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You have to confirm your membership before making the booking. They recommend 3-4 days I think. https://www.hollandamerica.com/en/us/cruise-deals/community-appreciation-cruise-offers/aarp-member-benefit-offer

You can surely cancel one room, and move the Dad to your husband's room. As long as one name remains the same. But I wouldn't try to do it today, headquarters is pretty busy with the $1pp deposit birthday promo! Go to however you made the booking: TA or HAL. If you did it on the HAL main line (or online), you will have been assigned a Personal Cruise Consultant, whose name and extension will be in or just below the Blue Banner of your confirmation or any emailed 'ads' from HAL you have rec'd since booking. That person will be your easiest bet to do the changes. But again, not today!

That would be my guess as well. Although I have been able to check on the way-far-out itinerary I booked, yay for me.

I love to book a sailing while still under Early Booking Bonus, but it's very hard to give HAL $14,000 to hold for two years (B2B cruises for 2 cabins)!!! Our six FCD are already busy holding VOV-25... Jane's announcement let me look at late 2025 & early 2026 and find a cruise on my bucket list, sailing with (so far) the cabins I want to take my DB and SIL to the Panama Canal! Have email in to my PCC and waiting by the phone!

Welcome to Cruise Critic! I am sorry your Dad is so poorly, but I am right there with you. Last fall, I obtained Holland America's Standard Cancel For Any Reason (CFAR) cancellation protection for a 35-day cruise that would have sailed in mid-February. There is no medical included with this plan, so pre-existing conditions had no bearing. The closer the cruise got the hollower my stomach felt! At the last possible moment (24-hours) I cancelled. The amount I calculated for refund was repaid to the penny within a week. Note, it being such a long cruise, with the protection premium and the amount withheld from refunding, it still cost us about $5,000 to cancel, but my family members' health did proceed to decline, and I was happy not to have been in the middle of the Pacific all last month! "Worry for family members" is not covered in any plan, of course. Does Oceania not have CFAR cancellation plans? No? Maybe @iamtrustworthy knows of a third-party plan. Good luck to you and your Dad.

Coule it be May 18? https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2960902-may-18-25-2024-volendam-montreal-boston/#comment-66021503

Here is your roll call. Not too active, but there are a few months to go! https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2934179-island-princess-august-15-2024-10-day-grand-mediterranean/#comment-65292439

Have you found your Roll Call? It's not very active, but there might be something of interest: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2934179-island-princess-august-15-2024-10-day-grand-mediterranean/#comment-65292439

Not older than 1999, not larger than 100,000 tons (~3000 pax/1000 crew). Oddly, just the range of Holland America's fleet.

Ship and sail date?

Welcome to Cruise Critic! You might ask your question here: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/544-uk-cruisers/ to find some in your countrymen who is knowable.

It is the Voyage of the Vikings, 35-days but dead of Summer Break 2025. Accepting the change from Observation to Navigation deck saved us $2000, which softened the blow.

OK, I looked up the K'dam R/T for 2025. Travelling inside Vancouver Island, scenery is all around. Then the ship is outside some islands going north with starboard facing land, and outside some other islands going south with port-side facing land. You are over-thinking this, haha! The only difference in your choice of cabins is the slight chance of being bumped from deck 7, vs being one deck closer to the spa. Just flip a coin? ETA: Sorry if I was flippant. I would switch to 6039, just to be safe. Three decks from Spa instead of two is not going to make much difference (I moved down TWO decks from my desired deck, FWIW).

Yes, that is what I meant! Sometimes the typing fingers go their own way! (I can't even blame auto-correct!) It is that outline in the ceiling with a round pull-down "hole".

Welcome to Cruise Critic, and congrats on your cruise. Here are the links to the boards EM referred you to: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/119-princess-cruises/ Roll call, except they entered it as 5/18? https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2956356-discovery-princess-may-18-2024/#comment-65886789 and Alaska: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/33-alaska/

I agree!

Judging from 4119 on K'dam (equivalent of 4117 on Rotterdam) the pullman is over the main bed(s). I see this on CrewDeckPlans, but will not embed their photo as it is a membership site.

They commonly refund the price of Club Orange when people upgrade to Neptune, so I think your odds are good! Ask your booking agent or HAL phone operator. It may come back as refundable OBC, that will come back to your credit card if not spent.

I couldn't find it either; it had just drifted down. I think April's update was delayed because Colin (Vmax) is currently on a Blue-Hulled Beauty!

"HAL does everything" except let two people book a quad cabin, when they are going to spend more after booking than some family of four with the 5-year-old in the bunk and a pre-teen on the sofa bed.

If you book yourself with HAL, you were already assigned a PCC -- check in or below the blue banner in any promotional ad emails. So, everyone who doesn't use a travel agent/agency, I guess.

Do you have a cabin with a balcony??? If not, I suggest you or your travel agent call HAL (or call your PCC), and pressure them for an upgrade to at least a Verandah. Mention that it really should be no charge considering their shady dealing with not informing you until after final payment! (It probably will not be no charge, but it will make you feel better!) That way you won't have to fight the crowd for a spot at the railing in Glacier Bay. The bridge will rotate the ship so everyone gets a view! Keep in mind what I said about the Lido. You are more likely to get a table by a window, AND you won't bump into this lovely Christian group at dinner!

Yes, they are. And the 18% service charge with the Beverage Package. Of course you can always add more to either!

We ate only in the Lido Market or specialty restaurants on our K'dam B2B last year. The food is mostly the same, and even more varied. The crowds were much less; we could almost always sit at distance from others as not catching anything was high on our list of things to do! AFAIK there were no major groups on board, but it was a full ship over New Years!

Laughing with you, not at you!