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All, good news. Thank you for the assistance. Now the waiting game for the flight to be ticketed so I can choose seats. They said 55 days out.

I was able to get my flights back. They booked the wrong one, but a second call corrected that. I will say it was stressful because we are traveling with other family members. They really need to up their game with their website.

I has something strange happen yesterday. I was curious about the flights that I had and if there would be a way to select seats. (knew that was a long shot) so I logged in and chose "View Flights". It allowed me to choose an airport, and then I stopped at that point realizing I was not going to access my flight. Later I looked at my remaining payment to find out the flight portion of my balance had been removed and I only owed for the cruise. I called HA and was told that I had cancelled the flights. They were absolutely sure that I did. I can't imagine that choosing "View Flights" would have cancelled what I had. Seems there would have been some message to warn me? Anyway, they were able to rebook the flights, but when I got the confirmation, the inbound was a different flight. I had sent them my confirmation, so I am not sure what happened there. Guess I will be on the phone again today with my fingers crossed. Getting nervous!

Great news. I need to pay more attention to Flight Ease options. We are flying SAS outbound and Iceland air inbound. Thanks!

HA offered me a great direct flight from IAD to Copenhagen for our 7 day Norwegian and Icelandic Fjords cruise. What are the odds they will change this prior to the cruise? I have heard of flights being changed after the final payment and don't want to risk that. We booked during the $500 flight credit promotion. Price ended up being $441 for outbound Copenhagen and Inbound Iceland. Seemed like a good deal since booking direct would be $1157. Also, we really need to be able to select our seats. Thank you!

You are certainly a HAL professional.

Great googling skills. I didn't think to look on the sister ship or other decks. We can certainly manage and may like the closet location so it is easy to enter and exit when someone is changing. The reason we chose these was to be close to the cabin with the large balcony that my sister reserved. Ultimately though we spend a lot of time rambling around the ship. I peeked in an inside cabin on the Nieuw Statendam and they are tight! Thanks!

Now that my final payment is coming due for the Feb 5 Panama cruise, I am getting a little worried about my cabin choice. A family member chose cabin 4166 for the large deck, so I chose 4162, one of the odd shaped cabins with the entrance on the long side of the cabin. I have heard some of these cabins are super small. Anyone familiar with these particular ones. Some others in our group chose 4156 and 4150. I guess I am all set but would like to be mentally prepared. Thanks!

My husband loves the Escargot. Good idea on the specialty on the first night. I remember things being more hectic the first night in. Tamarind out of the gate might disappoint others when we head to the main dining room the next night. What an amazing experience. Thank you everyone.

Thanks. Great news. I do understand the service slow down with anytime dining. Love the comment about knowing who can't decide what to order. There is always one. Maybe we can decide on a set time and get the same wait staff. I was trying to work my two free nights of specialty dining around the "dressy" nights. I am not sure the menu is really that much better on those nights to worry about though. I believe the lobster days are over.

I generally love open seating, but this time we have a party of eight. Has anyone attempted this with a large group? I feel it would be simpler to have early or late, but we can decide on which one (and they are booked already) We are doing an 10 day panama cruise on the Eurodam. Also, any idea which nights will be gala nights? Thanks!

For anyone that is not comfortable snorkeling, Woodwind will keep you safe. They help you on and off the boat and have groups set up based on experience so they can keep someone in the water to help the newbies. For Curacao, we rented a car and beach hopped. Driving was very easy and we discovered some beautiful beaches that were not crowded.

Great idea to check Tripadvisor. If this was a full transit, I would be happy to stay on the ship. For the partial transit, you just hang out on the ship in the lake until time to return. I am not up for the Canal Experience, toilet or not.

I need to book my excursions for our Panama cruise on the Eurodam for Feb. 5-15. It seems some excursions do not have any reviews and the ones that do are very old. Some are from 2013. I was considering the Embera Native Village, but have some hesitation because of a few really bad reviews. I don't want to take any tour with a long bus ride that so many complain about. I am also a bit concerned about getting stuck in the terminal waiting for the ship to return. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.