Fern Crest

Free daily breakfast room service is included in the Priority package, along with Priority Boarding, Tendering, Disembarkation and canapes one evening in your room.

Hero Cards are even better than cash tips, as these go into their file, and they get considered when going for promotions, and they can also be used for hours or days off. The post-cruise survey was one of the easier ones I've filled out, and they let you get as detailed or general as you wish. You aren't required to name names, but if some of the service in the MDR wasn't up to your standards, tell them what night you were disappointed, and they will know what table you sat at and who your wait team was.

Just back off of a 10 day on the NCL Joy, and it was wonderful! Brought about 20 plastic ducks to leave around the ship, but I left the labels I had made for them on my desk at home. No biggie, I would just leave them anonymously. Day Two, we had a late breakfast at The Local. We were chatting and joking with the Hostess, and she saw that I had a duck, so I just held it out to her as a gift. Well, talk about making someone's day! She'd been on the ship 6 years, and this was her very first duckie! As I thought about it, some of the workers get to move very little in their job, like bartenders, hostesses, etc. I started just carrying a duck with me every time we left the cabin, and it never failed, we found someone being extra kind or going out of their way to help a passenger, and we gave them the duckie. SO MANY staff have never gotten a duckie - there's an unspoken rule that if an employee sees a cruise duckie, they should leave it for the other passengers to find. So, please think about giving your cruise ducks to staff that go above and beyond for you - and then fill out a Hero Card for them (or the cruise line equivalent).

Sailing away next week on the Joy out of Panama City at midnight - can't wait to try a new line, new ship class, maybe a new drink! We booked the Vibe, should be amazing! Unless we are exhausted and fall asleep by 10:00, which is entirely possible! 😉

Wondering what's the entertainment on the Joy now that Footloose is gone. Will we still need to make reservations for the theater if it's just a comedian or single singer? Anyone on her now, or very recently, with the inside scoop?

Thanks all! just bought Vibe passes for our 10 day Panama City to Miami cruise next month. Sounds like the perfect place to watch Panama go by!

Thanks for all of the replies! I'll call NCL today. Yes, we did have an unpleasant experience with a connecting room. To say that our neighbors were "loudly amorous" would be an understatement. It got so weird that after Day 2, we stuck a kindly worded note on the door, "We can tell you're enjoying your vacation! Intimately! :-)" Nothing changed. Appreciate the advice, all!

We booked online and had a disappointing experience, and we are stuck in a connecting room. We tried to fix it through the website chat function, but that's not possible. We were assigned an Agent, and we had one conversation with her, and it went great! We explained our situation and that we'd like a different room. She said that she would look into it and call us back. That was 3 weeks ago. We have called and left several voicemails. We sail on Dec 6. At this point, I'm hoping all she did was ghost us, and hope that something more serious hasn't happened to her. Would anyone know what our options are? Can we get a different Agent? Are we stuck with our cabin? Hope that our bid for an upgrade goes through? Just avail ourselves of the drinks package?

Thanks for the coverage, Bird! We are on the December 6th Panama Canal sailing, and I was wondering if you might be able to find out what the entertainment in the theater will be once Footloose is done? Will they move the Beatles cover band, or do the Broadway Melodies assortment as a main event? I understand that the Wheel of Fortune sets will be installed during dry dock.