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  1. FLAHAM
    Yup.
  2. FLAHAM
    Were you planning a midnight swim?
  3. FLAHAM
    I am very much looking forward to cruising next August from New York to Reykjavik on the Star with stops at Halifax, St. John’s, St. Pierre, 3 stops in Greenland and 3 in Iceland. Much more interesting to me than any round trip.
  4. FLAHAM
    Protectors are a waste of time. Tags only have to last from ship side to your cabin. In 20 cruises, never had one break, never heard of one breaking.
  5. FLAHAM
    Go for the smoked salmon on toasted half bagel with cream cheese, tomato and chives for breakfast in the MDRs.
  6. FLAHAM
    I’d rather eat every meal in the buffet than be the sixth adult in a 2 bedroom suite. The latter are meant for 2 parents and 2 kids.
  7. FLAHAM
    A lot crowded. I wouldn’t do this. I would rather be outside the Haven.
  8. FLAHAM
    Indulge is an outstanding NCL innovation.
  9. FLAHAM
    Sailed around the Mediterranean, from Rome to Lisbon, on the Viva back in September. Had a Club Balcony Suite. Very enjoyable cruise.
  10. FLAHAM
    I liked the shrimp and mussels on ice, with cocktail sauce available, in the Viva’s buffet one evening in September.
  11. FLAHAM
    As we say in accounting, “sunk costs are sunk.” Can’t be recovered, not to be considered in new purchase decisions.
  12. FLAHAM
    The buffet has had hard ice cream (not self-serve) on the NCL ships on which I have cruised.
  13. FLAHAM
    On the other ships, hard ice cream is hand scooped by a server behind the counter (soft ice cream is self-serve). No information here as to whether or not the Prima and Viva have the same.
  14. FLAHAM
    That’s right. Subtracting out the 20% service charge, that’s $33.12 per meal. Difficult to find a decent 3-course dinner here for that price.
  15. FLAHAM
    Cagney’s and Le Bistro.
  16. FLAHAM
    I have four scheduled NCL cruises. For each cruise, the cost of a two-meal specialty restaurant upgrade is $82.80, including the 20% service charge. That’s a good deal cheaper than two dinners in a decent restaurant in my small-city hometown (Dayton, OH).
  17. FLAHAM
    Luggage rack above seats. Europeans often travel by train between cities with luggage.
  18. FLAHAM
    No, the easiest and most comfortable way to get from Venice to Trieste is by the modern train. Short walk or, if you have heavy luggage, very short cab ride to cruise port.
  19. FLAHAM
    I use it to buy a bottle of high-end duty free liquor in the ship’s stores.
  20. FLAHAM
    No.
  21. FLAHAM
    NCL website says Viva and Aqua are Prima class (no “plus”).
  22. FLAHAM
    How disappointing. While the Daily lists an “informal bridge play get together,” it lacks the organized bridge program (beginner lesson, intermediate lesson and game) that I have enjoyed on sea days on four previous NCL transatlantic crossings.
  23. FLAHAM
    How about a full sheet cake instead?
  24. FLAHAM
    Surely I am not the only one who remembers that terrorists with AK47s, posing as passengers, hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro in the 1980s. They separated out the Jews, shot one of them (Klinghoffer), and dumped his body overboard.
  25. FLAHAM
    I grew up in NYC in the 1950’s, when the early editions of the Times, the Herald-Tribune, the Daily News and the Mirror hit the newsstands on the evenings before their publication dates. In fact, the advertising slogan of the Daily News was “tomorrow’s news today.”
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