Blueside

I don't know why you continue to be insincere and sarcastic towards me. You know very well I'm not claiming to be an expert, I'm not claiming to be able to be able to make NCL bank, I'm not even claiming to care if NCL generates profit or not. All I've been doing since the beginning is mildly criticize cruiselines. Maybe your point is that it's a waste of time, but it's as much of a waste of time as any other discussion on this forum, so I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong in your eyes.

Are you under the impression that my goal is to improve cruiselines' revenue? I already said that they do this on purpose, because it benefits them. I'm arguing for the consumer, not for the cruiselines. I'm not putting together a slideshow to convince NCL board of directors or anything, I'm just criticizing their practices on a cruise discussion board.

I mean "as difficult as possible" in the sense that they could very easily make the information more transparent, but they don't. And it's not a fault in website design, it's something they do on purpose. How simple the calculation is was not the point and I think you know that. It's not like stores display prices like "$5 *+8+19+2" even though that would also be a simple calculation. It's one of those things that are just a part of cruising on all lines, so I get used to it and shrug it off. But when I see newbies try to navigate the process in confusion, it reminds me of how deceptive it actually is.

I don't see those two as mutually exclusive. You can want them to give a bottom line price, while also wanting to know how the price was broken down. What some of us don't like is the way they currently hide the DSC from you until later, to make it as difficult as possible for you to compare final prices between cruises.

I don't understand why people are so averse to having cruise lines be more transparent about pricing, and just include DSC into the fare. Why do people argue for cruise lines to continue their deceptive practices? Yes, it sums up to the same fare in the end, so why would you not want better information for the customer?

That's perfect. Thanks!

Hello, I'm going on the Getaway soon, and we're sailing out of NY. We're used to drinking hot water rather than water straight out of the tap, so I phoned NCL and they said that they can't provide us with a water kettle, but that there would be a coffee maker in the room. My question is, is that coffee maker able to just boil a lot of water? My only other option is hot water from the buffet, but it's all the way at the other end of the ship from my cabin, so a little inconvenient when I just need a drink of water at night or something. Thank you!