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Can someone with Latitudes Gold travelling with a Platinum use the priority line as well?

Someone asked earlier if they could use a voucher which they hadn't used on a previous cruise, and were told 'no'. Looking at the small print on the pictures above, I don't see anything on there actually preventing this, so has anyone actually ever tried and been told no?

Are you able to transfer it to a machine in the casino, and then cash-out straight-away? I'm guessing you're probably not able to use non-refundable OBC in the casino, but it'd be good to know for sure.

Seems a bit over the top to me to ditch any cruise line entirely over the policies of a single port. Surely you can just choose a cruise which doesn't include the offending port?

We've got TG125 on ours, which is $125 non-refundable credit (it's from the stockholder benefit, $250 for cruises over 14(?) days, they applied it as 2x$125

Agree with JohnIreland - get the train, it's super easy! Takes about an hour (or a bit less) to get to Rome, and is cheap (don't forget to validate your ticket in the yellow machine on the platform). When I did this last time, we got off at San Pietro and had a quick look at the Vatican, then jumped onto a hoho bus and saw the sights that way.

I thought Veuve was only available by the glass, that it was only Moet that was available by the bottle - has that changed? (Not that there's anything stopping you ordering a bottle's worth of glasses though of course!)

That's a Tres Monjitas van, so probably a milk delivery rather than alcohol!

It feels to me that the fixed extra number of meals is a far better benefit on shorter cruises than longer ones. On a 3 night cruise for example, you'd pay the increased rate for 4 days, and get to benefit from the two extra meals over 3 nights. On a 14 night cruise however, you pay the increased rate for 15 days, but still only benefit from the meals bonus on two nights. It seems to me that the additional meals should probably be tiered based on length of cruise, as they are already on free at sea.

Thanks for the heads-up on this, added it to my card. I notice this in the small print: "Offer valid on journeys departing from the UK." Last time this offer was around in the UK, I used it for a cruise from Barcelona, don't know if that small print text was present then or not, but the statement credit certainly came through OK. Got a cruise from Rio booked, will put £500 on my Amex and see if the offer kicks in or not on that.

That statement about no corkage for people with a beverage package does sounds pretty unambiguous, I've never spotted that before. I wonder if they meant to specify the premium plus package maybe? Just thinking that the $15 corkage fee is equal to the max price of a drink on the standard package (which may very well be a coincidence!). Is that a new addition to the corkage policy?

Our $250 credit is showing as 2 x TG125 (half for each person in the cabin for some reason), so yes, that TGxxx will be your shareholder benefit.

I sent my forms in about 2 weeks ago, got a reply after about 5 days pointing out the document I sent was missing some required info (date within last 3 months and my name). Finally sent what they needed yesterday, they replied within about 30 minutes and credit appeared on my amenity invoice. I was pretty impressed how quickly they added it once I gave them the info they needed

I think that's an underrated benefit of the drinks package - there are alwyays some drinks I'd like to try but don't want to waste money on if I hate them. Like Aperol - everyone raves about it it seems. Tried it on the drinks package, hated it, saved me buying a full bottle only to have it live in the cupboard undrunk for the next 20 years.

My experience with this is on NCL, not RCI. During one slot pull, I hit a $1200 win. Because I'm from the UK, there was no tax to pay on the winnings, but the casino staff made damn sure that I was from the UK, and that it was me who pressed the button - had to retrieve my passport from the cabin, and saw them checking CCTV as well to make sure it was me who pressed it.

@julig22 - thanks for sharing that. Looking back over previous confirmations, I can see that the last time we had codes on the confirmation was for a cruise booked in September 2020. The cruise we booked in February 2021 had no codes listed, picture below of what I'm seeing. Both cruises booked through our NCL PCC. I'll probably need to send an email over to our PCC to find out what codes have been applied, but she's taking a while to respond nowadays, really busy it seems.

Where are people seeing these codes? I'm sure they used to be on the confirmation invoices, but looking at one right now, and don't see any codes on it at all. Perhaps I'm just missing something really obvious! UK booking if it makes any difference.

@halluxI understand what you mean, they have to draw the line somewhere. The frustration for us (which perhaps I should have mentioned in my original post, but didn’t want to confuse things!) is that our PCC was meant to apply it to a cruise last year which we sailed on in October but she didn’t. I didn’t notice at the time that she hadn’t applied it - we booked on the day we received the cancel notice so she said she’d apply it the next day after it was in our account. That’s why I was hoping someone might say they’d made exceptions sometimes, but it feels like it’s a tough luck situation instead.

I'm trying to book a cruise for March '23 right now. I've got a 10% discount voucher in my account after an earlier cancelled cruise, but it's got a sail-by date of Dec 31st this year. My PCC is saying that there's no way it can be extended for 3 months to allow me to use it. That NCL just flat out refuses to extend these vouchers at all. I just want to know really if that's true, and everyone is failing to get these things extended at all, or if it's worth me talking to someone else?

I'm considering buying some NCLH shares, and noticed this in the small print for the stockholder benefits: "Benefit is not combinable with any other offer. Shareholders have the option to choose between the shareholder benefit or the other offer" Now, I'm sure I'm reading that wrong, but it sounds to me like you can't combine it with anything at all, so if we have Free At Sea you can't get the OBC from shareholder benefit. So, is this just another example of NCL wording things badly and they really meant something like "Can't be combined with any other shareholder benefit", or is it actually correct as written?