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Safer than driving but anyone who wants to stay in bubblewrap in their basement is welcome to their choice IMHO. I'm going to get out and enjoy life while I can. Carefully.

Understand that the outside looks like Cheers on TV. The inside looks like a gift shop full of T shirts and shot glasses and never looked like the TV Show. There is a Cheers Bar at Faneuil Hall that does look like the TV show.

Dates and budget in USD, not in body parts, makes this a much easier question to answer. I mean, I know a place that is only an arm, but it is the right arm which may be an issue for some folks

As temperatures warm, the dates puffins leave Iceland has been getting later each year. It's about a week later now than it was a decade ago. It also is adversely affecting their feeding which does not bode well for the future of the breed

Out of 3 million? Safer than driving. Or you can wrap yourself in bubblewrap and never leave the house and hope the asteroid doesn't hit you.

To use your words, "where did you find those statistics"?

The point is the transit system is INCREDIBLY SAFE. Safer than driving your car or going to many many other major cities in the US and around the world

Really? Not hard to find these numbers https://new.mta.info/coronavirus/ridership

We did SilverSea for Antarctica in 2018 and thought it was amazing. It was our most recent of about a dozen cruises we have taken and the facilities were incredible as were the staff and of course the destination. Zero complaints.

Depends on what you mean by "best". Cheapest is MBTA Silver Line bus/train Easiest is taxi or Uber

Take the Rowes Wharf Water Shuttle across the Harbor from the Airport to the Boston Harbor Hotel area on Rowes Wharf. The price of the shuttle includes luggage storage at their downtown site.

Lots of rental options in Reykjavik. Fewer in Akureyri, but you can find cars there, too. Cheaper cars are generally Stick shifts which surprises a few folks who have no idea how to drive one. They are labeled as such on the websites, but who looks for that kind of info when you really don't expect it?

Fear sells. Remember the old "If it bleeds, it leads" mantra of TV News? 3,000,000 people ride the NYC subways EVERY DAY. 99.99% of them experience zero harm.

Not sure which train goes from Coney Island to Canal Street, but definitely more than 30 minutes. I did notice more masking the closer we got to Manhattan

We have a two week trip to Boston coming up in late November and have a "pay later" rate of under $700. Which I think is a great price now and a decent price pre-pandemic.

That's a shame. I've been on the subway as early as 6AM and as late as just after Midnight this year. In Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. And never felt unsafe. Nor has my wife.

I agree. Port parking is close and not too expensive.

We won't mention the horses

There is no "bad weather" in Iceland. There is "bad clothes for the weather" in Iceland Waterproof outer levels and solid soled shoes are a must. I've worn my hiking boots more in Iceland over the past 5 years than I have everywhere else, and my feet are very happy with that choice.

There are lots of bad rental car agencies in Iceland. There are also a few very good ones. Yes, you should fully document the condition of the vehicle, inside and outside, when you pick it up. Video or lots of photos. And if you can do it again when you drop it off, do so. We get some of the insurances, but we definitely don't get them all, and we've done 4 driving vacations covering 29 days in Iceland with zero issues. But we drive cautiously on dirt and gravel roads keeping a substantial distance away from other cars so rocks don't fly up and hit us. And we are VERY careful opening car doors on windy days as we've seen doors fly off of other people's cars.

Duck boat does the water plus part of the land that the HOHO does. You get all the land parts on the HOHO. Duck boat safety has been greatly improved over the past few years with the introduction of a separate guide and driver, instead of one person trying to do everything, distracting from safety

Important, yes. Urgent? It's been going on for a month now, and as 1025 said it can cause real problems. Public Transit is the best solution.

If you have TSA Precheck/Global Entry you don't have to remove your shoes

You will likely get better answers about Viking Cruises on their board, here: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/689-viking-ocean/

If you can tell us where you are coming from and where you are going elsewhere and define "reasonably priced" in USD we can give you better advice