We haven't booked our next cruise yet, but it will be sometime in January. Cruising is a really easy vacation, but if you are a cheapskate, and you book late to get a better deal, and you fly standby to save a few bucks, it gets slightly complicated.

One of the most expensive mishaps is if you miss a sailing. You don't get a refund and wait a week. It doesn't work that way. You have to fly ahead to the next port-of-call, get a taxi, stay overnight, and pass out additional tips right and left. Plus you lose a day or two of your cruise.

So we tend to go a day ahead of the sail date and stay somewhere close to the cruise terminal.

One cruise we are looking at sails from San Juan. There is only one connection a day between here and San Juan, so if we fail to make both legs of that flight, we are a day late. I think we might start two days early. The worst thing that could happen is that we would have to spend two days in San Juan, one of our favorite cities.

One thing that helps is that our daughter is a flight attendant and a travel agent who specializes in cruise vacations. She knows about travel, and gives us a lot of information.

Now all I have to do is survive the Christmas/ New Years/Anniversary season.
Howard

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