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  1. They were asking about their grandson spending the night in their cabin so his parents can presumably have some alone time. Not about taking him to the spa during the day and using the facilities.
  2. Im sure its been done before. Just grab an extra pillow and throw him on the couch or in between you two grandparents and you will be set. No one will bat an eye. And if they do, better to ask forgivness than permission in this case. But I doubt anyone (including your cabin steward) would care. And it's nothing that an extra $20 being thrown your cabin steward's way couldn't solve and asking him/her to make up your couch for your grandson.
  3. If this is accurate, looks like Frankie Portera.
  4. Try getting to ANY cruise port from the west suburbs of Chicago. That's a challenge.
  5. Did you look at HAL's website? A quick search there will show you the answer. I found it less than a minute. Usually going straight to the source is the best option.
  6. It isn't a rumor. NCL announced a while back that they would begin sailing from JAX in 2025.
  7. Go to YouTube and do a search and you will find more videos and tours of the ships than you can watch in your lifetime.
  8. We have several Premier and Elite offers all the way into 2026. So Ultras are probably out there for certain sailings for those that qualify. Just keep checking your offers. We already have 5 booked with these offers through December next year.
  9. Oh I agree. You did more back of the cocktail napkin math than I did there. I was just posing a "what if" scenario. I am personally not a fan of the "bigger is better" concept with modern ships now-a-days is all. I have been accused of living in the past, but I do that because rent was cheaper back then. 😆
  10. Yeah. I am here for 2 more years until my daughter graduates high school then I am out and moving to the Florida panhandle. I can't escape Illinois and the Chicago area fast enough. I don't like talking politics on message boards so I will just leave it there lol.
  11. Can you imagine 4 Excel class ships there at the same time at Celebration Key? Each ship can hold 6,400 passengers. If there are 4 Excel class in port at the same time, using my public school math, that is over 25,000 people there. Celebration Key will be 65 acres.
  12. After reading my post I made a mistake and it was too late to edit it. What I meant to say in the first paragraph was DONT fly in to LGA the morning of. The way it reads makes it sound like I said don't fly in there at all. Sorry about that. Go a day or 2 prior if you can.
  13. I am an airline pilot and let me strongly advise you to NOT fly into LGA (or JFK/EWR). While LGA itself has been vastly improved facilities-wise over the years with a brand new terminal, the airspace has not been. NYC airspace is some of the most congested in the world with 4 busy airports all within a stone's throw of each other, with the 4th being PHL. NYC airports are very delay/cancellation prone. Probably the only other airport that is bad or worse about delays is SFO, due to its closely spaced parallel and intersecting runways. When the weather goes down, ATC has to start spacing planes further apart when pilots have to start flying instrument approaches and cannot do a visual apporach to the airport or maintain visual separation with the preceeding aircraft. There is only so much airspace, so they have to start delaying and cancelling flights otherwise it becomes gridlock and nothing moves at all. And let me say that it doesn't take much weather to clog things up. It doesn't even have to be at the airport. If there are thunderstorms 50 miles away blocking the arrival corridors into NYC, it will cause delays and cancellations. It WILL be weather related and the airline will cite weather as the cause, even though the weather is 50 miles away. It always leaves passengers wondering "what weather? Its a beautiful day here". And accuse the airline of lying about it. Well again, its the storms 50 to 100 miles away causing the disruption on the arrival or departure routes. All of these airports have what we pilots joke as the 1-2-3 rule. 1 cloud, 2 airplanes, 3 hour delay. Fly in the day prior. Enjoy the city. Have a good dinner at Carbone or Joe's Shanghai. There are literally hundreds of hotels beteen the airport and the cruise port. Just DON'T fly in the morning of.
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