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Robkat

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    Florida at the Beach
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    Cruising & hiking
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    Always changing!
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    Always the ship!

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  1. Oh wow! You're seeing cruising ducks everywhere! Thanks for posting this ... utterly cute and it made me smile (as the ducks always do). πŸ‘
  2. Whenever we've tried to do the upgrade ourselves online (and this has always been pre-final balance payment), we get a message telling us to contact our travel agent. The first time, we also tried calling and speaking to a CSR, and they said that if you are working with a TA, the transaction must be done through them. We did that and the cost was added onto our balance payment. We're wondering if it would be different if we tried doing it after final payment had been made. But that hasn't suited our timing so far, so we're left to wonder. But it was easy doing it through the TA.
  3. @JGmf: Thanks so much for doing this review of your cruise on the Enchanted. We'll be sailing on her next month, and then again for a 14-nighter to the ABC's in August, so we really appreciate your insights and, of course, your photos.
  4. Thank you for posting these photos ... they made me smile so hard when I saw them this morning! Cuteness overload! I'm not especially impressed when I find a really tiny one, but the littlest ones in the photo are adorable to look at. Now ... I MUST find one of the ones with the Einstein wild "hair"! πŸ€žπŸ˜‚
  5. Your ducks are adorable! They are really cute ones and I like that they're white, not yellow (don't ask me why πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ€”). Like someone mentioned above, when I first heard of this hiding and finding duck "phenomenon", I wondered why people were so into it. Then I walked off an elevator and found my first duck ... I was pretty excited! Then I thought "ooooh, I get it now!". For some reason though, the 4 I've found, are all a little weird-looking! They've all got some strange little features! ( I still like having them though. πŸ‘). But your ducks are extremely cute!
  6. We're in South Florida, so not too close to the Central area (although we do really like finding cruises that leave from Port Canaveral ... it's a nice change from Miami and FLL!) Enjoy your visit to Cocoa Beach, and if you get a chance over a weekend, you can go to see cruise ships departing from PC. It can be fun to sit and watch them cruising past you!
  7. Hope you're finding this thread as interesting and as useful as I have! The idea of makeup tattoos is intriguing ... like eyeliner and such? And what is bar products for hair? Wracking my brain but can't remember ever seeing anything like that. Oh, and thanks for the Wool and Prince suggestion ... will definitely check it out. Enjoy your upcoming TA's ... we're really looking forward to them!
  8. Thanks so much for this great reply! Very useful info! Had to laugh at the "Gift with Purchase" suggestion ... for years, I'd always have store schedules for all my favorite brands of when they were having their promos! Too bad for me if I ran out of something I liked when a promo wasn't running ... I'd wait to get those goodie bags (and soooo many make-up bags!)
  9. Wow ... this is unique (at least to us). DH makes our air arrangements and is the cruise itinerary researcher, so I'm sure he'll be really interested to hear this. Thanks for your reply!
  10. Thanks for the reply. Hope you post on how you like the eastbound vs the westbound you already did. Enjoy the Sky ... she's pretty ship. Have a great cruise!
  11. All of this info has been so useful (even when answers have been contradictory! πŸ˜‚) and we're now clearer how we'll handle things with pills/meds/vitamins, etc. Along slightly different lines, how do you all handle toiletries and make-up ... As I mentioned, I normally transfer creams, etc into smaller jars and put them in toilet bags, that we carry on in our backpacks. Obviously, there would be additional "small jars and/or bottles" for a longer cruise, which we can't carry in the backpacks,which we bring on the plane with us. Does anyone just leave all that stuff behind and purchase new stuff at your destination? I mean, we normally have 4 good sized travel bags, and I'm can't help but worry about that extra weight in our checked luggage. In any case, would love to know how you all go about that aspect. Again, this is such a great community with such a wealth of experience and info, and we're grateful to all of you who share your "learned from experience" knowledge!
  12. Thanks so much everyone, for your replies. All good info that we can use. We're definitely looking forward to seeing whether we prefer eastbound or westbound! I guess our biggest concern is still arriving at an International airport with medications and assorted other vitamins and supplements. Thanks to @Steelers36 for your feedback, but we see that you're on a self-imposed pause from cruising, so we're wondering about recent experiences. Appreciate hearing any further responses! Thanks.
  13. After close to 100 cruises, we finally pulled the trigger and we've got our first transatlantic coming up in November this year! It is a westbound, and so, wondering whether we might prefer an eastbound, we also booked one of those for April next year. We are very excited for these new experiences, but along with that excitement comes some questions, so I'm hoping those of you experienced in transatlantics won't mind sharing your answers/suggestions or recommendations. For the first of the TA's, we're flying to Rome. So, right off the bat, in thinking about preparing for packing: 1. We bring a couple prescription meds, vitamins, supplements, regular first-aid kind of pills (ibuprofen, Rolaids, etc.) and cold/cough meds (in case). I usually count out the appropriate number of pills needed for the amount of time of the trip, and then re-package similar pills in small baggies. I'd read that someone said, that for international flights, everything must be in it's original bottle/packaging. I'm hoping this isn't the case as it would mean having to bring/pack many bottles for the various pills. Could you explain how you transport these kinds of things ... not worried about getting on the ship, but for the flights and getting through international customs. 2. Same sort of thing for various toiletries. I usually put things like face moisturizers and other creams into smaller jars. And then usually we carry on to the ships our toiletry bags (containing the jars) in our backpacks. In the case of flying, we'll need to pack these in our checked luggage, so in not wanting to add weight to our luggage, what do you all do with these sorts of products to keep the extra weight down? (And this would include heavier products, like hair prods, that can't be transferred into smaller containers.) 3. Any other pointers on packing for a longer cruise, especially to keep the weight down, with the flight up first before the cruise? Not so much worried about clothing (we can figure that out), but thinking more about other "assorted and sundries". 4. For anyone who has done a TA from Civitavecchia, will the MDR be open for lunch on embarkation day? (If it matters, we'll be on Caribbean P.). Does the boarding process commence, as it usually does round 11am or so? Thanks for any help or advice.
  14. We're cruising on a repositioning from Fort Lauderdale and ending the cruise in NYC (not sure yet whether it'll be at the cruise terminal in Brooklyn or Manhattan). We have flight options back to FLL from LaGuardia or Newark. Any advise /recommendations on which is the better choice for us to select? And, just on the off-chance that someone reading this may have the answer, does Princess do transfers to both airports?
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