gizfish

Drama party of one your table is ready. Please stop posting this same exaggeration every time someone says the water is safe. Don't you think if what you are saying is what's truly coming out of faucets except in the obviously one time it happened, that you wouldn't be the only one saying it. It isn't right to try to scare people when in reality cruise ship water is cleaner, purer and safer than many people's home water. Guess I should never drink water in my home since once a year when hydrants are flushed it gets a little brown for a few gallons.

Keep in mind that the dining plan is quite limiting of what is included without additional cost.

Heavy whipping cream is a common ingredient any galley should have. Ask the waiter (or your butler) for it. Do be prepared for some confusion due to language barriers and cultural customs.

Lol I should have added not fond of veal or lamb either. There are many daily YC menus that I cannot find something I like other than the always available things, and that will get old quickly. The MDR menus however often have multiple things I would like. I'm used to NCL Haven where they will get you anything you want as long as it's available somewhere at that time.

Not a seafood fan, and am intrigued by many of the MDR menu offerings. Would I be able to have food from the MDR served to me in the yacht club restaurant?

Everything I have read about WiFi on MSC has talked about not being able to log out and switch devices, to the point of people going to the IT staff and asking them to do that and being told no. Is WiFi working like all the other cruise lines do it with logging on and off as you have described only a Meraviglia thing?

Um not sure what sex therapists have to do with "woke activities." Check out what Merriam Webster defines as "woke," and since you are so off, you may want to not use that term. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woke

Ask your room steward when you meet them. There's really no way to request this before boarding.

The salt is completely removed from the drinking water on the ship. You are swelling from all the salt in the food. At home if you ate three meals a day at a restaurant for a week, you would swell from all that salt as well.

Who knows what they are thinking with regards to bid minimums. For our cruise the minimum bid from balcony to YC keeps going up and the number of cabins available in that category also keeps going up. Do they think we are stupid enough to not notice availability is increasing and just think....oh my the minimum is going up...I better bid now. Lol.

That cannot be a recent freestyle or a review of an NCL cruise. NCL NEVER has an evening dress code for the whole ship. The dress code quoted above from the NCL site is accurate. You could even skip the collated shirt and wear a tee shirt with your shorts in any dining room other than le bistro, the seafood restaurant and the one MDR that is smart casual each night (and depending on the ship they often don't require smart casual in any MDR.)

Sea lice season is from March through August and I know of people who were so affected by them at GSC that they will never visit that beach again. Is there some evidence that your issue was bed bugs?

Actually it is time as well as temperature that says when food gets discarded. This is from another topic here. https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2935332-well-this-is-disconcerting…/page/7/#comment-65406577 Posted May 19 No, the USPH uses temperature control when food is held/prepared in something where the temperature can be monitored/guaranteed, like a "hot box" warming cabinet, or a reach in refrigerator. Once it goes out of temperature control, even if a hazardous food goes into the "hazard temperature zones", by discarding at the 4 hour mark, the potential for toxin growth is not great enough to present a hazard. And, once a food has gone into "time control", even if the food is not placed on the buffet line until just before closing (say 5-10 minutes), it can never go back under temperature control (meaning it has to be discarded, and not put back into a refrigerator or warming box

Your chances of winning a bid are really quite low unless you are willing to bid high. Even then, so much goes into the process that you still are not even close to being guaranteed to win. If you can afford it, definitely just upgrade to the haven. Being in the haven will make it so much easier and more comfortable for everyone in your party for all the reasons you have talked about.

OP you mention you are pricing your cruise with the WiFi and easy plus drink package, but you are not drinkers. You may want to re-price your cruise with the best value pricing as that cost may be significantly lower. It sounds like you really may not benefit so much from the yacht club perks, although the menus in the YC restaurant are very seafood heavy. Personally, I would love all the extras in YC but wouldn't ever give up my private quiet space on my own balcony at any cost to get an interior.

Actually it's named gala night and, no the suggested dress is not "formal." From the MSC site https://www.msccruisesusa.com/manage-booking/before-you-go/what-to-wear Gala Night On Gala Night, dress to impress! Whether that means a tuxedo, suit and tie, evening gown or cocktail dress, or perhaps it’s your very best jeans and polo shirt, your attire should fit your own level of elegance. The only thing required is your smile.

We booked fantastica and could choose early or late, but will not know the specific time we end up getting until we get our key cards. The docs say early but also say time will be assigned on board.

You do not get a new booking number. It is an upgrade, not cancellation and rebook. The packages you paid for go with you. You don't get any new packages that are available, but you do get all the perks of the haven (butler, restaurant, pool etc.)

Does look to be a seating area of the observation lounge. It's carpeted and people don't drag the chairs around, so it's not nearly as high traffic as say the pool or buffet. This site has pics of the area. https://www.cruisedeckplans.com/DP/deckplans/Norwegian-Joy

Actually the royalty fees NCL is paying to have real, relatively current Broadway shows on board Is probably the reason they are stopping them. NCL doesn't care if we were are seeing the same shows, and they are not paying the casts and production teams enough that cutting the shows saves money in those aspects. Getting talent and production is not an issue either as many start their professional careers on cruise ships.

To further support this, sometimes the label the vitality waters have stuck to the machine say sugar free and sometimes they don't. I asked buffet staff which machine had the sugar free and was told they are all sugar free. Then they showed me the cartons where the nutritional info proved this.

At the buffet during breakfast there is orange juice, apple juice and maybe cranberry. At all other times the juice machines have flavored sugar free drinks like mango or strawberry kiwi. At all times there is coffee, hot water for a selection of tea (usually regular, decaf, chamomile, sometimes mint or English breakfast or some other selection,) hot cocoa packets, milk, lemonade, tap water and unsweetened iced tea.

Dreaded dress code question...did they allow shorts in the MDR on regular nights? What were people wearing on elegant nights?

Do you really think minimizing this again, historically low almost unheard of score is going to make it go away? While the inspection happened at one point in time, a score this low is indicative of a much larger, long term problem. And frankly you have no idea that no one got sick or a new inspection would merit 100%. The inspector was not out to get Seaside. There wasn't a conspiracy to give Seaside a low score. It's not fearmongering to bring up this serious situation. Personally, if I were booked on the very next cruise, I would not cancel because obviously the ship's officers are going to take such an awful score seriously, immediately. But a score that low certainly merits mention and discussion here.

I specifically said touching raw chicken and not washing hands meaning in that order, which doesn't cause noro. I was not referring to general not washing hands.