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We are cruising out of Port Liberty January 26 and are arriving in Newark on Jan 23 and need a hotel for site seeing in NYC. The number of places are mind boggling. Any suggestions for a decent reasonably priced hotel for my wife and I would be appreciated.

My wife and I are cruising out of Cape Liberty on the Anthem of the Seas on January 26, 2017 and need a motel room with parking for the 12 day cruise, what are our best options?

We have always cruised out of Florida Ports and are not familiar with Cape Liberty or the area.

Any suggestions would be welcomed! :confused:

Just two us' date=' planning express walk off, (off the Allure). I'm reading all over that "early express walk off" is super quick and efficient. If I was to get in line at 6:00am-6:15 am could I make to airport by 7:45am? I know this is cutting it close, but if I 'm going through the trouble of getting up and of early, I don't want to sit in an airport for hours (2) if I don't have to. Thanks in advance![/quote']

 

 

Well our cruise is over! I am really bummed out. e had an awesome time and the Alure is just as BIG and just as Beautiful as her sister ship the Oasis, but that is not what this post was about.

 

After a lot of discussion about the cost (about $880.00 for the four of us) to change our flight, we all agreed that we would take our chances and keep our 10:10 flight out of FLL. If we missed our flight we would spend the night and fly out the next day.

 

We decided to carry our bags out with us first thing, we got up at 5:00 showered and packed the remaining items, went for breakfast at 6:00 in the Park Cafe. There was a tornado warning for FLL until 7:00 but it looks like the weather has already passed through. If anything it will help us to delay our flight giving us more time!

 

We went back to our cabin at 6:30 said our good byes to our cabin attendants and proceeded to Gangway at 6:40 to a short line at customs maybe 40 - 50 people ahead of us but the line was at a standstill? At 6:45 they started processing people, we were in our taxi by 6:50 with our luggage, at FLL by 7:00!!

 

Check in at Air Tran, our concern was that we were at the counter at 7:05 and they might not take our baggage right away because of the 3 hour rule they have for luggage. They did take it and we were off to Security

 

Security had a line all the way through the cattle ropes and it looked like there was going to be a delay here but they pushed us through in no time and we were at our gate waiting for our plane at 7:15!!!!

 

Unbelievable!!!

 

Our flight boarded and left the gate a 10:05 right on schedule!

 

I know we were lucky everything fell into place but we looked at it more of a challenge than anything at that point, we did not worry about the flight as we decided to take today off to wind down anyway, but did not have to pay the $880.00 if needed.

 

Literally could have flown out at 8:00 let alone 10:10!!!

 

Looking forward to our next cruise, I won't book our flight as early next time but will consider the early walk off as it was very painless and quick. NO Long lines or looking for our bags, sitting on a shuttle bus and herded like cattle?

 

The hardest part was getting our bags down the hallway to the elevator on the carpeting from there on it was a breeze!

 

Thanks to for your help and advice, We could not have pulled it off without you!

 

Uphotdog

 

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PS The fire in the engine room of the Alure was another story!!!