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whitsmom

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  1. We stayed at Springhill Suites Newark Liberty International Airport in October and will be staying again in June for our cruise. Nice hotel.
  2. The Key has been worth it for us. We have done the Key on our last 4 cruises and on our 2 upcoming ones.
  3. Our last two cruises were on the Jewel of the Seas. I purchased wine thru Royal ahead of time and all the wine ordered was in our cabin when we arrived. However, the cabin steward did not have cork screws and they called the dinning room/room service people and they would only come to our cabin and open the wine for us!!! I took it down to one of the bars and they opened it for me. After that we just took a bottle down unopened to the dining room and they opened it can kept it for us the next night. From now on, I will take my own cork screw. I actually have a Royal Caribbean one that they gave us years ago so I will just bring that one. I even went down to Guest Services where they told me to take it to a bar to get opened....This has August 2022 and October 2023.
  4. I just did this in October. We rented a car from Hertz (thru Delta). You have to take a taxi to Hertz. We drove to Montreal airport for our flight. We didn't do the trains either due to us not familiar with them either. The only problem we had was trying to get to the rental return lot at the airport. We finally pulled up to departures and hubby went in and asked. The airport was about 2 hrs drive. Once you get out of downtown (Hertz) you are on a major highway so the drive wasn't hard at all (except for the 5" of snow falling like crazy!).
  5. We loved it! We even got snowed on ! There is a lot to see and we love the Jewel. There were a lot of excursions in each port of call so a wide variety to choose from. The food/service was excellent also. This was our first Diamond cruise so the 4 drink coupons were put to good use. I wish we had time to have done a B2B on this one.
  6. The 70's night was the most attended thing on our last several cruises. We look forward to the 70's more than anything else. There were many that dressed the part and we enjoyed all of it! We are 66 and no canes or walkers here; however, so what if there were - the music was way better back then and what is out there now! As a matter of fact, the dance floor was full and many were on upper floors dancing & singing too.
  7. It is the Fall Foliage Canada Cruise on the Jewel. They only have like three (October). We were on October 20-30th this year. We went out of Cape Liberty port and ended in Quebec City.
  8. The Jewel is one of our favorite ships! We just sailed on her twice with the latest being October 20-30th this year.
  9. We have the Key for our Jewel OTS cruise this Friday. The email said arrive at 11:30 am. The earliest I could pick on the app was Noon but we will get there at 11:30 am. We have had the Key several times and 11:30 was our time with all of them.
  10. It is fall break for my Grands this week and it is fall break here next week so that is probably why so many kids are there.
  11. One of our favorite things to do! Sometimes hubby will come off with a "I can't un-see that!" or maybe even "I need new eyeballs!" (Our youngest granddaughter coined the "new eyeballs" saying
  12. We have done the Key several times which makes it so nice that they put our bags in our room before we are allowed in there.
  13. It really doesn't bother me with what everyone wears (such as PJ pants, shorts or similar) in the dining room, shows and such places. Once they set down, you don't really see that anyway. It doesn't change how much a enjoy my meal or the show.
  14. I just checked my app and all 3 of my cruises show up and no orange message. Hopefully it is corrected by now.
  15. I just booked our RT Flights from SDF to Rome for July 2024 a few weeks ago. Delta Premium Select seats (Granddaughter's high school graduation cruise) for 3 of us. I used points for $1000 off each ticket bring our cost of $2063 each and we get 2 checked bags each included. I am so thankful that I had been saving my points!
  16. We stayed here also. My friend was on a knee scooter so walking was out so they hotel let his airport shuttle driver take us and drop us off for $25 cash. That worked for us and he got to keep the cash himself. Win-win for all involved
  17. We just booked a National Park (Out West) land tour for next September and it is way more expensive than a cruise. However, we are trying to get bucket list ($$$) trips out of the way before we retire while we are still working. We will be retiring in 2-3 years then we can travel more leisurely with our "big" trips already done. We prioritize saving for our trips. We also want to do our bucket list trips while we are in good health. I have heard too many stories of people that waited to do their bucket list travel after they retired and health issues made it impossible to achieve.
  18. Ours was cancelled because it was too windy.
  19. In 2018, we did the Northbound then did the 3 day land tour. I would have loved to done a longer one but work got in the way. It was fantastic! If you can do the longest one they have.
  20. We have always enjoyed the Aqua shows. Definitely need to see it and decide for yourself.
  21. I would be interested in what car service you will be using. This is the route I prefer is at all possible. Thanks in advance.
  22. Yes this is what we did when we cancelled our Alaska cruise for June 2024 and changed it for Canada cruise for June 2024. We only lost $100 each instead of the entire deposit (8 people).
  23. We will be flying into Newark (October 2023) and staying at Springhill Suites Newark Airport the night before. When I called them to see if they have a shuttle to the port, they said no and we should have them schedule us a taxi when we arrive for the next day. How are you planning to getting to the port?
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