njhorseman

No...it's very easy to do yourself at blacklane.com or on their smartphone app.

There's no 'best way". It depends on your preferences. In order of decreasing cost: Some might prefer a limo with a good bottle of champagne on ice. I would go one step down from that and book a "black car" sedan from a reputable service such as Blacklane. Others would go one step further down the transportation ladder and book an Uber of Lyft rideshare, or a car service such as Carmel Limo or Dial 7. Least expensive would be a mass transit routing starting with PATH from 33rd St to the Newport Station in Jersey City, then changing to the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, taking it to the 34th St. Station in Bayonne, and from there a taxi or Uber to Cape Liberty.

Sure you have a canal...the Erie Canal ! 😉

I can't say what the applicable law might be in the case you're mentioning, but it certainly would be a crime in the State of New Jersey. The applicable statute is N.J.S.A. 2C 33-17. In addition to it being illegal to serve or sell alcohol to a minor, enticing or encouraging a minor to drink alcohol is also prohibited under this law.

Easy by taxi or Uber. Probably 20 minutes or so...it can be longer in traffic.

There's no "resort"...it's a beach club, not a hotel.

I've sailed on Celebrity many times, but haven't in recent years. I disagree with your opinion about Celebrity's class system being more structured than Cunard's. To me the Grill classes on Cunard are the height of class structure. Perhaps Celebrity's class system has gotten worse since I last sailed with that line, but Cunard's system absolutely oozes an aura of British colonialism and royalty that I find nauseating...and I say that regardless of how much my parents enjoyed their Grill experiences long ago on the QE2.

Having sailed on both the QM2 and Oceania, our opinion is quite different from some of the others posted here. To put it bluntly, we wouldn't cruise again on the QM2 if they were paying us to take the voyage. Too stuffy, too many dress code formalities, crew that could care less about you, food in the Britannia Restaurant that was no better than any mass market cruise that could be booked for considerably less money. Public venues closed to you on nights with more formal dress requirements . A class system that should have died when the British Empire died. Yes, they can have some very interesting lecturers, but that's not a big enough attraction to us to overcome the negatives. To each his own.

IIRC the QE2 was capable of transporting autombiles, but not the QM2.

You're addressing the wrong person. I'm not the one who asked the question.

One problem you often see in threads complaining about the embarkation process is that people mistakenly believe that they've been assigned an embarkation time when they do their on line check in. It simply isn't true. You get a check in time from NCL, NOT an embarkation time and there can be a couple of hours of difference between the two even if the process is proceeding smoothly at the cruise terminal. On a day when things go sideways for any number of reasons (most if not all of which are not in the cruise line's control)...the ship arriving late, an insufficient number of CBP officers working to process disembarking passengers, an insufficient number of longshoremen to unload baggage, the Coast Guard conducting an inspection, passengers who don't disembark in a timely fashion...and the check in and boarding processes become a complete cluster. Cruise terminals aren't large enough to hold the entire passenger capacity of a big ship at once. There's an assumption of an orderly normal disembarkation, check in and boarding processes taking place. Once that doesn't happen the cruise terminal gets like a highway that has all lanes closed by an accident...you are just not going to go anywhere anytime soon.

It couldn't be easier. This video shows literally every step of the trip from Pier 11 to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal:

Inside the building is the only place where's there's a security screening line, so yes, it's after you enter the building.

Correct . NCL and Oceania sail from Pier 66, while @Ferry_Watcher works at Pier 91, where the other cruise lines homeport.

I couldn't say if that's the case but I have no reason to doubt that you took it in the past. It doesn't change my mind about it not being a good choice for mobility impaired people, even more so given San Juan's heat and humidity.