Zacharius

Freedom Trail. Not even close. You can download the National Parks Service app and have a step-by-step audio guide for the Freedom Trail.

Not sure if you're in the minority, but you have common sense Group tables are for the birds. My wife and I both travel for a living and it's not unusual for us to be on completely opposite sides of the globe. Heck, just a couple of weeks ago, I was in Sao Paulo and my wife was in Osaka, which are almost exactly antipodes from each other. So when we go on vacation...well, it's not that we have no desire to meet new people, but we have no desire to spend any meaningful time with them

Life is too short

Booking 111 days out for a train ride is pretty much unheard of in Europe, let alone for what is essentially just a regional train. Many (most?) people will just roll up and buy their ticket on the day of. If you absolutely must have a ticket ahead of time, that's fine, but you'll probably just have to wait for more trains to be released. Not sure where you live in the US, but this would kind of be like wanting to book a Metra train from Naperville to Chicago, or an LIRR train from Ronkonkoma to Penn Station four months out.

Technically the right answer will come from the Mexican government itself. Especially if you have an unusual passport. The cruise line may think they have all of the answers, but if the Mexican government says you need, it doesn't matter what the cruise line says. The Mexican consulate or embassy with authority of your home area would have the right answer.

I am always fascinated by theses lists. I have a Namibian passport and a US passport and always enter Mexico on my US passport of course, but I am always truly curious how many people from Namibia, or Kiribati, or Sao Tome and Principe are applying for a Mexican visa

A big, huge, massive part of this is missing...what passport are you holding? American passport? Probably no visa needed. Yemeni passport? Yeah, pretty good chance.

I echo the one-way rental sentiment above. I did a random Enterprise search for a random date, and it was only about $30 more to drop it in downtown Miami than it was to drop it back at FLL airport. I'm sure other days it will be more, or less, or the same but...take a look. One-way rentals, especially within a metro area, are not always as expensive as people tend to think.

Travel warnings are constant. I travel for a living and am registered with what seems like half the US embassies and consulates around the world. I am constantly getting alerts from even "safe" places. It's a face of life if you travel. There are two different aspects of the alert..."Reconsider Travel" and "Do Not Travel To". The only department listed on the "Do Not Travel To" warning is the Gracias a Dios Department. Assuming you are going to Roatan, that is in Bay Islands Department. It even specifically says that Bay Islands is better policed than Gracias a Dios or other departments. As an FYI, other countries that have "Reconsider Travel" alerts are Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Macau, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Bangladesh, and Colombia. I personally wouldn't have a problem going to any of those, and Jamaica is one of the most common cruise countries in the world.

I get to Tokyo and Japan a decent amount, so I have some opinions. If your destination is Tokyo itself, as mentioned earlier, Haneda (HND) is easiest. It used to be hard to get flights to HND, but the Japanese government has opened it up a lot and it's now pretty easy. The other airport, Narita (NRT), used to be the most common for longhaul flights, but not anymore. NRT is a lot further from the city, but the Narita Express train makes it easier, so if you find an option to NRT that works for you, don't cast it aside by any means. There are a million hotels in Tokyo for all budgets. You can go to Google Maps, zoom in on Tokyo, type in "hotel", and find the huge array of them. It can even provide rates for your dates and gives you a quick snapshot of where they are located within the city. I've stayed at many different places, but lately I have enjoyed the AC Hotel Ginza which is also very close to the subway (but, many if not most hotels in Tokyo will be!).

My preferred activity after midnight is to let it all hang out. Or possibly chug-a-lug and shout.

Resident or Permanent Resident? That may or may not matter, but it's an important distinction. I would say, in either case, your situation is...tough. And nobody on here is going to know the true answer. Haiti says Cuba is one of the (very) few countries that needs a visa to enter, but that may or may not apply to a cruise, and that may or may not apply to permanent US residents. So, unfortunately, reaching out to the Embassy of Haiti may be your best option. https://www.haiti.org/tourist-visa/

Hell my opinion is the opposite. I sometimes rent a car for a 500 mile roundtrip because I just don't feel like putting the miles on my own car. I also do a lot of travel in third world and developing countries where the rental cars are...far from new. I turn those damn things in to a "cheap car challenge" like on Top Gear and have experience offroading in a 25 year old Toyota Camry in rural Africa Funny thing is my insurance is actually better on a rental car too...I don't have a deductible if I crash a rental car, but I do if I crash my own car.

Ghosts

It would really depend on how you do your math. If you're just doing the math on gas, sure, it's definitely going to be cheaper to drive your own car. If you're factoring in wear and tear on the vehicle and tires, depreciation, etc. on top of just gas...then it becomes a lot closer, or even more expensive to do your own, depending on the price of the rental.

This would not have happened if booking directly with the airline. US DOT law requires airlines to allow cancellation within 24 hours of booking as long as the trip is at least seven days out. If OP had booked with, say, United or Delta or American or Spirit and truly realized it within five minutes, they could have easily gone online (or called) and cancelled, gotten their money back, and re-booked quite easily.

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It's really hit or miss. Like I said, I've done it many times and sometimes it's affordable, sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's shockingly high, sometimes shockingly low. Last year, we did a one week rental, downtown SEA to downtown VAN, for like $250. For a week. Other times I've been quoted at $1,000 and said thanks but no thanks. I think a lot of it also depends on where they see demand...if they (well, the algorithm) feel like they need more cars in Vancouver, they (well, the algorithm) may cut you a deal. One other thing to consider, that most people don't, is that rental car and hotel prices change just like plane tickets. I always recommend booking fares that can be cancelled or amended, and check back often, because it's entirely possible to book at car at, say, $400 and then it drops later to $250. Most people just focus on plane tickets as something that changes in price...but hotels and cars do too.

I've done it many times. It's not an issue, nobody blinks an eye. They usually ask me at the border where I picked up the car and where I am dropping it, sometimes ask for the papers to prove it, but otherwise don't care. Hertz is like two blocks from the cruise port in Vancouver. Not sure where the cruise port is in Seattle, but I am sure there's one close by or at least close enough to Uber (i.e. downtown). Avis is also maybe 6-7 blocks from Vancouver cruise port.

If you really do need to make it in one day, I would rent a car. Find an Enterprise or somewhere that will allow you to do a downtown-to-downtown rental (pickup in downtown Seattle, drop in downtown Vancouver), this is your best bet. Hotel wise in Seattle, I'm usually a Hilton regular but recently a client put me up in the Hyatt at Olive 8 and it was absolutely lovely.

Haiti has turned in to a Steven Seagal movie

I've driven the RN3 from PaP to Cap-Haitien. There's certainly unpaved portions even on the RN3, and the paved portions are still...not great. And getting worse each day, because there's pretty much no maintenance work done on the roads of Haiti from my experience.

I've done this drive. It's...rough, and I'm saying that as someone who has plenty of experience driving through third world countries like Somalia, like Niger. Even before current times, it's a rough journey and (like the letter mentions) it's a long 128 miles. Really long. Now, when there's a will there's a way, and it is still possible for the "bad guys" to make it from Port-au-Prince to Labadee if they deemed it worthwhile. And I've never had any doubt that Labadee security could be overwhelmed if the desire was there. Now, at this point, I wouldn't hesitate to go to Labadee...but I understand people who do. To each their own.

I travel for a living and bounce around countries like most people bounce around suburbs. I almost never use cash, unless I am in a place that really demands it (like many third world countries...and even then, it's opening up). Now, I do usually stop and get a little bit of cash to have on hand should I need it, but I just do that at the ATM when I get off. I also usually carry a little bit of USD (and/or EUR if I am outside of the Eurozone) should there be an issue with my ATM card and I need to exchange cash for cash, which is an absolute last case scenario.

Probably because Comfort + is not a different class. It's standard economy class with a little more legroom and one or two other basic perks. As far as I know, Delta uses the same fare codes for full-fare economy and Comfort+ (Y, B, M, W, S) so the system probably can't tell the difference.