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I think the hosts rotate on the ships out of Galveston, especily if it's a casino group cruise like Premier or Getaway. For much of last year it was Kyro from East Europe. I'm not sure who it is now. 

NCL stopped their lobster night about 5 or 6 years ago. For a few years you couldn't even get lobster at the speciality restaurants. NCL is the only major American cruise line not to serve lobster in the MDR, (MSC? IDK) but it's the only cruise line to figure out complimentary chicken wings so it all works out for me at least.

I know in the past they used to be, with a break between bfast and lunch but does anyone know what the hours currently are, and if they have a current O'Sheehans menu? Thank you!

12 minutes ago, Traveller20074 said:

in a Prior post you stated (Bird)  that Splash Academy and Guppies were not on board? there is no Splash Academy?   

I think he/she meant that no one under 12 is on this sailing because NCL is requiring 100% vaccination.

1 minute ago, BermudaBound2014 said:

 

Have you ever tried using a site that actually Competes for your Cruise business? 

Thanks I'm familiar with that one, never seen an agent discount that much. Until NCL's pricing comes down I think I'm out of luck with calling for an upgrade. Thanks for the help, I knew these Gem sailings weren't "At Capacity" or whatever...

8 minutes ago, BermudaBound2014 said:

I think you have an excellent chance at a free upgrade. Best I can tell, the gem is no where near 60%. I would recommend holding off giving NcL additional funds at this time. 

BBound, could you give me any hints on where you are seeing the new pricing? I'm still seeing the pricing I booked under which is as follows: Inside: $399 OV: $449 B: $650. And checking all the sailings in Aug and September, my Aug 22nd is still the cheapest. Thanks in advance.

2 minutes ago, BermudaBound2014 said:

This is incorrect for the Gem. No business reduces prices on sold out items. Ncl  just reduced prices again last night for all august and September Gem sailings. I can book gem right now….

interior $379

ocean view $450

balcony $499

 

I do agree that encore in Alaska seems to be selling well for the month of august, but September encore prices are starting the expected decline. 

The ships are available to book right now, just not on NcL.com. For some reason their website takes a break on the weekends. 

Prices just went down today, too bad I booked yesterday. Probably going to call and get an upgrade to a balcony tomorrow, maybe I'd be better off putting in a bid. I really don't know.

It is too bad they changed the menus from what they are on the other ships... 

Just went to check on my August 22nd Gem pricing to find no trace of it on the NCL site for Gem or the more likely-to-sail Encore. No idea why they would do this, it's not like these sailings were selling out.

I remember sailing on a ship with Mark, I think you told us to take a picture with him and send it to you. I can't recall what ship it was on but it was within the last 5 years.

I don't think this has been brought up in this thread but what happens to the Magica's funnel? Do they build a new CCL Funnel on top? They could do a retro look and just repaint it.  It would be exciting to see CCL bring back the older taller funnels, which I prefer, compared to the newer fatter ones on the dream/vista class

59 minutes ago, toad455 said:

The majority of the Costa fleet were build from Carnival molds.

 

Costa Atlanitca & Mediterranea - Spirit-class(both sold to Carnival China)

Costa Fortuna & Magica - Destiny/Triumph class

Costa Luminosa, Venezia, Firenze & Deliziousa - Vista-class

Costa Diadema - Dream-class

I think the Luminosa and Deliziousa are a modification of the panamax Holland/Cunard Vista Class. I hope there is a chance we will see more Costa ships coming to CCL as the fantasy class is retired, maybe those ships sold to the chinese line will make their way over to CCL, people love the spirit class.

No idea why they posted that when they already announced the fully vaccinated ships can operate mask-free, left and right hand probably don't know what they are doing at the CDC , a la most of the cruise lines right now . The Conditional sail order instructions Is pretty clear on this issue.

why would anyone eat at the American diner? maybe I'm too cheap to get this stuff.

another difference is the cruise first deposits cannot be used on Sail-away gtd no perk rates, whereas cruise next can.

2 hours ago, Circlt said:

I’m betting they can fill this ship with Aussies.  I believe it is already sold out.  I have no idea how many booked cruisers are foreign, though.

Not sure where you got the idea that it was sold out, there is still a lot of availability in all stateroom categories. Id be surprised if Aus would be ok with a shipload of foreign crew members entering the country and still not allowing in vaccinated Americans, it would be pure politics at that point.

This is a tough one since no cruises have sailed since March so this situation has not happened yet. I would call CCL or have your travel agent call and I would try to get the deposit moved to a different reservation, that I think is a lot more likely to happen than a refund of the deposit. I'd be surprised if this cruise is able to sail without letting foreigners into the country.

   Does anyone know the date that FCC expires for cruises cancelled by NCL?  That will be the date the prices return to this world, for the past couple of years NCL pricing have been next level bonkers until final payment date when the pricing would start resembling the other lines.

  Right now nearly everyone looking to book a cruise is using an FCC so they are forced into sailing NCL and can't be swayed to other cruise lines by better pricing. The other cruise lines are doing it but not nearly to the extent that NCL is.

   They haven't changed ships around yet for December, those are all iteneraries that were being sold before the pandemic. NCL and Royal don't really do shorter cruises on their biggest ships, they mostly run Sat-Sat or Sun-Sun.

it's still there, you have to go to page 2. what i couldn't figure out is if it was certification for test cruises or certification for revenue cruises like Celebrity got. According to John Heald we should get info by May 31st for the July Sailings, so expect that info on the 31st at about 9pm with the way carnival has recently been releasing info.

Go to the deck plans, there should be a legend for all the differences in each of the staterooms. There will be symbols for 3 and 4 person capacity rooms and there might even be a symbol for sofa beds.

we got mlife gold for being diamond on RCI. we then status matched to diamond at Caesars which allows you to not pay resort fees at CET properties.

We get most of the offers, Ultra, Premier, Getaway, Casino rate, Plan now play later, Jackpot 5 day free interior. But not this one, sad to see they are giving casino offers to non gamblers. 

I wish, the pricing out of Galveston and Alaska is crazy the next few months.

it looks like someone from NCL read this and cropped the image to remove the carnival ship.

I just thought this was funny, could they have found a picture of Galveston without Carnival's massive whale tail in it? I'm excited for NCL to come back to Texas, we sailed on the Jade out of Houston while it still had it's Hawaiian décor twice and loved it. 

https://www.ncl.com/port-of-call/cruises-to-galveston