njhorseman

Taxis will be available outside the terminal building . Fares are metered so will vary by exact route driven and by the amount of time you're stuck in traffic. Basic fare plus various surcharges plus a 20% tip will probably be about $65.

There are only going to be a few cruises each year in late September or early October at the conclusion of the Alaska cruise season. This year I see cruises on the Celebrity Edge embarking on September 20, Royal Princess on September 21, Celebrity Solstice on September 22, Disney Wonder on September 23, Royal Caribbean Ovation of the Seas on October 4 and Norwegian Sun on October 8. Next year I only see three...Celebrity Edge 9/19, Celebrity Solstice 9/21 and Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas 10/4. The above were taken from cruisetimetables.com, which is a reasonably accurate source, but not official.

Those types of cruises embark in Vancouver because embarkation from the US wouldn't be legal under the Passenger Vessel Services Act (PVSA ).

I can't say whether Oceania has the highest mark up on excursions, and probably you don't have actual facts to substantiate "what you were told". Told by whom? I can say that all cruise lines substantially mark up excursion prices...shore excursions are a major cruise line profit center. It's not just Oceania that has exclusivity clauses in its contracts with shore excursion operators, and it's not just in Alaska where this happens. It's a common practice throughout the cruise industry worldwide.

The OP is not from the USA, and cancellation rules in the UK are different from ours, so the deposit may not be refundable.

When the St Regis hotel was built they were required to maintain and permit public access to the beach so it should be open.

There will be taxi drivers available . They should look for a "Blue Flag" taxi driver...they're certified as tour guides.

It's up to the police who are directing traffic that day. If the port is very busy, say a couple of large ships disembarking, they sometimes will not allow pick ups at the cruise terminal and require you to cross 12th Ave. You should be able to get a porter to take your luggage across the street...with a generous tip of course.

No hotels offer shuttle service to the cruise terminal. You can actually walk to the cruise terminal from the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. There are a Comfort Inn and a Holiday Inn Express on West 48th St. just a stone's throw from the cruise terminal, and if you want a fancier hotel Ink 48 is in the same area. Otherwise a taxi or Uber will be inexpensive as it will be a short trip. Price estimates are not possible without knowing exactly where you're staying.

Assuming you'll be driving in the day before your departure check trinityreservations.com. They normally have several hotels available with packages that include a room, parking and shuttle service to and from the port. Nothing is free. If parking is included it's been baked into the price you're paying for the package, as will the transfers between the hotel and the port.

NCL includes 150 minutes of wi-fi per cabin on a 7 day cruise. Of course the value of that wi-fi is built into the base fare, and if you want more or unlimited wi-fi you will have to pay extra. Anyone who thinks any business provides any amenity for "free" does have the foggiest idea of what they're talking about. The cost of any "free" amenity is built into the price of the products or services you buy from the business. The coffee shop on the corner with "free wi-fi' has built the cost of that wi-fi into the price of the cup of coffee you buy.

Your only reasonable options from transportation between LGA and Cape Liberty are rideshare (Uber or Lyft) or a car service. Public transit between the two is impractical, requiring 5 or 5 different transportation mechanisms combining bus, multiple trains, and a taxi or uber ride at the end. It seems fairly obvious from reading the pp2f website that they only provide local shuttle service to and from their parking facilities in the immediate vicinity of each of the three airports, not service between airports.

Assuming that you're flying into EWR there are a large variety of hotels near the airport. To narrow your search you might want look at a cluster of five hotels including an Embassy Suites, a Courtyard by Marriott and a Residence Inn located on International Boulevard in Elizabeth. The hotels are adjacent to The Mills at Jersey Gardens outlet mall and a couple of chain casual dining restaurants. They will all have complimentary shuttle service from the airport. The next day you can take Uber or a car service such as Carmel Limo from the hotel to the cruise terminal.

Trinityreservations.com has park and cruise packages with transportation to/from the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal at some hotels near EWR.

Yes, it's the "pirate ship" located at the Dockyard.

It hardly matters whether you choose LGA or JFK. Pick the one that has the flight schedule that best meets your needs.

Capital One is just the name of a bank. Their credit cards are either Visa or Mastercard branded so they're no different than any other Visa or Mastercard issued by any other US-based bank and are accepted anywhere in the world where Visa or Mastercard are accepted. I suspect the OP wants to use a Capital One card because many if not all of their cards don't charge a foreign transaction fee.

Although it will probably take less, give yourself an hour. Traffic can be a mess at any time. Yes...use Uber.

There are three cruise terminals in the port of New York: Manhattan, Brooklyn and Cape Liberty (which is actually in Bayonne NJ rather than NY City). Which one are you asking about? While there will be taxis available at all three the amount of time to get to LGA will vary, with Cape Liberty taking longer than the other two. If you're coming into Cape Liberty you don't want to use a taxi at all to go to LGA...Uber or a car service would be much better. In Manhattan you should cross 12th Av and pick up a taxi there, as @navybankerteacher said, but in Brooklyn the taxis will be available within the confines of the cruise port grounds. At either cruise terminal even doing self disembarkation it may take a few minutes to actually get a taxi as many others will be doing the same. 30 minutes drive time to LGA from Brooklyn or Manhattan is an absolute minimum, but never count on that. Allow at least an hour.

In my experience the only time that cruise lines, including NCL, use Pan American for a port call is when there are more ships in port than can be accommodated in OSJ. Every cruise I've taken making a port call in San Juan did so at OSJ and every cruise I've taken embarking in San Juan has done so at Pan American. Based on the information I could find, there were three ships in port on April 23. I believe only one of Muelle (Pier) 3 or 4 is in use in OSJ at present so two ships docked there and one, the Prima, at Pan American.

The source I normally use, cruisetimetables.com, doesn't identify whether ships are docking in OSJ or at Pan American. I also did a quick check of two others, crew-center.com and cruisemapper.com and off hand I didn't see that information on those sites either. It would be helpful to anyone interested in this type of information if you identify the website(s) that have this information. Perhaps I'm just overlooking something .

If it's a port call and you're the only ship in port that day you should be docking in Old San Juan. Where did you get the information that it's docking at Pan American? That only happens if there are no berths available in OSJ.

No...it's very easy to do yourself at blacklane.com or on their smartphone app.

There's no 'best way". It depends on your preferences. In order of decreasing cost: Some might prefer a limo with a good bottle of champagne on ice. I would go one step down from that and book a "black car" sedan from a reputable service such as Blacklane. Others would go one step further down the transportation ladder and book an Uber of Lyft rideshare, or a car service such as Carmel Limo or Dial 7. Least expensive would be a mass transit routing starting with PATH from 33rd St to the Newport Station in Jersey City, then changing to the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, taking it to the 34th St. Station in Bayonne, and from there a taxi or Uber to Cape Liberty.

Sure you have a canal...the Erie Canal ! 😉