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Then you shouldn't park at the port . Park at an EWR long term lot or a parking facility near EWR. Take Uber or Lyft to the port on embarkation day.

There's a cluster of five hotels on International Blvd. in Elizabeth . An outlet mall and a couple of chain restaurants are adjacent. They're about a 20 or 25 minute drive from the port.

The NCL ship (Joy) was docked. I clearly saw the Joy on the port webcam. It was the Carnival Legend that was anchored .The Carnival ship was never supposed to be docked...it was scheduled to be anchored, but Carnival may have neglected to tell its passengers, or perhaps some passengers were just assumed they would be docked. I checked the Carnival Legend Roll Call and indeed a person did mention about the mess and disorganization in the tendering process. NCL, Royal Caribbean and Celebrity ships that regularly cruise to Bermuda have docking priority under their contracts with Bermuda. Carnival does not .

The part about being denied boarding is incorrect. Nothing prevents someone with a DUI from boarding a cruise that starts in the US because the cruise line has no basis for doing so and Canada doesn't get the passenger manifest until after the ship has departed its homeport. When the ship arrives in its first Canadian port, officials there will only then decide whether they will allow the passenger to disembark or require the passenger to stay on board.

There's a difference between not using LA as "any kind of departure port", which is what you said in your first post and "not going to put a ship here in San Pedro on a regular basis", which is what you're saying in this post. "Not on a regular basis" doesn't mean there aren't (or won't be on the future) "any", and Oceania's published schedule clearly includes cruises departing San Pedro, so it's not a matter of what I know, it's a matter of what my eyes are reading.

I don't recall precisely, but I may have added that to the original post and if you quoted it almost immediately after i posted my edit may not have hit the board yet.

I'm departing Los Angeles on the 2024 180 day ATW cruise on Insignia. There are a substantial number of cruises on Regatta scheduled to depart Los Angeles. Vista has a cruise departing Los Angeles in Nov. 2023 .

My next sentence after the one you quoted was "Of course it's possible that US CBP will grant an exception to the requirement if the ship has significant damage that needs to be repaired."

The regulations do require them to make a an actual port call where passengers can disembark. So-called technical calls were disallowed some years ago. Of course it's possible that US CBP will grant an exception to the requirement if the ship has significant damage that needs to be repaired. Note: Marinetraffic.com has her current speed as 16.3 knots so perhaps there's not much of a problem.

On marinetraffic.com the ship's next port is listed as Victoria. They need to stop there to satisfy the PVSA's foreign port requirement.

I did it in early 2020 prior to the COVID shutdown and got our taxes and fees fully refunded with the fare refund being reduced in accordance to the cancellation penalty table in effect at the time.

Once again this thread's context and discussion is about US citizens taking a cruise to Bermuda. Your statement "Firstly, Driver's License is considered as a form of identification in the US" is incomplete because the government of Bermuda has also agreed to accept a US drivers license as proof of identity for cruise passengers . If they did not accept it please explain why Bermuda permits a US citizen to take a closed loop cruise to Bermuda using a drivers license as proof of identity? You're creating issues that don't exist. We're not talking about Madagascar and no one has suggested a high school diploma is a form of ID. By the way Bermuda does not require an international drivers license to drive a rental motor scooter or one of their rental electric minicars.

Your response is irrelevant in the context of this thread. This thread and discussion is about documentation requirements for US citizens taking a closed loop cruise to Bermuda and I am 100% correct about a birth certificate serving as proof of citizenship for those circumstances. Further when a US citizen applies for their first passport their birth certificate provides the necessary proof of their citizenship and no other proof of citizenship is necessary. There are other ways of proving citizenship, for example a naturalization certificate for those who were not a US citizen at birth, but for those born in the US the birth certificate provides all the proof needed. Your response is

Here are the procedures from NCL's Sail Safe FAQs: https://www.ncl.com/sail-safe If I recently recovered from COVID-19, do I need to get tested prior to embarkation? Individuals that test positive within 90 days of their scheduled embarkation date are exempted from the pre-arrival testing. They must have one of the below acceptable forms of COVID-19 Recovery (dated no less than 10 days and no more than 90 days (US) & 180 days (EU) before the date of embarkation) available during check-in. For European Citizens, this would include an EU Green Pass or comparable certificate. For all others unable to present an EU Green Pass (i.e., US Citizens) a doctor’s note, plus a laboratory-confirmed PCR test result with the proper information (i.e., Name, Date, Date of Birth, Positive Result, etc.)

I don't know who told you NCL doesn't care about your ID or passport, but that is absolutely wrong. They have to verify that every embarking passenger holds the types of ID or passport and in some cases visa required by every country on the ship's itinerary.

Drew Estate cigars are Nicaraguan, not Cuban.

Your birth certificate isn't your ID, it's your proof of citizenship. In order take the cruise using a birth certificate you also need a government-issued photo ID, most commonly a drivers license. That is what you show if you're stopped by an official while ashore, not your birth certificate...and yes they will know what a drivers license is. You're not an undocumented alien because you entered the country legally using acceptable documentation for your mode of travel. The countries that accept a birth certificate and government ID in lieu of a passport are not places where it's very likely for something to "go south" quickly. They are nearby countries that have many thousands of American tourists visiting every year. Although I always travel with a passport, the reality is that in these countries the only situation making a passport is necessary occurs if you have to fly back to the US rather being able to take your ship back. While that certainly can happen it doesn't happen very often so the risk is very low. In a country that has a US embassy, or consulate such as Bermuda, the worst that can happen is that you're delayed returning home while you obtain a passport, and in some cases you may even be able to get emergency authorization to fly back to the US without a passport.

It's not going to be beach weather. Typically beach season starts in late May.

It's really hard to say because traffic is so unpredictable and "midtown" covers a lot of area. I'd allow an hour an fifteen minutes to an hour and a half, but it might only take 30 to 45 minutes.

There actually are some short commuter routes where airlines are replacing air service with bus service because of a shortage of pilots. So while NCL might book you on an airline you could end up on a bus. So far this has been announced in the Philadelphia and Denver areas by AA and UA but the same could happen elsewhere.

If you post there don't make the mistake of writing St. John rather than Saint John because there's a local resident trolling the forum who seems to have nothing better to do than skewer anyone committing what he apparently considers a mortal sin. Even worse, don't write St. John's ! Since that's a city in Newfoundland rather than New Brunswick I can only imagine what his reaction might be.

I'm going to guess that your ship won't be listed until at least July 1 and perhaps closer to July 12 . You're in a unique situation because your ship doesn't arrive in Bermuda for many weeks after embarkation. Most ships arrive in Bermuda a few days after embarkation. The other ships embarking July 24 arrive in Bermuda July 26. I think you're just going to have to be patient. Edit...I believe your ship has an embarkation port in Florida (August 9 ?) a few days before arriving in Bermuda and it's probably 30 days before that Florida embarkation date that the ship will be listed by Bermuda...so somewhere around July 9.

I'm not Chief mate and you don't owe me a beer so you get a free answer. ArriveCAN is a recent vintage (2020 ?) COVID-era smartphone app for travelers to Canada and is also accessible online . It didn't exist a few years ago. Read all about it here https://www.canada.ca/en/border-services-agency/services/arrivecan.html

What day of the week will you be going into Manhattan? If it's a weekday I'd suggest booking your tour for no earlier than 10 am so you can avoid the height of rush hour traffic. Traffic can be heavy and unpredictable at any time so you have to build a time cushion into your travel planning. What type of tour are you considering? You mentioned mobility issues, so is this a bus tour? Frankly, Manhattan is a place best seen on foot. On a bus you'll be spending lots of time sitting in traffic looking up at buildings.

Uber or Lyft . Or the car services Carmel LImo or Dial 7 . Very, very unlikely for any NY City tours to pick up at hotel in Elizabeth, NJ. I'd say absolutely not, but then someone will tell me there was such a tour in 2002 and insist there might still be one 20 years later. FYI, the name of the cruise port is Cape Liberty, not Port Liberty . The only reason I mention that there is an area of nearby Jersey City called Port Liberte so if you asked a taxi to take to you Port Liberty you might end up in the wrong place.