the equinox is the single huge dining room. That vaults up to the 2nd next level. It’s always very loud and hard to have a conversation without feeling that you either can’t hear or need to talk loudly for others to hear you. This is not an issue with the princess dining rooms. Which have a single level ceiling and feel more intimate and cozy. Despite their size.

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Be careful with your WiFi calling plan, depending on the Repeater, your carrier might treat it was an International call, even though YOU are on a US plan, calling to a US number. This info is buried deep on the Carriers websites. At least it was for Verizon. You might want to check on using WhatsApp or Facetime audio for calls.

No. It means you're being 'fleeced'. 😉

I do think you raise a good question. This is not like a concert, musical, play or other venue, where tickets are bought in advance, so a know number of seats that are needed or used very specifically in most cases. Not taking into account any 'packages', on one cruise we never went to any of the shows, and on the next we went to 3. My buying a package for drinks, etc. would have no correlation as to whether I go to a show. So is there a time at which before the show, that the reserved seats/rows would be forfeited. That would seem to defeat the purpose of privilege of not having to show up so early for a preferred seat.

You're correct. It was terrible that people were still clubbing up there during this.

The only big changes I can remember, were when they removed the old Skywalker lounges on the older ships that were elevated in the back of the ships. I was so disappointed with that. That was a great place to just read and relax quietly indoors during the day.