sddsddean

Anyone else having problems with the pdf file of the database? Adobe says I haven't got the right viewer for a php file, but I've checked for updates at Adobe, so should work. Most odd:(

Simon

Last May on the Navigator, your carry on bags went through scanners in the port building before you did check in. The shop is after check in at the bottom of the escalator, before you go up to 'boarding level'. On our cruise there were no further checks of bags by RCI staff when boarding, so you could have carried 6 bottles on! Of course this might have changed, but thats what happened last May.

Simon

...and how many mistakes did you spot?! Implying she was the only ship with rockwall, flowrider, skating rink, biggest ship (then adding 'plus her 2 sister ships'), almost a passing mention of 'Genesis'. I know CT was only saying what she was told, but surely someone should have done a bit of research.

Simon

I reitterate what everyone says. I didn't realise you meant you wanted to stop on the balcony. Go all round the ship; you will have plenty of time. Don't forget to go on the promenade deck in one of the locks and touch the lock wall (yes, it is that close!) just to say you've done it!

Simon

I would say basically the same. You will have plenty of opportunity to see the locks and canal from different parts of the ship. When you say Eastbound, do you mean Pacific to Atlantic (which is actually westbound on the canal)? If so, you will probably be up early to go under the Bridge of the Americas (we did it at 5.30am!) and take the next 4 hours or so going through the 3 locks to summit level. Complete transit takes about 10 hours.

Simon

When we were watching the Sapphire disembark, there must have been about 30 taxis in the queue and the queue kept getting added to as taxis went off. I don't think you will have a problem there. The only thing I saw was that the taxis come down one side of the roadway, loop round and pick up the passengers. The frontage of the terminal means you could easily have 10 taxis loading at once (its not the quickest job in the world to load up 4 or 5 bags etc), but the pedestrain barriers were so placed that they were loading one taxi at a time. This meant at one point the passenger queue went all the way round the building and back down the ship side of the terminal. Go to http://photos.orange.co.uk/album/5683729 and look at photo 128. This is early on, but the queue eventually went to the right hand end of the balcony and round to the ship side of the building.

Simon

In April we were in a hotel by the cruise terminal when the Sapphire Princess came in. She docked about 5.30am and by 7am people were getting taxis.

Simon