Nope. Symphony is doing sailings from Port Liberty to Bahamas in October, but calls at Port Canaveral on the way there. 

It's a reasonable but weird set of sailings. 

The only recommendation I have for OP is to remember that the only train that you can get with time to get from New York Penn Station to Port Liberty same day (Empire Service) is scheduled to leave Niagara Falls at 3:45 AM and arrives at Penn Station at 12:45, which is only probably okay to make it to the port on time, because trains sometimes run late. Another train (Maple Leaf) runs at a more reasonable departure (just before noon) but gets into Penn at about 9 PM and you've got 12 hours to kill before even thinking of leaving for the Port. 

On 5/11/2024 at 2:15 PM, fenton04 said:

Geez I called the super secret loyalty number yesterday to choose an amenity since we just graduated to diamond plus.  I was on hold 20 minutes to only get connected to someone who could not help me. The agent said will transfer you to the loyalty department.  I said WHOA I would like that number.  It was the same number I dialed!  What in the world?

This can happen with a queue overflow in some systems. That is, after a while of being on hold for a specialist, the VRS (Voice Response System) just passes you to any open representative, kind of just to see if your question is of a nature that doesn't really need the specialist. Good ones will recognize you being transferred back to the specialist queue from inside, though and flag that you're to wait for the specialist this time instead of going back to open general reps. 

1 hour ago, Biker19 said:

Both are far/expensive, but I would opt for LGA.

Yah. Either's going to be nearly a 2-hour ride and going to cost about $75 per person once you're all paid up. 

46 minutes ago, smokeybandit said:

All the more reason to ensure people stayed on board.

Yup. No longer at the passenger dock, without safe transport through the yard to any kind of amenity. 

On 3/29/2024 at 6:44 AM, not-enough-cruising said:

They have more than a 7 day menu, was on a 10 day trip last fall, and no repeats

There's at least ten here: https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/2024/01/09/royal-caribbean-menus

A couple of battery-powered LED tealights. The cabin is VERY dark, the bathroom light is PAINFULLY BRIGHT in comparison, and having a gentle glow nearby makes it far easier to navigate if there's more than a tiny bit of sea state.

Sometimes there's additional spaces, sometime people cancel or otherwise space opens up. If there's something you want to do, it's always worth checking once aboard.

8 hours ago, flamingos said:

I will go back to using hand sanitizer at my table after each trip to the buffet, which is what I always did before.  

Noro doesn't care about your hand sanitizer... 🙂

1 hour ago, DevonfromAcme said:

 

A close family member who works for a company that makes a test.  They are all very aware of where their price points are, and their competition's. 

 

For obvious reasons, I'm not going to get more specific than that on a public board.

I've been seeing figures for manufacturing costs at around $0.80, so $2 to the loading dock sound perfectly plausible.

3 hours ago, billslowsky said:

Should guests who reserved flights through our Air2Sea program experience delays in air travel that result in missed cruise embarkation, downlining to a future port-of-call remains an option as long as the guest is fully vaccinated and able to show proof of required COVID-19 test results prior to boarding.”

Sound ike to me "Better pay the $120 for an airport test because the one you got at Walgreens two days ago isn't valid anymore."

It's "earliest", but there's a provision for "we may make you wait outside for a while if we get a rush", basically. 

49 minutes ago, bouhunter said:

Not everywhere "up north".  Michigan dropped indoor masking about 5 months ago.  Most states have, except the coasts and Illinois.

How's that been working for them? Ohh....

17 hours ago, LorraineP said:

Some people have NO class. 

Black IS the formal t-shirt and shorts. And it's very slimming.

22 hours ago, FLcruisergrl said:

So throwing a fit should ban someone for life? Wow!  Okayyyyy…

Yes?

I mean it's a cruise line. It's not health care or even a library card. People live happy, full lives never setting foot on a cruise ship at all. 

2 minutes ago, dm1336 said:

OP’s link isn’t right, there are two spots:

https://www.royalcaribbean.com/faq/questions/do-i-need-a-covid-vaccine-to-cruise-what-counts-as-proof

 

And this one:

https://www.royalcaribbean.com/faq/questions/what-vaccines-are-accepted

Ah, there we go. First has it, second does not for me.

1 minute ago, MrsK said:

I see it.  It is directly below the paragraph that you have quoted in the link.

Show me. Special Canadian content perhaps?

1 hour ago, suzyluvs2cruise said:

Please click on the unlined link in the original post

Did click. This is what it shows now: 

Not a word about mixed dosing.

18 hours ago, Tree_skier said:

Interesting quote from the article.

 

"Norwegian Chief Executive Frank Del Rio, in his declaration filed in court, said the company won’t be able to sail in Florida as planned if it must comply with the proof-of-vaccine ban."

 

emphasis mine

That really just sounds like posturing to make sure that overturning the law is the only remedy that can resolve the harm.

19 hours ago, mauraoel said:

And if they want to see my seapass I will show it to them. I will say I don't want to argue with you but the last time I said that the responder basically said that I was by just replying.

 

My husband asks what happens when our wristband is miss placed?  Yeah guest services should be able to replace it but if I am in a rush for a scheduled activity I really have to go hunting for a replacement?  I don't think they will be required 24/7 yes it makes it easier for the staff but in a pinch they have a way to confirm my status without it.

Or they may decide to make you go get the replacement bracelet to attend the scheduled activity, because The Rules say you have to be wearing it. And they will be right. Sure, sometimes you can show them your seapass, but if running the rules means that they have to ask every time they see someone without a bracelet, is it really worth the resistance?

On 6/29/2021 at 1:32 PM, not-enough-cruising said:

around $275-$350 per person based on a very quick internet search through a brokerage site i use often

 

Plus 18% gratuity, of course.

On 6/18/2021 at 5:11 PM, BirdTravels said:

Power anyone?

 

From a cyber security perspective, you should never, ever plug your phone into a usb charging port. Always use your AC adapter. 

 

Non of those are USB anyway. The "DATA" and "TEL" have RJ jacks behind them. 

14 minutes ago, harkinmr said:

Ooof. That’s gonna hurt!

MIght be cheaper than hotels for quarantine time and commercial flights back.

5 hours ago, Sunshine3601 said:

Does anyone know if they took these 2 travelers and moved them to interior cabins on the lower deck near the medical center for their quarantine?     That is my fear, I would hate being in an interior cabin.    I have to have a window at minimum.      

 

 

Usually there's not a lot of other cabins to move people to, even. So what happens now might not influence what happens later much, if at all.

On 5/30/2021 at 11:29 AM, Ashland said:

Yes...and too bad they expect you to "wear" them. I would rather put in a pocket.

If you wear it visibly, nobody will hassle you to show that you have it with you. Wearing it on a lanyard will probably work too. 

I'd imagine the amount of patience with people who "forgot it in my cabin" will be thin.