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tvmovielover

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    North Florida
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    Cooking and Travel
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    Viking River Cruises
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Europe and Asia

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  1. I was on Nautica earlier this year. Baristas is next to the GDR like other R ships. Like ToXM, I find this a nice sociable or not if you wish location to start my coffee day early in the morning. Trivia is in the theater and still a good time. I do miss having the 4 specialty restaurants to chose from at night especially since one of the two was not good on my recent voyage-too many new inexperienced servers etc. I still love the R ships though.
  2. We flew Turkish Air to Egypt a few years ago. You have to stop in Istanbul. We stayed there for a couple of days on our way to Egypt but only had a short layover in Istanbul on the way home. The flight from there to Cairo is only 2 or so hours. Turkish has many connections to Africa and India. Their business class is very comfortable but their economy is not bad. We flew from Atlanta.
  3. We were booked into an accessible cabin we did not want long before the cruise was full and said we would be happy to move (past Feb cruise). We eventually decided to wait until boarding to see about a move and no move was available. It was upsetting to think of someone else needing it and being told none available.
  4. Did you read my whole post? We are not always cruising nor are we the cheapskates you imply only able to cruise at the most off-peak times. I was remembering a favorite cruise and saying at the end that "TC" was the best venue when conditions were right.
  5. Our first O cruise many years ago was in the South Pacific. We had good weather the whole time and ate many meals in Terrace (though only some "under the stars"). None of our cruises since have been just right weather wise to make Terrace the choice it was on that cruise-too windy, too cold, etc. Still when the weather is right and you can beat the crowds, it is the best dining venue.
  6. We booked Privee for ourselves and BIL and SIL for one of our anniversaries on Marina. We had a wonderful meal and lots of attention and our waiter recognized and was very good to us in the MDR for the rest of the cruise. I would do that again and liked it as well or better than our somewhat pretentious La Reserve meal on our last cruise. I miss Marina too.
  7. If you do not get there soon after they open, the Terrace does become increasingly zoo like but I prefer it to Waves for no special reason. Terrace has opened early on some occasions-either a port where many are going off early or on debarkation day. It is easy to get hot or cold food quickly if you take what is already made so that you do not leave the ship hungry but early it is still easy to get an egg or omelot made quickly too.
  8. There was a Oceania County Fair on the pool deck on Nautica in Southeast Asia. All of us really enjoyed it. We were on a 14 day segment of a much longer cruise but this segment had 4 sea days so this activity was a welcome diversion on the last one.
  9. I always preferred Toscana but it was not good on our Feb Nautica cruise. Service was not good but that might have been newer help. The pasta was tasteless. However on the first of our 2 visits (I tried again in vain), I tried the often recommended Oso Buco which was good, well done and warm enough when served. It was not to my taste-too much meat-but I would still recommend it.
  10. There is a coffee machine and food available all day in the Concierge Lounge but I would not get a concierge cabin just for that (there are some other perks). there are too many other choices. Baristas has the best coffee on the ships available from 6:30 (and sometimes earlier) and different snacks etc. Horizons and Terrace have coffee machines that as said above provide a better cup of coffee than the dining rooms if you work the machines right AND Horizons also has some morning foods from 6 and sometimes earlier. There are things available for those of us who get up early and leave so partners can sleep.
  11. There are a couple of museums in the downtown Jacksonville area and the symphony has a concert tonight but yeah, bummer about only tour to St Augustine Saturday. The zoo and gardens are nice but go today since so far Saturday will be cool and maybe wet. I feel sorry for both first timers and O lovers. We had a disappointing short cruise in Europe on Riviera last fall in terms of ports. The good part was that all the restaurants and special dinners were good. Weather here is unseasonably cool this year and seas rough.
  12. ORV I would try the free shuttle to St Augustine or the St Augustine historical tour if not wanting to walk much. I live on Amelia Island-the "historical tour" is just okay. The Island is a nice place for a quiet beach vacation or a second home but cool in the winter.
  13. I too am curious to know what they are offering as excursions for Jacksonville and where they will dock. I know there is a cruise port near Jaxport but that is not that close to Jax beaches or downtown Jacksonville museums. I live in the area like the city too but I am not sure I would prefer it to Bermuda.
  14. On our recent SE Asia cruise, passports were collected on embarkation. For one port in the middle of the cruise, passports were needed and were redistributed and then recollected when we returned. We got them back at disembarkation.
  15. We used USPS but paid for priority shipping to designated passport office (philidelphia) and return of new passports to us. Just followed all the directions carefully and double checking for each. You can send two passports together and use one check but amount of everything is double (except sending them the old passports) as each item will be processed individually. We got the new ones within 3 weeks. As pointed out above, a regular paged passport and one with more pages cost the same so it might always be better to opt for the one with the most pages.
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