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When we tried to make a reservation, they would not allow it for after 5 or 5:30. Is that your experience?

You're responding to a very old post. They changed shortly after they were made aware of the inconsistencies.

It's been a year and we're getting ready for our next TA on the Nieuw Statendam in April. Are they still having Happy Hours and what about the Historic Happy they had for the 150th anniversary? If they had it a year ago, I wonder how long they celebrated it or will celebrate it.

Yes, I was wondering at what point we would see that. IIRC, it took a few days for the booking to reflect it, but I am not sure if they send a new confirm doc or do I have to request it. We are both Gold, so should get them for each person.

Is the Voyager Exclusive early booking onboard credit given on all bookings? Looking at an inside guarantee. Other than under the Voyager Club heading, it doesn't mention the $50 PP OBC while I'm booking a cruise over 9 months out.

We booked this year's Transatlantic on the NS while on its crossing last year. We liked the $100 deposit, and most of all the $250 onboard credit given for booking onboard. We requested the guarantee rate which made the deposit non-refundable, but that didn't bother us. They actually had a $1 deposit sale while we were onboard which they would honor onboard, but with the port time and their office hours that day, we didn't catch the $1 deposit sale. We booked the next day.

I also looked at my current booking to see the prepaid gratuities rate, but I couldn't find it either.

https://www.hollandamerica.com/en/us/crew-incentive

The updated amounts are now on the HAL site. It doesn't give effective date, so presumably immediately.

HAL website still doesn't reflect this increase and my major cruise TA doesn't have any info on it yet.

They haven't booked yet so this wouldn't be available. To the OP, you can call the Flightease number and they can quote some for you.

Good idea, but our ages haven't changed for several months while I've been quoting. Interesting now I don't even get a quote from Nationwide on SM, while I still get the elevated rate on IMT.

It is probably just the policy I'm going to buy, the Nationwide Essentials. They always were priced well below others, now they aren't. For my trip, it's been about $95 for several years, now it's $115.

I just made my final payment for my April Transatlantic, and while I'd been getting quotes for my trip, I didn't have much nonrefundable expense to warrant buying the insurance until now. Anyone notice prices up about 20% since a few days ago? For months the prices didn't change.

Wow it sounds like it can happen at times other than the end of the year. Fingers crossed for a letter soon! Love OBC!

Yes, that's true.

Interesting that they did it in November. Nice you got them to honor the offer. We're hoping for same offer this year for the April TA that is due Jan 7.

Last year during the week of December 7th, we received an email from HAL indicating that if we paid our final payment by Dec 31 (slightly earlier than required), then they would give us additional OBC. For us it was only a week or so early, so we jumped on it. We figured they needed to increase their cash position by year end for accounting purposes. Has anyone gotten such request recently?

Can't log in this morning. Site just spins once I put in login credentials. Also, I hate that you can't log in from the home page. You have to hit Manage My Cruise to get the login box to appear.

Some will be used up by daily service charges.

I don't recall her sharing how much she paid.

Where do you get this? They used to divide your cruise base fare by number of days, then give you a prorated amount back as FCC based on how many days you were isolated. Sounds like protocols have changed. Maybe they don't even do that anymore.

Same here! Thanks!

Still getting 400 Error today. This is crazy.

Unlike yesterday, it's still down tonight.