ChiefMateJRK

Well, if you really want to spend over four times as much to upgrade to a balcony....🤣 You are now my hero.😎 Note to our fans: this will NEVER happen if you don't start by booking an inside.

Actually, it sounds like you know me pretty well. 🤣 To clarify, $25 is the point where I would NOT upgrade.😎 I did once upgrade from an inside to an OceanView for a buck fifty-eight.

The promos are not cruise specific. During the promo, any cruise you book will allow the double/triple promo in effect. Otherwise, you just book a cruise with one CN and then add more during the next promo. This doesn't work if the cruise you book is past the regular final payment date.

I find it ironic that some have invested more time in posting in this thread than they ever have for an NCL check-in.

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Twenty-five bucks per day. I've upgraded from inside to balcony twice for less than that. Otherwise, I sleep and shower just fine in an inside. If I need more light, I flip on another switch.

Some are.🤣

Sure, if they "want" to have to join the stampede early in the morning because they otherwise won't have enough time to enjoy the port.

I said, "crappy itineraries."

Sounds like a good reason to just avoid crappy itineraries. Anything that makes me have to fight the mob to get off early ain't worth it. That doesn't sound like a fun holiday.

Well, I guess going around some velvet theater ropes might be "sneaking." I wouldn't do it, but I wouldn't be shocked if many/most of the nervous types would.

I book a Shorex before the cruise in case it sells out. I get on the ship, go to the Shorex desk, and have them cancel/rebook to consume my shareholder non-refundable OBC and return my original funds to apply to DSCs. That's what most are talking about here. Some of us don't believe that NCL's craptastic IT tools are capable of ninja giving my spot to some fictitious "waiting list." disclaimer: I've never asked to be placed on a Shorex waiting list (but I've never seen reports of people doing this either). Does such a thing really exist?

Stairs?🤣

There will also be hundreds (or thousands) that want to enjoy a relaxed breakfast while the nervous types run down to the exit point(s). I can understand an early excursion (which I generally avoid), but otherwise don't understand the rush.

I've done this several times and never had an issue. Have you ever seen a report here that somebody lost their place in line doing this? I can't believe that it ever happened until we see an actual report. It never refunds to the original form of payment if cancelled on the ship. Unlike the OP, I generally do NOT have prepaid gratuities so any refunds are eaten up by the DSCs.

All Americans? Every one? You mean that there is at least one thing where all Americans think the same? Wow!!

Has anybody recently used an NCL ship's supposed "cell tower?" How much were you charged by your provider? With cheap/free internet and wi-fi calling, I'm not sure why I would ever need to use a ship's cellular. I've just seen the blurb in the daily about making phone calls from your room for $4.99 per minute. That's great if you have an emergency and the wi-fi is down (again). Otherwise, not so much.

Southwest will. I've taken advantage of that many times.😎

I just sailed the Spirit. Jacked a few unopened bottles of water from the Skagway train when it returned and easily carried them right back on the ship in plain sight. I even waved them in front of the dude and he said just carry it through the metal detector. Nobody cared.

Why would 13 people want/need to sit at a single table. If I'm at a table with more than six, I'm not hearing what the others are saying. Would you miss those other seven people that much for an hour if you couldn't be watching them eat?

Bingo. Although, while they would like it to be quickly, quietly and at minimum cost will be the marching orders.

News flash. This just in. There are crazy people in this world. That's okay, because victims can easily get tens of millions of dollars from large corporations who had literally nothing to do with making the crazies crazy. Is that okay? Of course not. It's (certainly) not a perfect world. It was once upon a time, but then there was this thing with an apple.... Large corporations have much better lawyers than the victims. They have to. They'll pay out a million or so with robust NDAs. It's a marketing cost. Have you folks not lived in the world of large corporations? Some have spent over half their lives there. That's the real world. Not what you read in the funny papers. If somebody does get ten million, you'll never read about it. Or, do you think that they'll turn down the offer and pay a lawyer their life savings to drag out in the (international?) courts for years/decades?

But the Pearl does have an OL. Didn't you find it?

I sailed the Pearl in December in an inside. Had no problem with wind. 🤣

Are you kidding?! I'm drinking, eating and enjoying the ship. Ain't no "sitting around." I'm on a cruise?? Why do I care if my cabin is ready? Nap time will be about noon-thirty tomorrow. 🤣