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We are scheduled for Harvest Caye on December 14th and someone in our group received an email from NCL today canceling their excursion. Their email said the snorkeling, the sea trek & the reef ranger all were no longer available. I wonder why these are being cancelled?

 

 

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Maybe we won't be the first ship in there?

You can have one big bag follow you to each lodge.

 

The other(s) will meet you at the end of the land tour at your last hotel/lodge.

What if you do the cruise first? Do the big bags follow you around to each lodge?

We are going on the 13 day to Alaska June 25th. Cruise 1st northbound. I hope it is worth it.

We are currently booked on the 6/25 Northbound on Coral to Alaska. We have C606 booked, which is a port side partially covered premium balcony on Caribe deck. At the time I booked there were no mini-suites available except those without balconies.

 

In doing a search, there are now mini's available and the price has gone down so they are the same price as our balcony. There are no more balconies left (for 3 people at least). Here are the options for mini-suites and I'm wondering for those that have experience if any of these mini-suites would be better than what we have or if I should stick with what we have which I think we would be happy with as well.

 

Mid-Aft: D604, D612, D614, D616 - all port side uncovered mini-suites

Mid-Fwd: D332, D322 - port side uncovered mini-suite

Mid-Ship: A503 - covered mini-suite - starboard side

 

Part of my dilemna is we currently have at least partial coverage, and I've heard that may be important for Alaska. A503 sounds appealing except it is starboard side, and I've heard it's better to be port side when sailing Glacier Bay (I know - we will be out and about on the decks too! - so not sure that will be a big deal).

 

We have not made final payment yet (it's due next week) so I believe I can still cancel and re-book.

 

Thoughts?

http://claalaska.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Juneau-JNU-2016.pdf

Thank you for that link. Very informative!

Was the statement you used current?

yes, very current

I had a cruise booked in November for June and the shareholder OBC was approved right away. Probably 6 months in advance and then this time it was turned down because it was beyond the 90 days. It must depend on who is working the day it comes in?

I received this last week after I faxed in my request.

Good Day,

We have received your request for Shareholder Benefits for your upcoming sailing 25JUN16 on the CORAL Princess. Please resubmit the application for

the Carnival Shareholder Benefit along with a current brokerage statement at 90 days prior to sailing.

Sincerely,

Princess Cruises, Booking Support

24305 Town Center Drive

Santa Clarita, CA 91355

1 800-PRINCESS

Shareholder Fax: (661) 753-0180

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MAIL BOX AS IT IS NOT MONITORED.

You should be good on the 28th. We do not have big celebrations around Halloween or Day of the Dead in Belize.

We will be in Belize Dec 1st. Is this a holiday of any kind?

Maybe you have the wrong job. Mine has. That is why I have been at the same firm 25 years.

 

Sadly, too many people do not tip (enough) voluntarily so a percentage is added. I live in Dallas. I tip 20 % so I am good with this.

 

I am a professional, work in an office, but recall working as a server in college. So Iam appreciative.

 

Long lines? An opportunity to meet other folks. But easy to spot and avoid the grumpy ones. The ones who complain about 2 stickin percent!

sticking? 3%

I just got the email.

Can I just change my DSC when onboard to 12.00 a day? This is a voluntary charge, right?

I think that if I am full after a meal, I don't eat dessert. Whether or not I "paid" for it or not isn't relevant. Basically it is their boat, their rules. Whether we as a consumer of their product chose to abide or not is our choice. Having been in the hospitality business for a number of years, I can tell you that room service is a royal pain. You can't schedule for it, and typically you have to pull someone away from another duty or job (usually a waiter) to cart up a tray. The room steward's carts aren't equipped to take care of dirty dishes, so they sit in the halls or worse pile up in the rooms. Again, this creates a sanitation issue and is more labor intensive because now, somebody has to clean up the mess and haul the dishes back to the commissary for cleaning. Regardless to what people think, there is a cost involved in doing in-room food. So to me, from a corporate and business standpoint asking people to consume food in a facility that was designed for consuming food and properly handle waste and sanitation, isn't unreasonable. I really doubt that asking people to eat in traditional eating venues is going to make the buffets more crowded. Most ships have multiple eating venues, they are open pretty much 24x7. If buffet A is crowded then dining room B or snack bar C most likely isn't. Talking about crowd control simply isn't realistic and isn't enough of a reason to reverse the rule.

I have to ask. Are you an NCL employee snuck in here to CC?

New Room Service Menu

 

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Harriet

Marketing research has shown for years that that .05 cents makes a huge difference - also why many things are priced at .99. Certainly not true for everyone, but it's proven true time and time again.

Just got off the Getaway and it was definitely $7.95. I refused to order any room service because of it which sucked.

I guess they accomplished their goal. They did not have to bother with room service.

Keep it. In ten years when your new one expires you can use the old one as proof of citizenship to get a new one. In fact anytime you have to prove citizenship, ie getting a new job, you can use your expired passport.

Keep it. In ten years when your new one expires you can use the old one as proof of citizenship to get a new one.

I just signed up for the same cruise! Balcony also.

Hi all - We are sailing on Norwegian Jade out of Houston on November 28, 2015. We have never sailed NCL and I had a few questions.

 

Thanks for your help!!!

Just last week, Tyrone took the 4 of us on an island wide tour. He drove us all over the place in his Toyota van; it had good air conditioning thankfully since it was a very hot/humid day!

 

He stopped to buy a few bananas in case we saw monkeys; unfortunately we didn't see any in the fancy golf course area. Later, we did see one scurrying across a rooftop near the Bathsheba area.

 

He said it would be a 3 to 3 1/12 hr tour, then he would drop us off at Carlisle Beach for as long as we wanted to stay, then he would pick us up and take us back to the ship.

Well, our driving tour ended up being 5 hours! Not hurried at all. We didn't want to go to the beach so went straight back to the ship. We were happily exhausted---maybe partly because of Tyrone's wife's yummy rum punch he brought for us!

 

There were only 4 of us, he charged $40 per person. We felt we got a very good deal, especially compared to the ship tours. Tyrone is very informative and a very nice and funny guy. He picked us up at the taxi location at the port--about a 4-5 minute walk from the gangway.

 

I would take Tyrone's tour again if I ever get back to Barbados. :)

That sounds really good. We are booked with him for the same tour in two weeks from now. I think he has 7 people already.

Here a shot of the balconies for M409 and M411, upper ones in shot, on the Royal Pr. that I cropped from a shot I took of that ship from the top floor of the Northport parking structure upon our return from our last cruise and these balconies are not that much larger than the regular ones.

 

Thank you for the picture. We are in M409 on the Royal in a few weeks.

YEP!:) I told you I would. Have fun! Assume yiu saw the video I posted of what to expect.

 

Steve

The video will not open. I never looked at it before so I found the old post and tried to open it but YouTube just has a circle with an exclamation mark. I have never seen that before.

Wait, it just took a few minutes to download. I watched it.

We went out of Houston last thanksgiving on the CB. Houston has the best parking and the best terminal I have ever been in. However, never again. The channel to the gulf is too narrow and therefore the fog will sock you in. We left a day late and missed Belize and Roatan. They did substitute Costa Maya in so we had Cozumel and Costa Maya for ports. It was actually the worst cruise we have ever been on just because of the Houston channel and fog. This area easily fogs in during Nov and Dec from previous experience. The fog hits Galveston too but they can get out to the gulf a lot easier.

Hi Dan! Tyrone just emailed me that he did get in touch with you and yiu booked with him. Have fun and give him my regards. If I ever get back to Barbados I'm definitely hooking up with him again.

 

Steve

Dan. He does come to visit the states. I sent him a note to see if he's back - just to help you. The guy is great and I now consider him a good friend

Steve

Still no reply, I will keep waiting.