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I just checked the account, and I guess I misunderstood. It was a $50 credit total.

Thank you once more. I guess it would be too much to ask if lines other than NCL did this. But it is good from your experience to know NCL is helpful in this regard. Hopefully, others are also.

I e-mailed them from their website and received a response today. (They say it can take up to 14 days, but it only took 4 days. First, I started by saying I had enjoyed both our escorted tours and the river cruise we had just completed. I then told them of the food problem as I saw it. They did not answer my question as to whether it was like this fleetwide or just the ship we were on. But they did say they would look into it. And also that they welcomed constructive feedback from their guest. They also said they had never before had this complaint. They also gave us each a $50 credit. However, it is only good for a year and non-refundable.

As always, thank you for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us. One question, do the cruise lines normally give any guidance for passengers to get the waiver of the fine in instances like you mentioned where the deceased passenger "disembarked early" or any other medical emergency disembarkation? Does this vary among the cruise lines?

Know this about the transfers they add on, (I'm assuming it's the same as we had for London), they will only transfer from the airport to the cruise, not from the city itself. So, your options if you keep their transfers are to get a hotel near the airport (which we did), or go back to the airport from your hotel to get the transfer bus.

Now that's funny. IIRC, Simon was the CD when we sailed on the Prima last August.

The question then becomes can the cruise line get the fine waived in case of medical emergency. I believe I have read on the cc boards from @chengkp75 that in case of something like a hurricane the cruise line normally applies for and receives a waver of the fine.

As long as it is actually their experience as opposed to I heard that.... We once had a cruise with a hurricane that kept us out of Fort Lauderdale for 2 days. I later was in a cruise discussion group and someone posted how he heard that it was awful and people were throwing up all over the place. Well, I was there, and that is not what was happening. There was a rough day when the Captain took us closer to land so passengers could get cell reception to make calls to their families, their airlines, their TAs, etc., but it was never like the person who was not there but only heard said it was.

Our funny McDonald's story---we were on a land trip in Paris and DW wanted decaf coffee. (We figured McDonalds was the same everywhere.) And the girl behind the counter said, "only normal".

My point was instead of you being on the phone and frustrated with the service, let the TA deal with them. And many of them have their own private contact within the cruise line. I don't know if ours still does, but he did the last time we sailed on Princess and were getting contradictory information from their phone representatives.

As I read that the music from Deliverance started running though my head.

Although the main reason we go to museums on many of our ports is that DW is a (now retired) art teacher, another reason is that their bathroom are also free.

And the "expert guests" are the one who probably least need to depend on the Princess call center for the proper information. Why don't people just use TAs and let them deal with Princess on the phone? What kind of "control" is it to deal with totally incompetent and often not understandable cruise line phone representatives?

Maybe if there were an Indian restaurant, they would not only not question a Nehru jacket but positively welcome it.

It's freestyle, if you want to wear wire instead of clothes, why not? I really enjoyed last summer I could wear at any time including dinner tie dye tee shirts. Only problem was it spoiled me. We went on a river cruise this past month, and I was disappointed that I had to have collared shirts to wear at dinners. Oh well, still enjoyed the river cruise.