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I am looking for advice on what time I could safely book a flight from Singapore to Thailand after my RC Spectrum of the Seas cruise. It says the disembarkation time is 7am. Would 11am be cutting it too close?

Thank you for the answers!

I am experienced cruiser but no recent Holland America Experience. And have some questions on the Have It All (HIA) Package. Currently the cruise does not show shore excursions from some ports but I don't want to miss out using my Have It All credit for interesting shore excursions, so I am trying to determine if I should go ahead and book something now using the credit and how flexible they are to change later. I have $200 in shore excursion credit. 1) the fine print on HIA it says up to $100 per excursion, but when I started to do a mock booking for a shore excursion it looks like my $200 credit would cover all of the a $150 shore excursion leaving me $50 remaining credit. Is the $200 flexible to cover a combination of shore excursions up the the $200 or is it really just $100 on 2 excursions? 2) If I book excursions less than $100 each could I spread the $200 over 3 different excursions. 3) My cruise doesn't have all the excursions (hopefully) posted. So if I book now and use the credit, but later new excursions are posted. Can I cancel and reallocated the credit to some of the new excursions. Meals. I get two specialty meals, when I called they said I could use both in Pinnacle, but when I tried to book on line, it would only let me do one in Pinnacle and one in Cannaleto. I think I saw this in the fine print, but wanted to confirm they both can't be Pinnacle. TIA

When I took the free shuttle the stop was Near the corner of haifagade and istanbulgade but a little closer to the water. Where it looks like the metro is going to be extended.

Hallasm, Thank you

On NCL my bag was put in holding because of wine. I got it out of jail with the corkage fee, which I had intended to pay anyway. I am pretty sure they have found liquids in my carry on previously so I would be up front and pay the required corkage.

@Happycrafter123thank you for those detailed writeups!

I agree credit cards are the preferred method especially since I am on trip with at least 6 different currencies, so want to have minimal hard cash. The reason signature is a problem for me: - I cant buy tickets from the machine and need to wait in long ticket lines. - If I board a bus and try to pay contactless and it doesn't work ,I can be fined for not having paid a valid fare. That means some places I may need to walk a long way or pay a high taxi fare if I cant get it figured out reliably. - I feel sorry for the clerks at some of the very busy grocery stores that my transactions take the extra steps. I am trying Apple pay now to see if that is more reliable. My debit card is not contactless so that wont work for some of the future cities bus concerns, but that might save the long lines at some train stations.

I am not having the same luck in Switzerland with my Chase visa. I get asked for signatures most places, and the pin I requested from the credit card company evidently only is used for cash advances. I reached out to the credit card company and they said if use contactless vs chip it won’t ask for signatures but the only significant purchase (>$50) the machine would not accept my contactless payment and requested I use the chip and signature. I am going to see if using Apple Pay makes any difference.

I purchase 3 cruises for July in early May, and the prices of all 3 have gone up.

Thank you for posting! Any impact to the trains to Malmo and back?

I am flying on SAS 07/22/2022, any ideas on how worried I should be. Should I start checking out contingencies?