Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Some general thoughts

Well it is now less than five month before the cruise sails out of Fort Lauderdale and head for South America.

Final payment is about a month away - once that is done I will book Amtrak and buy the necessary travel insurance.

In the meantime I have started to book excursions for most of the ports - while a few are private most are through Princess - less hassle with payment etc - what I like about Princess is that unlike NCL you don't have to pay for your excursions when you booked them.

Rio is proving to be a challenge - many of the more popular ones are already booked or are only running on one of the days that we are in port - I have booked a couple through the ship and have waitlisted myself for my first choice but that same excursion is available through the Shore Excursion website so I might booked it through them - means paying upfront so I will wait until after I return from my 5 day repo cruise before spending the money on that one.

Buenos Aires only has four excursions available for continuing passengers - the rest are either for people debarking or are in a foreign language - I suspect that with people embarking and disembarking most of the staff are busy with that and don't want to have them worrying about a lot of excursion trips coming and going.

Later I will detail the excurions that I have booked.

That's all for now

Cheers

Dennis

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