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Or they reduce it to 3 items per meal, or reduce the serving sizes. Or both. The best way to prevent food waste is to not give it to you in the first place.

I don't think I have, either. By "they" I meant the published rules that I referred to in my previous sentence, not "they" as in the restaurant staff on board. I know people are routinely allowed or even encouraged to share a dining credit at FR, and I hope that continues forever (but I wouldn't bet on it).

Unlimited Starbucks is $12.95 a day. I don’t know how strict they are about making everyone in a cabin get it (especially kids). But one person sharing their Starbucks with 1-3 other people probably gets noticed pretty fast (not suggesting you were planning to do that!)

In your case, since you don’t care about unlimited internet, or apparently about high-end alcohol, there is no point even doing the math on FAS+ for any (adult) in your party. And since they will require you to upgrade at least one adult, that’s the end of that.

Each coupon (Platinum voucher) is for 2 people, so it's 8 items with one voucher. I agree with Pitzel: it's useful to know what other people have been allowed to do in the past, but the rules for all of these dining offers clearly state no sharing, with no wiggle room. And they don't make any exception for Food Republic or the other "4 item" restaurants. All you can do is ask when you are seated and hope for the best. And have a Plan B in case they don't let you share, whether that means that the other two people go eat somewhere else, or they order a couple of additional items à la carte (and then you all share everything anyway).

I don’t what makes iMessage different, but if there was an easy way to make this stop working, I feel confident that NCL would have put that into action by now. They are certainly well aware that iPhone users have been taking advantage of this for years. You do not get full iMessage functionality. Sometimes you only see a snippet of the message as a notification and it doesn’t show up in the actual Messages app for a while (or ever). And don’t expect photos or “share my location” or any other fancy stuff to work.

It's not hard to find the previous terms of the PP package and see just how much they have reduced the value of it since last year. But the current description/terms clearly indicate that there must be at least one "wine" and one "champagne" available by the bottle at dinner. They can whittle down the selection all they want, but this is the minimum they have to offer. (They can try to hide behind "brand availability may vary" but that won't fly if they're still happy to serve the same wine/champagne by the glass.) Of course they can change the terms whenever they want, but they actually have to do it. If it is true that the Prima has gone rogue and stopped honoring the current terms (which so far we have no proof of, just a vague second-hand report), then I hope the passengers know how to raise a stink and demand some respect.

I have heard of them waiving the purchase requirement for pregnant women or some medical conditions. I don't think being sober counts as a valid excuse, otherwise lots of people would falsely claim to have a sober spouse in order to avoid paying for a second package in their cabin. So my guess is that they'll make you purchase two packages, and you'll have to decide if it's still worth it to you to get the Premium Plus package, or settle for the basic Open Bar package, or get soda and/or Starbucks packages for everyone. Or just pay for all your drinks.

When you’re standing in line, it’s pretty easy to see whether or not the people right in front of you tip the porters. And at that point it is very important to try to see exactly how much they are tipping, because the folks who say they give $10-$15 per bag are actually paying it forward and tipping for the next 3 or 4 couples, too.

Close to the summer solstice is bad news, because it won't get dark enough to see the lights. Plus the full moon is on June 11 in 2025, so that's extra bad.

If it says "upgrade" then it includes a credit for the 75 minutes, which will be replaced in your booking by the unlimited package (you won't still have the 75 minutes to use on another device). It looks like the minutes are worth a $20 credit: $29.99 × 4 days – $20 = $99.96. It should be the same price on board, and for a short cruise, I don't know if it gets any cheaper as the cruise days go by. They do sometimes offer packages for brief internet access towards the end of the cruise (for people to check in for flights home) but I'm not sure about unlimited. Ask the internet manager what they can do for you.

You really don’t have to give them anything. Or $2, whatever. They may be extra rough with your bags and drop them a couple times, but it’s not worth their time and energy to do anything worse than that. 10 seconds later they will have forgotten all about you, and your bags will be on the same cart as the Louis Vuitton matching set whose owner tipped them $100.

That would certainly explain why some of them act like they are being forced to be there (because they are indeed being forced to be there). But how many officers are there? Are there enough dinners for them all to attend one per month?

People already understand that 3rd/4th "free" doesn't mean that they pay nothing. NCL can just add a separate charge if they feel the need to. Or bundle it into the cruise fare for the 1st and 2nd guests, as they already do for most of the services that the 3rd and 4th guests get.

It surprises me to read reviews where people say that the officer was aloof and didn't seem to want to be there. Do they force them to participate in this dinner? I guess they must offer some kind of incentive to these officers, and that's why you sometimes end up with someone who is just going through the motions to get through the meal.

You can sell them through the usual channels (not here) but do it now! The closer you get to expiration the less likely you’ll be able to sell at a profit, or even at cost.

It looks like the full price to me. $29.99 per day – $100 credit for the 150 minutes = $109.93. If you don't use the minutes and wait until after midnight on the first day, the price of the upgrade offer should should go down to $79.94. It often makes sense to wait, since Day 1 is such a short, busy day (and until sailaway you can keep using your cellular data).

Yes, they know who's on and off the ship. But they don't know what you're doing off the ship (on one of their excursions or touring independently). The excursions people can say you bought a ticket for such and such excursion, but they don't know if the ticket was actually used (until the local tour operator hands in the ticket stubs to get paid), and they will never be sure who actually used the ticket (whether it was the person whose name was on the ticket, or someone else). So some catamaran is attacked by a sea creature and it devours everyone on board. All they have is the stack of ticket stubs that the guide collected, so their first assumption is that those are the victims. Your name is on one of the tickets, and security confirms that you left the ship and never came back. They tell your family on board that you are believed to be dead. In fact, you are at Señor Frog's. True story.

I was about to say that, I've given tour tickets to other people to use several times. I can't find anything saying it's against the rules (but I'm guessing it probably is). And if anything happens to the tour, the ship will initially think you're with them and they won't know anything about the other person, but that can be cleared up quickly, if necessary.

I would love to see a full deck of pool loungers with kitchen timers on them, but realistically these would be immediately destroyed, or disappear into people’s actual kitchens all over the world. The thing is, chair hogging doesn’t concern all of the chairs on the pool deck, but only those that have stuff on them, but no person sitting with the stuff. I was joking about the lasers earlier (or was I … ?) but it is very easy to identify chairs like this visually, and then keep track of exactly how long each chair has been in that state. I mean it’s very easy for a computer to do that. No human employee would want such a tedious task. A human would only need to be alerted to take action when a chair has been hogged for too long.

They cost $125 on board if you buy two or more, so if that’s how you would normally buy them, you’re losing $25 by purchasing one at a time from your PCC. I have never heard of a PCC selling these, but if it’s their personal stash, then I guess they’re doing it for the $25 each time.

The time limit is 60 minutes. You'd have to watch the chair for 60 minutes continuously (I guess from a nearby lounger?), or ask the strangers sitting around there, who are totally untrustworthy (they may see what you're planning to do and not want to get involved, they may actually prefer to have empty seats around them instead of having to look at you, they may actively want to see you get into a fight, they may be too drunk to have any short term memory, …) But there are actually people who hang out on the pool deck watching everything, for hours at time. Because they are NCL employees whose job it is to monitor the pool deck. Those are the people who should be keeping track of and clearing the empty chairs.

The PPBP has not really been on my radar, but up until last year it clearly stated that it included "all beverages by the glass". I'm sure they were not pouring the Louis XIII for free, but I wonder how they justified that? Under the current terms, any brand that they say is in the "Connoisseur Collection" is excluded. I hear that FDR's final wish before retiring is adding Bailey's to that list.

I'm guessing they made those 3 Powerpoint slides, and that's it.

If they have FAS minutes then they should see upgrade offers right above these plans. The price should be $100 less (and there should only be two offers, "upgrade to unlimited" and "upgrade to unlimited premium", and not this strange 3rd option with the longer name).