swmichigan cruiser

Pretty much the same for us. We are Diamond on NCL and Diamond Plus on Royal and did 7 cruises on Carnival a long time ago. For me it is the staff that makes the difference. We have done about 30 cruises on Royal and I can only remember the name of one hotel director and he is a good friend but other than him no one stands out but on NCL many stand out from GM's to down to asst Maitre'Ds.

When were on the first two cruises from Miami November 24 and December 1.2019 of the Encore at that time the GM was Jovo and he saw me wearing a Bliss hat on the Waterfront so he thought I should be wearing an Encore hat so he had Pam his secretary send me a very nice Blue Encore hat with yellow trim. Funny thing we did the Panama Canal cruise on the Encore fall of 2022 and Igor was the GM and my granddaughter did the Encore January 2023 and Deepak was the GM and he and his secretary Kim treated her very well. I have not met Deepak yet but maybe sometime in the future. We do get on the Bliss in a little less than 4 weeks so we will see who is onboard there.

I couldn't agree more on Choir of Man. We were on the Encore for its first two cruises in 2019 and I saw it 6 times then and got to know the performers. Great guys and they performed on different venues on the ship also saw the show 4 more times on the Encore on the Panama Canal cruise fall of 2022. The Encore is my favorite ship.

I had record locators for our flights going to Seattle and went to the AA website and gave them our AA frequent flyer numbers and got our seats assigned. When I went into my record locator for our flights going home is where I discovered the flights were messed up. So I guess there was a way I had flight info.

We got a second confirmation from NCL on our flights to Seattle to change the times by just a few minutes. So they did at least once.

What is now happening for us. We had great flight times for going to and from Seattle. And got a second confirmation from NCL so I went to the airline website to book our seats and found out the flights coming home are pretty messed up they now have us leaving Seattle at 6:00 am the morning the ship returns to Seattle so impossible. I guess what I really don't like is we had to find this out and NCL didn't notify us there was a problem and fortunately the cruise isn't until September so there is time to get this corrected even if I need to pay and book myself flights. Just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I do have my TA working on this.

Great thing is you can't go wrong with either ship. We have spent quite a few nights on both. I really enjoy the Choir of Man but we do like the Jersey Boys a lot. We choose the Bliss this coming September for two Alaskan cruises because we liked the itinerary better. Also funny thing our first cruise on the Encore was its first cruise out of Miami in 2019 and I was wearing a Bliss hat and the hotel director stopped me and I talked with him and eventually he sent me a very nice Encore hat.

Should have said the 2022 cruise. Old age is catching up with me I guess.

My favorite NCL show. Saw it 6 times on the first two Encore cruises out of Miami in 2019. Got to know the guys and they were great guys. Also saw the Choir of Man 4 times on the Encore Panama Canal cruise in the fall of 2020.

No they didn't ask when I bought it at the bar. Of course the person I bought it from might have been inexperienced doing it. My biggest problem was getting billed for it 5 or 6 times when I only bought it once.

Our experience with buying water onboard wasn't that great. We bought one of the packages onboard at one of the bars. Didn't get delivered for 2 days so I contacted guest relations and it finally got delivered and the hotel directors secretary made that happen. Also we bought it only once and were charged 6 times for it. Did finally get it straightened out again with the HD secretary help.

Royal still did it last summer. Best deal we have ever got. We had I think a 12 night TA cruise they cancelled and one of the choices offered was a 17 night TA. Same price which was really a low price to begin with for gty balcony and we ended up with an angled balcony.

We are using NCL air for B2B cruises from Seattle to Alaska on the Bliss in September but we are flying in two days early. Might not be the best flight times but the price is pretty good.

Just to let you know you are not alone. I was going up the escalator in Detroit to check our bags before getting on a flight to Florida to go on a cruise and I stumbled and fell on the escalator and the bad thing is it felt like I was in a blender as the escalator kept giving me more steps.

I'm really old the ship we were on was the Rotterdam and we left from Amsterdam. Guess I will use the being old as an excuse.