Charles4515

Unless there is some special event on the weekend it is not likely the ferries will be full. Cruise passengers have a lot of options of things to do. A lot of passengers head to the beach. Others do tours and boat excursions. If you don’t arrive at the last minute you won’t even have to worry about it at all.

It is a dollar a bag. There are several websites with taxi fares and they say $25. Also I found one website that says the fare from the Dockyard to the Reefs is $30. So you are just plain wrong.

I think you are misremembering. I take taxis all the time to Horseshoe Bay which is farther and the fare to Horseshoe has been around $35. The fare to Port Royal should be $25. There is a sign in the Dockyard with approximate fares and it says $24.50 to Port Royal. Horseshoe Bay at $32.50. I have found the sign at the Dockyard to be pretty close. I took the photo in 2019 and the fares have not been raised. I have a photo of a sign from 2014 and it shows the same fares.

The worst thing I ever saw happen was going through the Panama Canal. Before phones with selfie cameras a lady handed her camera to another passenger on a boat excursion we were on thru the canal locks and asked the stranger to take her picture. The lady she handed it to accidentally dropped the camera and it went over the side into the canal. Really bad as not only as the camera but all the photos she had taken on the cruise we’re lost. I had bad luck on that excursion too as the shutter failed on my Canon SLR. Luckily I had a Powershot with me too. So having more than one camera with me meant it was not a total disaster. When I got back home I sent the SLR off to Canon for repair and it came back repaired 6 weeks later.

Unfortunately the Pirate Ship ( Calico Jacks) is gone.

Could not have seen the bears without binoculars or got a photo without a telephotos lens. Could have used longer than a 400.

We were lucky. There was a whale carcass in Glacier Bay and we saw a pack of brown bears feasting from the ship.

The transportation pass is good on both ferries and buses. You can hop on and off the buses and feries from any point and to any point with the pass. If you want to do the itinerary in your example you will have to change buses in Hamilton at the bus terminal.

Everyone is different but I don't watch pre downloaded content on a cruise. I watch it on the plane. I need to watch videos on the plane to get through flights. Makes me forget I am on a plane. I don't watch on the cruise itself. On lazy sea days I read. I bring a couple of paperbacks and I load up my tablet with books. I used to find books in the ship library but unfortunately ship libraries have been disappearing.

Whale watching in Alaska is not done from a catamaran. You don't get splashed. The camera won't get spalshed. Quite possibly though it could be raining. The boats have inside seating with large windows so you don't have to be out in the rain. Also most of my whale sightings were on the whale watch boat. In hindsight I would have skipped whale watching in Juneau. We didn't see that many on the whale watch boat. We saw many whales in Alaska but most from the deck of our cruise ship.

Alaska is about the only place I would bring an Interchangeable lens camera on a cruise because the wildlife whales and bears could be pretty far away. A 70-300 or 100-400 zoom would be good. OP is in Juneau today so I guess they already decided. They must have brought all that equipment onboard so they must have been deciding what to carry on excursions. An iPhone fits in a pocket and a bag for the camera with telephoto does not sound like a big deal to carry on a whale watching boat. I did that in Juneau.

I have one of those and a cable which I travel with but I never have bothered to use it traveling. I tried it once to show something to my neice on her TV that I had downloaded to my iPad and it does work. Been fine so far with my downloaded content when traveling. I guess I will have to spring for the USB C version as my 2018 iPad is USB C, my mini iPad 6 is USB C and iPhones will probably be USB C from 2023.

A lot of usefull info in your post but only WiFi plus Cellular iPads have GPS. Most people don't spend the extra $130.

Why only two? A long telephoto would be great for whale watching but what do you mean by long? You need 300 or more for whales. The iPhone 13 would be great for the salmon bake. I don’t see much use for the Go Pro.

Before I travel I download content from Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV Plus and HBO to my tablet. No need to stream. My iPad has a great screen. I mostly watch on airplanes. If you can use a Firestick then I could probably connect my tablet to the TV. Don’t think I want to though.

Some content can be downloaded offline.

Yes. That is true.

I suspect you were on the ship Wi-Fi. Your locality for is determined by the location of the server. Since the ship is using a satellite the IP will show a non US locality. If you were on a US cell network you should have been okay.

Were you streaming over the ships WiFi?

You were in International waters. YouTube and Netflix can detect where your IP address is located. With a VPN you can pretend you are in the US. The problem is that Royal Caribbean blocks many VPNs. Some do work, maybe Royal does not have their IP address.

I am glad to hear Celebrity is still doing that when they get permission. Definitely a treat for me to pass the Statue of Liberty and also Ellis Island.

I get a deluge too from Celebrity. At least four a day. No matter what I do though I never get any marketing from Royal Caribbean. For three years I called them every couple of months and they told me they fixed it but to this day they have not. I won't call them about the deluge because I am afraid the Celebrity emails will all disappear. Celebrity/Royal IT has been screwed up for years.

OP posted originally in the Royal Caribbean forum which is not where it belonged since it was specific to Bermuda. A moderator must have moved it to the wrong forum. I expect it will be corrected soon. I have made a report it is in the wrong forum.

The $7 fare is for shared ride minibuses. They carry between 14 and 30 riders. Guess what……your $39 transfer is going to be on a shared minibus contracted by Royal. Royal makes out nicely. Take it on your own and $14 rt versus $39. Of course it might be worth it if you have OBC. A private taxi is $35 so even that will be a better deal than the transfer if you are at least 2. If you are a family of 4 or more I advise a taxi over the minibus.

If you take a $7 minibus or a taxi they drop off and pick up at the bottom of the hill. It is only the public buses that require a walk down or up the hill.