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Construction on the airport interchange is scheduled from 27th to 31 st of August, so you should be good beginning of September.

there is an official taxi line at the airport, plenty of taxis, fixed rate 49,45$ canadian + tip, taxis take credit cards

In 2019, we took the ferry. We walked to the ferry from the cruiseship, then on nevis we walked through town down to pinney’s beach, about half hour walk. Coming back, our ship was in port till around 6 pm and we took not the last ferry but the one before (just in case) and everything went smoothly, but from what I recall, there was more than 2 ferries per day. It was cheaper than the private shuttles from the south en of st kitts.

Just had the same situation for booking shore excursions online. Called Princess shore excursion department and they were able to pay for both of us with my OBC for our excursion.

7 hours ago, ski ww said:

Are you sure that you're still docking in Flam?? We're on the Nieuw Statendam doing this cruise 5 July 2020 and HAL sent a notification that Flam was cancelled going to Skjolden instead.

For the time being, yes. On the HAL website, The Viking Sagas and Norse legends itineraries on the nieuw statendam (14 day itineraries that are 2 7 day back to back and do not go to the northern part of norway) in may, june, july are still sheduled to go to Flam and Geiranger. The august itineray goes to flam but not geiranger and alesund (goes to olden and andalsnes instead). I do not know if it was like that from the start in august or if there was a change in the itinerary.

On the flam port docking schedule, we are still also listed as docked there.

It seems at the moment it is the itineraries that go to northern norway and the ones on the smaller HAL ships that have been changed.

Thank you Kaisatsu!! 

That is great info and will help in deciding!

The shedules/reservations for Norway in a nutshell (or the seperate train legs on vy.no) are not out yet, so will check on that.

Hello,

Will be in Flam from 8-6pm June 30th 2020. Will be docked and only ship in town (HAL Nieuw Statendam)

Am looking into doing Norway in nutshell as an option #1 (cruise to gudvangen, bus to voss, train to myrdal, train to flam)

Another option (#2) would be to do the Naeroyfjord cruise from Flam to Gudvangen (9-11h) and instead of continuing to Stalheim and Voss (nutshell route), to take the shuttle bus back to Flam (11:30-11:50), then do the bus tour to the Stegastein lookout (12:30-2:05pm) and finish with the flam train return to Myrdal and back (leaves flam at 2:50pm and arrives back in Flam at 5pm)

Doing option #2, we would miss the bus trip to Stalheim  and Voss and the train between Voss and Myrdal, but would add the Stegastein viewpoint.

Which should we choose? Is stegastein viewpoint better? or is the stalheim road from gudvangen to voss and the train from voss to myrdal better?

Thanks a lot for your input and insight!!

Hello,

Will be in Flam from 8-6pm June 30th 2020. Will be docked and only ship in town (HAL Nieuw Statendam)

Am looking into doing Norway in nutshell as an option #1 (cruise to gudvangen, bus to voss, train to myrdal, train to flam)

Another option (#2) would be to do the Naeroyfjord cruise from Flam to Gudvangen (9-11h) and instead of continuing to Stalheim and Voss (nutshell route), to take the shuttle bus back to Flam (11:30-11:50), then do the bus tour to the Stegastein lookout (12:30-2:05pm) and finish with the flam train return to Myrdal and back (leaves flam at 2:50pm and arrives back in Flam at 5pm)

Doing option #2, we would miss the bus trip to Stalheim  and Voss and the train between Voss and Myrdal, but would add the Stegastein viewpoint.

Which should we choose? Is stegastein viewpoint better? or is the stalheim road from gudvangen to voss and the train from voss to myrdal better?

Thanks a lot for your input and insight!!

Hal has just posted today cruises for 2019 Holidays on its website!

Hal justed posted today on their website the 2019 Holiday Cruises!

Hal just posted today the 2019 holiday cruises!

HAL website has just listed today 2019 Holiday cruises.

Did 4 Holiday cruises with HAL over the last 10 years and loved them but for 2019, booked 14 day Pacific Princess and was waiting to see HAL itineraries: will finally stick with original choice, prefer the itinerary and dates.

We were on the Maasdam Holiday Cruise this year and did the Embera Village. Very nice excursion, the dugout canoe ride is about 30 minutes one way through an awesome forest and river. The village itself was also very nice, kids playing around and having fun, had the "national geographic" experience like you say regarding clothing. Also ate the fish and plantains provided, delicious and no ill effects! You can walk around the village, see the school, houses (but you do not enter them, unless invited).

Overall a very interesting excursion, and you get to see the canal and locks in the morning for about 2:30 hours so you get the best of both worlds: the panama canal and a nice excursion!

In Limon, we did the rainforest aerial tram. Very nice ride but don't expect to see animals there. You hear birds, and we got to see a sloth and a snake and a monkey high up in the trees,but not on the tram.

We did this tour since we had already been to the Tortuguero canals on a land trip.

Louis