Essiesmom

Vista is quite a bit larger than Disney Magic. Vista 130,000 Disney Magic 83,000. EM

If it is in a sealed package, okay. You could bring the rice cooker and while they will confiscate it on boarding, you would get it back at the end of the cruise and use it for your land portion. Unless you like a specific kind of rice, you could also buy that in Anchorage. EM

Edited to say this applies if you are US citizens. EM

If it a closed loop cruise from a US port you can use an official birth certificate and government issued photo ID. The toddler does not need the ID. Passports are preferred but not required. I would just enter the child as a 1-17. If the website balks when you try to enter the info for the child, you might need to call. EM

Only two ships, and the HAL ship is small. EM

Welcome to Cruise Critic. There is beach, Margaritaville with a lovely free form pool. Shopping area. You can check it out here on th Ports of Call board for Caribbean islands. EM

Possibly not. Sometimes you think you are linked but you are not, and vice versa. Last cruise I went to activate at the kiosk and it told me I was already linked. EM

It sounds like you need to try the Yacht Club on MSC. Visit the MSC board here for advice. EM

Try cruisetimetables.com and Vancouver as your departure port. And of course, choose when you wish to sail. Remember that if a ship does a one way from Vancouver to Whittier or Seward, you can always book the return trip as a B2B. There are quite a few choices. Suggest you also use cruisedeckplans.com to research the size of the ship. The ports are pretty standard across all of the cruise. EM

I think you need to be proactive, checking the website multiple times a day. I do t think your PVP has a beeper to tell him when a cabin pops up. Nor do I think the computers have an interface matching waitlists with cabins. If one pops up on the website, chances are someone like you will see it first and snap it up. EM

And I believe that on US flagged vessels, not all employees have to be US citizens. A specified percentage do, and could be legal residents or here with work visas. EM

She continually refused the offer, took nothing. But got charged anyway. EM

Yes. Only MDR difference between Bella/Fantastica and Aurea is time and location. EM

I’m in. I just booked my first Vista class, September 29 on Vista. Need to check out the ship. OV cabin for me. Looking at Venezia in Jan. EM

Seashore is currently sailing from Port Canaveral. I was on her in December and will be again in June. She is a beautiful ship. Yes, the MDR food might not be up to Celebrity expectations, but I was on Summit in June 2023 and was very disappointed in the food, both MDR and evening buffet. For my money, I’ll sail MSC. EM

What experience did you book? Bella and Fantastica have fixed assigned dining, usually at large tables. Bella has no choice in time. Fantastica can request early or late but it is not guaranteed. Aurea has any time dining. You will not find out your dining time until you check in on the ship. It is on your cruise card. There will be a place listed in the welcome sheet where you can go and request a time or seating change if you need to. Some of the ships have two early seatings (5:15, 7:30) and a late seating, around 9pm. EM

Go to the ports of call boards here, and also Google your ports. EM

It was in the app. Once your docs were ready, it was in the app. This is what you see in the app. The second and third pics are the upper and lower half of the pass, split so I could eliminate my name.

I think you need to relook your math. Arriving on the 12th at 0800 and departing the next day at 0200 = 18 hours. The (+1 0200) means she stays past midnight. The rest of the 13th is your sea day to Kirkwall. EM

Thee are several significant differences there. Viking does occasionally visit Glacier Bay, but usually not. Seems to have Hubbard Glacier on every run. Viking will leave from Seward, while CB will leave from Whittier. But the biggest difference is Viking is 10 days, Princess 7 days. EM

I had a digital boarding pass for my Seashore cruise in Dec., but I also had a paper copy and it was quicker to pull it out to show than fumble with my phone. EM

They are t included but you can get them, on Seaside it was $10. I’ve read here that the. DR is open every day for lunch in Europe. But cruise lines from the US don’t serve in the MDR on port days, and I guess MSC has caught on that it can be a cost saving. EM

On Seaside they were charging for the extra, people next to me had an extra entree they ate maybe one bite of. Not sure if you order more than one extra. On Seashore. One at the table ordered extra. EM

Sailing from the US you can have as many starters and dessert as you can eat, but just one entree/main without the extra charge. EM

Yes. U h of Alaska is sparsely populated , no connecting roads, so no cell towers. And some of the time you would be far enough from land that you are too far for a signal. Thus you would be on the ship cell tower, paying big bucks. EM