KonaJo

We never travel without additional travel insurance. Nor credit cards without at least 30k available. 

During a 4 month cruise in 2019, my husband fell ill and spent 4 days in the ships hospital. Even with all our insurance we had to pay over 18k before we disembarked. Yes, we were reimbursed, but it took over six months.  You have to submit a claim to Medicare. Be denied , then submit the denial and new claim to your advantage ins. They pay whatever. Then you submit both denials and another claim   then the Trip insurance will pay the balance.  BtW. Make sure you have the Ships Medical Center give you four (4) Copies of the bill with the doctor's wet signature.  It is required by by all your carriers (each of our bills was 42 pages long)

We booked on the 11th on board the Marina, for 2020 HK->SFO..on the 18th, they waitlisted us for our preferred PH..but did confirm a CV..for us..

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Bananavan, I just went through the same thing last month, except it was with our mail order pharmacy. When the finally agreed,They sent my icepacked injectables late in the week, and rather than overnight delivery, they sat in the USPS warehouse here in the tropics over the weekend. I find meds is the hardest part of precruise tasks..

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Thank you JudiK..this is good to know

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JudiK..

Do you bring other meds in case you catch the bug while traveling?

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Yes,yes,Yes! This is long but worth reading.

We actually live on the Big Island,Hawaii. Honolulu was the closest to home, but our acceptance notice came while we were in Portland Oregon last July. You need to schedule your face-to-face interview within 30 days. Portland's first opening was April 2018. We checked all the locations we'd be in the following 3 months and the only openings we found were in Anchorage.

We tested our first entry in Ft Lauderdale last November, from the time we stepped off the gangplank until we were in our cab...7 minutes!!!

The best added benefit: my driver's license is issued by one of the State's that do not met TSA.. requirements, but my GB..id does.

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FYI: Both the Hawaii House & Senate has passed bills making it a misdemeanor to falsify documents for Service Dogs (or Mini Horses) Emotional Support Animals(ESA) or Therapy Animals. It will come with a fine of $1k and/or 6 months in jail. It hasn't gone effect yet but will soon.

A little something for men;) A black sport coat - grey pants - black pants - Tan pants - 4 long sleeve dress shirts (white, strips, pale blue, grey) - 3 ties that have all the colors to coordinate - 2 pr. nice jeans - 4 polo shirts - 1 pr. of shorts (for the ship crossing in Oct., it got warm) socks - undies - belt - black shoes (that look dressy, but are really a tennis shoe, Clarks come to mind) - swimsuit - foldable raincoat - pj's optional :eek: This list got my DH thru 30 days of Med TA from Athens to Florida, he never looked out of place.

 

Yes we did have to use the laundry service 3 times, once a week, the last weeks worth we did when we got home. (We hand washed socks & undies)

 

I found a simple black dress - 1 pr. dress pants - 4 dressy tops - a dressy black skirt - 2 every day pants - 1 below the knee denim skirt - 4 everyday tops - 1 simple sweater - 4 scarfs (used different ways, makes it appear to be a new outfit, simple) - 1 pr. dress shoes - a cushy pr. of black maryjane Clark shoes - 1 pr. of shorts (for the crossing on deck) socks, undies, pj's, swimsuit - foldable raincoat.

 

1 carry-on each, 1 checked bag for the both of us, 1 collapsable bag to bring back goodies we found that I put my purse in coming home and called it my purse (i.e.: my personal extra on the plane home).

Sunny, I love your list. Did your husband really get by with one pair of shoes?

My Hubby's size 13's take up most of his suitcase...

I,too, have had problems over the weekend and tried it on all 7 of my platforms available to me. Thought I was going crazy...

KonaJo - I like the "excuseme-whereis" website for finding supermarkets, laundromats, public toilets, and other such conveniences for some Italian cities. Rome is covered. Take a look

http://www.excuseme-whereis.com/Rome.html

Thank you so much for this link. We've actually been on the road already since June 5th and won't be returning home to Hawaii until Dec 3rd. Having this information is extremely helpful. Since we're only taking 1 suitcase and 2 carryon's between the 2 of us, I can probably toss half our clothes towards the end of our trip. They may not be worn out, but I'll probably be sick of them by then:eek:

I carry both the travel clothes line and a great little plastic hanger with a dozen clothes pins attached I found at Storables in the Laundry Department. It hangs anywhere and our undies are taken care of. I also have small packets of Woolite. I don't mind sending out the rest of the laundry. One other thing, we're on the B2B for 29 days this fall, and I'd like to pick up some extra hangers in Rome to add to our closet on board. Do any of you repeat cruisers out of Rome know of any Target type stores that I can pick up necessities that I don't want to stuff in my suitcase? Mahalo

Aloha Karon. We're on your ship also. I was planning on bringing my hooded yellow waterproof swing coat for those wet days and won't need to carry an umbrella. I like to wear my white fleece vest on the plane, I always carry a zippered child's pillow case with me so when I get too warm on the plane I roll up the vest stick it in and have a perfect pillow.

I am hoping to pick up full sized toiletries in Rome before we board for 30day B2B cruises. Is that wishful thinking or quite doable?

1) head to the Spa and book!:o

2) head to the front desk and pick up copy of TV listings.

never seeing the 1st half of the same movie night after night

is :confused: