dezertcruzer

Thank you so much for this very helpful information.

I'm having trouble finding information on hotels for a 2-night stay in Tampa before our Royal Caribbean cruise in November. We will fly in, stay 2 nights, then board our cruise ship, I will have dialysis on the day we are in Tampa, so I'll have to locate a dialysis clinic once the hotel is decided upon. We'll Uber or Lyft for those days, then rent a car after the cruise to drive across the state to the Space Coast. I have, of course, looked up hotels in Tampa but I'm not familiar with the areas of the airport and the cruise port and looking at maps can only help so much. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. ---Jennifer

Sid, I have been reading your posts for a long time. Your writing style is so easy to follow. You make me feel as if I have known you for years. I have never commented on your posts before, but I just wanted you to know how much I have enjoyed "cruising along" with you. I will look for updates on your "journey" on the Tribe thread. Wishing you many wonderful cruises to come, even if we're not there to follow along with you,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, <Jennifer

My first cruise, Fascination 1995, meeting my waiter Jose from Costa Rica and marrying him in 1997. We're still going strong 26 years later!

Virgin Voyages does a 4 night that stops in Key West, but not a 3 night.

I did this once in Miami, from a Carnival ship to a Royal Caribbean. I got a taxi, asked him how much it would be to a hotel in downtown Miami, then offered to pay him that same amount to take me from one ship to the other. Worked out for both of us. I got where I wanted to go, and he got a decent fare for very little distance and time.

No, the Cape Canaveral emergency was total kidney failure. It was during a condo stay the week after a cruise, They found that I had some kind of nasty blood infection. Twelve weeks of heavy duty IV antibiotics and lifetime kidney dialysis were the result. This was our last trip before the pandemic. We were finally able to travel again for Thanksgiving 2021 and we went back to Cape Canaveral for a do-over of all the things we didn't get to do in 2019 since we were doing hospital things instead. My older brother lives in Rockledge, which is only 10 miles away, and his sons live nearby as well. My younger brother and his wife also came from Arizona and we had a nice family get together for Thanksgiving. We plan to go back for Thanksgiving again this year. Good luck with your trip home and your rehabilitation in the months to come.