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I'm not currently on board but have been to Japan. I found it to be very much a cash society, which is different then what we found in Australia for example. I'll be interested what others say, I was there a few years ago but yeah, we needed yen!

Thanks I'll take a look at it.

We just recently had one leg of our flight changed by the airline and wanted to see if I could get an earlier flight (like the op I think). I called FE and they looked for available earlier flights under my booking and couldn't find any but it did not cancel my existing flight. I went in after the conversation just to check and saw everything was okay.

Could you or craftygrandma provide a link on amazon? We'll be dealing with a similar issue on this year's world. thanks.

Okay, so I always forget about Microsoft Edge. I tried that and it worked, I'm able to see excursions. I did say okay to cookies when I signed in, not sure if that made a difference. My advice...try Edge now and good luck.

You must have magic Firefox 😜. I've tried Firefox (made sure it was up to date first) and I get the white screen only. Also made sure my windows was up to date. So frustrating.

What good does a Mac do? I have one too. I'm trying to look at shore excursions. I tried multiple browsers on my pc and then went to my (brand new) Mac. The only difference is on the Mac I get the 'continuous circle of death' while on the PC I just get a white screen. It comes to the same thing...no access.

I like your attitude!

Thanks for the info. I honestly didn’t think it was that bad, I only noticed it in the morning and then a little at night too. My husband is very noise sensitive. I really appreciate the video reviews that might sway him. And yes, a loud tv next door is far more annoying 😀. That can happen on any deck. I never looked to see if closed caption was available on those sets, that might help with the hard of hearing.

I would like to hear from folks who have actually been on deck 8 and what their experiences were. I would love to get a signature suite for the world cruise but DH is concerned about upstairs noise. We want mid-ship. We were on the Koningsdam a couple of years ago and could hear the carts going back and forth in the morning above us. It was annoying. I know there are signature suites on deck 7 but they are the higher category ones, we're just interested in knowing about the deck 8 noise, in case that's where we end up. I saw that Inside Cabin was on deck 8 last world cruise, he didn't mention noise but I didn't mention it when I was on the Koningsdam either. Thanks.

oh that’s not good. We’ve been on the Koningsdam with a similar theater seat to guest ratio. It was very crowded. One night they had some guest dancers, we went to the theater 45 minutes early and there wasn’t one single seat left, not one. We heard the next morning it was a great show though.😕

Why oh why do they stick us with those awful hangers! Even when you remove them you're stuck with the rings taking up space. With all the trend towards thin hangers you would think they would get the message. Other then that, it looks very nice. We have one on the 2025 world cruise. I hope someone does a tour of the club balcony dining room.

Thanks for the clarification!

Are you talking about a deal you had for one bag or are you saying that everyone on the boat (other then suite) are only allowed one bag each?

Same here and I've tried chrome, firefox, etc.

I used a naval term and I didn’t even know it!

Could you let us know what it said? Where are they going, around Africa? Thanks.

Hadn't heard about Princess, that is interesting.

I see that HAL has already announced that they will not be taking the chance and go through the Suez Canal on their 2025 world cruise. QA is currently scheduled to go that route and I'm wondering if that will hold. We're debating taking this cruise and wouldn't mind if it detoured to Africa but that would be quite a change for them. Is there any scuttlebutt about this? Also I can't believe I just wrote out the word 'scuttlebutt' for the first time in my life.

This is an interesting topic for us! We're on our first river cruise, on Amawaterways, next month. We're going from Budapest to Nuremberg and then onto Prague for a couple of days. The cost of flying business class to Europe is so high we felt we had to do more while there so after Prague we're flying to Amsterdam to do a 14 day Baltic cruise on HAL. I guess we'll see the comparisons up close and personal.

Just found this site, very interesting! Thanks for posting. We'll be on our first river cruise this year, May 15th leaving from Budapest on Amawaterways. We're hoping for nice weather and normal water levels!

I think a lot of the horror stories about boarding in Boston are from before 2023. We were on the Voyage of the Vikings last summer. We got there around 1ish and it was a breeze, no problems at all. Everyone was very professional. I didn't hear of any difficulties from anyone else either.

oh good my memory isn’t going after all! Thanks

Do you pay the suite gratuities rate with this type of room on the Volendam. I know it’s really just a balcony room but I seem to remember on the smaller ships it counted as a suite even for double mariner points but I could be wrong.

I don't think this is a creepy subject at all, it's just a necessary one. Similar to a previous poster we keep a file with all our financial and insurance info in our safe and let everyone in the family know where it is. Beyond that, this past year, we sent a letter to our close family members to let them know how to handle things when (not should, remember we all go) die. We told them to have our remains cremated where ever we are in the world, not to have a memorial service and basically do whatever is easiest and best for them. We'll be dead, we won't care. We wanted to make sure they had no guilt about any of this process. Have fun with the insurance money!