CruiserBruce

Book by is not final payment. Booking is when they create the booking and credit the deposit.

Customs in most countries today is barely done. Certainly in the EU oriented countries, like Iceland, with their red/green door situation.

The ship is clear of immigration and customs requirements when you are allowed to go ashore the first day you arrive. You can leave at that point, if you wish. You will have to carry your luggage off on your own if you depart prior to the standard departure schedule.

Yes, Lahaina is a tender port. If you arrive at 7am, why is the ship not scheduled to start tendering until 8am? That sounds odd. You shouldn't have a problem getting to Whalers Village by 10:30. But if you really don't start tendering until 8am, I would suggest you grab a cab or Uber to get to Whalers.

Interesting read. Just an FYI, it's the PVSA that requires the foreign stop for roundtrips out of a US port, not the Jones Act, which is about cargo.

The water will definitely not be Caribbean-warm.

Very high chance your seating situation can be resolved when on board.

Can definitely be done with ArriveCan.

Agree. Cruise will go. The itinerary will likely change. How much change is hard to predict.

Not everyone can see signatures...its an option to turn it off. People can have a lot of stuff in their signatures that clutter up reading the boards.

I can't think of any cruise ship that has been out of service for a month. Can you name one? Normally the drydocks for cruise ships are extremely well planned, months and months in advance, all parts and supplies are ordered, and on hand when the ship is pulled from the water, and the shipyard goes 24/7 to get the job done as quickly as possible.

Taxi or Uber. Very cheap. $10, maybe $12 before tip.

No. Pinnacle Suites have1.5 bathrooms. Neptunes have a single bathroom.

It left the refugee assignment a week or 10 days ago, heading to pick up passengers in the Med, I think. I think it's first "normal" cruise was set to sail yesterday.

Usually 2 to 3 weeks, tops.

For an 11 month period?

Is one of the specific hotels close to your hotel?

Check around this board. There are many companies commonly recommended...SAS, QLS, Jiffy Jeff, GO Shuttle, a couple others.

@dixiejen your observations apply only to the Pinnacle class ships. We don't know what ship the OP is on.

You might want to see if there is a Roll Call for this cruise, and post there.

Agree with @Roz...I don't think there are any bad Neptune suites. I have to say we haven't stayed in the SCs on the Pinnacle Class, decks 10 and/or 11, at the front of the ship...but I am suspicious of those. The balconies on those look very small, but the cabin overall looks standard Neptune size, maybe even a little bigger. There are no obstructed view Neptunes. I don't recall, in 15 HAL cruises, any Neptune that has a door to an adjoining cabin.

Just an FYI, the big RCI ships, like Allure, almost always get into port first, ahead of all other ships, due to their size and logistical needs. So getting off them early isn't indicative of the experience others may have on other ships.

I always watch the supply loading on our 25 cruises. I have never seen a gangway used that a forklift can drive across.

Ah, the title of the thread is "flight out of Miami ". The first post says " sailing Carnival Horizon out of Miami".

Well...the taxi ride from Port Everglades to FLL is at most $20. The taxi ride PortMiami to Miami is now over twice that. And MIA is a bigger, much more complicated airport. So, with all due respect, flying out of FLL after docking at Port Everglades has essentially nothing to do with docking at PortMiami and flying out of MIA.