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Like many cruisers, my primary reason for taking a cruise is to see the sights at the various stops along the way... On my last cruise, a repositioning, I found a few of my scheduled tours cancelled because "the tour operator didn't feel he had enough people to make it worthwhile". Several others down the floor received similar notices on even different tours. For me my cancellations were a major disappointment -- I would have taken a different cruise or different cruise line.
I am having difficulty understanding the rationale why an esteemed cruise ship company empowers a third party tour operator to disappoint me at will. I studied marketing with the best and perhaps HAL forgets that a product which they market is made up of several component parts -- in this case, one of them being the tours. I am pondering whether EXC means " Excellence" or whether it means "Expect Cancellations".
Is this going to be the new HAL?
ZU
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Hi --In Oct. 2020 it will be necessary to have a real or enhanced drivers license to board any domestic flight in the U.S. Sometimes I need to take a domestic flight to the west coast, rest a night and then take an International flight to my embarkation destination. Shouldn't my passport be enough id to get me on the domestic flight? I don;'t want to pay New York State their pricey fee. They are rather vague about what is the law.
ZU
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I have thought about independent tours, also, but HAL always seems to threaten you with being stranded without passport , clothes, or cash if for some reason you get back late. Stories about what can happen (not just HAL) always seem to make the news services. I have read several this year. I wonder what percent of cruisers go with the independent tours.
ZU
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Like many cruisers, my primary reason for taking a cruise is to see the sights at the various stops along the way... On my last cruise, a repositioning, I found a few of my scheduled tours cancelled because "the tour operator didn't feel he had enough people to make it worthwhile". Several others down the floor received similar notices on even different tours. For me my cancellations were a major disappointment -- I would have taken a different cruise or different cruise line.
I am having difficulty understanding the rationale why an esteemed cruise ship company empowers a third party tour operator to disappoint me at will. I studied marketing with the best and perhaps HAL forgets that a product which they market is made up of several component parts -- in this case, one of them being the tours. I am pondering whether EXC means " Excellence" or whether it means "Expect Cancellations".
Is this going to be the new HAL?
ZU
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Thank you all for your advice.
ZU
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Greetings --
As a single traveler, I really don't wish to send my cash and credit cards through airport security. It is bad enough to send my camera, cell phone and binoculars and meds. I have heard too much about those criminal schemes where a team of thieves takes your valuables while you are still in a slow line to take yourself though a scanner. By the time you get through the scanner, your valuables are gone!.
I have a money belt made of all plastic parts. Is it OK to use this at the TSA checkpoint?
ZU
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Greetings --
What USDA grade of beef does HAL serve on its ships?
ZU
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What is the USDA-rated quality of beef that HAL serves on its ships?
Thanks,
ZU
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Hi -- Can my cabin person take care of a missing button on my shirt? They shine my shoes, and once they repaired a piece of luggage, but I wonder if they handle this? How would I arrange this?
ZU
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Hi --
We will be boarding ship in Seattle, we will be taking on additional passengers in Vancouver, and many more a few days later in San Diego. How many drills will I be expected to attend?
ZU
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So often I can find out about the tours my particular cruise offers only after I book. But tours and their pricing are very important to me in advance. A cruise that I have already booked, I am finding is disappointing in the tours offered.. Likewise, I often find that the cruise port is many miles from the city with no way of getting there on my own except by purchasing a tour I don't want. And often though I think I am going to see an interesting church or building, it turns out to offer a drive-by only with pictures taken through bus windows. Pretty bad! On this trip, one of the tours offered is actually higher in price than the cost of my cruise cabin. And I am reluctant as a solo passenger to take a chance on booking an outside tour when the ship holds over you the threat of missing the departure with passport and valuables left on board.. Its like my way or the highway!
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Perhaps HAL has a 12-step meeting for this!
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I am speaking of course about those penultimate warmed-up sticky buns that wafted their way onto my breakfast plate in the buffet every morning. I can find no viable local source to feed (no pun intended) my addiction, and have concluded that the only way I can do this is to take another cruise. I have thus booked on the Zaandam for September, and was wondering if that ship offers my needed substance. I hope I can last that long. Any advice would be appreciated. from others with the same problem. This is worse than my chocolate addiction, which is currently in remission.
ZU
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Is the food and water safe for Americans in this area of Mexico?
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Where does the ship dock or tender; Anything to do in this port. Not really into beach. Can I just walk around? Is the dock or tender area within walking distance of the town ? Will be on tre Zaandam in late September
ZU
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I will be on the Prinsendam on a cruise that sails from Amsterdam, hitting the Shetlands, Faroes, No. Iceland, So. Greenland, So. Iceland, the Orkney islands, Scotland and back to Amsterdam -- many different types of climate.
Temps will range from mid 60's to low 30's with rain and wind in the more northern locales.
Was wondering what advice one can receive from this forum as to the clothing I should take; I am an older man. I am leaning towards spring shirts, supported by a fleece, sweater, and winter jacket. I anticipate doing a mile every day around the deck to placate some of my doctors back home.
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Greetings --
Where does the tender come ashore for this port. Is a walk-around through the city a viable option, or should I explore one of the ship's tours.
ZU
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Hi I did not get a mass mailing about this. Nor did I get a mass mailing from the appointed PCC. My newly appointed PCC is not CT.
ZU
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Greetings --
If I use a travel agent, is the commission generally paid by HAL or by me?
ZU
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Just found Lance on Linkin; he is working as a legal consultant
for Snohomish County, WA for the last two months. He states in this resume that this is a volunteer position. Wonder if HAL had some kind of downsizing or restructuring or merging with other similar departments in the HAL Group and heads rolled.
Although I sent an email, my appointed new PCC has not yet replied involving three different cruises.
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Just found out that Lance English, my personal cruise consultant with HAL has left the company a few weeks back. This will be a terrible loss to HAL -- probably irreplaceable. In short, he was the best. Bon Voyage, Lance; I appreciate all the work on all the cruises you did for me over the years. I knw you will do well where ever you have gone.
ZU
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Do Costa cruises have a Catholic chaplain (priest)on board?
ZU
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Hi --
Am considering taking a cruise out of Japan and terminating in Shanghai. All three major American carriers fly there and back. Was wondering if they have the same crazy seating classifications on these international flights as I have been reading about here for the U.S. -- the less than basic economy fare, which I am sure the cruise lines will use. I need close access to restrooms as well as the need for a certain amount of standing time to bar against CVT. On a long flight to Argentina two years back -- 12.5 hours --I got stuck in a middle seat, and the young woman who took the aisle seat, wouldn't let me out for the entire trip!
Do foreign carriers have the same kind of seating craziness? When will the U.S get rid of this oligopoly structure for our airline industry?
ZU
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Catholic Mass
in Cunard Line
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Does the QM2 have Catholic Mass Sundays or even daily? What about the other Cunard ships?