njhorseman

The water stations you're looking for and that were referred to in the previous post are in the Garden Cafe , which is the ship's buffet. There's no place called "Lido" on NCL ships.

For news about Bermuda you should go to the Bermudian on line news sources, royalgazette.com and bernews.com. They have lots of reports , photos and videos. The country was just grazed by the strongest winds and it wasn't affected by any storm surge. There were lots of downed trees. Power was out to most of the island but it has been mostly restored now. Airport was reopening, bus and ferry service resuming. Bermuda has very strong construction requirements so you don't see the type of structural damage that storms cause elsewhere. Some buildings suffer roof damage of course but the vast majority of buildings suffered little or no damage.

No. $30 includes tax.

I assume you mean the Hyatt House in Jersey City. There are several Hyatt House hotels in New Jersey. I recommend Uber or Lyft . Or you can take a taxi.

We have both Global Entry and passport cards. Global Entry actually costs us nothing because we have credit cards that pay the fee. Probably a bit of overkill to also have the passport cards but for some reason I find the 10 year validity comforting.

Getting the card in addition to the book isn't a waste of money in my home state, NJ. Anyone who has had the pleasure of conducting business at a NJ Motor Vehicles Commission office would say that paying the additional fee for a passport card instead of waiting on line for hours to get a REAL ID drivers license is the best $30 they've spent in recent memory. Actually you're not even spending an additional $30 because a NJ REAL ID license cost $11 more than a standard drivers license so the passport card plus a standard drivers license only costs $19 more than a REAL ID license. For that matter a passport card is good for 10 years but a NJ drivers license has to be renewed every four years, so the cost comparison is even better over time...three standard drivers license fees plus a passport card is cheaper than three REAL ID license fees.

We have both passports and passport cards. We got the passport card this year with our new passports primarily to avoid going through the hassle of getting REAL ID drivers licenses, which will be required for domestic flights next year if the requirements are not postponed once again. NCL does indirectly mention passport cards on its documentation page by referencing the acceptability of WHTI-compliant documents. A Valid Passport... or WHTI (Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative)-compliant documents (click here to for more information.)

Much of Bermuda has no electricity this morning.

I recall immigration officers being on board the QM2 years ago when it first cruised from NY, but this wasn't even a transatlantic cruise, it was merely a closed loop cruise from NY to the Caribbean and Bermuda . At the time the cruise facilities in NY were so crude that I attributed their presence to the lack of adequate immigration facilities at the NY pier. Subsequent renovations to the cruise terminal added airport-like lanes and booths for immigration and customs processing . While it's certainly possible that a transatlantic having Bermuda as its last port call could have the formalities done there because there are USCBP officers stationed on the island to service airline flights to the US I do not think it was routine to do so, but I could be wrong.

Both ports require cruise ships to anchor.

How does not making a port call in Bermuda on a transatlantic cruise add to the disembarkation time and CBP processing at the end of the cruise? You don't clear US immigration in Bermuda. Perhaps you're confusing the process with immigration and customs preclearance for airline passengers flying from Bermuda to the US. There's no equivalent preclearance for cruise passengers.

Unfortunately you're not going to find any stay/park/cruise packages for the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. I'd suggest you just book an overnight stay in New Jersey, or possibly in Staten island at the Hilton Garden Inn or Hampton Inn, and then drive to the port and park there.

Not to disembark, but unvaccinated passengers have to upload proof of insurance with their travel authorization application . If you don't then Bermuda will not approve your application (assuming they're following their rules).

Really. I don't know of a cruise line that identifies what portion of the port taxes and fees are paid to any particular port, and there are some cruise lines that don't even have a separate line item in their fare for port fees. They lump everything into the fare. In fact you don't know how much if anything was paid to any port on your itinerary.

Not to mention that there are countries that require you to obtain and pay for a tourist visa even if you don't plan to disembark the ship.

That's been my experience, but I don't think it's officially stated anywhere and I've not seen a precise definition of "longer". We actually have gotten three bags each on cruises that were about three weeks long, which makes sense.

Of course they all say the same thing. Once one media outlet publishes a story others jump on the bandwagon and in a case like this where there's no official corroboration of the story essentially just copy what the first outlet reported. The number of outlets publishing the information bears little relationship to the veracity of the reporting. I'm not saying this story is wrong, but I have seen many that were, or at least had important details that were missing or incorrect.

From the official port website, nycruise.com : nycruise.com/brooklyn-terminal/parking/ And yes, it's secure and safe.

The additional test would have been required for the transatlantic cruises that arrive in Bermuda more than 4 days after embarkation, which is why their port calls in Bermuda were cancelled. A typical itinerary that arrives in Bermuda two days or so after embarkation doesn't require a second test.

There are only three different NCL itineraries sailing from NY in May and June 2023, so the OP is right...but should have used the word "itineraries" instead of "sailings". The OP doesn't like the NCL itineraries available during those months so more sailings doesn't result in cruises they want to take.

You ignored my subsequent post where I said there would be "hell to pay if the cruise lines tried to charge passengers for a test" . Apparently that proved to be true because NCL did cancel the Bermuda port calls...no doubt because of the negative reaction to their plans to charge for the test. The cruise lines wouldn't cover the cost and the passengers wouldn't pay, so the port calls were cancelled.

You're on Carnival and you're vaccinated? If yes, a PCR no more than 4 days before embarkation is fine. https://www.carnival.com/Legal/covid-19-legal-notices/covid-19-guest-protocols?icid=advisory_cruisehealth_040122 Testing Requirements for Bermuda, Canada, Greece, Spain and Cruises of 16 Nights or More (unsupervised self-tests are not accepted) Bermuda: Vaccinated guests age 2 years and older, and unvaccinated children ages 2-11 travelling with fully vaccinated parents/guardians, have to present a PCR test taken 4 days before sailing or an antigen test within 2 days.

CItyMD is a chain of urgent care clinics with many Manhattan locations. There's one on East 40th St. and Madison Ave., not far Grand Central Terminal. There's another at 345 West 42nd St. not far from Port Authority Bus Terminal, and another at 315 West 57th St. CityMD always had rapid tests at all their offices in the past You should be able to check their website. There's a CVS Minute Clinic at 150 East 42nd , which is across the street from Grand Central Terminal. It looks like they have some testing appointments available tomorrow.

I doubt the cruise ships' wifi systems and satellite connections could handle a couple of thousand people trying to do telemedicine tests in a short span of time. I'm sure there'd be hell to pay if the cruise lines tried to charge passengers for a test.

And he totally ignores the fact that the cancelled cruises were transatlantics making a brief port call in Bermuda that would have required a second COVID test to be done on board within two days the ship's arrival in Bermuda. No cruise lines have cancelled their regular Bermuda cruises where only one test has to be done prior to embarking the cruise. Passengers on those cruises also have to pay $40 for their travel authorization as well as paying for their COVID tests. but the cruise lines haven't made an issue of it for those cruises. The only reason the cruise lines are cancelling the TA cruises is because it would cost them a lot a money to do the additional on board COVID test. Basically the cruise lines are saying to their passengers "If you're paying for the tests and travel authorizations that's too bad for you...if you don't like it don't cruise to Bermuda. But if we have to pay for the tests, uh, uh, we're not doing it.