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Thank you Gents. Your points are well taken and I will do my booking in the next few days. I really appreciate your putting up with the ignorance on my part, you've all been very helpful. It will be great to sit with some of you as I am big on reciprocation. LD101, Thank you for your considerations concerning my knee. I appreciate that. It's not to bad, but after a lot of walking it starts to ache. It's bearable, but annoying. Aloha to you all. Bob

Wow, Great Info. Thank you very much for taking the time to go through this item by item.

I'm with you on the success thing. I don't care about the cost either. Just want the normal (if I can use that word here) comforts and convinces that would be expected. I'll check the RG out right now.

Thank you Ricktoronto. I saw the errors with my space bar. Not sure what happened as I intentionally edited and re-edited the post. I will only use the debit card to get cash from the ATM and as recommended by others, I'll get an extra card in case of loss. Thanks for your recommendations here. The $40.+ does not put me in the poor house.

Here are a couple of hotel booking questions. First timer here. Let me start by apologizing, as I'm sure most of my questions have been asked before, however I am not the brightest bulb on the computer. I can't seem to find archived posts answering these questions. So for the other not so tech savvy members, here goes. I've noticed posts saying that I shouldn't have to give a deposit to make a hotel reservation and to definitely not give a credit card # to them. They've even said that if a deposit is required to go somewhere else. I can get a low limit credit card from my