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We had one on the NS. My hearing is perhaps more sensitive than DW's and I was able to hear ordinary conversation and TV (as well as the religious moments mentioned above). DW did not hear a thing. YMMV. And never book over a music or other loud venue.

We also bring a little black adapter that fills that slot and that my laptop cord can plug into without fear of being fried.

DW and I are also on the 42 days. Reading through all of this, I'm not expecting much. The USB ports would be nice. Not sure I care that much about the carpeting.

I would imagine that if a check is issued at this late date, it will be in dollars. Since I gather some of the people involved are non-American, this could be an issue at the banking level.

Not to mention the Atlantic Adventurer right after she comes out of dry dock, and the same again in 2025. I think someone posted the new orders from CCL and there is nothing for HAL this side of 2028?

I agree. HAL should have given your money back long since. My post, which I've expressed before, says that that when thread titles make clear a grievance without making it clear what the grievance is, it sort of defeats the purpose of a thread title, which is to tell what the thread is about. Multiply by several threads of similar-style titling and you get rather more heat than light.

Which is why I, in these threads, have repeatedly urged that the thread title be descriptive rather than "OMG HAL DUN ME WRONG!" It is hard enough to find the threads that deal with the issue that you're trying to find information on when the title is acting less to describe the issue and more to attract eyes.

No experience with HAL protection plan but we used Princess's and had to cancel for medical reasons some time back. To get money back rather than credit you had to go through the insurer (Aon), but they were quick to decide the info we had submitted was adequate and uphold the claim.

Whenever possible, we take any credits out in cash and leave a slight amount we owe HAL. While some countries chance their currencies on a regular basis, dollars don't go out of fashion. I'd rather have the money with us than rely on HAL.

Were these excursions paid for pre-cruise, out of pocket since they were not Have It All, or were they on-board?

Be it as it may be. I'm content that for every post-pandemic sailing I've been on, on three cruise lines, the new-style muster drills have been thought to be sufficient.

The GWV includes a Catholic priest as well as Protestant and Jewish clergy.

I'm sympathetic but don't feel I have enough information on HAL's point of view on this, including potential alternative cuts, to make a judgment.

I would urge you, before you quote me again, to go back and read what I actually wrote. My objection was to having a couple of thousand eighty year olds standing without support on a hot deck, as the comfortably-seated captain and cruise director drone on much longer than necessary, about events that evening or the route out to sea. If you must muster in person then don't take advantage of a captive audience. But if you want to imply my objection was that it interferes with unpacking or getting drunk, then fine.

Everyone standing and few able to lean on anything as the captain and cruise director drone on about things rather tangentially related to the safety of the ship? I think the new muster drills an immense improvement and if they must do it the old way from time to time, I hope they will remember that it isn't an endurance contest.

I suspect the reason for not grandfathering is what you allude to: that on the crowded sailings the policy seems aimed at, those larger cabins are quickly booked, and that if they grandfathered, the policy really wouldn't go into force until the 2026-27 cruise season, which doesn't give HAL the increased revenues they seem to be looking for in the short term.

Or most of the affected cabins are desirable enough that they were grabbed at an early date and grandfathering would defeat the purpose.

HAL is a sophisticated business that is dependent on its customers and does not go out of its way to offend them. Plainly they have decided that the added revenues from matching cabin capacity to size of party on certain cruises is worth the blowback from a few passengers, whatever their mariner status. Grandfathering would be nice but either it isn't feasible or they don't want to. It's a shame but now we know this is one of the rules of the game and can act accordingly from here on in. Some may choose not to play given the new rules. That's always an option. But it isn't personal.

It is the second paragraph of Section 8 Specific stateroom assignments are not guaranteed. Carrier reserves the right to move Guest(s) to a comparable stateroom for any reason including, but not limited to, instances during which a stateroom is booked with fewer than the maximum number of Guests that the stateroom can accommodate; or when a partial Guest cancellation occurs, and the remaining number of Guests do not match the maximum number of Guests the stateroom can accommodate.

They made it explicit recently. There was already language in there that IMO gave them the authority to change your cabin, but they spelled it out. Possibly they read these boards, at least some of it.

That's the ideal and hopefully there will be a warning as you book in future, and you take your chances. But warning before final payment is better than not warning before final payment, as the first people who collided with this policy got.

Since these emails were not reported, I believe, when this subject originally came up, it sounds like they are being a bit more proactive, if they are in fact warning people who may well be moved under the new policy. Still not a fan of the policy to begin with, but warnings are good. Once you are warned, you either change cabin assignment or take your chances.

No one has mentioned being moved between Neptunes under the policy.

No, you don't need to ask permission. However. They encourage your telling them for reasons of your own safety. It's also courteous to tell your cabin steward.

I know. My old United number started with 000. I was very regretful when they and Continental merged and they took Continental's numbering system. Sometimes, I sort of like the idea of a merger since both DW and myself have over 1200 nights between HAL and Princess and I like the idea of being within a reasonable distance of President's Club. But then I realize there are enough people in our situation that it would dilute President's Club (unless they changed the requirements) out of recognition. When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody, as W.S. Gilbert said.