debenson0723

On the Prima, they have the Broadway show and the game show. There is no cost.

I would check the Ports of Call board on this forum and see if someone who has sailed or is planning on sailing from Lisbon has the answers. Typically you cannot check luggage at any airport until 4 hours before your flight. I have found that most airports (especially in Europe) have luggage storage at the airport for a fee. Just google the airports website and you should be able to find if they have it and the cost.

Totally agree with this. I get the Thermal Suite pass on almost every cruise and have never seen anyone use a scrub product in there. Yuck!

And if you are on the Prima or Viva, the Indulge Food Hall is complimentary.

Better to start a new thread vs. reviving a zombie thread from 6 years ago...lots has changed in that time. But if you have the FAS drink package, you can bring your own wine/prosecco on board with no corkage fee. And you can get 2 drinks at a time at the bar and take them back to your cabin for sailaway. I don't believe room service delivers drinks.

No, you do not get Thermal Spa access with a spa treatment. As far as being sold out, it's possible since it's not showing on the app. But best to check as soon as you get on board to see if there are any passes left.

You should probably unsubscribe from those. I never get marketing emails from NCL other than informational ones for my currently booked cruises.

I don't believe so. I am a member but never log in and do mock bookings all the time. More than cruises, their car rental prices can't be beat and do pay for my membership fee.

That's not true. You can get the specialty dining packages, water and soda packages on the ship for the same price. I believe the internet package is actually chepaer on board if you purchase it the 2nd day. Like mentioned above, there is no dynamic pricing on the drink package on NCL. If you get the Free at Sea drink package, you pay for the gratuities only, which are about $21 per day/per person. On my RCCL cruise, the drink package was $89 per day with an 18% grauitiy. It was available on the ship, but at the same price...no discount.

Have you cleared your cache?

Press Your Luck is showing under the Entertainment section for my Viva cruise. Will find out for sure if able to reserve at 21 days out.

The only cruise line I have seen that was Carnival. I couldn't believe my eyes. Is it that hard to throw on a pair of leggings and a t-shirt??

Maybe it depends on the ship but I have sailed both Carnival and RCL and neither had a dedicated dining room for My Time Dining. On RCL it didn't start until 6:45, which is not my time at all and we were seating in between diners that had left the 5:30 seating and those not arriving yet for the 8:30 seating. On Carnival it was somewhat different but the table were so close together, I might as well have been seated with those next to me. @DrSea the Prima may be smaller capacity wise than the Getaway, but it has more specialty restaurants than the Getaway.

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You won't have to eat in the buffet ever, even if you don't use specialty dining. There are 3 MDRs on the Bliss, plus the Local...none of which require reservations (I know some people book reservations for the MDR but I never have). I do usually book 1 or 2 specialty restaurants in advance but will sometimes cancel day of in the morning if not feeling it. I am a mega-planner but on a cruise I just want to go with the flow and relax. Similar to @dbrown84 I will check on availability at a specialty restaurant and wait a bit if I have to...can only recall once when I didn't get in at all.

I have been in the Thermal Spa on the Getaway, Pearl, Escape, Bliss, Encore and Prima. The one on the Escape was by far the loudest. My favorite was the Bliss. Really want to try the Epic if I can ever find an itinerary that works with my schedule.

You can move from a Studio to a Balcony (have done it several times) but you will have to pay a price difference increase...one time the difference I paid was $7. I would pick out a cabin online, do a mock booking to see what the price difference is and then request that cabin on Monday. The only caveat is that you may lose certain promos you had with the original booking (such as double or triple Latitudes points). Never done the FCC thing so don't know how that works, Enjoy your cruise!

MDR menus are rotated on every ship now (Prima went to rotating back in June or July) Would probably be best to check with the vendor or their description box to see what type of excursion you booked. Or check the Port of Call forum and see if anyone else has done it. You will typically have to be off the ship by 9am so I would make my transportation pick up for around 9:30. Make sure they pick you up across the street from the pier on the other side of 12th Avenue, maybe a few blocks down. That area is very congested with cabs and Ubers.

Yes, the Prima is now rotating menus like the rest of the fleet.

I have typed a response 3 times and did not post because I thought I sounded unsympathetic which I am not. Been in your situation so have a bit of experience. Use the internet to book a cab online that will be waiting for you. Alternately, use your cell phone once you are in port and do it that way. I have gotten cabs in Reykjavik before...might have to wait 30 minutes but they will come. Sorry you got sick on vacation but you should be well past contageous by the time you disembark, especially if you took Paxlovid (I didn't). As someone else mentioned above, 5 days is the maximum I can miss work now if I test positive (and I work with the public).

This would be my suggestion. Buy the soda package. Load up your Starbucks app, use it onboard to buy your drinks and get the 'Stars' so when you get home, you will have a couple of free drinks waiting. And if you use up the funds on the app, you can download more while in port.

Not sure if there is an NCL excursion but there are plenty of private transfers that will take you to Stonehenge and then LHR. I would check the Ports of Call forum for recommendations.

All of those things are fine in the MDR on the Prima. I did a TA last fall and wore mainly leggings everywhere except the specialty restaurants, where I wore dress pants. But no one cares and it's still Freestyle. Enjoy your cruise!

Exactly. A co-worker of mine had his United flight canceled the Friday evening of Memorial Day weekend AFTER they were already sitting on the plane! They spent 3 hours at the airport trying to reschedule but ended up going home. Unfortunately, their luggage had already been placed on a different flight and went to Boston. Took them 5 weeks to get their bags back. It would have been quicker to fly to Boston the following weekend, pick them up at the terminal and fly home.

Just to clarify the NFL situation, all of the games are shown on the ships, either in the bars (District Brew House, The Local/O'sheehans, depending on ship), sometimes on the big screen at the pool and in your stateroom. Thursday Night, 3 games on Sunday and one on Monday, On my Prima T/A last October, the games were on around 2am as we crossed the Atlantic. The Sunday day games are the ones that the network consider their main game of the week, with their national broadcasters, So if you are looking for certain regional games, you probably won't get them, And as far as the carpet fish, they removed them from the Jewel on it's last drydock but I believe the other Jewel class ships still have them, and possibly the Breakaway and Getaway (haven't been on either of those for a few years). The Prima has the new 'arrows' pointing forward on their carpet.