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Boat Yard is within walking distance to the Renaissance.....literally in their parking lot.

You will have to call for the discount. It does not calculate automatically.

The July 4 sales had Upgrade to Premium Wifi for $5.99 pp pd. Upgrade to Premium Drink for $20 pp pd. Shore excursions were also a good price. I am not seeing them anymore. I did the premium wifi upgrade for Oct and Nov cruises. When you call for Wifi or Beverage Pkg upgrade ask for the Elite discount. If you are D/D+/Pinnacle on Royal, you are Elite on Celebrity. I don't have many great hotel suggestions for Ft Lauderdale area. Someone local may know better. We used to stay at the Renaissance, but lately they have become iffy so taking a break from them. It is not bad, but some rooms that we were assigned needed a lot of tlc. Otherwise it is OK, has a CVS and lots to eat across. I haven't tried Hilton Marina but people seem to like it. Recently we have stayed outside Ft Lauderdale at Del Ray Beach and Pompano area, because we drive to the port. Some one suggested Hilton Garden Inn (Dania beach) which has shuttle to cruise port. AC and Mariott FLL are both new hotels in Dania beach area and close to restaurants. We have also stayed at Le Meridian Dania Beach. I liked that one a lot (maybe because they upgraded us to a suite? and it was really nice), restaurant on site was great. Bar area I am sure you may enjoy more than I did, ambience was great. They had a shuttle to drive you around the area restaurants, but am not sure if they took you to the port. We drove and there was ample parking. Also check out Celebrity's hotels from your cruise planner.

I remember those prices! Currently they are crazy high with All Included.

You will love it. However, the aft balconies on E class ships are a hike from the elevators. I see it as a positive....excellent opportunity to eat all you want and get the exercise in! Where are you staying pre cruise?

@Sea Dog Greg, we looked at April 1 and April 12 Beyond sailings and went with the April 12 one since hubby wants to go to St Marten! I hope you paid a good price for that cruise. Currently Celebrity's prices are crazy especia! I am glad we had a deposit to play around with.

New fridge came in yesterday. Thank you all for your information shared here in selecting one. Second ice maker came along at the same time but they did not install that in the bottom freezer. We will have to watch You Tube and install it ourselves or call some one from GE to do so.

ADORABLE!!!!!!🥰

@Sea Dog Looking into that April 1 Beyond sailing. Calculating some numbers.

Wish you the best.

I have missed this signature picture!😁

No, they do not have great beaches there. We drove by one at Boca Grande. It wasn't anything like the Caribbean beaches. I would suggest you look up excursions at Rosario Islands. I have not been, but have heard a lot of things about them. I almost booked an excursion there but we ended up moving that sailing. You tube Rosario Islands. They are a group of small islands in the bay. They have hip resorts and beaches. There are also ferries but cautious me would do a public ferry only if in port overnight. Look at what Celebrity is offering to Rosario Islands. It may not say "Rosario". This if you are interested in doing a beach type thing. But also consider the old Cartagena excursions. If knee is not behaving, it is a bit of walking around in the walled city so keep that in perspective. Topped with the heat. At one time we did a coffee excursion where they took us to a coffee store, taught us about howw to taste coffee, how to make it, how the flavors come about, etc etc....I am mentioning it because it was all sitting down on tables in air conditioning and tasting coffee of different kinds. I brought home two packs and they are the best coffee I have tasted (IMO). It is San Alberto. There are many other good ones also. Do not buy any coffee from street vendors.....we got fooled with authentic sawdust once!😅. I read in their magazines that Cartagena is known for buying swim suits (REALLY???) I didn't see any except the ones that made me say OMG where is the fabric! And Emeralds I said OMG for a different reason.😁

We toured Cartagena with Claudia, the very first time. It was a superb tour. Old town, churches, squares, La Popa, new areas, etc. It was a private group of (I think 25) arranged by someone on our CC roll call. The tour was customized and we covered everything. After that we have been many times and usually went off on our own. I also want to go to one of the island retreats and do a food tour. I have written to Dora many times on the recommendation of others, but she will not customize unless there are a lot of people wanting that particular customization on that particular day. For example, I love to go to the Monastry at La Popa, the new Boca Grande area, go inside some old town churches, etc and spend less time in the Emerald Shop disguised as the Emerald Museum with hard core sales people. I also like to wander around in the squares and plazas in old town.

This is a great itinerary! Will crtainly look into this one.

Not yet. We were looking at Beyond sailings. Edge is very nice.

@Momof3gurlz Deb, Which Beyond sailing are you on? I remember you mentioning it some while back.

Your shawls are lovely.

Happy Anniversary to you both and may you have many more!

We have used something like Parking Spot for Newark in the past. Paid $5 to $7 per night for parking. Parking spot was at the Hilton sometimes and the Double Tree twice. I liked the DT parking because they had shuttles to and from. I was wondering where it would be for $5 to $7 but they were both inside their gated parking lot. Not done this recently.

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I forgot you were going to Greenland. You won't need AC.😉 But I was talking about our GC experience with tenders.

Wonderful! Looking forward to meeting you!

Great! I am looking forward to this too!

@Sea Dog Greg, Sending best wishes for you (and Linda). You do what is best for you and do not worry. You have an army here, praying for your and sending you best wishes. It will be all good.

Similar for my August Wonder cruise:$382 and $49.99. I saw the UDP come down to $168 couple of days, tried to click and it said NOT AVAILABLE. Called Royal and sent an email with pictures from my cruise planner asking if these prices can be honored. Executive office replied back giving some excuse, basically saying NO. Then they put some OBC in my account, which disappeared as mysteriously as it had appeared. 😉. We do have the three night pkg which we had purchased for $92 (something like that I think?), before that started appearing as NOT AVAILABLE too. The key is not worth purchasing at $49.99, so not doing that, unless it comes down to a price where it is comparable to the internet per day price. Currently Internet prices flips between $19 and $20. No drink package for us, since we are not drinkers, and the 5 per day per person suffices more than enough for us.