Serengeti228

For transocean cruise from Europe to Brazil Santos, any onborad arrangement experience to disembark earlier at Rio instead of the final port Santos?

Glad to know you enjoyed your time in Singapore and experienced the festive deepavali celebrations. I believe you didn't miss all the foodies. I shall see you again till next time... I am eyeing on the jewel's late Dec itinerary from Bangkok to Singapore. I am ready to go anytime upon reduction of supplement. Otherwise, I just enjoy my home sweet home.

It has been enjoyable to read through your encounters and experiences in this part of the World since I left the ship. What's your plan after Singapore? I will start my leisure trip in Malaysia and then Thailand in 2 weeks' time. We can meet again if you will be around. Patrick.

My cruise will be 20 days. It should work out about €35 per day for My drinks package.

To answer your questions. It is unfortunate that the Costa website does not provide much information of all the drinks packages on sale. One can access the full list upon booking. From your post, I believe you have yet to book any. I check on my existing booking page and have found 17 drinks packages that are on sale. I have screenshots these 17 packages. I am not sure if al these packages are made avialable to all itineraries, but these can give you a good idea. To find out the detail of each package, I believe you have to get to that stage first. Happy drinking!

I once received allocation to check in at 01:30am at Dubai port when the cruise ship was at port for 2 consecutive days. Engage them and call them up! Request for an earlier time slot. In my case, they instantly offered 15:30pm without wastage of long distance airtime.

In short not worth. I believe you refer to cabin #6001 to 6009 or #6201 to 6210. Not sure how long is your Alaska itinerary. If it is for this season, it should be 10 nights. 10 days for $150 is not worth for these cabins. I was on the Sun last Fall for 42 days btb and I did brisk walking every morning and after lunch during sea days, either on Deck 6 or the upper deck. I passed by these cabin windows all the time and I said to myself that I was happy not staying there. You correctly point out there is not much sunlight in that area, adding that you lose the privacy if you plan to open the curtain. Instead, I would consider booking inside cabin at this stage and then wait for cabin upgrade offer. Based on the offer, you can then consider whether you should go for OV or balcony cabin. Sometimes the lowest bid from insider to OV can be $50x2.

Direct response to the OP’s question. Two different NCL PCCs who have handled/processed my bookings said that they received commission from the bookings I made through them. For clarity, my bookings are made via NCL Asia market operating out of Sydney Australia.

Isn't it correct that you can still apply CF for the 9/1 booking if and only if it is a new booking, i.e. sort of last minute booking AND the CF has an original issue/purchase date more than 120 days before 9/1? The CF can be an old stock already sitting in your own Latitudes accounts or a new purchase from a secondary market if the above condition is met.

Interesting comparison of NCL cancellation policy in different markets. For NCL Asia market, booking is cancelled free up to 90 days (i.e. the final payment date). Any repricing for price drop, change of booking, or addition of favourable promo codes is possible.

I repriced 2 bookings (before final payment) last week and the CF face value remains to stay. However, the Latitudes promo code had been adjusted according to the prevailing promo. I believe as long as the same booking reference is maintained and there is no action to cancel and rebook (the same itinerary), the CF face value can continue to sit peacefully therein.

At present, NCL offers CF in the following currencies and perhaps, to the respective NCL business markets adopting these currencies. For the French market, I do not see CF is mentioned in the following webpage. https://www.ncl.com/fr/en/about/terms-and-conditions/promotions-ceuk

Al dente should be the proper way! Looking forward to having it on the Jewel, if any.

I believe NCL adopts different rules, pricing, promos and marketing strategies in different markets within the confine of the local laws and regulations. I have made bookings in NCL US, French, and Asia markets. Just to share some international perspectives in this topic. Take the French market, which I had booked with my french friend before as an example, the final payment date as you indicated is currently 30 days prior to departure and any cancellation prior to 29 days will incur penalty of 20% cancelllation fee or the deposit amount (correct me this point if I am wrong). For the NCL Asia market which I currently hold 3 bookings, the final payment date is 90 days prior to departure date and any cancellation prior to 90 days will be free of charge, noting that 90 days was a change from 70 days since early 2022.

Which NCL documentation do you see? I think this information is from your actual booking confirmation, right?