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gbolton

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  1. Does anyone know if NYC has recovered from the floods a couple of days ago?
  2. We've decided to "bite the bullet" (I wonder where that saying came from!) and come into NYC on Amtrak a day before sailing, and get a very expensive hotel room, Grrrr, because I just heard this week that they do close down access to the ship about two hours before sailing; i.e. Customs and support staff in the terminal have gone home by then. I would be a nervous wreck the whole time if there were delays on the train, and we are expecting traffic to be horrendous for the taxis due to the marathon happening that weekend. Better to be safe than sorry, but it still grates on me, the room is almost as much I paid for one person for the whole 11 day cruise! I need to "Let it go, let it go!" (Our transportation issues are also complicated by the fact I travel with a mobility device, and we can't just hop on and hop off buses, subways etc. Thank you though for any recommendations that were made here.)
  3. We need to look into that - thank you for the suggestion.
  4. Thank you to both of the responses to my question about the taxi situation. All of your answers have been duly noted and I appreciate the time that you took to explain the issues that could/will arise. One of you will be happy (?) to know that we are not taking the train across the border for the reason you mentioned (delays), but also because everyone has to get out of the train and go through customs, and stand around and wait for the train to be cleared. Seeing as that I cannot stand for more than a minute, that would be challenging for me, and I don't know where they will be stowing my wheelchair. Fortunately we have a son who will drop us off at the Niagara Falls station in NY, and take our vehicle home with him. Its always difficult when the ship leaves from one port and arrives at another. When I was more mobile just a few years ago we left our van in Montreal and our final port was Boston, we took a Greyhound bus to Montreal and that was an event in itself! Sadly, during Covid, the Greyhound bus company pulled out of Canada and is no longer operating there.
  5. Hotel rates are sky high that weekend because it is the NYC Marathon weekend. We didn't know that when we originally booked the same cruise. We are coming in by train from Canada and are hoping that there will be taxis available at the Moynihan train station. Please advise if we should wait for a taxi at 8th street or 31st street to go to Brooklyn Cruise Port. We have been stung before with pre-booking a car service, paying ahead, and they did not wait for us, (we were a long time going through customs, this was in Galveston) and they would not give us a refund. We do not have a telephone to use in the U.S. so we were unable to advise them we were trying to get through. As for Uber and Lyft, we are in our seventies and haven't ever used them, plus we have the added difficulty of needed to transport a folding wheelchair. Yes, one of us uses a mobility device, much to the chagrin of all those able bodied folks, sorry but I love cruising too! Any advice about the taxi from the train station to the port will be much appreciated.
  6. Yes, sorry, my apologies, at 70 years old I still get confused with computers. I meant to post it to the thread of the cruise we are on, namely Nov 4, 2023 NYC to FLL. I should leave posting alone! Thanks for the update.
  7. Now I feel silly! I just found this in another thread. "The migrant housing facility at the cruise terminal was dismantled in early April. It was always planned to discontinue using the cruise terminal for housing migrants before the cruise season started."
  8. Does anyone know why "MrFunintheSun" hasn't continued this review? We were following because we plan to be on this ship later in the year and we were curious how things went but the author seems to have stopped on March 29th.
  9. Yes, please continue to give us very valid and useful information, even though some of us seem to be deliberately cantankerous. And its annoying. But there must be others like ourselves who love, love, love cruising, miss it so very much, but are scared to death, as I am, of being tested. Yes, we are twice vaccinated, and boosted, but that doesn't seem to stop this virus. It would be nightmare for me to have been in your situation, so I sincerely thank you for this very information posting. Please don't stop!
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