cruiserbear55

If you're taking the 8 grand kids, they'll be at least 8!! After checking the 6 NE states, they are split evenly between two being on vacation each of the last three weeks of April. A quick check of a few other states- couldn't find any first week vacations, all I looked at are 2nd,3rd, and 4th weeks.(But didn't check them all). So as far as folks from the USA taking their kids on your cruise, looks like the first week would be your best bet. It is tough to tell by your post if you are looking to sail with lots of kids and families, or trying to avoid that situation. Anyway, to me your main concern should be when European countries are on school vacation in April. I would presume the majority of cruisers will be from across the pond! Happy cruising!!

IMHO, cabin coffee is the best coffee on any NCL ship I have been on.

Keep in mind, this is a family show!!! (jk)

Inquiring minds want to know. What's the first?

As stated above, they're just a venue for NCLs sales pitches. Did a couple years ago as cruise newbies. No need to ever do one again!

As Charles4515 stated above, Frog and Onion has an automatic service charge of 17%. It is added to your bill.Take time to read it! If you're paying by card, they'll hand you a card reader with the amount owed. Under that is the tip area, either a numerical amount you key in or a percentage.Well, if you're like most folks, you'll tip about 20%. If you didn't take the time to read your bill, you're unaware they have already charged you 17%. So you click on the 20% tip button and go on your way, satisfied with the Bermuda fish chowder, red onion rings, and the wonderful home made mac and cheese your party just consumed. About a month later you're going over your credit card bills. You can't figure why your Frog and Onion bill is so high. After a little investigation you realize-"Oh crap! I paid a 37% tip!". Be careful!!

Living in NH we probably eat lobstah a dozen times a year. We travel to the coast to purchase them, and they're literally right off the boat! Our first cruise was on the Celebrity Summit in 2005 to Alaska. They made a big deal all week about all-you-can-eat lobster tails on the last night. Well, we're really looking forward to this, as you can imagine. Well, the tails turned out to be Caribbean rock lobster (or spiny lobster). They were inedible!! So we never entertain the thought of having lobster on-board. Not worth the trip, as they say. A quick aside. There was one time we enjoyed real New England lobster on an NCL ship. We were on the Dawn somewhere around 2013 or 14. There was a huge glut of lobster on the market that year, and they were selling for obscenely low prices. NCL went out and bought what must have been a truckload of them. There was lobster, as much as you could eat, available in any venue for the first two days!! With no upcharge! One of the cruises we'll always remember!

Theoretically speaking: If you took a cruise from NY or Boston to Bermuda, port fees and taxes will be approx. $550.00; admin fee of $20.00 p/d x 2=$280.00; daily service charge of $20.00 p/d x 2=$280.00; 20% gratuity on beverage package $152.60 x 2= $305.20; approx. $20,00 gratuity on your one specialty restaurant. The "free" cruise now costs about $1425.00. That's before you tip your steward or anyone else, before you buy insurance, and before you've spent a dime in the casino!! Cheaper than paying full freight? Definitely. But free? Definitely not!! Happy cruising!!

Let's say you have a comped balcony through CAS. And you have a certificate from your local casino for a "free" inside. Will CAS combine the two and give you a Club Balcony? TYIA

Way to go, bluesea!!

It is our favorite time of year to cruise there. Great temps, little to no humidity. Recently retired and had planned two cruises to Bermuda a year, one in April and the other in Late October/early November. However, after 2022 NCL is no longer doing Bermuda cruises from Boston in the fall. Which means we'll either have to drive to New York ( we avoid flying unless we can't!) or cruise a competitor to NCL, and there aren't many that cruise from Beantown. First world problems!!

With three free laundries, it's amazing how much less you have to pack!

NCLs insurance is predicated on cabin prices. So I would think if your cabin price goes up, so will your insurance premium. I live in a no sales tax state, so can't be sure, but would assume if the price goes up, so would the taxes.

You get one bag free. If you and yours or whomever is in the cabin are Latitudes Platinum or above, you each get an additional free bag.

Only a Bermudian could work that kind of magic!!

It's amazing how much mileage we can get out of a dirty, sometimes smelly, issue!

As has been posted here many times, bring a small bathroom size plastic trash bag ( 3 gallon) to line the inside of the laundry bag, which as you'll see are very cheaply made. Roll all the clothes you are sending to be cleaned, and methodically place them in the bag. You'll get far more in the bag than just stuffing the clothes in. Finally, when your clothes are returned, take time to remove all the orange/yellow tags they attach to each piece of clothing.If you don't, six months or so down the road you may be reminded of your cruise by having an itch in the strangest places!! Happy Cruising!!

It will only show you fifteen of the cabins currently available for each section of the ship; front, mid, and aft, for the category you are researching.If you have your eye on a specific cabin that doesn't show as bookable, you have to call NCL to check on availability.

Nothing better than cruise news from the future!! (JK)

Book a table for four.

Boston -Bermuda-side trip up to Bar Harbor, Maine-back to Beantown

AFAIK, if you don't get to 100% completion on your e-docs, ( i.e., missing picture, missing passport number, etc.) the system won't let you continue and your on-line check-in will have failed. You would then have to show up at the port and seek out an NCL agent and do your check-in at that point. That to me would not be a pleasant experience, but maybe others who have been through this will chime in with their thoughts.

Confirmed!!

A little bathroom trivia. Does anyone know 100% what the words on the clothesline housing are? I think they are: Clothesline (American) Corde a linge (French?) Wascheleine (German?) Tendedero (Spanish?) And I could be all wet! Anyone?

And you don't want to forget to remove those little yellow/orange tag!! Six months later you're unsuspectingly reminded of your cruise, sometimes in the worst places imaginable!!