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54 minutes ago, traceytd said:
We rented a car in Houston airport. We drove to Galveston and kept the car for 2 days. Our time to return the car was at 18:30 on a Saturday. They were closed but had a lock box for the keys. We actually had a phone call from Enterprise a few days after to ask if everything went well. They were awsome. I will certainly do that again next if and when we go back to Galveston.
Thanks for sharing your great experience with Enterprise. We're still trying to work out the logistics of getting to/from our cruise... not easy!
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On 3/13/2024 at 6:48 PM, PG_traveller said:
If you are doing a one way rental they will charge extra for that. You could take a shuttle from IAH to Enterprise in Galveston and rent your car there. That's what I did. If you are a Costco member, try Costco Travel dot ca. They usually have the best prices.
On 3/15/2024 at 6:38 AM, traceytd said:Costco travel Canada is my to go for all car rentals. I’m from NB. I got a small SUV for 317.00 US for 2 days Thursday and Friday. I pick up at Houston airport and drop off in Galveston at the Entreprise dealership. This will be mid March.
good luck 🍀
How was the service at Enterprise? Did they have a shuttle to take you to the port? Long waits?
On 3/22/2024 at 10:21 AM, Colorado Buffalo said:https://www.enterprise.com/en/car-rental-locations/us/tx/galveston-0618.html?mcid=yext:245709
Website says they are open 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sundays.
I called and confirmed as well.
They have a shuttle that goes every 30 min to port but employee on phone mentioned
it all depends on staffing and that wait times could be 45+ min.
Our plans....Embarkation- taking Galveston Limo or Galveston Express from IAH to the port.( or any other shuttle recommendations?) On disembarkation - Reserving a 1-way car rental(Costco Travel Canada) from Enterprise (to go the Space Center and explore Houston) and returning the car to IAH that evening. The google reviews are are mixed for Enterprise... long waits, no cars, no pickup service as advertised? Won't the Enterprise shuttles be dropping off guests who returned rentals at the port and picking up guests for car rentals run constantly all of Sun morning? How is the service for Enterprise? Any advice appreciated! Thanks!
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21 hours ago, PG_traveller said:
I also used Galveston Express both ways without any problem.
Yes, Enterprise was open on Sunday. Tons of people there returning cars, waiting for rides, etc. They even had a shuttle to the port. A one way rental will cost you extra, but should be doable.
We wanted to rent a car at Enterprise on Sunday after disembarking as we're staying in Houston post-cruise and return the car to IAH the next day. Do you know if the shuttle pick-ups at the port to bring you to Enterprise? There are conflicting reviews about Enterprise... no shuttle, poor service, no cars although you had a reservation. Any advice appreciated. Thank you!
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Hi Laurie!
Just found your live thread. I love your writing style and enjoying your live. We are fellow Canadians from the west coast, BC joining you on this TA. I love the bonus Disneyworld. The last time we were there were when our kids were teenagers... so many new sights. We will definitely have to visit DW soon. Enjoy the rest of the week at Disney and we will see you aboard!
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20 hours ago, JessyCruises said:
I am a fellow Canadian that will be joining you onboard the TA! I am looking forward to reading your live and meeting you onboard! I love your writing style so far.
I live in New Brunswick and I am travelling with my husband and my sister, Hubby and I are also staying onboard for the May 5th sailing. We are flying down to Fort Lauderdale on Saturday on AirTransat out of Halifax and flying home on the 12th from Barcelona on Westjet. Flight travel to Atlantic Canada is so bizarre - we have to fly from Barcelona to Calgary before we fly back to the East Coast 🤣
Hello fellow Canadian! That is bizarre.. flying all the way west and then backtracking to fly back east. We are from the west coast, BC. We are flying to Miami via Westjet and have to fly NORTH to Calgary on leg 1, then back SOUTH to ATL then MIA. Since Westjet changed to make Calgary its major hub, I find most flights have to go thru Calgary 1st for a layover and change of planes. WJ used to fly direct YVR-LGW, now stopover in Calgary. 😥
Anyway safe travels and see you on board!
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On 4/6/2024 at 12:58 AM, Merion_Mom said:
Many waiters will ask you if you want to use a Diamond voucher, but it's a good idea to mention it.
You can book in advance, but you have to pay for it when you book the reservations, then go through the process of getting a refund on board. Or you can just wait until you are on the ship and pay when you eat.
I thought you had to make reservations on board to use the Diamond+ BOGO. Do you book in advance on the cruiser planner for 2 people paying for it and then once on board, tell the restaurant that you want to use the BOGO and ask for a refund of the 2nd person? Thanks
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On 3/26/2024 at 10:42 AM, FloridaGram said:
Some people like it! I am thinking of booking this ship just because of that show! Have been on the Harmony and Wonder so now I am thinking about an older ship.
I did just that!… booked Allure just to see Mamma Mia… saw it twice… an excellent production! Book Allure to see Mamma… you will love the show.
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41 minutes ago, CruiseMH said:
Most ports handle it based on first come first serve. The first cruise who books a berth on a specific day gets the "best" berth (e.g. closest to the city or whatever). In case there are more ship calls than available berths then usually the cruise line that has booked a berth for that day the latest has to tender their guests in.
On our last 2 Alaska cruises, on Radiance and Brilliance, in Juneau we always dock at the furthest dock from town. Holland America, Princess, Celebrity get the berths closest to town. So if Royal always books a berth last, that’s why they get the furthest dock from town? I thought Princess pays more to get the dock right in town.
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4 hours ago, onthewater51 said:
Ditto this...
In 2018 we did the Greek Isles...Thoroughly enjoyed the Delos tour. I'm not a history buff like my wife (Delos was her idea), but something about that place has stuck with me even today. Just a fascinating place and history.
Lol… great minds think alike… Delos was my idea too😉 DH and our 2 friends also thoroughly enjoyed Delos as well.
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On 8/26/2023 at 10:11 AM, sgmn said:
Another easy DIY idea for Mykonos is to catch the boat over to Delos from the main harbour. You can buy your tickets at the booth there.
At Delos you purchase tickets to enter the ancient mythical birthplace of Apollo and major archaeology site. There's a cafe and museum on the island and depending on your port hours you should still have plenty of time to wander Mykonos and have lunch in a taverna
We did this except we took the 1st ferry over and had time to see the windmills without the crowds. We then went on our Delos guided tour…amazing! Afterwards, we had plenty of time for lunch and explore the town before catching the ferry back to the ship
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4 hours ago, bonsai3s said:
Just spent a truly memorable week in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and visited many of the magnificent temples including Angkor Wat.
We have visited the Pyramids, the Great Wall, Ephesus, Macchu Piccu...the intricately carved stone walls of Angkor Wat...IMHO...gets the gold medal.
Cambodia was safe, and the people friendly. Many 5-star hotels if that's what you're looking for.
Food...absolutely cheap.
Draft beers 50 cents, Rum and Coke 1 dollar, Mojitos 1 dollar...most dishes were under 8 bucks for TWO people.
Laundry=$1per kilo...folded, prompt, and a beautiful scent of lemon grass.
Note: Cambodia was extremely hot and humid...but we were prepared for it.
* We are currently enjoying the lovely beaches in Bali...saw Celebrity Solstice docked yesterday. All I can think of was: "How much of Bali will they see?" Happy Easter.
Last year, we did DYI land trip visiting Vietnam,Malaysia, Jakarta, Siem Reap and Bali. Yes….Friendly people, delicious cheap food and beautiful scenery, sites… Angkor Wat was amazing! Spent a week in Bali…relaxed on the beaches and visited the beautiful waterfalls, temples on the island.
Absolutely agree…. Although we love cruising, there are some places in the world that you can’t cruise to and land trips are great.
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On 3/28/2024 at 12:41 PM, Ashland said:
You can also get them at the terminal. Just ask a luggage handler. The tags are the strong ones just like the airlines give. Just write your cabin number or the handler will and you're good to go. Couldn't be easier.
We cruised out of Singapore last year. We arrived at the port with our tagged luggage. There was 2 lines to drop off luggage. 1. Guests with luggage with already tagged luggage and 2. Guests that needed luggage tags. There was only a few guests in tagged luggage. We were able to quickly drop off our luggage and proceed to checkin. The line up for guests needing luggage tags was long.
In NA and EU ports, luggage drop off is easy with or without tags as porters with tags are readily available. Singapore port handled luggage drop off differently.-
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10 hours ago, ssb said:
Not saying it will not happen but ships in Galveston NOW will move in the fog unless it really circumstantial . We have cruise booked in January. And have generally cruised out of Galveston every January for birthdays .
Thank you so much for the info! We have never sailed out of Galveston. I was reading a CC thread from 2022 which worried me.
https://boards.cruisecritic.com.au/topic/2886759-sailing-out-of-galveston…/
Glad to hear that the ships "NOW will move in the fog" and that you have cruised every January with no delayed/late docking due to fog.
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We're thinking of booking a cruise next January. We would have to fly out of IAH in the afternoon after disembarkation as we have another cruise booked the next day. How often are cruise ships delayed in docking due to fog? Any advice is appreciated! Thanks!
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16 hours ago, LuCruise said:
Am looking into options for a Royal cruise (Harmony of the Seas). Is the shuttle option in the cruise planner? Or you book it separately? (Not seeing it in cruise planner if it shows up there). Sounds like uber is better but looking from cost perspective.
Also looking into options IAH to Galveston Cruise port…Uber, Galveston Shuttle, Galveston Express or any other shuttle services(besides RC shuttle)? Uber seems the most convenient..how is Uber cost wise for 2 people? Has anyone used Uber IAH to Galveston return? I read Ubers are in short supply on disembarkation day at the port and Uber drivers have cancelled reservations + surge pricing, so leary of using Uber to IAH. TIA
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6 minutes ago, DennysDad said:
Could be the app having a problem pinpointing your location/time zone etc at sea? Just now tonight finding out about the app being time zone sensitive. But Royals IT is an endless mystery. LOL.
That’s a possibility. We also tried our Ipad to checkin in on royalcaribbean.com, but kept getting the spinning anchor logo thing and couldn’t log in. It may have been the wifi… it was slow on the ship. Agree…. Royals IT is an endless mystery 😂
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17 minutes ago, DennysDad said:
As I now understand it (only in the past hour) it has to do with time zones.
I’ve always checked in at midnight in the time zone the ship leaves from and have had no problems. In my case checkin was 12amEST and it was12amEST on the ship. I was ready waiting for the app to say checkin open and when it did, I tried to checkin and after a few minutes was given set sail passes without “checking in” and without the option of selecting a checkin time..was assigned 1pm. I could see others posting 10:30 times on FB while I was trying to refresh the app.
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I had a weird checkin incident 2 wks ago. We were aboard Allure and ready to checkin for our next cruise in April. We had wifi… I was on the app when checkin said open at about 12:10 am. After refreshing the app multiple times, a set sail pass appeared with a checkin time of 1pm. But I never entered any info or had the screen pop up to select my checkin time. So went down to GS to ask if they ever heard of this.. getting a set sail pass without checking in. GS agent said “ you can’t checkin for another cruise while aboard a cruise… something to do with IT”. How did we get set sail passes without entering any info to check in?? We went to the concierge lounge in the morning to use the desktop computer… logged in, entered info and picked 11:30. The set sail pass on my app immediately changed from 1pm to 11:30. I’ve never had issues checking in before, but I’ve always checked in from home. On the other social media site, people were posting checkin times of 10:30 just after 12am, so no issues checking in “on land” Was the GS agent correct or is it Royal’s IT problems again? Has this happened to anyone else?
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What is the best, most reliable way return trip IAH to Galveston Cruise port…Uber, Galveston Shuttle, Galveston Express or any other shuttle services ? I read Ubers are in short supply on disembarkation day at the port and Uber drivers have cancelled reservations, so a little leary of using Uber. We have a flight at 3pm. TIA
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16 hours ago, TeeRick said:
We also go to dw's family place near Portland every year so we have learned not to expect any kind of comparable lobster on a cruise, even if it is listed as Maine lobster on the menu. That's ok and we usually order something else.
On Symphony we also went to Jamie's and Wonderland in addition to Hooked. We enjoyed Jamie's the best of the three. On other nights we dined in Coastal Kitchen which was overall excellent.
We had dined at Wonderland on Odyssey. I agree… we thought Jamie’s was the best of the three too.
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On 3/4/2024 at 4:28 PM, mets123 said:
How was the seafood restaurant? My wife wants lobster rolls for lunch one day and I am trying to determine if it's worth the trip.
On 3/5/2024 at 3:44 AM, FionaMG said:@leisuretraveler223, I hope you don't mind if I reply to this, since we did go to Hooked one evening.
@mets123, we went for dinner and although we didn't try the lobster roll, we had a great meal. The restaurant itself is really nice too and we had an absolutely outstanding server. Her name is Pupae and, if you do decide to go, ask if you can be seated in her section. Nothing was too much trouble for her and she patiently explained all the dishes to us (it was our first time at Hooked) and made sure we understood what we were ordering. She also explained to us how to eat the soft shell crabs, which were something we'd never had before. We told her we wanted to share everything so she set everything out in the centre of the table for us.
Dinner menu. I think it has more items on it than the lunch menu.
Here's what we had:
Soft shell crab:
Maryland crab cake.
Fresh hand-tossed salad:
Captain's platter. We were offered a choice of halibut or salmon for this one. We chose the halibut and it was really good.
Royal platter:
Desserts: Coconut cream pie and lemon tart. We were too full to eat these in the restaurant and Pupae got them made up for us to take back to our cabin to eat later. They weren't great tbh. The coconut cream pie was ok but the lemon tart lived up to its name and was far too tart for our liking.
All in all, it was a very nice meal. I really liked the Captain's platter but found the Royal platter to be just a bit too much fried stuff for my liking, so I'd definitely not choose that one again.
On 3/5/2024 at 3:44 AM, FionaMG said:@leisuretraveler223, I hope you don't mind if I reply to this, since we did go to Hooked one evening.
@mets123, we went for dinner and although we didn't try the lobster roll, we had a great meal. The restaurant itself is really nice too and we had an absolutely outstanding server. Her name is Pupae and, if you do decide to go, ask if you can be seated in her section. Nothing was too much trouble for her and she patiently explained all the dishes to us (it was our first time at Hooked) and made sure we understood what we were ordering. She also explained to us how to eat the soft shell crabs, which were something we'd never had before. We told her we wanted to share everything so she set everything out in the centre of the table for us.
Dinner menu. I think it has more items on it than the lunch menu.
Here's what we had:
Soft shell crab:
Maryland crab cake.
Fresh hand-tossed salad:
Captain's platter. We were offered a choice of halibut or salmon for this one. We chose the halibut and it was really good.
Royal platter:
Desserts: Coconut cream pie and lemon tart. We were too full to eat these in the restaurant and Pupae got them made up for us to take back to our cabin to eat later. They weren't great tbh. The coconut cream pie was ok but the lemon tart lived up to its name and was far too tart for our liking.
All in all, it was a very nice meal. I really liked the Captain's platter but found the Royal platter to be just a bit too much fried stuff for my liking, so I'd definitely not choose that one again.
On 3/4/2024 at 4:28 PM, mets123 said:How was the seafood restaurant? My wife wants lobster rolls for lunch one day and I am trying to determine if it's worth the trip.
We were on the same cruise and dined at Hook's for lunch. My DH had the fresh-shucked and baked oysters and thought they both were very good. I had the soft-shell crab, clam and crab chowder. I had never eaten soft-shell crab before, so I'm not sure what to expect, but I thought they were tasty. The clam chowder was so thick and too creamy...too much cream = too many calories and there were hardly any clams or chunks of crab meat. We both had the lobster roll which we thought was ok. The roll was quite small with small chunks of lobster. I guess I'm comparing it to the best lobster roll we've had at Luke's Lobster in Portland, ME. Desserts: cherry pie and decadent chocolate brownie were ok.
On a side note, we also dined at Jamie's for lunch. Food and service was excellent. Starters:the meat plank, calamari were very good. The garlic buns were the best! Prawn linguine also very good. The pan-roasted salmon was very good...perfectly cooked and the portion was huge. Dessert: cheesecake and mango gelato topped off a delicious meal. Definitely will do lunch at Jamie's again.
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2 hours ago, BecciBoo said:
Sent my request in yesterday to several different addies, got the auto response back and I had definitely put the date/ship/rez# etc in subject line, resent and got same response...things have really changed since last September...GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR So will email my personal contact AGAIN and see what she can do. My cruise is in 13 days
I had the same thing happen.... I definitely put the date/ship/reservation # in subject line and got an auto-response saying the request will not be looked at without the date/ship/reservation # in the subject line...it was sent correctly! I resent the exact same email request twice and finally got the normal auto response(that I have received in the past) that they will send the request to the ship. Not sure what happened?... IT glitches?
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On 2/9/2024 at 6:13 AM, BND said:
They have done the coffee vouchers and still do occasionally. We've been on a couple of ships where the coffee machine didn't work and we got coffee vouchers. We do use our drink vouchers for coffee and gasp, occasionally for water. We also never use all 5 each. We've only used all 5 one time and that was a day we got fresh squeezed oj at breakfast. Use them however you like, but it's not a waste even if you don't use them if you don't need to.
Agree… us too. Since we don’t use all of our vouchers up, we ask our room steward what beers, ciders he/she likes and will leave them for them in the cabin
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3 hours ago, Starry Eyes said:
Unless the minimums are set quite high (as they have been on some cruises lately though more reasonable for others), I’ve been bidding above the minimum. Some bids are way above the minimum. Our bids above the minimum are generally rejected. If you bud the minimum there is a chance your bid will be accepted, but your odds are probably rather low.
For my party of two, I might not bother to bid on the upgrade from OV to spacious OV if I liked the location of my current OV cabin. The spacious OV would probably gain us bunk beds that would not really enhance our cruise and we might not like the new location. Larger parties likely feel differently about those bunk beds. I would bid on the spacious OV if I did not like the location of my current OV cabin (gty assignment that did not thrill us, for example). I do bid on ultra spacious as they are much larger cabins. Those are also rare cabins, so the upgrade is less likely.
I would not call OV to balcony a minimal upgrade, lol. Many people value the upgrade to balcony. I’d expect many people in inside cabins as well as those in OV cabins to bid on the balcony upgrade. There are lots of balconies on the ship, so the chance of vacant balcony going to RoyalUp bidding is better. If I had to guess though, odds are are the balconies will go to people who bid above the minimum.
This! ...we might not like the new location. Location is important to us. I picked and like the cabin location for a Central Park balcony. We have enjoyed sailing in a CP balcony before. Although an OV balcony would be nice, I'm hesitant to bid for an OV balcony as we may get a cabin location that we're not as happy with. Plus it's a short 4 day cruise.
For ships with obstructed view balconies (Quantum class), would you most likely be assigned an obstructed view with RoyalUp bidding?
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Thank you for your suggestions! Yes, I'm worried about disembarkation... madhouse with Uber as well as Enterprise. I've read stories on having a pre-reserved Uber and the drivers cancelled on you opting for a longer, more $$ pickup. So, the Enterprise shuttle does run but has long waits?
Royal does have an expensive excursion over $200US/pp and it only gives you a few hours at the Space Centre...having a car gives more flexibility. Our flights are the next day, so we were planning to drop off the car back at IAH and stay at an airport hotel for 1 night.