LAX, once you reach the terminal just sucks. I've seen lines out the door and down a half block. And then it has to be repeated just to get through security then.
I'm telling you guaranteed 100% what I said is what happened to us and about 10 other guests. You mileage may differ with a different cruise. Have no idea. The shuttle from town stopped at the Navy security gate. A security guard said, "everyone show you passports". I said we didn't have ours with us, only our room card. The others few folks said the same thing. He then said for you without passports to get off the shuttle. We were then corralled into a holding area away from the gate. About 20 minutes later a ship security guard came for us. And that's the way it was.
Our last stop there, we docked at the Navy pier, but they ran a shuttle into town. Since we we back in the US, we did not take out passports with us. Big mistake. Security would not let us and several others board the shuttle back to to ship. Placed us in a security area to wait. A security member from the ship had to come to us with a laptop, scan our card and verify we did indeed belong on the ship. Take your passport if docked on Navy property.
I think we were on the Breakaway the cruise before yours. Our experience in the Haven was just like yours...fantastic. Most wonderful crew we have ever seen. Loved everything about it.
Last Haven cruise, butler was great, tipped $100. Concierge good, $75. Cabin attendant, $75. Main bartender $30, but we tipped for each drink $1. Maitre D, $30 plus tipping servers for each meal. And just tipped other times as we felt like doing.
Just being told by the poor server that he/she is going to have to charge me $25 for the next one just takes aways from the comfort of the Haven experience. NCL...stupid idea. Your cost for the extra lobster can't be that great. Don't tell a Haven guest no. That ruins the atmosphere.
Are free cardiac services included whit that plate of bacon? Although on one of our cruises, it was half full with a German tour group. I saw one of those guys one morning sit down with a plate of bacon filled at least three times as high than that plate. He ate it all.