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Who was this? Why don't you just name the YouTuber so we can see the film?

They do them on port days and often you see ones recorded in the middle of the night. I think it's pretty clear most of these influencers and TA companies don't want to inconvenience other cruise travellers, rightly so.

No, you don't have anything to explicitly worry about. No influencers will ruin your cruise, of that I'm pretty sure.

How long are people finding it takes to receive the email after watching confirming you have the points added? Watched about 3 days ago now, and nothing yet. Thanks in advance.

Brit who has lived in the US 11 years now. You will find absolutely NOTHING like British fish and chips in the US or or a American cruise ship. Trust me, it's the one food I've found that has always been failed to imitate time and time again. Before anyone complains, food in the US is amazing and I love it, I am genuinely just talking about this one particular dish.

8/10 is hardly stinks...to be fair.

Great answers all, thank you very much.

Hi there, Quick question. I've bought packages/excursions etc before and refunded them, then purchased again if a better price (sale!) becomes available, I'm aware doing so takes a few days for your originals purchase to be refunded to your bank or credit card. This is just using my credit card. But I've never purchased something with a mixture of OBC and my own money, if I see a better deal on my currently booked dining package and wish to jump on that, if I cancel my current order, does anyone know how long the OBC takes to go back on your account? So I could them theoretically and quickly use that reimbursed OBC to pay some of the now better priced package? Would suck if I cancelled my current order for a better sale price, but the OBC takes a few days to return to my account, and by then the sale has ended. Thanks in advance!

What? Sorry but this just comes across as a ramble. Really though, I guess my opinion is the opposite, make the customer feel special across the board. Whether you can afford one 5k cruise, or 20 of them, treating people differently, or rather dramatically differently isn't a good thing in my opinion. Making everyone feel special is a better world to live in, rather than the top 1% who can afford multiple cruises every year. Loyalty programs exist and I don't think anyone has any issues with that, but they shouldn't offer a completely different experience to the person who is on their first celebrity cruise. All just my opinion of course.

Worked for both my wife and I on her blue card, and I'm an authorised user.

A few weeks ago I had pay $750 and get $150 back on my Amex Blue preferred. Out of curiosity, did anyone else see that offer and not the one referenced on this thread? Both my wife and I added the 750 offer and we both used it, so saved 300 total towards our upcoming cruise in November.

Do you recommend a particular nasal spray?

Yeah I'm sorry but this is nonsense. The only time you saw this was a few years ago and this reeks of "just trust me bro". You keep mentioning similarities between flying and cruising but in regards to vacations there really isn't much similarity at all. A cruise is the vacation, a flight is just transport from one place to another, and as others said most places have multiple options for that, within hours of one another. It's very different. That's before you start taking into account things like excursions people have booked, plans for ports, flights back home post cruise, hotels post cruise. I've never heard of this ever occuring but I'm not calling you a liar, I'm sure there's been one offs, but we'd all be hearing about it daily if this was even semi-common. We book our cruises at least 9 months prior to leaving and if I turned up and someone told me our room was going to someone else I'd spontaneously combust.

You listed a lot of good, and important things, staff, cabin and food being good etc. You listed a couple of issues like one bar being too small and a big what if, not I fell going to Eden, but you could potentially fall. Not discrediting your opinion, but if certainly doesn't read like it adds up to a 'never again'.

What an awesome insight, thank you for taking the time, much appreciated!

I was fortunate to grab this package for our Beyond sailing in November 24. It shows as sold out now. Unlike the other meal packages, under the info/terms I don't see anything. Other packages talk about surcharges for tasting menus, or particular restaurants etc. But here, no mention of any caveats. Does anyone know of they are any special terms for this trio package (2 dinners and 1 lunch). Since there's nothing saying otherwise, for example could I choose the chefs table and dinner on the edge? Or a tasting menu at Le Voyage? I've attached a screenshot of the deal.

Man, you sure love catamarans.

No huge deal, but drink prices seem to have changed fairly recently, well, increase is more appropriate. Not like they are ever going to go down these days. Sailing on the Beyond in Nov and currently have the classic package, would really appreciate if anyone has any snaps of the latest menus with current prices. Thanks a bunch.

Can someone confirm exactly what waters are included with the classic package then? That would be really appreciated.

Well, Norwegian don't do them either, so that's us all double screwed.

appreciate the answer! Thanks!

This post is old I know, but do you recall approx how much you paid for the taxi to and back from the visitor service, including his 'wait' fee.

Oh ok, sorry one last question, if we get on board and don't really enjoy ourselves, at least enough to warrant going with NCL again and buying cruisenext vouchers etc, we could just go to customer service on the last day of the cruise and ask for out $1000 worth of OBC to be returned to us in cash? That's right yeah? I presume it will be $1000 minus some small amount (tax on drinks in ports etc), as I presume when you have OBC purchased, that is used up before your credit card on file is used. So even though we plan to spend nil on board, a small amount is unavoidable (tax) and that will come off the OBC before our credit card?

Very clever. Good idea. I guess I could duplicate what you did then? Minus the NCL credit card which I don't own/have. So I could, purchase $1000 OBC from NCL.COM prior to my cruise, then whilst on board spend that $1000 OBC in its entirety on 8x $125 cruisenext vouchers, refuse OBC, and when I am home I should have $2000 worth of cruisenext vouchers and $200 back from Amex? I could just do that right?

Ok, this has been a really informative thread. I have one last question, I think I have formulated my purchase plan on board so I will run it past you all, since many of you have experience here. Thanks a bunch in advance. First stipulation, I currently have the American Express NCL deal on my credit card, which is spend $1000, get $200 back. The reason I mention this is that I hope this can be used alongside this deal. Plan, on the Breakaway at the end of the month, buy 8x $125 cruisenext coupons. Total cost $1000. IMPORTANT: Refuse OBC offer at the time (I presume I just state that outright to the consultant there at the time? I have no interest in OBC value, just future x2 cruise reservation use) Result = When I arrive home from my cruise, I should have an email containing 8 $250 cruisenext credits, totaling $2000 towards upcoming cruises(s). (understand I can only use up to x3 per cruise, if they have a triple up offer etc). Bonus? = Because I spent $1000 on the cruisenext vouchers purchase don board, this is trigger my American Express deal, giving me $200 statement credit back. So at the end of the day when all is said and done, I will have spent $800 real world money, for $2000 worth of cruise credit for future trips. Could you all confirm, or rather whoever wants to comment, ha, does that all sound viable and correct?