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    Hold the Tomato: Minor (?) Ordering Modifications at Restaurants

    in Norwegian Cruise Line

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    One of the first things waitstaff will ask is if anyone has food allergies. Whatever you tell them, they'll write down.You should have no problems asking for items to be left off an order (and if it happens to come with the item always ask for it to be remade). While I don't have allergies I often ask for things to be left off my order or to put something on the side. NCL has always been great about this.

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    Eurovision NCL

    in Norwegian Cruise Line

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    21 hours ago, OliverSwe said:

    Do they get in any local stations where they sail? Will be sailing the mediterranian, will they get in any spanish/italian channels or even the BBC?

    BBC news is one of the regular channels (also MSNBC, Fox and CNBC). Nothing local while sailing.

    Chocolate-covered strawberry perk

    in Norwegian Cruise Line

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    6 hours ago, marktwothousand said:

    Is it just me or does anyone else think they need do chop the tops (leaves/stems) off these strawberries?

     

    I realize they’re preparing a few hundred of these for onboarding but, like really…would it hurt to have someone extra in the line just to cut the tops off?

     

    these get so messy if you try to eat them with your hands, and you have to bite around the leaves. A good portion of the strawberry always goes wasted. 😡 it just seems like laziness to me, ie. “oh, here’s your welcome plate, have fun trying to eat them without making a mess, enjoy!” 

     

    Also, do haven customers get their chocolate-covered strawberries prepared the same way as steerage or are yours fancier and with the tops cut off? I think if I were a Haven passenger and they left a plate of strawberries in my room without the tops cut off, I would lose my shhhhh😡

    It's just you. Perhaps upon arrival you could tell your cabin steward NOT to bring strawberries at all. Problem solved.

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    Room key color

    in Norwegian Cruise Line

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    On 2/24/2023 at 6:33 PM, BirdTravels said:

    Once upon a time, they are suppose to have meaning... 

     

    Orange - new cruiser

    Green - Latitudes cruiser

    Purple - Suites guest

    Gold - Haven guest 

    They still do. And for example @sailingshipseven if you are Diamond or Ambassador and not in a suite, your card would still be green.

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    Back to Back cruises

    in Norwegian Cruise Line

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    19 hours ago, Pat.D said:

     

    Last august my B2B in Canaveral went super smoothly so I'm guessing the issues were resolved.

     

    We literally walked off the ship with our escort, walked down to Customs in the terminal, stared into the Customs ipads, green light came on, and then walked right back on the ship... no waiting.

     

    I am happy to hear that the process was smooth last August and it was as it should be.  Something happened since then to change things because my cruises were November of 2022 and December of 2022 and the experiences were completely different.

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    Back to Back cruises

    in Norwegian Cruise Line

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    16 hours ago, macfam5 said:

    It would be from Port Canaveral 

    I did two B2B cruises from PC (one in November and one in late December). BOTH times it was a nightmare (I'd use a stronger word but not allowed here).

     

    On the November cruise, there were 10 of us B2B. We met in the theater at 9:00 a.m. where we were told we had to wait for a zero count before they could deal with us. Around 10:30 we were finally escorted off the ship into the terminal where we had to wait in another area to go through immigration then just...waited. Our escort's radio didn't work so he had to keep running outside to find out when we could reboard. Finally around 11:30 we were brought upstairs to reboard only to see that general boarding had already begun. 😡

     

    On my December cruise, I was the only B2B passenger and went through essentially the same process although I was told by the concierge it would be a smoother process "this time". It wasn't and a lot had to do with the PC personnel who were rude and downright nasty stopping us constantly along the way demanding to know what we were doing. When I was finally taken down to immigration, I and my escort were the only two non-employee people there. I asked a worker if I could just go through and she screamed at me that I would go when she said I could go. Literally 10 seconds later she announced dramatically that I could go.  Then suddenly I was told to "wait here" until she said I could go back upstairs (again less than a minute later I was "released"). Once again general boarding had already begun and to say I was angry and frustrated is an understatement.

     

    I spoke with the GM once I was back on board and he had heard many similar stories before and said they were looking into the process.

     

    Port Canaveral is the only port where I have had such experiences. In other ports, you're off then back on quickly and get to enjoy the ship for some quiet time before boarding begins. I truly hope things have gotten better and you will report your own experience back here. Bon voyage.

     

     

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