We just booked an 10 night Europe cruise for 11/1/24-11/11/24, on Pearl and have a couple questions on recent changes. We have cruised previously on HAL. Princess, Celebrity, Premier and me on the USS Independence ( I am showing my age here). We are in our mid 70’s, married 56 yr
Years and celebrating my 75 birthday on this cruise. We are from PNW.
1 Is room service free or is there a charge? If so how much ?
2 Anytime dinning is exactly that, correct? Dine anytime that you show up at MDR? Any problems getting table for just the two of us?
3 We have the promotion that buy one air through NCL and second person is free. It looks like you can’t book time for land trips before/after if more than two days. Is this correct? We wanted to do 2 pre cruise days in Trieste and four days after IN ROME and it looks like this is not allowed !?!
4 What kind of shows/entertainment does NCL offer now? Do you have to prebook?
5 We have one free prepaid non MDR dinner. Do we reserve before or after we are on the ship? Can anyone add their suggestion on which restaurant? We like seafood/steaks/lamb.
6 Will the ship have tons of kids on the ship this time of year? We do love kids and have 4 grown kids and six grandchildren, but we’re hoping for a quiet, peaceful cruise. Last cruise to Europe in 2017 there were a number of kids, they were kept busy though and didn’t bother us.
7 Is Pearl about same size as NCL Spirit? We like the smaller ships.
8 what is muster drill like now on NCL?
Thank you in advance for the help. I appreciate all I can get! Thanks, Diane
