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As early as possible. You need to disembark, pick up your bags, go thru customs and then wait for a car to get thru traffic to pick you up. The airport is about one hour from San Pedro but you will be in morning traffic so could be longer.  You need to get there at least 2 hours before for an international flight..they actually say 3. The airport is massive and the traffic coming in with the construction is a mess at normal times but commute times even worse.   

I would ask the driver you book what they think about time.  A company called BEST VIP can help but they are expensive.

20 minutes ago, Flatbush Flyer said:

NEVER use the O web cart. Always find a knowledgeable/useful O phone rep (it may take several calls and then get their phone extension). We use the constantly updated shore excursions PDF as well as the website to select our tours. But, realize that the PDF, the web and the phone reps system almost never jive completely on what’s available. And, if you want to cancel, you always have to call to do that. In addition, the website Cart is quite glitchy AND buying that way will not auto generate for you the very important “prepurchased shore excursions” PDF that shows all the math for O Life and YWYW tour transactions- very important doc once onboard if there ends up being itinerary and/or other changes/cancels that affect your tours. YYou can have the O rep send you this if you purchase your tours from him/her.

Some folks have their TA do the tour purchases and get the PDF for them. However, O Life and YWYW idiosyncrasies can get quite complicated. So, you need a TA that knows O “inside out.”

I so agree with everything FF said above.  We have our TA book our excursions and we get the correct supporting documentation and discounts.  Only once did I try to book online and it was never right. Never again. 

5 hours ago, jennybenny said:

How sensitive are the key cards? Do they demagnetize easily? In my prior cruise life, I found that if I had my cell phone and cruise card in the same area, the card key would demagnetize and no longer work. Not an issue on the ship because I don't have my phone on me, but when getting off the ship, it is. 

 

I absolutely would never wear with a lanyard. 

 

Just curious. 

Hi  Yes they do demagnetize very easily.  I went thru 2 on a recent cruise on Insignia.

Thank you everyone, I was being so careful of Internet minutes I actually had over 300 minutes still left. I had set up a special plan with Verizon Wireless for my phone that the service has been great everywhere and we have been face timing with our son daily so he has gotten to see some of the ship [emoji6]

I don't think I posted the pictures of the SS Signature Suite if I did sorry for the repeat this past week has sort of blurred together

Our cabin steward was cleaning it so he let me in to take pictures. I have to say that it is quite disappointing and once people see photos will most like either move up to a Neptune or stay with a Vista Suite or even regular Balcony. The dressing area is a huge waste of space. There is a day bed that works as a couch but would be so uncomfortable to sit on. The bathroom is drastically smaller than the Neptune with the shower stall being about 8 inches smaller. It's really about the size of the previous shower of a Signature Suite but most would use the bathtub as a shower or at least I did just for the room. U fortunately this cannot be done there is a hand held spray but down low so to take showers one must use the shower . The tub length is also shorter in the SS compared to the Neptune. By the end of the week I became quite comfortable with the Neptune. The shower was great and easy to use. I will say the first thing we both noticed was the step up to the bathroom was at least an inch maybe two higher.

Of course there were lots of growing pains going on.

 

Hi Lisa: Thanks so much for posting the pictures of the SS suite. We will be on the KDam for 2 months this fall in an SS room. We booked it instead of the Neptune because of the dressing room/table area. I love that part of the room. I agree that the day bed is kind of weird but we rarely sit on it anyway. So I am even more excited now. As they say different strokes for different folks!! I hope you had a safe journey home and again thank you so much for all your posts.

 

ps..for any of you that like the Spin classes, there is a dedicated Spin room.