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We have a cruise leaving on NYE.  Would there be enough time to get my OBC from the credit card offer if I applied for the CC this week and met the initial spend the first month? 

Thanks!

J

Good news.  I found a flight that is a compromise and we have to leave the house by 4 and gets in to LAX at 9:50 am.  Potential bad news is that it stops in Denver (in January).  Lets hope for no weather delays.  We fly out of Long Beach on the return so hoping that is a little less stressful.  Thanks for all your input!

Hi, I am finally taking a cruise again.  Its been a while and I'm feeling a little out of touch.  AND its my first cruise out of California.  I have the option to fly into Long Beach arriving at 11:45am for a Carnival Radiance cruise or arriving at 9:45am into LAX.  Flying out the night before is not an option.  My party consists of 3 teenagers so the LGB flight is MUCH more appealing (leaving for the airport at 5am instead of 3am). 

Does a  11:45 arrival time provide enough time to get luggage, catch an uber and get to the cruise port?  I understand the risk by not flying in the night before...but its hard to carve out 5 days for the family to take a cruise as it is. 

Thanks for all advice!   

Sorry. US passports, cruising on Carnival on a closed loop cruise that only requires drivers license and birth certificate.

Our family of 5 is going on a cruise the first part of June. All of our passports expire sometime in August. I was going to shell out the 600 bucks to renew the passports b/c I do feel better travelling to other countries with a passport but I really hate to spend the money right now. Then it dawned on me. As long as I don't use the passports as my "cruise documents" (but instead use DL and birth certificates) I would be fine, right? I'll still have passports to use if I get stuck in some foreign country, but since they expire within the 6 month window I just won't use them to cruise with. Is there any reason I SHOULD go ahead and renew the passports now? I realize if we get detained in another country for over 2 months...then I'll wish I had gotten the passports but I don't see this to be likely.

Secondly....I've never bothered taking my proof of citizenship off the ship before when we port..so how much help is having a passport on a cruise anyways? If I miss my ship I wouldn't have the documents (would hate for them to get stolen while ashore) Do you usually take yours with you when the ship stops? I've never really given it much thought before.

Thanks!

Julie