Travel Forum / Travel Types / Cruises / January 2007

Taking my family of six on a Carribean cruise in Mid June.  Going on
RCCL.  So I didn't get airfare via the cruise line and need to get it
myself.  Here is my question(s):
1)  The ship starts boarding at 2:00 pm (leaving at 5:00 pm) on

How many of you have done the Duval Crawl ? I was there, and let me
tell you there is no way
to have a drink in every bar (way too much booze)...the resturants are
all great.

I just posted recently about the showerheads.  Thanks Kerry for the
quick response.   I now have a question about the quad configuration
for Balcony Staterooms (category BA-BB).   While browsing through this
newsgroup, I read  somewhere that on some Princess vessels, the two

Michelle Kinkaid said:

Happy New years to all R.T.cer's .Well lets see where everybody is
cruising in 07 ?
Frist will be on the Empress of the seas out of San Juan doing an 11
day southen Caribbean cruise 2/26/07.Love the ports  .Then 2 in August

Just wanted to let you know that there are 100 days remaining before
GGC2007 sets sail to Mexico.  There have been some updates to the
website  (( http://www.ggc2007.com )) and the pricing for the cruise
has changed. If there's a chance you are interested in making the trip

Could someone suggest a site where I can price cruise insurance
policies, please? I'm interested in having medical coverage since we
will be gone over 30 days.  Thanks for your help.  Elias Klein

i don't know if free cookie registration is still required, tho it used
to be
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How far from the dock to a beach?  Any local shopping?  Are taxis generally
available?  Thanks for any input.
Karen
Owings Mills, MD

Advice needed on Anchorage!  We will be arriving in Whittier (post
Sapphire Princess cruise), staying the night and flying out the next
day at 10 PM.  Basically we've got 2 full days there.  Where should we
stay?  What should we do?  What about cruise ship transfers or

Taking sun Princess out of Ft Lauderdale on Feb 3rd. We're from UK and not
been to Ft Lauderdale before. Is the town within easy reach of the port to
pick up last minute items I don't want to carry with me before leaving?
Also, it's not US college holidays or anything those two ...

With the new TSA rules about carrying liquids onto airplanes, how are people
dealing with buying liquor in the caribbean? Have liquor sales on the
islands and duty free stores on the ship slowed? Has anyone here brought
anything (liquor) back into the U.S. recently, and found a ...

We (4 couples traveling together) will be in Belize between 7:30 a.m. and 5
p.m. during our October Enchantment OTS cruise.  Is this a port that we
should book excursions though RCI, or is it possible to sign up for tours
when we get to the dock.  Any recommendations would be ...

I've been on a bunch of cruises in the past, but never has the
opportunity to visit St. Maarten's.
So I'm going next week.  Anyone have any tips or ideas?

We're considering  a transatlantic trip on the Maasdam in July and have
been looking at the HA deck plans on their web pages for this ship.  Are
the cabin layouts shown on their web pages correct  - or just
schematics?  Can't understand why they would put the bed under the