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PasadenaDave

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    Pasadena, California
  • Interests
    walking, museums, outdoors
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Princess and Viking
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Los Angeles convenient Uber ride

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  1. Don't underestimate the issue of non-stop versus multiple stops. If your local airport is not a major international hub, you might find yourself flying a short flight from home airport to Hub and then change again in Europe. Each segment brings risk. Depending on where your home airport is, consider driving or flying a budget airline to a hub for a direct nonstop flight. I recall a business trip to London in the early 90's when we changed return flight routing from Heathrow to LAX to Heathrow-Dallas-LAX. It was a Friday afternoon and after flying forever and then changing planes to drop down to an MD-80 to LAX was misery....and I was still young!
  2. I have also had hit or miss activity with the "Los Angeles" office. Most recently in arranging flights LAX-Tokyo and Hong Kong-LAX. The Los Angeles agent from her home in Phoenix with a dog barking was very helpful and efficient, as well as patient with me as I worked through having to log out of My Viking and reload to see the booked flights. Confirmation of the booking showed up in email while on the call prior to it being populated in My Viking Journey. Pre-Pandemic, I spoke with a local person from the office. I do some consulting and some small organizations have the remote work issue dialed in. The large customer or lack thereof service firms are sorely lacking.....but not always
  3. Paul McCartney had an issue with “medication” Japan.
  4. Also you can bring on a bottle or two or three or.....
  5. We booked our stay with airline miles so did not pay attention to the price. Also the hotel on miles was cheaper than Hilton or M Social. There could have been a myriad of reasons for that. We find that we use air miles for hotels rather than flights as flights seldom work for us as always your miles may vary
  6. Look at BritoMart, much smaller than the hotels you list but that means no waiting at desk and excellent service all of these places are within a five minute walk.
  7. We docked in Napier in December a beautiful day, but we don’t think we will go to another winery as they are all basically the same except for tasting. Don’t get me wrong, I loved seeing the geography, but Napier is a cool town and we would have preferred to explore it rather than wineries
  8. We did the included inclined tram ride and tour of the city and botanical gardens in Wellington. Don't do it. The inclined tram is fun to ride and easily done on your own, but you have likely visited and will do so again much nice botanical gardens
  9. Thule, Greenland. My father was an early visitor in that he did the site development for the airbase prior to the famous fleet arrival. Sadly the base doesn’t accept visitors, but I have photos that my father took of the Inuit living in their traditional ways. He was part of a very small group of construction workers allowed to have contact with the Inuit, due into the fact that the construction contingent was a small group at that time.
  10. We find that when we return to LAX from an overseas flight, that there is often a line for Uber but none for taxis. Given surge pricing and airport fees, we always opt for a taxi. The price may or may not be higher for a cab, but after a 12 plus hour flight, the small extra cost, if there is one is worth it.
  11. We stayed at Hotel Britomart two blocks from Shed 10 in December. Great place and great location. We didn’t see any other cruisers. Quiet new hotel
  12. If many people dropped off the WC in Mumbai and the segment from there to Cape Town was offered, that might entice many people. There aren’t many opportunities to cruise that part of the world.
  13. December 18 taxi from Auckland Airport to hotel two blocks from cruise terminal was $65 New Zealand. No waiting and no hassle
  14. Lesson on following directions, “don’t hang clothes to dry on the balcony”
  15. TLCOhio, Thanks for all of your posts as they were most helpful on our Auckland to Sydney cruise recently. The highlights of the trip were Tazmania and the Art Gallery of New South Wales
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