ScottD

Im borderline on driving down from Philly...but im the only driver and not sure i feel like attempting it.

We got the hotel a while ago, we usually stay near the MIA airport or over by the port near the bay, but the kid realllly wanted to check out South Beach this time, so we got a good deal on one of the little boutique hotels right on Ocean Ave. Luckily we did that a few months ago, because now the prices are all insane... I think between being Spring break and now I see they are having a huge 3 day EDM\DJ festival thing right at Bayside park that weekend, the prices are all jacked up. Which probably explains the flights being crazy high, as well.

Niiice!! I'm actually sitting here now trying to find flights to FLL or MIA for the end of March but damn they're expensive. Has me considering the drive... but lets be real, I'm not doing that, ha ha. Looking forward to this, the itinerary sounds great!!!

Let us know how it is! I am very likely going to book at least one NCL cruise in the next year or so, they are starting to sail from Philly next year and the port is literally a 6 minute drive\uber from my front door. I'm going to HAVE to try it at least once!

Loving the pics... I will admit I chuckled at the pics of the mummified skeletons and skulls followed immediately by trays of cookies! Hope you get to watch game 7 tonight, what a crazy ending. As a Phillies fan, I HATE that they keep showing the Joe Carter home run from 1993 (I have a shirt that says "Joe Carter ruined my childhood" that I wear to Phillies games) and was really hoping they'd repeat the feat with a walk off last night, but nope... so Go Jays tonight!

Could it be because of the Hurricane? Maybe they expect the water and area in general a little more dangerous to explore?

Yes, that's the beach club... .if you look at the map @Tanner posted up a few posts, you can see Costa Beach club all the way on the right, the pink text box

And CAT park right down from that...my kid made us go back there twice in one visit!

That always seems to be the case, Tuesday or Wednesday of the week listed.

Ha ha... right after I sent this, I noticed I had an Email in my promo folder from Royal about a sale on the Beach club... so I checked it out. Now it's 675!! So the sale bumped it up 25 bucks. I'll keep holding...

I'm very excited about not only being able to get the 0.0 beers with a refreshment package finally, but to have even more choices is great. Glad you are on the water and looking at something other than beautiful Bayonne. And My wife is notorious for bringing brand new sneaks or flip flops on vacation.... then complaining that they hurt. OR getting full on injured like last cruise (nothing like spraining your ankle in Times Square the day before a 14 day B2B cruise)

I've been keeping the packages in my cart so I can monitor the prices for our August 2026 visit... I have: 1 RBC day pass with Refreshment package for the whole cruise (me) 1 RBC with Deluxe package just for the day (Wife- figured if we can't do the Deluxe\Refreshment for the week anymore, she could at least splurge for it on the beach club day and enjoy it, then she'll pay as she goes on the ship all week) 1 RBC with refreshment package just for the day (14 yr old son) Was a total of 626.00 two weeks ago, now it's showing at 650.00. I'll keep it in the cart and see if it ever drops down to about the 600.00 range and I'll grab it then. If it doesn't go below that by the end of the year after the holiday sales, I'll just get it then and keep monitoring

I assume the inflatables are a big hit because they fold up easily into nothing and people love them...

Wawa got rid of all the good stuff! They used to have a "homestyle chicken noodle" which was basically chicken pot pie in a cup and it was so good. They also just got rid of the berry flavored cream cheese, which was the best on a plain bagel! BUT the gobbler is back this week!

Nah, that weird rubbery texture got me, I tried em to say I did, but never ordered them again.