roxyandbailey

I have been researching the best option for traveling to Dover on the day of our cruise. Our hotel is the Clermont Victoria and we can travel on a bus from Victoria coach or Victoria station on a southeastern train. The train is direct and takes 2 hrs. The bus takes 3 hrs and 10 min. The train costs 15 pounds and the bus is 8 pounds. I have some concerns for each though. Will the train be affected by the train strikes? The bus drops us off in Dover central. Will we be able to find a taxi on a busy cruise day? Should we just pay more and take the cruise bus option that would pick us up near Victoria station? ( approx. 105 dollars) Should we book a tour to Dover and pay for a tour of the white cliffs and Dover castle?? (125 ish) without entrance fee to the castle.

Thank you all for your help. I definitely feel more confident we can do this and save some money on taxi fares by taking the tube! 

We will be arriving August 29th on Air Canada around 9:30 am. Trying to figure out the best way to get to our hotel. We are staying at the Clermont hotel. I think Victoria station is close by but don’t really understand the whole train vrs tube options. We did order the oyster card already. We will have I medium suitcase each and have no difficulty walking. 

Christmas cruises are very expensive.

She is within final payment so she can not cancel her cruise 😞

I have not experienced a guarantee as we usually book a room number.

My daughter booked online an obstructed oceanview on deck 8 on the Gem for a holiday cruise this December for her family of four. She and her husband are teachers and can only cruise during the school breaks and thus she is already paying twice the normal fare.  During the booking process it says you are getting a room (obstructed oceanview) on deck 8 and she checked no when asked if she wanted an upgrade to a porthole on deck 4. She booked a guarantee room which she thought meant any room on deck 8 obstructed oceanview.  Instead she was assigned a porthole room on deck 4. She is unable to change it to deck 8 as the rooms that hold 4 people are under a different category that are listed for sail-away. I guess NCL doesn't care about how morally wrong it is to mislead their cruise passengers to book something and than UPGRADE them to something worse. They are unwilling to un-upgrade her to an obstructed oceanview room even though they are available.

I am a platinum plus latitudes member and I am done with NCL. I am going to try MSC since they match my latitudes member and I will be a Gold member on their cruises. 

Thank you all for the great advice. I used a venture visa credit card for the airfare without realizing at the time this card does not have trip insurance for it which surprised me considering it is a travel reward card. I did use a sapphire card for part of the cruise fare which does have travel insurance but confused if this would cover insurance on my flight for any issues or only the cruise part.

I feel like I missed the boat on this aspect of my trip planning. I purchased cruise insurance from NCL for $99 each for my husband and myself for our 10 night cruise in New Zealand and also we bought the $99 cruise insurance for our second cruise which follows in Australia for Feb 2018. Not sure I did the right thing considering I have $400 invested and possibly not everything covered that we need.

I don't have our airfare of $1050 each covered or our private excursions covered. I called the trip insurance store and I could add insurance to cover $1500 each for $158 dollars. Not sure if this would be beneficial to insure part of our trip or not.

We live in the US and I am 60 and my husband is 61 so no medicare issues.We are healthy. We have good medical insurance,

Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

Terry

Wondering which place would be better to include in our tour in Hobart.

We are looking at a tour in Hobart that would include Tasmanian Devil Unzoo or Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary. Which one is better?