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POA1

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  1. Start looking for specialty dining 6 months prior to the sailing date. It's almost always there 4 months out. If join the roll call for your cruise, you'll probably see someone post about it there as soon as it's available.
  2. Wow, you're good! I missed that post. So, for a mere $5.56 a day on my upcoming cruise, I can be assured of learning about the latest deals in hurricane glass windows, and never have to worry about my car's warranty running out? Sign me up! (I still plan to see if Wi-Fi calling works on surf. I suppose they could be blocking the SIP port, but it's a pretty low bandwidth service. I doubt they'd block the TCP or UDP ports. It would break things for regular web surfing.
  3. As a counter-point: We're usually late, fixed seating people. (Known as Main seating in HAL's booking system.) We've always - and I mean always - had excellent service in the MDR. We've done Club Orange once, on the Nieuw Statendam in December 2023. We had great service on the first night from our waiter, Tre. We told the CO supervisor that Tre did an excellent job and requested to sit at one of his tables going forward. Tre was "our guy" for most every meal in the CO dining room for the entire trip. In essence, we recreated the fixed dining experience in Club Orange. We even wound up with the same table 4 out of 5 nights. We do like the extra entrée choices that come with Club Orange, but we'd be just as happy with late, fixed dining in the MDR. (I've heard reports that the MDR is noisy on the Pinnacle Class ships. Not having experienced the MDR on the Nieuw Statendam, I can't really comment on that.
  4. Because they get paid that way! 😉 There's not a good reason from the customer's perspective.
  5. Thanks for the chart! Now we need an upgrade pricing column or two. 😄 I'll report on the 9 day once I board.
  6. Yes. The paid upgrade keeps everything on the original booking. However, there are more SCs sold than exist in inventory. You stand a pretty good chance of being assigned an SA without needing to do anything.
  7. It makes perfect sense. I will summon the power to button these slacks.
  8. Follow @kazu's advice. See the Shorex desk for your rebooks.
  9. It's the new Fort Lauderdale Convention Center Hotel. I assume you're talking about the rounded hotel with the blue glass on the lower floors. If not, let me know. - POA1, Man on the Street Reporter
  10. The balcony on the bump out rooms had quite a bit more room, percentage-wise. Your verandah does face into the wind though. I don't think that will be much of an issue, but I wanted to note if.
  11. @Hobar Can you give us a specific example? That might help us to give you a better answer. However, if you are looking for Seabourn at the HAL price point, I doubt it will happen.
  12. HIA can't be added to sailings of 5 or fewer days. It says so in the fine print.
  13. Thanks. I was referring to the paper ones. I scanned all of ours for future reference. There was nothing referring to the cake event. I even reread them on my tablet in case I couldn't see it on my phone. In fairness, I think we were in the Lido once during the whole week. And that was just cutting through. We were so fascinated by the concept of being on a ship that we forgot to look for cake. A mistake we don't intend to repeat.
  14. If it helps, you can expect 2025-2026 Caribbean next week. I've been getting announcement emails each time a new "market" launches. A market corresponds to those little gold buttons on the "Find a Cruise" page. I think the only exception is Alaska, which has both cruises and the land and sea cruise tours. All the others launch as a market. In other words, all the South America & Antarctica cruises will launch together.
  15. I just reread the daily programs for our NS cruise in December. No mention in the events. Is it hidden in the Lido lunch menu? Or, on our sailing, were they just fakin' with no cake 'n' stuff?
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