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I just checked my account and there is a $100 coupon with an expiration date of 9/12/22 and a sail by date of 12/31/23. Our last cruise was in March of this year. I doubt that we will be using the coupon since I have already booked Anthem of the Seas for next year.

The U.S. requires the negative test -- not Icelandair, or Finnair, or any airline. We submitted our negative covid test results to the check-in person at the airport in Helsinki and were told that we need to show it back in the states. But the immigration officer at JFK had no interest in seeing it, nor did anyone else

I hear you. We were in Helsinki and were counting on getting tested at a site just down the block from us, but they closed that site down on May 31 and the only other site that had reasonable prices (79 euros vs 135 euros at a clinic across the street) was at the airport, which caused some stress since we had to test the morning of our 1 PM flight. Not only that, but if we wanted the documentation on paper it was an additional 20 euros. And here is the kicker: nobody, and I mean nobody, wanted to see the results of the test, whether on paper or electronically

We did a drive-through antigen test at Walgreens for our March cruise, which was accepted.

OK, looking at the receipt from the NCL medical center it was actually $5,913.13. I have 19 pages of documentation for the 22 hours my husband spent in at the center and the costs really add up (office visit fee, x-rays, nursing care meds, IVs, etc.). Pretty soon it's real money! In my post I tried to make two points: 1) the medical center is not a hospital, it functions more like an urgent care center. Witness the fact that they needed to consult with the Cleveland Clinic regarding my husband's case, at a cost of $499. And that takes me to my second point: the OP seems to have a problem that she was charged $400 for seeing the NCL doctor and getting X-rays, when she apparently thought that medical care was part of the fare.

Sorry, but why do you think that NCL is responsible for getting medical care for an injury in Greece?

Moving on to a slightly different topic: the OP apparently believed that she would get better care at the NCL medical center than at a land based facility. But it is important to point out that the ship's medical center is not a hospital. but more like an urgent care center. That is the reason why patients with serious conditions are either airlifted or sent to local hospitals at ports. (on one of our 7 day cruises there were five medical emergencies on board.) On our last pre-pandemic cruise my husband had a medical issue and went to the medical center on Saturday morning, the last day of the cruise. I won't bore you with the details but they kept him overnight and had an ambulance ready to take him to the nearest hospital upon debarkation. (We were lucky that the debarkation port was New York, our home town.) NCL billed us almost $6000 for their services. (I found it interesting that the single biggest itemized charge was a consultation with the Cleveland Clinic.)

Thank you, YVRteacher. I was also quite bothered by all the NCL bashing when I thought that the first concern should be the health of the child.

Interesting. In your post #29 you say in reply to someone else's post: "Not sure why you think it was wrong to make use of NCL's medical services when we paid for those services..." But moving right along ... most of these posts deal with either how NCL should have/doesn't care for it's customers or types of insurance. My concern, as a parent is about the patient himself. Here is a child with a possible broken wrist and who is in pain. If this had happened to my child I would have found the nearest EMR. I would not have walked out because it was too crowded, go to a hotel for the night, embark, and expect NCL to provide medical services which you apparently thought were included in your fare.

I was being sarcastic!

That was also our experience on the Getaway in March. It seemed that the crew can only deal with one communicable disease at a time.