MisterBill99

Have you taken the cruise yet? I'm on deck 14 currently, but, 16006 just became available. I like the location, but am concerned that there might be a galley above it that would wake me early in the morning. The other discussions here are about the balcony cabins, I believe.

You can put it out, but they're not going to service your room more than twice a day! I just think that she's confusing the room being serviced when they get back with constant servicing. As I said earlier, if I put towels on the floor before leaving for the day and then again when I was back before dinner, it might seem like it was being done constantly.

FYI, it appears that they are owned by Nationwide. The company answering questions here does not sell them, so I would not expect them to give you an answer. Here is a description of their focus from their website. Detour is founded and operated by adventurers who live the lifestyle and understand the rewards and risks associated with experiential travel.

Update -- ignore my "Hi Steve", I hadn't noticed the Q&A was with a different company this time.

Someone who was on the recent MSC cruise that got rerouted from Nassau, Bahamas to Canada the day before they sailed (due to bad weather) claimed that some people who were supposed to be on board had cancelled and had their insurance cover it. Is there any policy that would do this, other than utilizing the Cancel for any Reason coverage (which presumably would not be at 100% and not everyone has)? Similar question for people who were supposed to go to Israel and had their itinerary changed. Thanks.

Hi, Steve. I'm wondering if there was any insurance that could have provided coverage for the people on the three-year cruise that got cancelled right before sailing recently. Would it even have been something that could be covered since it was (supposed to be) so long?

Relevant article I just got sent from Cruise Critic. How Often Is Your Cruise Ship Stateroom Cleaned? "Even though twice-daily stateroom cleaning has long been the standard in the cruise industry,"

I figured that the 12/23 date was my Covid extension, since it should have expired in 2021 (plus I think it only should have been extended to 2022). Obviously, I am not going to do anything if the date stays as 2027. I'm wondering if anyone else who was supposed to have expired last month also got a surprise extension. I do have a cruise booked for March, so it would make sense for them to have extended it to then. But that doesn't seem to be something that MSC typically does (i.e., things that make sense).

Funny, I must have missed that part of their constant TV commercials. Also missed the part that warns prospective customers that we're a budget cruise line, so keep your expectations low.

And if you use towels in the morning before you leave for breakfast and in the afternoon before you leave for dinner, then the usual twice-daily service they do in the morning and before bed (typically starting around 6pm) in the evening would explain what you're seeing. Are you claiming that it was made in the morning, and you came back to the cabin around lunch but then went out again and the room was serviced three times a day? You made a few valid points in your post, but your insisting that some things that make no sense are actually true is making your whole story suspect.

Except that the ship would have refused to let them leave with their luggage if they were going to incur a fine.

Since someone else commented on this, I figured that I would as well. This sounds extremely unlikely, since it would have meant they left after only two days and they would have received a hefty bill from MSC, who would have been fined for violating the PVSA by allowing them to embark and disembark at different US ports without a distant foreign port in between. I suppose they could have left in Nassau, but it still seems unbelievable unless someone was sick.

I've never heard of cabins being made up more than twice a day. Maybe the timing just worked out for you, and it seemed like they were doing it constantly.

Well, we're in an inside YC cabin so it wasn't that expensive, certainly not compared to the balcony suites. Everyone tells you how great MSC is, but when you come back to complain, they tell you "Well it's a low-price line, what did you expect?" I even saw someone post that when there was a complaint about YC, saying it's not fair to compare it to a high-end cruise line. Funny thing is. MSC's description of YC doesn't say "but we're a low-price line, so take our claims with a grain of salt". Anyway, we'll see how it goes.

We sailed MSC once back in 2018 and did the status match with Celebrity. I thought it was to Black level but when I checked their website last year it was showing me at Diamond, with an expiration date of 12/31/23 (which was later than it should have been). We have a cruise booked for March, and I was thinking we would not have status (not a huge deal since we are doing YC), but just logged in and see that I am still diamond with a 10/2027 expiration. Has anyone else experienced this? I figured I would have to try applying for the status match again, which I understand is supposed to be a one-time thing but have read others say that they were able to do.

Celebrity has gone down too, at least in food. But it's still better than MSC. We are trying Virgin next month; the food is supposed to be excellent. But it won't work for you since it's no kids. Trying MSC Meraviglia in March, but in the YC. We did the Seaside in 2018 and hated it, but YC was the only thing that could get me back on the ship. But now I'm reading here that it's gone downhill as well on Meraviglia. I guess I'll see if that's also a one-tme thing.

Don't you mean "Time to pause cruising MSC for a while"?

Reminds me of the Holland America shareholder perk offer. It always has a one-year expiration and people think it's going to expire, but they keep extending it.

And a negative if one of your party doesn't like the hammock.

I was wondering if Virgin has Friday night passenger-led Jewish Sabbath services? Not asking if a Rabbi is on board, obviously they would not, but other lines have a meeting room booked, and they put it in the schedule. The room then has prayer books and challah and wine.

They've extended it through 2024.

Wow, you're right! Looks like it happened last month with no advance notice (or cancelling existing reservations) according to comments on their social media page. I wonder what happened?

There will be tremendous pushback against any change that would make credit card rewards taxable. And I've been doing credit card rewards for a long time and cannot remember seeing an offer that did not require a minimum spend to get the sign-up bonus. And FYI, you might want to check those sites you referenced to see what they say about cruise line credit cards. Here's one from The Points Guy which explains why you can do better with other cards. Should you get a cruise line credit card? Here's a closer look - The Points Guy

I just wanted to say that this is a rare case where this credit card is not a poor choice. You can easily do better than the 1% it offers on everyday purchases and 2% on cruise line purchases. And you can get it back in cash instead of having to wait to redeem it on a cruise.

This is incorrect. The purchase date is what matters. I just wouldn't do it on a weekend.