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Depends on the ship, but the other venues with the 4-item rule are sushi bar, tapas bar, raw bar. I don't think 8 items for 4 people will fill you up at those places, but no one says you can't go eat somewhere else before/after.

Yes. Not all of them, because it's probably prohibited/discouraged officially, but ask around and you won't have a problem.

I have that, too. It must be an error, because unlimited premium cannot be $3 cheaper (or 49¢ less per day) than the non-streaming unlimited. Maybe an old price that they haven't deleted everywhere? If I were you, I would try to purchase it, and see if they honor it on board. The worst that can happen is they refund you, or they give you the non-streaming package instead (and you're still $3 ahead!) I'm not doing it myself because I'm planning to get the FAS+ upgrade, with unlimited wifi bundled in.

I don’t have a lot of experience with booking more than 2 in a cabin, but I think you’ll find that your guests 3 and 4 would pay the exact same low cruise fare in every other category, too! Even in a Haven suite! Basically guests 1 and 2 do all the heavy lifting.

Looking at post history it was the Spirit out of Auckland. But it’s quite clear it was not a serious cry for “help” from someone having a sudden champagne emergency. Just an exuberant pre-boarding “happy dance” post. AKA a waste of our time. But the discussion has taken on a life of its own.

But what is the cruise fare for guests 3 and 4? You should see a breakdown of the total cost of the cabin somewhere. Putting 4 people in a room typically does not double the price (if it did, no one would book it that way, they would just book 2 cabins). But if you don't pay double, why would you expect double the perks? You pay less because guests 3 and 4 get no perks.

Even though (or perhaps because) I live in France, I have no particular fascination with champagne. We basically bathe in the stuff, or we would, if only we ever bathed… 😎 But Moët and VC are not everyday brands, so I guess I can see the appeal of being able to drink as much as you want. And the crazy prices on NCL's drink lists, that no one is actually paying, should make them taste even better. But why make the servers' life hell? Just ask them to please keep your glasses filled, and they'll pretty much have to bring the bottle to your table. You can go through several bottles of champagne this way, and you won't even have used your one bottle allowance for that dinner. Champagne emergency averted!

The $50 is not meant to be the cost of a meal, it's (supposedly) the retail price of a 1-meal specialty dining package. And it's normal that when you buy a package, you save money compared to purchasing everything separately. Except of course there's no such thing as a 1-meal package. They just made up this number so they could explain the $10 gratuity. (Less than two years ago they said the retail price was $44.95, and before that, $25!)

Guest 1 and guest 2 each get one specialty dining meal with Free at Sea. They consider this to have a retail value of $50 per person, which you do not pay, but they do charge you the 20% gratuity, so $10 per person. During your cruise, you eat this meal, you don't pay for it, and you have already paid a $10 gratuity. So you don't pay anything further on board. Guests 3 and 4 in the same cabin get nothing.

It's the kind of thing an AI could do pretty easily (once you pay someone to program it). It could also shoot lasers.

It surprises me that this isn't already a thing. Yes, it will incense the "nickle" and diming crowd, but it's something that a lot of people value, evidently. But this is the opposite of a solution to chair hogging. It's letting people pay for the right to hog. People will reserve the chairs for themselves all day long and only come use them when they feel like it. I.e. exactly what they're doing already, only now you can't even say they're doing anything wrong, since they've paid for it.

The official policy is: "2 guests cannot share 1 SDP meal". You can always ask. Obviously not at Moderno, but all the other restaurants offer you a limited amount of food for one credit, so they shouldn't care that much. It is extra work for the wait staff, so consider tipping accordingly. One person using a credit and the other person paying à la carte is absolutely fine, and if you're lucky they will put some of the à la carte items on the first person's bill and the final total will be lower than it should be.

And charge people for abandoning their towels. As long as I can remember, they threaten people with $20 or $30 if they misplace their beach towel, but I have never heard of anyone ever actually being charged. (Unfortunately the person responsible for reporting the missing the towels would be the cabin attendant, and people will just take it out on them and remove their gratuities.) For people who save chairs with books and bags and hats or whatever, just throw that stuff in the incinerator. (Kidding, of course, but give it to the crew or donate it at the next port. When the guest comes asking, say "Sorry, no one has seen your stuff. You didn't happen to leave it unattended in a public area for several hours, did you?")

No, it's more like booking excursions (except it's free). It displays the people in your cabin and you check them off to reserve. Other people in your group have to make their own reservations from their own accounts. It's all open seating, so if you want to sit together, meet at the theater 15-20 minutes early, find seats together, and have some drinks before the show starts.

What are they doing exactly? Because that whole row of chairs in your photo is still reserved. Is the pink thing like a 30 minute warning?

Wow, someone emptied out the whole cabinet 😝 Those of you complaining about no prizes left by the time you went to redeem, you now know who took them all! Nice to see some new (to me) items here.

That's a good point, I forgot to consider that. Definitely do it that way if it works out cheaper. Or save the second person's minutes for a 3rd device, if that makes sense for you.

What were these great prizes in the past? For as long as I can remember the top prize has been the coffee mug or a t-shirt.

When is your cruise? I don't recall if the extra packages are listed online, but they will appear in your e-documents. I wouldn't worry about it until you receive those, closer to your departure date. In the meantime, yes, it is normal for them to keep encouraging you to buy things that you already have.

The menu also has ham and cheese platters, and some good desserts! (and non-shellfish fish, of course)

How much time will you spend on e-mail each day? Keeping in mind that something that takes you 10 minutes at home might eat up more like 20-25 minutes on the ship. Expect everything to take more time. As for messaging your husband, if you both use iPhones you might be able to send each other iMessages (text only) without using any internet minutes. But in general, you need internet access to send and receive messages (WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger or whatever), and that uses up your minutes. Again, probably 5 minutes each time you log on to do that, and the rest of the time you will be out of touch. One option is for you and your husband to both activate the messaging function on the NCL app. It's like $10 per phone, and then you can send each other messages through the app while on board without using internet minutes. Another option is for just one of you to upgrade to unlimited internet for the duration of the cruise. That way you can handle your work e-mail without worrying about running out of time, and when you're not working, you and your husband can share the package (one person at a time). So if you send him a WhatsApp message while you're logged on, he can then log on to the same account, kick you off the internet, and read the message. And then you can kick him back off, and so on. It's obviously not ideal, but it's cheaper than purchasing unlimited internet for both phones. Finally, of course, you can get unlimited internet for both phones (get a 2-device package under one person's name, much cheaper than purchasing one device for each person individually).

If they sent you the e-ticket, you're done! Disregard the message. The health form is not even supposed to be filled out until the day of departure, so I don't know why they mention it here. They probably don't know, either.

Each person gets an individual Voyagers Club membership, so each Status Match is for one person, not for a whole family. If there are people in your group with no status on another cruise line (or eligible hotel/airline), then of course they can't Status Match. Or if they have low status and don't plan to cruise MSC regularly from now on, it's also probably not worth it to match, because it can only be done once and the matched status expires after 3 years if they don't cruise with MSC again. If you give us more details about your family we can give you more specific advice.

I don't think you can say this was an unintended consequence. From the information sent to TAs: The auto-cancel process is enabled for all North America NCL Direct and Trade agencies. It applies to booked (BK) reservations with a balance (net due) owed of $1 or more, based on the final payment due date (120 days from the sail date). If an invoice item is added to a reservation inside the final payment and the payment is not immediately collected or is declined when the item is added, the reservation will automatically cancel. This is something that NCL has deliberately implemented, and the intended consequence is to cause immediate cancellation of people's entire paid-in-full bookings after final payment. That is the specific purpose of the "auto-cancel process". Why in the world they ever came up with this process, I am still struggling to understand. And you say it can take a while to properly escalate and resolve customer service issues, but this woman spent the 21 days before her cruise begging NCL to reinstate her booking. I get that at any given time there are thousands of people about to sail who are bugging NCL about their insignifcant personal emergencies, but if a customer reaches out to contest a last-minute auto-cancellation by NCL of a fully paid booking, honestly that should be recognized as a legitimate "get the boss involved" situation.

I don't know what all was deleted, but CC has a specific rule about participation by media professionals. If the author of the article just created an account and started posting, that's not allowed. Anyway I'm glad she got a positive result for this customer, although I agree that they deserve more than 100% FCC for what NCL did here.