Hi Denise!
I just booked my first cruise post-baby and I'm thrilled that my parents are going to join us on their first cruise. They are actually very excited about it. We booked the QM2 because it has a great children's program with group babysitting at night by British nannies. We are doing a TA from NYC to Southampton, my parents who live in Glasgow, will get on in Southampton, and then we are doing a med cruise to Northern Spain and Northern France.
We leave from Brooklyn. I tried to figure out a hotel in NYC but 60 hotels came up, I got overwhelmed. Can anyone give me some advice? We will have our baby (13 month old) so I'm not going to go into Manhattan. We arrive at JFK. I was thinking we should either stay the night at JFK (hotel recommendation anybody?) and take a car service to the port in the morning or we should get off the plane and stay in Brooklyn. I've never been to Brooklyn so I don't really know what I'm talking about. If you think we should stay in Brooklyn, is there a hotel near the port?