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I see the hot fudge sundae is still on the menu. What a wonderful memory. I suppose we should be looking to book the ship again just for that.

My question for @Heidi13 and @chengkp75 ---if there is an obvious dereliction of duty by the captain such as happened with the Costa Concordia is there any other officer who at that point can take charge and order a muster and eventually an abandon ship order?

🤦‍♂️, obvious, but too non-techie for some to use. I don't know why.

Going far afield often happens, but at least in this case it was after the original question was completely answered.

Question---did the folks booking this know that it was a group booking and that the normal rules did not apply? Is it the responsibility of the TA to let them know this and what the new rules are?

Fine, I still have a problem paying for optional extras that I do not want or need but am being forced to pay for. There are other TAs out there. And they are not obligated by this particular TA's group deal. I know our TA has bought group cabins at times. I do not know if he had for the Prima when we booked it, but we had our choice of which we wanted.

Yes, I understand that. But as a passenger, I can say not thanks if that is the rule for this booking, I will look somewhere else to book.

Really did not discover the Local until our last day. We both wanted comfort food for dinner and both had the fish and chips. And then the dessert menu came, and it was heavenly. I ordered the hot fudge sundae. DW said to me, "You're not really going to eat all of that?" To think we had just celebrated our 46th anniversary a few days before, and yet she hardly knew me! 🤣

NCL is not allowing that particular TA to let passengers opt out of those extra charges. That does not mean all TAs are part of the same deal. I know we sailed on the Prima last summer having booked through a TA and were able to opt out of what we wished to opt out of.

In Bergen last summer, my DW wanted us to go to one last attraction, the Funicular. I thought we would be cutting it close, but could not say not to her. Luckily, the Hop on Hop off bus came almost immediately, after we left there. We got back on board maybe 15 minutes or so before the all aboard time. I commented to her that we cut it close. Her answer was that there were a lot of passengers in the boarding line behind us. I am assuming that they will not raise the gangplank while people are still in line, so that is my contribution to this thread.

Personally, if the TA was forcing us to pay for something that was an extra that we did not need or want, I would be looking for another TA. JMHO

I hope you realize those are 2 different laws. One applies to passengers while the other applies to cargo. Except for the small window just post- Covid when Canada was not allowing ships and cruise lines still wanted to sail to Alaska, why do you suppose the cruise lines have not been lobbying for the repeal of the PVSA? And even then, they only wanted the one small exception.

What if the price dropped?

"Price protection if the fare goes up"---doesn't everyone who books whether direct or a TA or a TA group booking get this once they put down their deposit?

Some might, some might not, and others very well might not have an idea of what you were talking about.