Mr. Click

A while ago I booked an Iceland to Boston cruise. It was pretty pricy at over $6K for a mid range veranda but it was a trip we really wanted to do . 3 months ago the volcanic activity in Iceland started up again and the price of the cruise started dropping. AQ is now $2K less than what I had booked my V2. The V2 is now about $3.5K less than what I booked orginally. I did take avantage of the drops and have re-priced twice for the V2. AQ was tempting but I opted to spend some extra days in Iceland pre-cruise. Final payment is coming up in a few weeks so I will be watching closely...My TA has been great about the re-pricing. The only downside is as his commission goes down my OBC from his company goes down.

We were on Beyond in an OV in January. It took me a day to find all of the closets because some of them just don't look like closets. Once I found them there was plenty of space for our stuff on a 10 nighter. It is weird layout. For me things that looked like walls turned out to be closet/cabinet doors...

I have booked spa services in the cruise planner in the past. No problem. If you are looking for some status discount you may have to call Captains Club to get those. I know they are in transition to make those discounts available for online bookings but it is still hit and miss. If you really need to talk to someone, hang up and call again.

I believe that the whole third guest free thing is based on 3 in a room, not 3 on a mulit-cabin reservation. If I am correct and you booked a NRD fare then yes you are stuck with it.

If you already have reservations you can look in the cruise planner to see if there are times that are more suited to you but to change to another time you first have to go in and delete the original booking. Same goes for adding specialty dining when you already have a MDR booking. Not a big deal but it can take some sime to sort it out. If you want to stick with anytime and just go, yes you can do that but at peak times there could be a wait. We prefer to do reservations and avoid the waiting but it is all personal choice. Oh, to delete an existing reservation go into your cruise calendar and click on the reservation so it comes up with the option to delete it. That part took me a few minutes to sort out when I wanted to add some specialty dining dates.

We have had them both. Both are great captains, great people too. It is a win win either way.

another vote for romecabs.com They are great, airport to city to port, even for some post cruise sightseeing. Do check out your roll call to see if you can make up your own small group trip from the city to the port to save some $$$. Rome Cabs does do multi stop pickups in the city for a small fee.

They can advertise all they want, target anyone they want. For me, after enough cruises to be Elite, half way to Elite Plus all I really care about now is what they deliver onboard. Since the pandemic ended we went to Bermuda on the Summit and loved it, then it was Beyond to the southern Caribbean and were disappointed in more things than I want to get into. This summer we will give it one more try doing Iceland and Greenland on the Eclipse. Advertise all you want Laura but what you really need to do is deliver in the end.

Maybe the rep is on commission? maybe the rep is just dumb. We share all of the time, have for years. One log in, one device at a time and if you try to use that log in while the other device is already logged in, it just asks you if you want to disconnect the other one.

But they already do that.........

You should be fine, even with re-claiming your lugage if you chose to leave out the night before.

Last summer on the Summit in the MDR on 'Lobster" night I ordered one and shrimp cocktail. Our smart lady waiter brought me two of the appetizers without me asking so between the tasty shrimp and the so so lobster tail it was a good dinner.

Was is your listed arrival? typically 9am should be fine but that is assuming your port arrival is around 7am.

My experience with booking a dining package was not good a few years ago. We got on board, went right to the closest restaurant and no one had any times that we wanted on any day so I ended up just canceling the whole thing. As far as things being sold now. they usually hold some things back for booking onboard.

I check it all of the time while on board. The last night I get a hard copy of the account, if that is right then I stop by on my way out and get one more hard copy......pain in the butt? Yep but when the "final" comes in my email with $36 and some change in mini bar charges I am ready to call and get it fixed. It was a 10 minute call, including the wait time and the "we are so sorry"s.....I never ever even open the mini bar........