Andrew72681

To correct a little bit. Global entry is not through the TSA, it’s through customs and border patrol. It’s good for five years and also includes TSA precheck. And it is 99 dollars for the five year period. Precheck is only good for travel within or in some cases departing the US, while global entry as the name implies, is for when you are returning to the country. Also, with precheck at airports, children can come along in the line, but with global entry each member of the party regardless of age needs to have a global entry number.

I just wish they’d add clear to more spots at FLL. Right now where southwest goes out of in terminal 1 you can’t use precheck if you use clear. Which seems to defeat the purpose, I’m looking to speed through, not wait longer and have to take off shoes and everything out of my bag. And on the global entry side, anyone who is thinking about precheck should go all the way to global entry. Think of it as three dollars a year that could save you nearly an hour sometimes.

That’s always true, and that’s if it works. Every now and then the cruise planner decides to take a time warp back to their old design architecture. @Matt has some great articles in the archives about calculating whether or not you’re getting your money’s worth with the drink packages.

As @Lovetocruise2002 mentioned it’s usually 10 per child. We’ve had times where they charged it and times when they didn’t charge us for our daughter at all. There’s also varying data points of whether you get charged when they order off the kids menu or the adult one. Our eight year old isn’t a big fan of kids menu food. The one time she did was at chops where she ordered the chicken, and a half chicken showed up for an eight year old. Check in your cruise planner and in the dining options you’ll look for BOGO dining.

Other times when we’ve used the laundry services items come back damaged. They seem to wash everything on the “as hot as the surface of the sun” setting. I’m not looking to do laundry on vacation, but getting the wrinkles out of a suit before heading to get the countless number of pictures taken each night would be nice.

Maybe on Oasis 6 we can get them to install those steaming cabinets that you can fit between a washer and dryer at home. Always seems like such a waste of water to steam the wrinkles out on a ship where water is limited, but as I tell my wife “they forced us to do this”

It’s not that far from Port Everglades to the Bahamas. Just have a ship big enough to stretch between the two. ?

If you’re just looking to dip your toes into the specialty dining world, I’d recommend the BOGO 2 night special. It’s usually 40 dollars but gets you 2 specialty dining restaurants. One of them has to be used on the first night, but gives you a chance to try them out at a reduced cost. Just be sure that once you get on board you head to make your reservations. Jamie’s is great, for our navigator cruise in May my eight year old daughter asked if our three dinners could be Jamie’s, Jamie’s, and Jamie’s.

Most of the time just as in hotel rooms the port is inaccessible, blocked, or under a software lock.

Thanks for bringing up that question. My wife and I were just asking the same thing. Not sure if I’d rather have more people with the Key on our May Sailing to where Jamie’s is on offer, or less people as it means the exclusive times will be less busy at the activities.

I’m not sure what type of room you are in, our junior suite on Deck 8 had a full size tub/shower.

Yeah. Was looking up stats on Norwegian Encore (we’re on one of the first sailings in December) and it has a passenger to space ratio of 34.2, and “only” holds 4K people. Harmony, which holds 6k has more space per person at 35.9.

We started taking our daughter on cruises when she was 7 months and again around 18 months and she’s always loved them. New things to see, and best of all the crew all seem to love a happy baby. So many of them have children back at home, that they’d do special things for Addie. Every night in the MDR they’d bring freshly made baby food and other treats. We never subscribed to the “babies schedule” mantra so Addie was always flexible with heading ashore and nap times. She even got her first tooth on a cruise

Also, as many will mention, I’m a big fan of the plastic luggage tag covers you can purchase from Amazon or from @CruiseHabit Ric. Will keep you from rushing on embarkation morning trying to borrow a hotel stapler and hoping that they don’t fall off.

Im always good with the number, but being able to find it is a different story. Being directionally challenged means using lots of signs on board trying to find things.

Were planning on using them on our Navigator sailing even though all we’ll have it carry on bags and using The Key. Hopefully it’ll be an extra layer of making sure they don’t get lost.

Is your cruise going out of Port Everglades or Port Miami? A lot of which one you decide to fly into will be based on that. Otherwise you’re looking at an ~80 Uber ride each way. Also, another consideration is airlines. If you’re an American flier, MIA is your only choice. If like me, you spend a lot of your year on Southwest, FLL is your choice as Southwest doesn’t fly into Miami.

All that Genie time made you sleepy.

Looks like my Oasis cruise got out in November of 2019 instead of November of 2020 on the master list.

Thats a lot of Kombucha for a week long cruise. Hoping to counterbalance all that drinking?

Navigator 5/17/19 Oasis 11/8/20

Also, if it’s timing you’re worried about (clothes being back in time for dinner the first night) Keep in mind that if you purchase The Key, it includes the ability to drop off your carry on bags and have them delivered to your room.

I’m holding out hope for our 5/17 sailing on Navigator. Nassau carries no weight as a port for us, so without the perfect day stuff open we’d have just been better off flying to grand cayman or Aruba for the weekend.

I’ve seen people handing full size suitcases before rooms are ready. Just be ready for lots of looks as you inevitably take up extra space in the windjammer.

While not part of our party, there was another person at the table who didn’t eat meat, they stuck to the fried rice and vegetables. It’s really more of an issue of avoidance or allergy. If you’re allergic, it’s a bigger issues as the grill is a big co-mingled space.