styme123

Sheepshead Bay

Sounds good. Go whichever way suits you. I grew up in Brooklyn as well and that's why I avoid the Belt it's always a nightmare, you never know how it will be. Happy cruising!

No I don't go through Brooklyn at all. Use Waze or Google maps and it will give you better option than Belt Parkway.

I drove to the port end of February 2 weeks ago and made the same time as I did when I went there in July last year.

Nope I don't speed, and I don't take the Belt Parkway ever to get there.

Yeah that should be fine we left at 9:00 for 10:30 spot. Gave us time to spare.

I took the Williamsburg bridge when I went and through Holland I believe. Sunday morning no problem. during the week that would have been a different story.

I got off Anthem about 2 weeks ago and from my house in Nassau county it was 45-50 minutes to Cape Liberty on Sunday morning at 9:00. Used Waze.

Good video!

I don't know, I can only speak from my own experience. I live 20-25 min north-west of Plainview. I drove to the port this last weekend on Sunday at 9:00am it took me 50 min to get there. On the way back home from the port, I left the terminal parking garage on Sunday at 7:15am and was in my driveway 45 min later. At this point in the post I'm sure the OP will figure some place to stop.

I was asking the OP because it should not take 2 hours to get to the port from Plainview. More like 1.15min-1:30. So maybe they were leaving from a different starting point and not Plainview. Or if it's taking them that long maybe they were going a longer way around and would benefit from a different route suggestion.

The OP

We did British Isles last summer and loved it! We went on Emerald Princess out of Southampton. The ship was a little dated but we didn't really focus on the ship as it was such a port intensive cruise. It was a 12 day cruise with a great itinerary. The one stop that interchanges is either Liverpool or Orkney. We did Orkney. I think we only had 2 sea days so we were off the ship all those other days. We saw sooo much. We did private excursions with others from CC. Take a look back through some of the reviews and roll calls to give you an idea about what to expect. If you time it right for the first 3 weeks in Aug there is the Military Tattoo at Edinburgh Castle. It was wonderful!

Are you coming from Plainview?

Overlord was great!

If anyone stayed in one of these cabins can you comment on how it was? Any noise from above?

Thank you so much for your reply. It's very helpful when I'm trying to decide what to pick!

So I'm thinking the longer 13 day one would be better since we will see the Midnight Sun and the added port stops of Ålesund, and Bergen. Thoughts?

RC also has a 13 day that adds Bergen and Olden. You lose Stavanger. All the other ports are the same. Which would you choose?

Thank you so much for the reply. That's awesome that the ports are scenic with fjords going in/out and you can get off the ship and see the town-double bonus! I didn't realize that as when I was looking into HAL they specifically stated scenic fjord cruising. So I was thinking if it doesn't say it they don't in that deep and just stopped at the town. This itinerary from NCL is a bit cheaper by about $1000/1500. They have NCL Air also but I haven't used them before for plane tickets. It makes me a little nervous as I've heard some real mess-ups and horrible connection times/lay-overs etc. I was kind of trying to stay away from the itineraries that have Iceland as well as it's my intention to go see it on it's own later. London (Southampton),England Brussels / Bruges (Zeebrugge),Belgium Amsterdam,Netherlands Bergen,Norway Geiranger,Norway Ålesund,Norway Akureyri,Iceland Isafjordur,Iceland Reykjavik,Iceland

I'm just starting to look into some different itineraries for a July or Aug 24 cruise with a focus on just Norway. How do I know when looking at the ports if it just a sail in/out for the fjords or a stop where we get off the ship and do something in town or an excursion? Here is one from RC . What are your opinions about these ports? 1 Amsterdam, Netherlands Departs at 4:00 PM 2 Cruising Day at sea 3 Molde, Norway From 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM 4 Arctic Circle (Cruising), Norway 5 Honningsvag, Norway Tendered from 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM 6 Tromso, Norway From 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM 7 Arctic Circle (Cruising), Norway 8 Olden, Norway From 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM 9 Geiranger, Norway Tendered from 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM 10 Flam, Norway From 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM 11 Stavanger, Norway From 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM 12 Cruising Day at sea 13 Amsterdam, Netherlands Arrives at 6:00 AM

When we were on Princess we did a private tour with https://www.overlordtour.com/ I highly recommend them. Very professional, knowledgeable and cheaper than what Princess was offering. It was a very moving day.

Forgot for Invegordon, we did a independent group tour with Gavin from Invegordon tours.

For Edinburgh we did the X99 bus. It was super easy and right outside the dock. We also did the HOHO with it. We spent a lot of time at the Castle so we didn't have that much time to use the HOHO but it was a way to quickly see some the sites before going back to the ship.