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I'm not a water drinker, so I am bringing some Gatorade flavor packs with me, hoping I will drink more. Plan on a yeti type mug as well, to use in the cabin.

Will be watching for more posts. We are on Sunday the 17th sailing and getting excited! Thanks for taking the time.

We sail next weekend (!!!) and realized I need to start thinking about packing for our Viva Southern Caribbean Cruise. I'm normally a shorts, tee shirt and flip flop gal, but given this is a shore excursion heavy cruise, and very beachy, I anticipate wearing mostly swimsuits, cover ups and easy dresses (for dinners). I hate living in a swimsuit all week, but I think it makes sense. Thinking of bringing two pairs of shorts and just a couple shirts, in addition to a bunch of dresses and cover ups. Anyone else been on this schedule and what did they find worked for them?

From what I see about River Cruises in my research is that they tend to be a more "mature" group of cruisers. I wouldn't worry too much about spring breakers.

Still no eDocs this morning, so I did the online chat. They said they could see them on their end, but of course I had to call the Digital Dept to get that cleared up. Luckily that was quick and painless and NOW I think I am finally all set. Good grief. LOL Nordicacres - sorry for hijacking your thread.

Another update - had to call shore excursions, but they understood the problem and immediate took care of the balance due and it now shows a zero balance again. Still can't see my E-docs, but she said that could take 15 min or so. Hopefully this is a done deal, I guess I will never forget to include our middle names again (we normally do, so I'm not sure what I did).

To be safe, I started on online chat. She could see the "merger" of my husband's account that caused his shore excursions to show up again as amount due. She said I have to call Shore Excursions dept to have that fixed. Hopefully that won't be a big mess. In hindsight, should have just had the person on the phone add his middle name, not merge the booking to his Latitudes account from the previous cruise. Friends travelling with us just had to do the same thing and it was done instandtly.

Ha! No, I appreciate the tips and advice! I am keeping an eye on it and will check again in a bit. I will definitely call or chat to get that cleared up, Maybe it's not letting me see our E-docs because of the balance due.........

Thought I'd report back. I did call NCL over my lunch and they were able to add husband's middle name. She didn't confirm one way or another if it was REQUIRED to be the same, but her words were "should be" and "NCL recommends" that they are the same. It may have been easier because we had cruised NCL before so they had his full name already in the system. For whatever reason, it wasn't booked with his Latitudes number when I did the original booking, so they added that as well. They were able to keep his check in, but I did have to re-enter a few things. The only glitch I can see, and maybe it will get cleared up on it's own (I can't see the E-docs just yet), is that it is showing a balance due for his two excursions we booked - which we had already paid in full. I'm sure that part didn't carry over on the account with the name change, but I feel confident on getting that fixed. I was much more concerned about the name and not being able to board!!

I'm glad this came up and I read your post! Still not sure its a big deal, I read very conflicting info about it online, but regardless I will try to take care of it. We were assigned an NCL travel agent(?) but ended up booking ourselves online. I contacted her asking about it, otherwise I will call and ask. Funny thing is, we ALWAYS use my husband's middle name because his name is rather common. Yet for some reason I didn't (apparently) when I signed us up. 🤦‍♀️

We booked our flights separately. Final payment has already been made as we are cruising March 17th.

I have been thinking about this too. I'm not going to bring wine from home and travel to San Juan with it, but since we have a day there, I thought if I found a bottle I liked or was interested in somewhere, I might bring one or two on board for our room and such. If you have the FAS drink package I understand you won't have any corkage fees.

My boarding pass online has my middle name but not my husband's. Our passports both have middle names. I think the middle name was "optional" when entering the info. Are you saying I have to have our reservation changed to include my husband's middle name?

Sorry, not as tech savvy as you. I knew I should have just left it up to my husband to make sure we do this right, he's the computer engineer. I was just trying to wrap my head around it a little better. Thanks for your help.

Sorry, the whole internet on the ship thing has me so confused. I realize we "should" be able to iMessage on iphone to iphone (I heard it usually works, but not always), but when you say you "just have to be connected to the ship's internet" doesn't that count against our FAS 150 min of internet?