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Wiring chases exist, mounting locations exist. In theory it would be as simple as running the needed compatible cables from the mounting locations for the receivers to the 'demarcation' room, where it would connect to the ship's system. If the hardware has been delivered and all works well it shouldn't take a ton of time.

Even over the last couple months the prices (at least on the cruise I'm following for comparisons) have been going crazy high. In Sept. I booked a Studio cabin on an Eastern Caribbean cruise on the NCL Escape. By final payment the cabin had dropped from $899 to $799. I got that price drop and made my payment. I looked earlier this week and the price had gone over $1,000. Those cabins are now sold out, an inside is $1798 for a solo traveler and a balcony is almost $3,000 (all these prices are before free-at-sea gratuities and port fees and taxes). I sailed in a balcony on the Joy last year, Western Caribbean itinerary, also by myself (no Studio cabins on that ship) and paid under $700 for the base fare, but I booked that only 2 weeks before sailing.

With the BOGO airfare, once the flights are ticketed you're generally locked in. These fares generally don't allow for flight changes. The only people they guarantee you'll fly on the same plane with are the ones booked on the same reservation number as you. There used to be a way you could request to travel with other cabins but they dropped it last year when the airlines had major staffing issues.

Or people can refer to the article in the first reply, which has the numbers..

@kjquilts I've seen that too. I wonder if it's a precursor to the travel-with guarantee coming back as there was eventually a fee levied for that before it was ultimately discontinued.

I wonder if cruise lines will maintain receivers for the existing systems on their ships so as to maintain coverage where Starlink may not work. It's also possible that the CONSUMER service is not available in those areas but commercial service that would be used on the ships may be.

In the T&C's for promotions - https://www.ncl.com/about/terms-and-conditions/promotions All guests booked within a singular reservation will be booked on the same flight.

It might be a little more complex, especially on the scale of a cruise ship. They probably need multiple receiver units. Not sure if the existing cabling is correct and these would just plug in place of the existing receivers. I'm almost certain they're going to be getting different equipment than your consumer-grade unit for which there is a long wait. This article might help understand some of that - https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/starlink-wins-fcc-approval-to-supply-broadband-to-moving-vehicles/

Ever since COVID there have been no NCL ships with pre-cruise entertainment reservations. App, stateroom TV, kiosks in the stair lobbies or at the Box Office (maybe also at Headliners comedy club?) That depends on the cruise and how full the ship is. With no pre-booking of entertainment available this perk is limited to only restaurant reservations.

The folks in Bar Harbor have been trying to limit the number of cruise passengers. https://www.cruisehive.com/cruise-port-in-maine-votes-to-restrict-cruise-ship-visitors/87122 There HAS been a legal challenge to that vote, raised by the businesses that would see reduced income as a result - https://wgme.com/news/local/businesses-sue-bar-harbor-over-cruise-ship-limits-lawsuit-new-restrictions-cruise-ship-passengers-break-federal-law-bh-piers-golden-anchor-maine-tourism-local-regulation-citizens-initiative I have to wonder if that ban caused the change in your itinerary, at least for that port...

@Travelgrrl I sailed from Miami last March. I stayed in the Hilton Garden Inn Miami Airport West (it's actually right near the La Quinta). That hotel offered a free airport shuttle and a cruise port shuttle that cost a fee that I don't think was that high. I chose Uber, which was $45 for the trip to the cruise port from the hotel, plus a tip and allowed me to get to the port on my schedule. I booked my own flights so I knew which airport I was flying into.

If the price difference is enough and one wants to sail from Vancouver, a flight to Seattle and a short train or coach trip up to Vancouver is also an option.

I assume you meant airport here? It should work, I've done it twice in LA. I flew in the day before, used the hotel shuttle from/to the airport and use the cruise line shuttle to the cruise port from the airport on cruise day. One of those times was with NCL's perk airfare (at the time it was free or reduced cost flights, not BOGO) and by the time we had decided to possibly not use their shuttle it was too late for them to remove that cost from the booking.

There are a few threads on this, possibly covering the various ships that had that port stop on itineraries.

You could also call the general reservations desk. The cruise consultants there should be able to add that for you. Just be sure to get a fresh copy of your cruise confirmation emailed to you and confirm it shows the deviation, before you get off the phone with them!

My dad is a diabetic of almost 50 years, has never brought his own supply of these products and never had an issue on 20+ cruises (mostly on Princess).

Interesting that you say 'never' considering I got a $10 credit when my cruise last March skipped Costa Maya. There was no other reason I would have gotten a credit than for the missed port. @CruiserQ123 - there are other reasons the port fees for the missed port may not be refunded. When you book the cruise they ESTIMATE the port fees and taxes in order to charge them to you at the time of booking/FP. If they under-estimated the port fees and taxes would you expect them to come back to you and ask for more money? Didn't think so. But also, if they under-estimated the port fees and taxes and a port is subsequently dropped (either before sailing or during the cruise) the port fees and taxes from the missed port may be used to cover any higher cost of the port fees and taxes that the cruise line was otherwise going to "eat" because they wouldn't levy the additional charges due to the under-estimation. This is all discussed at length in other recent threads on this exact same topic (with nearly identical topic titles to this one!!)

So, you're telling us that you don't research any customer reviews of a product before purchasing it? You just walk into a car dealer or appliance store, point at the shiny object you want and say you want to buy it? Part of being an informed consumer is doing a little 'leg work' to research the terms of the product they're buying, this is 'homework'. It's not like the cruise line makes the terms and conditions of free-at-sea (the terms for the airline promo are lumped into that, which would have helped the OP understand the time frame for requesting a deviation of a couple days for the flights) hard to find. Requiring the cruise line to explain to each customer individually what their terms are would be like listening to those pharmaceutical commercials detail possible side-effects. NCL provides people the links to the information about what they're purchasing, reading those links is important.

The Bliss is a BEAUTIFUL ship, don't get me wrong. I'd sail on her again in a hot second. I'm thinking my next cruise (after the one I have booked for March) will be Alaska, but I want to visit Vancouver again and spend a couple days so I'm probably looking at booking a cruise on the Sun.

Link? Is it possible this person got drinks while in port, saw the TAXES on those drinks charged to their account and thought they were gratuities? Rather than waiting, or asking, they just jumped to a conclusion before the ship even shoved off and ran off to post online that they were being charged gratuities on drinks.

That wasn't even on an NCL cruise! Notice the daily behind the bag - MSC... I'm not a small guy, I snack often at home. I manage on a cruise just fine. In fact - I might be one of the few that goes on a cruise and LOSES weight...

Not surprising. For several months when you booked a cruise with airfare it actually said on the confirmation page not to expect the bookings until 30-45 days before sail date.

As others have said - 75 days is the cut-off for deciding on requesting a deviation. You may have mis-heard the person on the phone (or heard what you wanted to hear in order to vilify the cruise line). For a December 24 cruise, you would need to make that request by about mid-October. This is detailed in the T&C's of the promotion. I won't argue with you here. You don't say where you're traveling from, but getting to Hawaii is not a short adventure, taking almost as long to get there from LA as it is to get from NY to LA. There are certain planes the airlines must use on those routes, and the flights to the islands are also not plentiful. If planes are not in the proper position to service flights as needed, due to weather, the flights simply can't go.

Let me see if this is right - NCL booked you on flights that don't even get you to the cruise on time? That doesn't sound right, it shouldn't happen. Did they originally book you on flights that would have gotten you there in time and have subsequently been cancelled and the airline re-booked you on the 'bad' flights?

How, exactly, would they solve that problem? There are only so many tables/seats and if people decide to just sit to enjoy their meal and observe what's going on in the Atrium there's simply nothing they can do to resolve the back-log at that venue.