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    Long Drive to the Cruise

    in Royal Caribbean International

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    OP: I would not do that drive straight through, I would stop over for a night. It's not just the distance, which alone will be tiring, but the challenges posed by the amount of traffic down I-95 from New Jersey until Richmond, VA (at the very least). I hope you are planning to leave NJ before dawn and get a jump on that traffic. The traffic volume should be less after Virginia, but it's not like 95 is a beautiful, scenic road. Please also keep in mind that the entire state of South Carolina is a speed trap; be careful on the accelerator there. And there's usually a great deal of traffic around Jacksonville, Fla, and of course you then have much of the Florida east coast to navigate. Lots of traffic there as well.

     

     

     

    My wife and I both dislike flying, and we do opt for "road trips" like this, but it's important to be realistic about the negatives (especially during a holiday weekend) and not romanticize the whole "road trip" notion.

     

     

     

    Since you live in NJ, I assume you have an EZ-Pass (it's a must for this trip).

     

     

     

    Enjoy your cruise!

     

     

     

    I second this! I love road trips. I don’t love the 2-3 hours it takes to get from roughly DC Beltway to Fredericksburg on I95 (maybe 40 miles) Every year I drive from Baltimore to Mrytle Beach and the only way I have found to miss that traffics is drive over night. It is starting to back up before 6am. The Delaware/MD state line can also be pretty bad. Unless you clear the Northeast/mid Atlantic overnight, it will be more stop and go. Leaving at the wrong time for South Carolina easily adds 3 extra hours to an already long 8 hr drive (one year on the day before the 4th of July it was over 4 hours). Weekends in the summer can be just as bad as week day commuter traffic. I don’t know much about Jersey traffic so I have no idea what you are getting there.

     

     

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    Just book Grandeur questions

    in Royal Caribbean International

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    How far is it from Dulles to the pier as we want to fly direct but Southwest flies to BWI but it's in US dollars, do you know if you pre book everything is it in US dollars or CDN like we booked the cruise in.

     

     

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    Try find a BWI flight, traffic from Dulles to Baltimore is miserable.

     

     

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