Blackduck59

I guess in the summer for that route "POSH" would put you on the sunny side and being an Atlantic crossing that may be a good thing.

Actually I was referring to Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. But with your new clue I'll shift to Iceland.

Are we in a part of France close to my country?

One of the explanations for the word POSH is Port Out Starboard Home had to do with cabin selection. Unfortunately I can't recall where you were sailing to or from or if you wanted to be in the sun or shade.

Just a giant shot in the dark. Are we on the Falkland Islands?

@NCTribeFan I'm not sure there is a logical answer to the "formula" although there have been some good attempts by members to help me understand.

Sorry to hear you and Rolf have tested positive Julie. That's unfortunate that you will miss those port visits. We hope you both feel better soon. Take good care, Lyle & Lynn

Thank you for posting, there are may interesting choices. I hope some of these things find there way onto menus in other destinations.

Are we in the Yukon Mic?

Good luck to you but I don't think you will have great success. The $1.00 deposit sale is so limited time wise. You may get your deposit back but it's doubtful you can transfer it to a new booking. I think you are likely to find a new cruise but it will be priced at current rates and deposit amounts. I think you will have noticed from this thread that it is probably a good idea to book with a refundable deposit unless you don't mind losing the deposit if plans change.

The OP is using some rather colourful words to describe a company stand on a business transaction. They also suggest as fact that other cruise lines would do it differently. I would suggest a product was purchased, with terms and conditions and to allow for a lower fare it required a "Non Refundable" deposit. Now the OP wants a different product and wonders why they should forfeit the "Non Refundable" deposit, funny thing about non-refundable deposits, they are non refundable. If you want flexibility then buy the product that allows that.

Just to clarify, when I said "I don't think this is really helpful" I was commenting on the value of my own post. At the end of our only HAL cruise we had 11 "spending points" with the formula of 1 point for every $300.00 spent, that would suggest $3,300.00 of on board spending. We didn't come close to that. We are however happy to take the points if they want to give them to us. As I said there was quite a good explanation on another thread, which helped explain the theory of how the spending could be calculated.

It is so, your turn.

@cartervan I'm happy to hear your perserverance has paid off. It is too bad that you had to jump through the hoops. I think they set it up like that so most people will give up before they have to pay up.

How about this?

Apparently the casino is an outside contractor. So while it may have space on board, when you spend money at the casino, it's not on board spending.

Thank you, I will see what I can find.

I take it meringue isn't you thing. That's okay too. I will try them down under, I hope they are as described by my friends down there. Every time I try them around here they are hard and crunchy; and they explode when you try to bite them.

It is exactly that, I'm told by those down under that if properly prepared it will be crisp but not hard on the outside and it will be soft inside but not runny. It will be white outside not browned like a lemon meringue pie. And just like many different special dishes whatever they serve won't be as good as mom used to make.

Well I have to say Mic has a great clue and the angle supports his thought. I'm not sure how obvious Lyndon is being. Clearly that is the houses of Parliament in London. From the angle and elevation it would suggest it was taken from The London Eye Ferris wheel.

You will definitely get different descriptions and expectations for Pavlova. I'm not sure many Aussies or Kiwis will comment favourably on a cruise ship version. I'm certainly no aficionado, I will try the cruise version but suspect it will differ greatly from what we get in Australia and New Zealand when we visit there.

I like these "Classic" offerings. Hopefully the program gains traction and we will see these options on our next cruise in 2025. It gives everyone an opportunity of an extra choice and by coincidence Club Orange has 2 extra choices. This feels like a small step in a good direction.

I don't think this is really helpful, all I know is we ended up with way more spend points than we expected and we'll take them thanks very much. There was a thread a while back that had some good explanations about how spend points are calculated. They were most helpful but I'm still confused. I have said many times I don't get the status thing. I am happy to have the perks if they come, how they came I don't know or care. We book the cruise that we hope to enjoy, we spend money on things we want aboard (even better if it's onboard credit) if we get points for spending someone else's money, cool. We'll take those too. Any chance of there being non refundable OBC left at the end of the cruise? Absolutely none.

While I did put a chuckle on this post. It is a valid point. It seems that some people everywhere have a need to be "special". That's okay everyone to there own, I just think that the most helpful suggestions often come from those who choose not to mention their "status".

Keep a tally on your daily consumption. If you have a couple drinks available at the end of your day, grab a few pops or cans of beer or anything you like within your daily limit. Put them in your cabin fridge (which you have asked the steward to empty for you, when the voyages began), this will save room for more expensive choices on another day and you have a mini bar in your cabin stocked through your beverage package. For us we never came close to reaching our "limit" but it was nice to have cold drinks in our cabin fridge without paying the "minibar" charges.