RuthC

Rent a car. They are available at Canada Place itself. Take a leisurely drive down, and drop the car off there. My friends and I did that a few years ago, and it worked out well.

Personally, I believe your grievance is with the travel agent, and hence her company, to make this right. She should have known---everyone who reads CC did! If they can't get HAL to give the Black Friday benefits, then the agency itself should.

I wouldn't spend that kind of money for any piece of jewelry. Anywhere. But the word 'covet' does come to mind when I think of that piece. It was to die for.

Since the OP posted it was already past final payment---as in: the cruise is coming up very soon---then we can all know for sure. It would be a total loss of the entire cost of the cruise to cancel now.

So beautiful! Please keep it there and enjoy. You can even have my share of whatever is coming this winter!

The OP says it is past final payment. Cancel and rebook won't work.

Sometimes, if the priest can't make it aboard at the last minute, or there is another interruption in his availability, a priest traveling as a private passenger will step forward and fill the duty. I have had that happen on a couple of cruises over the years.

I once saw a lovely emerald and diamond bracelet for sale in one of the shops on a HAL ship. It cost a mere $95,000. Trust me, there is no such thing as 'too much OBC', or that bracelet would be in my jewelry case right now.

I'll just skip lunch and head straight for the cakes. Yum!

You're welcome. I love my inside cabins, having spent a lot of time in them. Also spent just enough time in outside and a few veranda cabins to know the comparisons.

What port can make a difference. Some ports will let you in when you get there, while others are sticklers for keeping to the precise time assigned. If you are working the cruise as chaplain, you are considered staff, so should be able to clear early in order to be ready for your duties at 5:00 PM. Otherwise, you could check out of your hotel, then hang around in the lobby for a while before heading to the pier.

They are too far aft for my taste, but are otherwise fine cabins. They are larger than the outsides across the passageway (because of the promenade outside those outside cabins; they are smaller than other outsides). These cabins will be more rectangular, essentially the same layout as outside cabins. The biggest differences are the insides have a love seat, while the outsides have a couch (unless they are lanai cabins), and the bathroom vanity is much larger in the inside cabin, as it takes up the footprint of the tub were it an outside. Lot's of space to put things down. Do check to be sure if cabin 2619 is available for both cruises on your planned back to back, but also check to see if it is reserved for a collector's cruise. Sometimes cabins are assigned one way or the other if both of your itineraries are sold both ways.

They do. That is so long as the priest makes it to the sailing! Once in a rare while a priest can't get a necessary visa in time, but that happens so seldom as to be not worth worrying about.

Cabin 2619 is my favorite inside on the R-class ships. It is larger than the other 'large insides'. Absolutely mid-ship, with the mid-ship staircase abutting one wall of the cabin, and the elevator feet away. Enough room to get a mobility scooter inside, store it, without compromising walking space. If that doesn't suit you, or is taken, then the I-category cabins on Lower Promenade between the atrium and mid-ship elevators are my second choice. Just don't book anything on Lower Promenade between the mid-ship and aft staircases; the galley is right above, and there is noise during the night.

This is incorrect and misleading as phrased, as it leaves out the Advantage Fare, which does not have HIA, but is fully refundable.

Thank you at least for the information. I'm glad I don't have a cruise booked that's coming up soon, as my next one is well into next year. If they have their website adapted by the end of this year---and if it works better than HAL's does!---then I have time. Plan B would be to send my stock verification to my TA and have her send it with the request. $250 is a good chunk of change, and we shouldn't have to stress about how to get it!

No, they didn't. HAL has never let someone just move one reservation to another date. That's true even if it were the same itinerary and ship, let alone something different. You keep insisting that HAL has done that in the past, and only changed the rules after you booked. Not true. If all those other lines give you that, and that is what you want, then book with the other lines.

Not just you. I get an error message with those links.

'Largest' is a relative term, as even the largest inside on the Pinnacle ships are still very tiny. I am a confirmed inside cabin girl, with very few exceptions over the years. However, on a Pinnacle class ship I won't go below a veranda category cabin. The handicapped veranda cabin I had was quite spacious, but not much larger (and with a balcony, of course) than the insides I have had on the Vista and Signature ships (Main Deck, only).

Thank you! I'll look forward to seeing their reply/your post about it.

For several years now it appears that HAL has been making a deliberate attempt to get passengers to go to bed early, and get up early the net day. They have ended entertainment earlier over time, cutting back the last lounge closure time from 2:00 AM to around midnight; and have started the lounge entertainment earlier. Along with this, HAL has changed the fixed dining times from 6:00 and 8:15 to 5:00 and 7:30; this was also done in increments. I've noticed the daytime activities have also begun much earlier than they did in the past, when 10:00 AM was a standard time to start the action after breakfast.

So, how are people who don't otherwise have a need for a smart phone, and consequently do not have a smart phone, get their stockholder's on board credit?

For as long as I have been booking cruises on HAL I have always been under a policy that if I want to change to a different cruise, then I must cancel the first (with whatever refunds/losses that entails), and book the new cruise as a separate cruise. This is nothing new to me.

I know that the days of an Alaska cruise/tour do count toward Mariner Days. I have them from my Alaska cruise/tour back in '93. I also know that absolutely none of my pre-cruise hotel days have ever been counted, no matter where they were spent.

Congratulations. 'Bout time, eh?