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I thought they would locate the Diamond club were the Jazz was but seeing it is now in the comedy club make me think how crowded its going to be as its almost 1/3 of the space of the current one (if I am not mistaken) , also the comedy club in Blaze mean that Blaze will be closed while comedy show are going on , on the other end its bigger than the current comedy show room (or at least it seems to me like that) . card room gone is a sad news as it was quite place to go to and now we left only with the library (for now) .

2*29 or 1*29 + 1*26 (for some reason can not find anymore 28 and 26). one backpack for my laptop , one small backpack for shore excursions which also being used for my spouse fight bag. Beside that one folded duffel bag if we want to buy extra things after the cruise. When I am going to vacation I will try not to take a big carry on bag as I get stressed to board early so I can find space for it , I have enough of this stress for my short business trips ? so if I already have checked bags I will try to avoid it.

Hi yes , Actually we went back to the same restaurant we visited a year ago when we visit Athens with Rhapsody , the name is Dia Tauta address is Adrianou 37, Athina 105 55 , near the Acropolis (https://diatauta.com/en/) , we liked it since not many other restaurants they bake the Moussaka on the spot , but there are tons of other good restaurants around this area .

What puzzle me is how the expedite boarding and online check in is determine by the ship ? I thought its more about port ability

Have a wonderful cruise

Oh oh , really risky , world collide theory ?

You should take into consideration: At least 1.5 before flight to arrive to the airport (2 if you want to be on the safe side) 45 minutes to an hour to drive , 30 minutes for immigration and take your suitcases (unless you will take them with you) and 30 minutes until ship clereance. So 6:30 am people allow of the ship , 7 am after custom , 8 am at the airport. It's doable but allot of stress and not much margin.... Enough that the ship will be late in 30 minutes or that you will have some traffic and you will miss your flight.

More like never , by that time the technology will be to transfer the information directly to our heads , not sure I would like to give RCL to mess with my head (although they already trying)

Have a great cruise , one day when all the stars will aligened we will be able to join a group cruise ?

So some updates: As I have not drive to Milan to pick my forgotten cellphone (we had much better time going to Cinque Terre) I been able to retrieve it last week which was good. Although I got alternative phone with the same numbers still for some reason some of my pictures were not transferred to the cloud so it's good I got them now. (Including some very valuable cruise pictures) . If you using Google photos , check if the backup is working from time to time. Anyway as our next cruise is almost two months from know (Greek Islands) we decided to take my father's offer to join the for a long weekend in other par of Greece (so I can do so e research before the cruise and taste the local cousin , plus to find a good resturant for @mom2mybugs in Athens ? ) Here are so e pictures from Pielon Greece if anyone looks for a shore excursion ? . Although it's a sea it's feels more like a lake , clear clean water 

I have the feeling that it will not take long for the CC paperwork to be by request only, now that you have the app and other way to get the info from . Maybe it will start as a discount for internet pakage to whoever give up of getting the hard copyi . I will miss them as there is something special about comming back to the room every evening and find out what are the next day activities but it still allot of waste (even if most of it being recycled)

I am using the art auctions papers to wrap my wine bottles before packing them on the last day , very useful

Now we just need someone from NYC and the riots will start And I will add it's not a Naples pizza

I heard they are going to change the name of the cake to Sweety cake ?

My scanner only do 1 side so it's allot of manual work ? , need to check the scanner at the office (big HP combo printer)

Every cruise we do which is not the regular Caribbean itinerary I try to take pictures of the CC and send it to this site so it can be shared. The issue is comparing to other CC I can see my CC are well let's say not so high qoulity (not aligned ) at least I try it will be readable. Any advise how to take better copies of the CC ?

Our first cruise was around 2015 , YOLO moment after heard good things about RCL . Four week before the cruise we booked Liberty of these seas out from Barcelona. The wow factor of entering the ship Royal promenade was so amazing that we knew it's not the last time we will cruise ?

Interested to know how do you like this hotel and it's condition. Asking as it's offered many time to book using Marriot/Sheraton points and we wonder if it's a good option for our next time to Orlando

In that case you might have a case ? , but still it will take you around 1.5 to two hours just to get to the city. I sometime takes a car and go to some last minutes shooing and eating in NJ , you can also take a shuttle to Elizabeth outlet indoor mall (10 $ return trip from P4) , they have some restaurants around , although not the best but its just 10 minutes from the airport.

This is what you need to take into consideration : 1. you will land most likely in terminal B with 12 more fight from Europe. 2. Most of the flight are with people with the Visa waver program which mean the temp visa being done on the spot , for some flights it takes time , you might have lines between 30 to sometimes 2 hours (depends which flight landed before you). just for immigration 3. As it is your first gate to the US you will need to take you suitcase in EWR and pass custom, for some reason in EWR it takes a while until they bring the suitcases - 15 - 30 minutes 4. You have the custom lines , again , depends on how many flight and if they are looking for something it can be between 5 to 30 minutes. 5. after you drop your suitcase again you will need to take the shuttle to rail station - the train comes every 8 to 15 minutes , the ride takes 10 minutes. 6, you will take the train to PEN station - around 20 -25 minutes 15 $ each way. 7. 15 - 20 minutes using the subway to go were you want to go (or just to walk). 8. 30 minutes back or more depends how long you will wait for the train. 9 15 minutes to terminal C. 10. 30 minutes security. Now that you will do with your carry on , is it worse it , well you will do the calculation.

Passport should be left at the hotel safe , I take cache and credit card , when I travel , I take at least two credit cards , one with me one with the hotel safe , if a credit card being stolen its very easy to block it and I will still have a credit card I can use. You do not even need a passport copy , I do carry driving license , sometime shops will ask a way of identification if you using your credit card , foreign driving license with a picture works perfect. I always carry my wallet in the front pocket , its much harder to take it. Never leave a bags on the floor near you. be careful from the petition scam , where people try to convince you to sign a petition and and ask for money, just ignore or pretend you only speak some rear language (they usually know English , Spanish , Russian, french, German ) . After saying that , which is by the way true for all Europe and many other places, I do not think its that common , I have been to Barcelona many times and traveling almost every second week to Europe , if you keep the basic awareness to you surrounding (same as I guess you do in your home town) you should be OK.

The wine is quite simple , the main thing is not to allow glass touch glass or any hard things in the suitcase . What I do is to wrap each bottle with nylon bag and make sure they are divided (the park west brochures are very good wrap materials). I will put one layer of dirty cloths bag on the bottom of the suitcase , put the bottles with some divider like shoes between them and put another layer of cloth above them , making sure they will not move. Another option is to use a shoe box (you are going to visit Italy , do not tell me you will not buy at least one per ?) , here its even simpler , wrap each bottle, put some park west material between each bottle until they can not move and put the shoe box inside the suitcase. if for some reason your bottle has a screw cap make sure you secure it with some tape , the only accident I had until now is leakage from such bottles. from our last cruise we brought 6 bottles of wine , 3 in each suitcase +1 Limonochelo and two vinegar bottles , they all survived.

I use the google photo to backup my pictures from the phone , but you will need WIFI for that. regarding the canon , there is a memory card that comes with internal WIFI if your camera dose not support it already.

As I tend also to over pack I set some rules to myself: 1. Always have a folded duffel bag inside my suitcase so if I want to send extra bag at least I do not need to buy it. 2. Use a travel scale , so at least I know were I am from weight perspective (well at least for the suitcase , my weight just ignore until the end of the cruise).| 3. I always make sure that what I pack minus things I will leave/consume during the travel will be the weight allowance minus at least two bottle of wines which I would like to carry back with me. 4. After I pack I always take out few items. 5. I always use the wash bag at the middle of the cruise. 6. I always pack more underwear than I need , its easier to buy other stuff if needed, I feel much comfortable to wear new shirt which I just bought than new per of underwear ... 7. I try to bring a few white cotton shirts (the simple ones that are being sold in 5-6 shirts per package) , I can wear them under the dress shirt and it will allow me to wear the dress shirt again if needed. 8. Always take allot of extra big garbage bags , use them for : pack things in them ,dirty cloths, wet swimsuit, put them over the shelf and the drawers if they are not looking too clean, wrap bottles of wine before packing them inside the suitcase and many other things. 9. Always take extra zippers bags for small things , I even pack shampoo inside them (always use two just to be on the safe side) , by that I am saving allot of weight . 10. pack a small bag pack for sיore excursions + folded back pack if I want to buy something.

I also use this one , It allow to resize batch of pictures also and very easy to use.