Longislanderluvs2cruise

Thank you for your responses.

Can anyone recommend a reliable car service that can pick up 10 people at the cruise port in Brooklyn (Red Hook) to go to a hotel in Mid-town Manhattan?

thanks in advance

Joanne

For cheap (relatively) and cheerful the Premier Inn is a good bet http://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/england/wiltshire/salisbury/salisbury-north-bishopdown.html

 

If you want olde worlde with character, try The Chapter House. http://thechapterhouseuk.com/

 

Or for a friendly B&B in the town center, The Spire House offers good value and high standards. They only have four rooms though so you would need to book early. http://www.salisbury-bedandbreakfast.com/

Thanks. I will look into these.

We are thinking about staying in Salisbury for 1 or 2 nights prior to our cruise. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks

Joanne

Just because they did nothing doesn't mean if they had been asked to intervene they would have agreed with the seated passenger. If this happens in the future, demand the seats and demand the CRO be boarded to sort it out. I guarantee you will get the seats you wish to sit in.

I actually said something to the flight attendant and she just stood there and did absolutely nothing. The first guy was very arrogant and determined that HIS wife was going to sit in the middle seat and not someone else. In addition, he had his daughter sitting in the row behind him saving an aisle seat for his son who was with his wife. They both boarded towards the end. Obviously he played the game by paying for 2 early bird seats and the other 2 must have been towards the end of group C. He was a very nasty guy and my guess is the FA did not want to become involved.

We disembarked the Caribbean Princess on Saturday, 11/29. There were either 5 or 6 ships in port, including the Oasis of the Seas. Our flight on Southwest was at 10:20am. We did the Express walk-off and disembarked the ship by 7:30am. The longest wait we had was getting through Customs/Immigration as the line was extremely long as there were only 2 agents working. However, we were still out by 8am and at the airport and sitting at the gate by 8:30am. We were quite surprised that there were no lines for taxis as well as no line at security.

As others have said, having an early flight is taking a chance and a back-up plan is necessary. However, this is not first time we have done this. I did expect it to be a lot more crowded at the airport due to the Thanksgiving weekend and for all the ships that were in port. However, we did not experience any delays or problems.

Seat saving is not allowed, and you are welcome to sit in any open seat. If the seat saver chooses not to sit next to you, they are welcome to move to a different open seat. The flight attendants will side with you on this. I haven't flown WN in over a decade, but has a friend who's corporate policy requires her to fly them almost weekly, and she selects a seat and sits in it--and doesn't care if some selfish seat saver tries to tell her it's saved. She won't budge and they can go to double hockey sticks as far as she is concerned. The FA's ALWAYS side with her--that is corporate policy. At this point I think she is enjoying it just to rile up the ignorant people who try to game the system.

This is not always true. I just got off a flight yesterday and was seated in one of the exit rows. Across the aisle, there was a man sitting in the aisle seat of the exit row with the most leg room. The middle seat and window seat were both open. A man decided he was going to sit in the window seat and he called for his wife who had just passed to come back. The man who was sitting in the aisle seat stated that the middle seat was saved for his wife who still had not boarded the plane. It almost came to a fist fight as the second guy stated that there was no saving of seats allowed. He was 100% in the right. The flight attendant was standing right there and did nothing to stop it or even tell the first guy that he could not save the seat. The second guy's wife finally gave in and said they should just find another two seats. The flight attendant did absolutely nothing. I wonder what would have happened if the second man's wife did not talk her husband out of sitting there.

I feel a bit leary of posting the info but feel like everyone should be able to find out which of their photos were selected.

 

Here is her email address:

 

mmeyer@princesscruises.com

 

Thanks for the kind comments and Good Luck everyone!

Congratulations on the selection of your picture - it is great!

Thanks for posting the email address. I have just sent off an email to see which picture of mine was selected.

Really enjoying your review! We are planning to cruise the Rhine in 2015 and really love seeing the pictures! Now, we just have to pick a cruise line..:confused:

Thanks for the great review!

Joanne

Hi,

We received our tour tickets from SPB as we are planning to take a 2 day tour. Besides, having to bring the tour tickets (which act as a Visa), and our passports, they also mention that we need the following:

 

"Immigration Card (provided by your ship). Please fill it out on board the ship before you go through the Russian immigration."

 

How do we get them? Are these normally given to passengers the night before or do we need to go to the guest services to ask for them?

 

I heard from people here on CC that Princess provides immigration/migration paperwork before we arrive in St Petersburg, but when I called Princess to confirm, hey say they never heard of such a thing that we need a Visa.

 

Is there anyone in Princess that I can call to confirm what happens and when/how we get these forms?

Steve

 

thanks,

We took the 2-day tour with SPB last year. The immigration forms(cards) will be delivered to your cabin the night before arrival in St. Petersburg. Just fill them out and bring them with you when you leave the ship.

We are also on the March 15th sailing and I am loving your review and thanks for all the great pictures!

Looking forward to the rest of your review and I hope that your doctor's appointment went well.

Joanne

Looking forward to reading your live from reports. Have a great cruise!

Great review, so far. We will be in many of these same ports in July, so I am looking forward to reading the rest of your review.

Thank you for sharing!!! We will be in St. Petersburg in July and I am really enjoying reading about it and seeing your pictures.

Joanne

Can anyone tell me where the bed is in oasis cabin 9598 ?

Also, does anyone have a picture of the balcony cabin with the bed by the closet?

Thanks so much !

We were in that cabin just recently - the bed is near the closet.

First, I want to say that I am sorry to hear about the news of your grandmother.

I am enjoying your review of the Allure. Thanks for taking the time to write this. We were just on the Oasis and really liked the ship and we are planning to go on the Allure sometime in 2014.

Joanne