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15 hours ago, ChiefMateJRK said:

I love cruising AK in April.  I also love cruising AK in September and October.

 

....and May, June, July and August😎

Isn’t April too early in the season to see a lot of wild life (on board species don’t count)

5 hours ago, ready2cruzagain said:

 Must depend on the ship, we have done 8 b2b's on MSC and never had to close it out. That is why I said ask 

Typical MSC, lol.

2 hours ago, BirdTravels said:

Totally fake news. Most Haven guest couldn’t be bothered. 

Just wondering what you based that assertion on since you never get Vibe passes. We’ve been in Vibe when over half the patrons were from the Haven. If anyone is faking it’s you.

We had to close our account after the first week. We’ve done four B2Bs, all the same.

On 2/17/2024 at 2:25 PM, Cruising89143 said:

Agree. Found the exact same issue on the Norwegian Bliss. Once outside of the Haven, it was a madhouse. 

Just wondering how you got to 25,000 posts.

I’ve ordered two drinks with one card on about eight Joy cruises with the P+ package.

Just now, ggTexasGal said:

If you book NCL Shore Excursion(s) pre-cruise, you must pay for it at the time of booking!

That’s not the way ii was pre Covid. If you booked it online you had to pay for it immediately, but if you booked through a telephone agent it was added to your account. So things have changed then.

We don’t book shore excursions very often, but is the policy still the same, whereby if you book one through an agent on the phone, the cost is added to your onboard account so you can pay it with OBC.

Club Balcony Suite.

19 hours ago, vacation44 said:

We have not, however, we wished we did when we were in the Joy Haven.   Our experience was it was very hard to get a comfortable lounge chair and the bar service was, for us, practically non-existent.    Lately we have been just going with club balcony suites with Vibe passes and our four specialty dinners being platinum.   We have been just as happy while savings thousands of dollars.   

We also add the Premium Plus beverage package and it’s still less than half the price of an entry level Haven cabin.

Vibe is generally filled with people staying in the Haven. The Haven sun deck is boring. 

37 minutes ago, EngrJones said:

I believe that was attributed to Winston Churchill.

He was my grandfather.

54 minutes ago, MoCruiseFan said:

 

• Fewer drinks covered in the included drinks package
  - I don't drink.

 

 

My father gave me some sage advice when I was growing up - never trust anyone who doesn’t drink. Amen.

1 hour ago, MoCruiseFan said:

 

Blinkers?

Another word for blinders. Do you understand that!

17 hours ago, BirdTravels said:

 

On the Prima, the bathrooms in the regular Balcony rooms and the Club Balcony rooms are the same. (We have stayed in both). The Club Balcony rooms is about 35 sq ft bigger with some additional perks. 

Does that mean that the bathrooms in the Club Balcony Suites have the “transporter tube” showers?

He was not on the Joy two weeks ago for the transatlantic back to Miami.

1 hour ago, Chirphy6438 said:

Does anyone have pictures of the "revamped vibe beach club" on the Joy? I can't seem to find any. 

https://youtu.be/kAittC0DYsY?si=5lTc75-_nMbZvpzm

13 hours ago, bkrickles1 said:

I believe you but I'm stumped. I had an m4 and it had a tub. That was 2022 on Joy. I asked someone on board and they said it was because it was a family CBS.This past July I had an MA CBS and it had the shower. 

Oh well. 

What deck were you on, on the Joy?

7 hours ago, bkrickles1 said:

As I said above, I can only speak for Joy, but a family CBS with an M4 code always has a tub.

All the others, which are either MA,MB or MC CBS are regular and have the amazing walk in shower.

I can't say for the other breakaway/breakaway+ ships, but I would have thought they were the same.

I didn't like the tub at all.

We have sailed on the Joy 10 times since the Covid shutdown, five times in Haven and five times in M4 CBSs. We have never had a bathtub in a M4 family CBS.

We were in the Beyond in January in a Sky Suite on deck 10 (10187 to be exact). No creaking at all.

We always book family club balconies, on the larger ships, on deck 12 and higher. We have never had a bathtub.

On 2/29/2024 at 7:19 AM, BirdTravels said:

Great news! Have a great cruise, I should be amazing.

Oh, you already are.

25 minutes ago, FPMoosally said:

 

How do you come to this conclusion?

 

My wife told me.

2 hours ago, hallux said:

For those of you that assume my experience matched yours but I was too 'blind' to see it, I suggest you remove your head from where it's become lodged.  My experience is what it was, I felt the food was on par with my previous 4 cruises (I'm less than a month from my most recent cruise) and the on-board entertainment was excellent.

Reality isn’t subjective.

For those of you who haven’t noticed a steep decline in the NCL cruising experience, I suggest you take your blinkers off.