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Cape Liberty only starting hosting Oasis class ships a few months ago. Many of the people referencing the "easy parking" at Cape Liberty may not have seen it since then. It's pretty clear to me that neither the terminal nor the parking is setup for a ship of that size. It would be fine for a Voyager class ship like Adventure, but Oasis is an issue for them right now. I'm really hoping they figure it out--especially since we are heading out of there just next week--but it's a far cry from an ironed-out operation. Be prepared to park on the surface lots (even though the garage has tons of free space) because they are saving the entire thing for handicapped/disabled. And that's an issue too, because many of the people who park on the surface lots don't want to walk back to the pay stations to pay after they drop their luggage, so they pay at the exit and cause a huge bottleneck. Like I said, it's made for smaller ships, and it shows. Hopefully they can make some changes.

I wish I could say everything is resolved, but unfortunately, it is not. We are 15 days from when we arrived too, so . . . not great. 😑 It felt like it was finally getting a bit better, but now for whatever reason I really feel it in the afternoon but not the morning. It does seem to be less noticeable when I move around. I actually have already seen an urgent care doc as well as my PCP, and both were not very helpful. I have an appointment with an ENT in August, and I'm just hoping I will be able to cancel that because it magically got better. Oasis leaves for me in less than a week, so I suppose I'll just have to hope it resets my body or something. 😂🙏

This really comes down to preferences. We loved Boardwalk with kids, and they would be bored to tears in Central Park. That said, pre-kids, we would have booked Central Park way before we booked Boardwalk. The music and scenery make it wonderful at night.

If we get the UDP though, isn't this going to cause a mess if I sold it? I'm not sure how the restaurant (or whoever does this) would know which dinner to allocate to the UDP and which to allocate to the cert. And I am guessing there would be an issue as the reservation would be under my cabin because then I probably couldn't make a reservation for that same day for us to UDP since we would be in the same place at the same time. I'm guessing this cert will just go to waste unless I'm just not understanding this correctly. I really wish I could sell it to someone else (even for peanuts), but I don't see how it wouldn't mess up our own dinner reservations and/or UDP plan.

We just returned from a cruise on Friday, and I still don't have my "land legs" back, even though it has been over 72 hours since our return. It's hard to focus as I feel like I'm still on the ship. This has never happened to me before on any of the previous five cruises I have taken--at least, not to this extreme. The only real difference this time around was that we encountered rough seas on our return to NJ. The foghorn was sounding, top deck closed, seasick bags out on the stairwells, etc. Like my previous cruises, I was taking Bonine every day just as a precaution, so I thankfully did not get seasick, but I could definitely feel the ship rocking. My wife said it took a bit longer than normal for her to readjust when we returned to land as well, but . . . I am still broken. 😅 Frankly, Googling this problem leads to some scary stories of "Mal de Debarquement," where people can apparently have this condition for weeks, months, years, or even the rest of their lives. Since I'm past the 48 hour "normal" period for "land legs" to return, I'm getting increasingly concerned, especially since we have a cruise coming up in just a few weeks from now. I understand that a doctor will be the best to give medical advice, but it appears this is a very poorly understood condition, so I'm hoping some others here have experienced this problem and (hopefully) had it resolve somewhat quickly. If so, I'd appreciate a comment just so I know others have overcome this and that it's quasi-normal. I'm trying not to think about how much this could impact my job or personal life if this sticks around for a long time, and any positive stories would be helpful.

Maybe I'm just confused how the process works. I guess I thought it was tied to my reservation and/or SeaPass, so the system would charge if whoever I gave/sold it to didn't have that code on their account. But you are saying I can just tell them to "charge it to my account" or whatever so that it hits mine instead even though I'm not the one dining there?

Thanks for your help, everyone. How would I give it away or sell it even if I wanted to? Isn't it tied to the booking? The "certificate" appears to be nothing more than a generic piece of paper without any unique barcode or information of any kind. At least for my specific certificate, I believe it is applied to my booking with an "Option Code."

Pretty sure I know the answer to this, but is there anyway to get a credit for a TA specialty dining voucher if I would rather have the Unlimited Dining Package? Seems like such a waste to ignore the voucher, but we usually get the UDP. While it would save us money (always a good thing), it would be kind of a bummer not to have what we are used to having, and we have these vouchers for the next three cruises. Is this anything Guest Services can handle on the ship, or do we just forfeit the voucher if we get the UDP?