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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.

It not always about the beer it is about being able to walk up to bar on the stage and get it and talk with some of the performers as you are walking by them. I've seen the Choir of Man 10 times on the Encore and one time I sat in the front row and was talking with the narrator and he went up on stage and brought me back one. Great show in my opinion. Obviously.

I wouldn't rule out one of the newer ships on HAL. We hadn't been on them for about 20 years but last summer we chose them for a cruise out of Amsterdam to Norway because it worked out well with a 17 night TA from Amsterdam we already had planned. It was not the HAL from years gone by at least to us. The Rotterdam is their newest ship and they have something called the Music Walk that has a BB King Blues Club, Rolling Stone Lounge and Billboard on Board all on it. Also was great that the Hotel director was a former NCL hotel director who we had met before. I was going to book it again for this but the airfare at springbreak killed that idea. I really like NCL as we are Diamond but HAL caught our attention with that ship.

I would do HAL on one of their newest ships. We did the Amsterdam this past summer and I was really impressed. Was really nice the hotel director on the Amsterdam used to be a hotel director on NCL that I had met before so we had a few good conversations.

You can't go wrong with either one as we have done both. But for next September we are doing a B2B on the Bliss because I really like ISP because those two cruises do ISP and Sitka. And the Encore doesn't. In ISP we have already booked a whale watching cruise we have used before and they were great and we only had 6 passengers on their boat much better than the cruise line tour that had about 100 people on it. We just cruised Iceland and Greenland this summer so got to see glaciers and icebergs not that long ago.

I don't expect my TA to keep track of promo's on my cruises or final payments as I know she is busy. Her company does send me reminders about final payments but I also set up reminders in my computer for about two weeks before final payments and I occasionally double check myself to see if anything changed on pricing and promo's etc for my cruises I have booked. From my TA's company I always get a $100 onboard credit and cash back after the cruise. Sometime the cash back is $1,000 but usually much less.

We did get the coupon too but won't being using it because we are already booked on the September 14 and September 21 Bliss cruises. Had a good deal on those with my 10% military discount and got to use our free one time cabin upgrades for turning Diamond.

Thank you for your opinion. We did switch to 14158 for our two cruises.

Just curious was noise a problem? And were you able to find out what if anything what was on deck 15 in the empty space if anything? Right now we have a b2b booked in 14758 and looks like on deck above 15 above is the public restroom. so considering changing. Thanks

It worked for me. Maybe your PCC should go back and check again. It should be on your account automatically.

Not sure. We can because we have two reservations for the b2b and we both have the Diamond upgrades we are using.

Kind of what we just did today. I am using my Diamond upgrade to go from an oceanview to a balcony on a cruise and my wife's on the second cruise of a back to back. Figure between the two cruises we are saving about $1,600.

Just watch your account. We did that on the Joy in April and didn't get them the so HD secretary got involved and we finally did get our water delivered but the next problem was we got billed for it five times. Did get it fixed.

We got cabin assignment for our August 28 17 night cruise on the Jewel. About 2 months ago. One thing I want to add it was for a very nice balcony cabin.

Saw the show six times on the Encore the first two cruises out of Miami in 2019. Just a fun show and nothing serious about it. Saw it again on the Encore this past fall still really enjoyed it. One night the narrator went up and got me a beer and brought it to me.

Realizing I am a cranky old man and after about 80 cruises and we have 4 more booked and that maybe all for us. With the hassle of getting to a cruise and home again and the changes being made it might best for us to not cruise any more. This summer with going to new places for us (Norway, Iceland and Greenland etc) no reason to go back to Europe. Guess I could always change my mind but just don't get as exited about going on a cruise as before.