Gratuities

[cruisinmems]

Will someone please tell me the daily gratuity charge and can it be pre-paid?  Thank You!

[Beamafar]

It's $12.50 pppd on cruises when the onboard currency is US$ and €10 pppd when the currency onboard is Euros.

 

Yes ... they can be pre-paid.  However, if you're interested in accumulating points in Voyagers Club, it's best to wait 'til onboard and have them added to your onboard account.  You get 100 points for very €/$150 spent onboard (as you do for any spend prior to embarking) - but you cannot combine the 2, so if you're short of any multiple of that amount on either account, you'll lose the value of that spend towards points.

Edited March 7, 2019 by Beamafar

[cruisinmems]

Thank you so much for your quick reply!

[Até]

Beamafar's explanation is easiest.  Where is FAE (bottom of second image)? 

[Beamafar]

Far East Asia?  (though that would be FEA 🙄)

Edited March 7, 2019 by Beamafar

[Até]

It's also the airport code for Faroe Islands...

[Beamafar]

I reckon it has to relate to the Grand Voyages to and from China/Japan which are very recent additions.

[Skier52]

11 hours ago, Beamafar said:

Far East Asia?  (though that would be FEA 🙄)

I'm with you, in that I think it's a typo, and should be Far East and Asia (FEA).

 

It doesn't appear in the chart in the latest UK brochure 

 

 

 

 

Pete

[Beamafar]

Maybe it's not a 'typo' and has more to do with the translation from Italian to English?  🤔

 

Pete ... the latest brochure is lacking in a couple of areas that have been highlighted, now.  There's your one, here;  then there's the fact that it's still showing the old drinks packages (🙄).  Also, there was no mention of the change in policy to make the DSC mandatory (though, because that's been rescinded, is now a moot point).

 

 

Edited March 8, 2019 by Beamafar

[SeaTheW0rld]

10 hours ago, Até said:

It's also the airport code for Faroe Islands...

 

Been there.  Very interesting.  Very isolated. A few pics from Tórshavn: