njhorseman

Assuming that you're flying into EWR there are a large variety of hotels near the airport. To narrow your search you might want look at a cluster of five hotels including an Embassy Suites, a Courtyard by Marriott and a Residence Inn located on International Boulevard in Elizabeth. The hotels are adjacent to The Mills at Jersey Gardens outlet mall and a couple of chain casual dining restaurants. They will all have complimentary shuttle service from the airport. The next day you can take Uber or a car service such as Carmel Limo from the hotel to the cruise terminal.

Trinityreservations.com has park and cruise packages with transportation to/from the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal at some hotels near EWR.

Yes, it's the "pirate ship" located at the Dockyard.

It hardly matters whether you choose LGA or JFK. Pick the one that has the flight schedule that best meets your needs.

Capital One is just the name of a bank. Their credit cards are either Visa or Mastercard branded so they're no different than any other Visa or Mastercard issued by any other US-based bank and are accepted anywhere in the world where Visa or Mastercard are accepted. I suspect the OP wants to use a Capital One card because many if not all of their cards don't charge a foreign transaction fee.

Although it will probably take less, give yourself an hour. Traffic can be a mess at any time. Yes...use Uber.

There are three cruise terminals in the port of New York: Manhattan, Brooklyn and Cape Liberty (which is actually in Bayonne NJ rather than NY City). Which one are you asking about? While there will be taxis available at all three the amount of time to get to LGA will vary, with Cape Liberty taking longer than the other two. If you're coming into Cape Liberty you don't want to use a taxi at all to go to LGA...Uber or a car service would be much better. In Manhattan you should cross 12th Av and pick up a taxi there, as @navybankerteacher said, but in Brooklyn the taxis will be available within the confines of the cruise port grounds. At either cruise terminal even doing self disembarkation it may take a few minutes to actually get a taxi as many others will be doing the same. 30 minutes drive time to LGA from Brooklyn or Manhattan is an absolute minimum, but never count on that. Allow at least an hour.

In my experience the only time that cruise lines, including NCL, use Pan American for a port call is when there are more ships in port than can be accommodated in OSJ. Every cruise I've taken making a port call in San Juan did so at OSJ and every cruise I've taken embarking in San Juan has done so at Pan American. Based on the information I could find, there were three ships in port on April 23. I believe only one of Muelle (Pier) 3 or 4 is in use in OSJ at present so two ships docked there and one, the Prima, at Pan American.

The source I normally use, cruisetimetables.com, doesn't identify whether ships are docking in OSJ or at Pan American. I also did a quick check of two others, crew-center.com and cruisemapper.com and off hand I didn't see that information on those sites either. It would be helpful to anyone interested in this type of information if you identify the website(s) that have this information. Perhaps I'm just overlooking something .

If it's a port call and you're the only ship in port that day you should be docking in Old San Juan. Where did you get the information that it's docking at Pan American? That only happens if there are no berths available in OSJ.

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.