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Just got our Wonder booking online,  we were moved down to floors to Deck 8,  ocean view Balcony.  Showed up on my future cruises 

Allure 10208.  To Wonder 8168

September 15th Sailing from Rome

Sailed out of Cape Canaveral on Disney Magic shortly after 9/11. Coast Guard escorting us out to sea was armed with a browning 50 caliber deck gun, manned. Both reassuring and frightening at the same time.

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We waited 10 min at the Airport station, Which is the luck of arrival as they use the airport terminal to time separation between trains and we just missed prior train. Less than 1 minute at the other stops heading into Miami

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To answer your question without offering cab and Uber alternatives. Yes the Metro rail goes from the airport to downtown Miami and we did it with luggage with absolutely no issue. If you catch the train in the station I doubt anything that uses highways can beat the speed, At $2.25 each it is pretty cheap as well, the ticket machine takes credit cards and is easy to use. The free Metromover provides more coverage at the Miami end. There is also a free trolley, Coral Way that will drop you at the ship the next morning. I suspect that many would find it odd that we pay for a Balcony but avoid cab fares to save $20 or so. It can be done, you can spend the money on a fancy drink on the ship

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By the way my original post was 13 months ago, January but last year

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I don’t actually know, frankly I am young at heart but one day was enough for me. I suspect as long as you have the wristband you are okay. Again not sure

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Just booked Serenade out of Copenhagen last Thursday. Suites were already sold out and maybe 10 balconies left. Sounds like it opened around the 13th. We had been watching for it as it spends 3 days in Iceland

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Agreed we were on that trip last year and the ride back to New York was stormy and rough without the remnants of a hurricane.

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I think that a bigger Risk will be from Maria. We are on the Oct 7th sailings and hope that all the Hurricanes die out by then

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I agree as well. While I'll drink IPA's if there are no other options, my heart lies with stouts, porters, belgians and bocks. Any of the ships carry Spaten by chance?

I am another that is not into the highly hopped beers, The Addition of hops doesn't make it a craft beer, it just makes it taste like it has more hops

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Coming from an area and state that is becoming a leader in true craft brews, I have yet to see a true craft beer on a RCI ship. What they call craft is just a unique mass market beer, and almost all are national. A craft beer is made at the pub, usually in small batches. Some of the larger brewers in Michigan Founders, Shorts, Bells, KBC and many others do bottle but I doubt few out of the Great Lakes area have heard of them. For some reason high hops, alcohol or dark color means craft to some, sorry, no not really.

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Uber will be around $17. Cab will be around $27

 

 

 

If you don't have a lot of luggage you can take the Metrorail (orange line) but I would only do this without lots of luggage and without it being rush hour or late at night.

What do you consider late at night, is the issue safety? We are light packers and fairly fit but late 50's. Spouse and I have done trains in Europe and in Vancouver from airport to hotels or cruise port but don't really know Miami. Flight arrives at 8:30 pm going to a hotel 500 ft from a station

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It will be fun, we liked Anthem and board her on the 7th as you return. This time to Bermuda as we also like variety

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We did the Anthem NE cruise that departed 9-22-16 last year. It was indeed an older crowd, plenty of Scooters and a lot of older Florida residents north to see fall colors, it wasn't really cold, and there wasn't a lot of color, but plenty complaining of cold. DW and I are almost retired ourselves, but from Michigan so we chuckled to ourselves as we went about in shorts. My guess average age was 65, as opposed to a more typical 45. I suspect that there were a couple of kids, but don't really remember any outside of our I fly group

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If you want to go inexpensive in Boston. The Silverline stops 200 yards from the ship. You can take that to the redline and on to Boston commons. We walked the Freedom trail to the Constitution taking harbor water taxi back to city center and trains back.

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In both St Johns and Halifax we rented a car. Halifax to Peggy's cove is about an hour. Plenty of walkable to see in Halifax including citadel although climb up is moderate to strenuous. In St Johns the Fundy Trail is a nice scenic drive, but unfortunately typically it closes October 1st or so, you will want to check website

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We did NE last year 9-22 to 10/1. The colors were really just starting although better in Halifax but not peak. If you go before our trip you will be 1 week later.

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Just on Adventure of the seas. Everyone was weighed in and given a wristband. I weighed in at 224 which on my 6'3" frame is getting heavy but not huge meant I could only use one of the 2 slides. Earlier poster correct, 220 and 260 not 300

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We are in the same boat, turning Platinum on last day of our next cruise. We board Saturday so will know first hand very soon. We really hope this is the case

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In general you need to be north, have solar wind hitting the earths magnetic field and the darker the better

The water in the picture is Lake Superior near Houghton Michigan in the Upper peninsula. This was last September

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What would you do with luggage? We have a slightly later flight but don't want to shlep bags on a tour

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For roll calls go to cruise critic roll call, Royal, and then date. As for tours, we agree hate bus tours, too cheap for private. Hence, Boston we will take bus to subway and will do Freedom walk, visit the USS Constitution and find a nice brew pub. Portland we do have a private minibus tour out to to lighthouses, and will walk downtown area. Acadia National Park has a FREE shuttle, we will use that to our hikes. Only bad thing is the free shuttle does not go up Cadillac mountain, although it his hike able which we may do if weather is awesome and clear, as it is not worth it if hazy. We are using Enterprise car rental in Halifax and St John driving to Peggy's cove in Halifax, beating the crowds arriving by bus. Fundy trail is our drive in St Johns

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Exactly, Mostly shorts and sandals for Michiganders[emoji3]

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We are also on the 22 Sept Anthem run, and from SE Michigan, make sure you go to our quite active roll call. I agree expect cool not cold, and don't be surprised when you see us Northerners in shorts and sandals as long as it isn't in the 50's[emoji3] we are planning to hike in Acadia, and other active type excursions. Not sure if you would consider us young, but we are not old just yet.

As long as a hurricane doesn't follow the Florida folks North, we should be good weather wise.

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We were in 4068 on a Western Caribbean itinerary. Noise for centrum was not a problem as long as the doors were closed, and you will be further forward. There is noise of people dragging deck chairs on the promenade above, but it was not that bad. As for motion, at worst we felt a low frequency vibration that is suspect was from the waves hitting the hull, or the diesels. You would not get seasick from that, and barely notice.