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  1. One with sufficient room for comfortable expansion of the owners waistline. It is for a 14 day cruise which starts with 3 sea days and ends with only 2 port days in the last 6 days. Is that Pinnacle lunch and afternoon tea I hear calling? (again!) 😇
  2. Good afternoon from a sunny, wet, windy, hailstones, sleet and sunny again Cork.🙄 We knew we were in trouble when the weatherman gave the forecast that "between the showers there will be rain!" 🙂 Today I went up to the attic to find the suitcases to start packing for our cruise at the weekend. We also went to Blarney Woolen Mills to purchase my 'End of cruise shirt' (clue: it is one size larger than fits me now! 😱). Over the weekend we had a family meal to celebrate our son's 50th birthday. We are constantly amazed at how he can be 50 when we are still so young. 😉 Thoughts are with all who have suffered a loss or are suffering pain. Stay strong. Take care everyone!
  3. No self service laundry on any HAL ship, but an excellent laundry service that is very reasonably priced. Onboard bill is viewable on TV or Navigator App
  4. Plenty of time. Probably a private driver is the best option. Suggest James Falconer https://jamesfalconerchauffeurhire.com/ (I have never used them, but heard good reports) p.s. The town where you are tendering is Dunmore East.
  5. A suggestion for a visit to Katakolo is to visit the Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, which is situated at the far end of the short main street and just beyond the railway 'terminal'.
  6. Malaga has wifi ok. Sometimes Cadiz required a bus transfer from ship to the terminal building.
  7. I remember that day! It was a lot of fun. That was our third visit to Aruba out of 5 in total. First was in 2008 on Celebrity Galaxy. Aruba was actually our very first cruise port call ever! Since then we have visited on Zuiderdam, Oosterdam, and Koningsdam twice. I hope we can go back again but DW is anti long distance flights, so we will have to negotiate. @atexsixsorry to read about the loss of your dad. Hope everyone has a great day.
  8. Good morning all! Just a slight course correction 😉Nieuw Statendam is heading towards Europe and her next port of call is Cobh, Cork on Wednesday April 17th. The following ports are St Peters Port on April 18th, Le Havre on April 19th, Dover on April 20th, and Rotterdam on April 21st. We are looking forward to seeing the NSDM in Cobh and meeting with a couple of the CCers currently crossing the Atlantic. Hope the weather improves for them as it has been cold and wet for the past few days, but thankfully the storms have abated. Have a great day everyone!
  9. I sincerely hope that you are now 4 hours ahead of east coast US time or else you are going in the wrong direction! 😉
  10. My apologies too. It was a 'thinking out loud' rhetorical sort of question.
  11. Agreed Jacqui, but that is when purchased as part of a cruise. For the HIA that can be purchased as an optional extra (after purchasing cruise at cheapest (advantage?) price) does not usually include the Elite & Premium internet. That is why I surmised that the OP's HIA was part of a cruise package.
  12. HIA does not usually include grats. Brochure (hard copy?) probably printed prior to grats being recently included in special offer for HIA.
  13. Can you purchase HIA which includes Elite Beverage Pack and Premium wifi? I thought that the purchased HIA only offered the Signature/Surf. If it is packaged in the cruise price it is probably not possible to downgrade?
  14. Residents or those booking through the EU/UK websites.
  15. The £60/€65 HIA 'upgrade offer' usually does not include the gratuities, whereas the HIA offered at time of booking and included in the cruise price usually does include the grats.
  16. @TintoTeam Is this the t&c which you are referring too? Then, the $17/day pp is included. The exclusion refers to upcharge items in the MDR.
  17. lots of taxi stands in city centre or head down Chichester Street (rear of Victoria Square shopping centre) to the Value Cabs office. https://belfastone.co.uk/getting-here/#:~:text=Public taxi ranks are located,Glengall Street%2C Great Victoria Street.&text=About
  18. Can a 'concerned passenger' make that enquiry of Guest Services? i.e. "I have seen a passenger with a dog. Can you tell me what service the dog provides to the passenger?" Or will 'privacy concerns' be quoted?
  19. Ken, NH Hotel Amsterdam Airport is not within walking distance of the terminals. It is in the Hoofddorp area and will require taxi or shuttle bus to the airport. (Make sure you get on the correct shuttle and not the shuttle to Schiphol Rijk business area!). I have stayed there numerous times.
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  21. I think it is emergency lighting in the event of a major power failure.
  22. I realised that as you were disembarking that you would be in Dublin Port, not Dun Laoghaire. July will be good, but you will have rush hour traffic. The taxi will probably ask if you will pay the extra to use the Port Tunnel, and I feel that it would be worth it at this time of the morning. Correct, no preclearance for LHR flights. Regarding the restriction, this is what the Dublin Port website states, but that may not relate to embarkation/disembarkation days. https://www.dublinport.ie/tofrom/cruise-liners/
  23. A few more details would help.....day of week? month? School holidays start in June until September and traffic is much lighter during these months. Obviously Saturday and Sunday traffic will be light too. But a minimum of 20/30 minutes to the airport. Where are you flying to? USA flights have recommended 3 hours prior to departure for check in (because of the Pre Clearance carried out at Dublin airport for flights to USA). Roughly cost far taxi about €40/50. Regarding availability, I am unsure as the port area is a restricted and taxis are usually not permitted to enter. A shuttle bus takes people from the ship to an area where they can safely walk from the port and where taxis should be waiting.
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