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@gmbhardy

Which perks should be increased?   You already get more Specialty meals and more free wifi and more $50 off shorex.

@LoungerOnBalcony55

they have to do more cabins in less time with less help

Again quantify please?

When talking to a couple of stewards before the implementation of the new conditions their main complaint was that they would lose the ability to go ashore in the afternoon time off.

@winemaker1

Train would be a bit of a pain!!   Taxi to Southampton Central; train to Waterloo; underground (with a change) to St Pancras.     Eased by a taxi to St Pancras for the third leg.

@LoungerOnBalcony55

The reviews I've read are near universal the "attendants" are visibly stressed and overworked

Where are these reviews please?   Are they from passengers or stewards?

Are you able to quantify why the stewards are "visibly stressed and overworked" and more so than they were before?    They always seemed to be "visibly stressed and overworked".

How much of it is due to the "changes in circumstances" themselves and how much to "passenger pressures" because of them?

@Minimama

Was the original booking made when there was a special offer for the person who dropped out?   

3rd/4th person free?   2nd person 50% off?    Is that offer still available?   If not that would be why the extra $800.

A re-fare (cancellation/re-book) always involves the cancellation of the previous offers and replacement with those on offer at the change point.

I would recommend that everyone checks every second or third day.    If anything is wrong it is easier to try to sort it out "at the time" rather than at the end of the cruise when lots of people are trying to work on refunds or problems.

@street96

My wife goes to the early show most nights we cruise and we arrive at the midships dining room as it opens at 6pm (that one as I don't like wearing longs; the stern dining room where you have to opens at 5.30),   We let them know she wants to go to the show and we are usually clear by 6.45.

Shows were at 7pm, don't know how often shows are at 6.30.   If the eat after.   BUT they will be full with people going after the first show and before the second.

@mary_228

I now notice the particular items that have a supplement to the dining package listed. So one may order a five course meal and pay nothing extra?    Yes; so long as you are ready for extra if order the "upcharge" item; if you think that you can eat a full  course meal!!!

I noticed that on the East Meets West menu (not a specialty restaurant), sushi is extra but most things are not. Can I dine there eating only the free items? I love most of the starters and soups.   I have no idea of the East Meets West restaurant but, if it is like the Jasmine Restaurant on ships we have been on, the Sushi is well away from the rest of the restaurant.

I had to laugh at "Sending Out" the laundry, it took me back to the days when I was younger and people would come to your house, take away the dirty clothes, wash them and return them cleaned.

@mary_228

It means that you are able to have 2 meals at the Specialty Restaurants of your choice with the only time that you may have any extra charge is with the "Upcharge" mains.   Other than that it will be free.

@mearsfansinboise

This time I am in full agreement with @trbarton

I want them for the same reason.

Mike

@mearsfansinboise

I am in full agreement with @MrsTocko

"Forewarned is forearmed"

Mike

Try eBay!!

If you mean do NCL still try to con you into paying exorbitant prices for stuff they leave in the fridge then I presume they still do.   But thinking back I can't recall it being there on the Jade.

Simple answer NO.

@MAVIP

Thank you.   I don't think it was there when I responded initially very soon after your initial post..

Mike

@MAVIP

You will see from the calendar that it will be Cruise Port  Amsterdam. Close (walkable distance)  to the center of Amsterdam,

  I suggest you visit the website once in a while,

Thank you again but calendar & website?

We will be there for 3 days (Sunday 27th to Wednesday 30th) before we join a Viking cruise to Bucharest.

@MAVIP

Friday 25th August

Thanks

Mike

Is anyone able to tell me where the Prima will dock in Amsterdam please?

Thank you

Mike

We dine at the "less formal" (longs not required) main dining room early and have never had to wait for more than a couple of minutes.

When we leave there is sometimes a queue and the use of pagers but that is uncommon and you soon learn when that is likely to occur; based on people wanting to go to or come from the shows.

How about asking on https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/386-florida-departures/

As the certificate will not do much to decrease the "fare" whether it is the lower or total figure I wouldn't]t worry about it at all.

Icy Strait Point is also "Alaska" for me, so many whales!!

Alaska WITHOUT Glacier Bay would NOT be Alaska for me.

We buy insurance as soon as we pay out ANY money other than the deposit especially airfare and certainly before we make the final payment.

Also my wife was unexpectedly and suddenly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, possibly Covid induced, after taking out the insurance for two upcoming cruises.   The company said it would be covered WITHOUT additional premium, they had a term for that sort of thing, can't remember what it was..