stephuney

Hi looking to hear from folks on their experience with weather, sea temps, beach experience in the Eastern Caribbean during a mid-March Spring Break.  Is it too cold for water activities still?  Do nights get chilly?  Etc ... For reference, I am in Houston, so very used to naturally hot/humid air and warm water. 

My ports are: Puerta Plata, DR; St Thomas; Tortola, Great Stirrup Cay.

Thank you,

Stephanie

Clarifying question ... I have seen several posts where ppl talk about multiple bids for different cabin types.  Is that possible?  Am I reading right?  So, I can put in a bid for various cabin upgrades?

Thanks everyone for sharing your experience and to @smillerholmes for sharing the link ... I did do a search for this topic, but didnt turn up any results (probably didnt do it right).  Thanks all!

Hi - wondering if anyone that has won a bid with the upgrade advantage program will share their experience.  I know the website says a bid could be approved (or denied) at anytime up until the day of debarkation.  I wonder though, for anyone that has won a bid, how close to cruise date was it before you heard?  

Appreciate anyone who has won a bid, sharing your experience (with regards to timing of win before sail date).

Thanks,

Stephanie 

I was looking at doing this for next year. We were considering doing the Northbound Alaska trip, spending a couple of days in Alaska, then flying to Hawaii to get on the POA.

 

In the end we decided against it. There were a number of problems that messed up the planning, and we decided that it wasn't going to work well for us.

 

However, those problems were kind of unique to us. We wanted to try to fit in a couple of days in San Francisco, and also had plans for after the Hawaii section, which started to take the whole trip up to around 5 weeks, which was pushing it really, so we decided to drop the bit we've done previously (Alaska).

 

The concept is fine though. If you were to do the Seattle round trip then you certainly have plenty of time to get to Hawaii for part 2. As we were looking at the Northbound, which runs Monday to Monday then this left a quite annoying length of time to get to Honolulu for the Saturday sailing (at least for what we wanted to do). It would probably work for others though.

 

If time wasn't an issue then I'd do something like this:

 

A few days in Alaska before the cruise

Southbound to Vancouver (Monday-Monday)

Fly to Honolulu, maybe with a day or two in Vancouver first.

Couple of days in Honolulu before the cruise

Hawaii cruise (Sat-Sat).

 

Just writing that makes me want to consider revisiting the idea, but I know it isn't practical for us. If you can do it (or something similar) then go for it. :)

 

Edit: I see you say you are on the Bliss. I think that runs Saturday to Saturday doesn't it? We considered that too, and I think it makes some good sense. You have six full days to travel and relax/sightsee in between, which is obviously plenty. It looks a good plan to me. We only really ruled that one out because we really wanted to add the land section in Alaska, which was tricky to work in with the Seattle round trip itinerary.

Thanks for the tips here. Bliss is Sat to Sat.

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Ah!! Gotcha!! I can see how that would make a big difference with PVSA. Thank you!

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Ok, so admittedly ... never heard of PVSA, will have to research. When I called NCL to talk about the possibility, they didnt tell me I couldnt do it. I am booked on the Bliss next summer em/disembark out of Seattle. I am looking at the possibility of flying from Seattle to Honolulu to take the Pride of America around the islands. Note: I've checked ... there are flights that will make this possible (the time difference helps) ... and pretty obvious that two sets of clothes. Thanks ... still wondering if someone out there has done this?

Looking for feedback on whether anyone has ever done a B2B Alaska then Hawaii on NCL. If you've done it, I would love to hear about your experience. Pros/Cons, tips, etc. If there is already a thread on this, feel free to point me in that direction! Thanks!!

love this thread ... thank you!

WOOOO ... I cant wait to be on the Legend this summer!!!

We just got back from a back to back 9 day cruise on the Fantasy and we had the Melting cake EVERY night.

I have to wait until this summer to do this ... I cant wait!!:p :p