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Walgreens. I reserved my test 7 days in advance the day before they dropped the window to 3 days. I just pulled up to the pharmacy drive through window, showed my drivers license, they put the test in the little drawer thing, and a pharmacy tech watched me stick a swab in my nose. Very easy and we got results really fast.

Hi All! We just did our drive-through Covid testing at 11:30 this morning and had our results by noon. Both of us are negative so we are clear to sail! We board Mariner this Saturday for an 8 night cruise to Nassau, CocoCay, and Bermuda. I think this is the only itinerary where Bermuda comes after the Bahamas so we will need to get a Covid test on the ship before getting into Bermuda. We got lucky and will have Voom Surf and Stream on this trip and will be able to answer questions and post things as we see them. Now just to make sure we have all our paperwork in order.

I was going to say that I remembered the window on Navigator after the cabins were added to deck 12. What I didn't realize is that they came back later and added even more cabins to deck 11. Will check Mariner this weekend - they only have 4 cabins on one side so I'm hoping the other side is still accessible.

I edited mine in Acrobat to stitch it together on one page - even that isn't as easy as it should be.

I'm on Mariner on Saturday as well. Info still says we will get tested on the ship 48 hours before arriving in Bermuda. https://www.royalcaribbean.com/faq/questions/additional-requirements-to-cruise-to-bermuda

We did the bike excursion in Skagway (White Pass train up, bike down). It was high 30s to low 40s when we started biking down and when we reached the town in a couple hours, it was mid 70s. In Seward we hiked out to the exit glacier. Kinda cool to start but as we walked through fields we were sweating so took off our coats and long shirts - down to t-shirts. 10 minutes later as we approached the glacier we were putting everything back on again. It's a bit of a pain but I'm sure glad we got the packable gear before we went. Warm coat, rain coat, rain pants - all pack down into their own pocket. If you want to get fancy, get the convertible pants where you can zip off the lower leg portions. Each member of your party will need a backpack to carry their own layers. The one thing I wish I had done was to get a larger size rain coat. I wore my backpack under my rain coat to keep things dry but it was a tight fit. Other option is to get a waterproof backpack.

I'd check near the soups in the buffet.

Yes - you would need to call them and wait a few hours to get through just to request them to give up the booking. They used to be great, wait times less than 15 minutes. Now if you are lucky enough to call right when they open the phone lines, you might only have to wait an hour.