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We always purchase insurance but Not through our cruise line. I use a common site insuremytrip but the last two cruises we just used the policy our TA quoted us. I actually juuuust submitted and received some money due to flight delays two weeks ago. It happened to be an Allianz policy and we got $200 back within 30 hours of my online claim submission. I’m in agreement with many others that it feels reassuring to invest in it even if we don’t need it 9 out of 10 trips!

Agreed with the post above, we also got an additional 5?% off of the then “live cost” of the cruise on website. We also chose to purchase cruise next certificates and get more bang for our buck. We booked our upcoming Caribbean cruise in March on the ship in Greece last June.

We were on the Jade in June and while I can’t recall if the sign said Starbucks or Java cafe it definitely HAD Starbucks drinks and food. The issue we ran into was the fact that for a time NCL wasn’t allowing any drink purchases WHILE in port in Greece only. My cranka$$ self learned this one morning😩😡 I knew zero alcohol “sales” and we were ok to get them because we had package. They were suspending all sales and it made for an unhappy morning-lolol

Hello! I'm hoping to get an idea of the evening show schedule for an upcoming trip. 7 night itinerary MIA-GCS-Sea-St Thomas-Tortola-Puerto Plata-Sea-MIA Figured it was worth checking here to see if anyone has recent ones? TIA and Happy Sails!!😁

No-the bars are just “only open/servicing those with the berate packages” while in Greek Ports.

Yes, so we could get anything that was included on our package but no option to “pay extra” for say, the chocolate martini which is over 15$. We also couldn’t buy anything at Java Cafe in port as the regular beverage package doesn’t cover those coffees. Otherwise, we could order drinks and show our card on beverage package and they weren’t even running it through computer, providing a receipt.

Yes, this was the situation on the Jade very recently for my sailing June 19-26. My TA had learned from NCL that this is indeed a “thing” so we were ready for it. I posted an actual picture of the signage at the bars on another post.

We just disembarked yesterday. No announcements but you’d see them subtly remove the stand-up signage from the bars once it was “time” 🙂

BINGO!, shopping, CruiseNext talks, games

Dining…sadly we thought this was the least impressive dining experience we’ve had on NCL or Carnival. However, we certainly were fed lol. Garden Buffet was same at breakfast, rotated for lunch and dinner and was just ok. Alizar was surprisingly the most impressive for us-consistently good food and service. cagneys-my entered and salad were great but the prime rib was meh. )it was better at Alizar last night) bar service-good but mixed drinks were SO inconsistent. With all of this being said I really loved the ship and the crew was so friendly and attentive in our experienceWith all of this being said I really loved the ship and the crew was so friendly and attentive in our experience

Helen was the Director this week and Bruno was Asst Cruise Director. That’s all I recall. Both were great.

Masks inside. Not expected on outdoor decks. They did speaker reminders and all finding entryways reminded you to put it on if you weren’t already wearing it.

I should ADD to this post…I learned today that there are NO SALES at all while in port…I could not purchase Starbucks at the Java Cafe this AM before tending in to kefalonia 😖😖 also, in case you need to know: if you have the PBP ma d want to order anything beyond the 15$ limit…you have to wait until out to sea.

So far, the ship does NOT feel anywhere near “full” we’ve only sailed on the Epic and Getaway, which have more pax so it could simply be the fact that this is a smaller vessel. overall, I am VERY happy with this ship. Very few lines anywhere. Super clean.

Yes-we chose to do the Azoza? azova? Online proctors tested from our hotel room the night before.