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  1. Try and find an Alaska cruise that begins and terminates in different ports, then do a B2B - Northbound then Southbound. Even if the ports are repeated, the scenery is more than worth it. Plus, it’ll give you a chance to do in-depth personal sightseeing and wondering around without feeling like you’d missed anything. I’ve been up there on five cruises (Princess, Celebrity, HAL, and Cruise West), booked again for 2025.
  2. From the builders shipyard to Southampton the crew will be getting public spaces finalized and prepared to receive paying passengers. There will always be last minute things that still need to get done, and the passage between shipyard and England give the shipyard personnel and cruise line teams to work together to solve any issues that arise. There will most likely be a large number of shipyard staff on this sailing as well. And don’t be surprised if some shipyard staff accompany the ship on its maiden voyage. They’ll more than likely be there, just in the background and below decks. She may stay in Boston for travel agent tours and maybe even an agent cruise, etc. or go to NYC for similar functions. The Boston (or wherever) to Miami sailing is a dead-stick move with zero paying passengers, allowing 2-3 days transit (no rush to get there). Cruise lines do this a lot, since this ship really can’t go from Boston to Miami without first stopping in distant foreign port to abide by regulations. As for the week after her Miami arrival, as others have said, expect more travel agent and media function cruises. There are usually two or three of these, each being 2-3 days in length. Add another full day for the christening ceremonies, then the first cruise will embark 4/16.
  3. I’ve watched Norwegian Jade on Marine Traffic and on her Live Bridge Cam for the last several cruises, and she always docks alongside Terminal 2 at the Tampa cruise port. There’s only one other ship in port that day we leave, Enchantment of the Seas. Just curious, when you first walk onto the ship from the gangway, what public space do you walk into? Is there anything that I should expect during the process of screening and checking in that stands out? 😁
  4. I don’t gamble and never just hang out at bars, totally not my thing. So it’s very easy to plan my cruise and plan my evenings around these things, like avoiding cigarette smoke and smokers. And I’ll have several weeks onboard to get my feel where the designated smoking places are on Norwegian Jade, how active they are on my cruise, and avoid them. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. I live in, worked at, and frequently visit a large number of places that have ZERO smoking on the inside. There’s a reason those places have made ‘no smoking’ decisions. I’m glad this topic came up. 😎
  5. 🤢 🤮 Note to self: AVOID THE CASINO AT ALL COSTS 😳 There’s got to be a better way. 😉 I’m guessing the main theater only has a single access deck? I see there’s a balcony, which I prefer. Is that accessible via another deck?
  6. Yikes! 😳 Smoking areas on NCL wasn’t something I had really thought about until now, and albeit I don’t gamble the smell of cigarette smoke is repulsive and repugnant. It goes everywhere. 🤢
  7. As simple as this sounds, I think for a NCL first-timer going on a +3 week-long cruise this is going to take a spreadsheet. 😉
  8. If I may ask, why is everyone saying that the fixed-price restaurants need to be booked first, then the à la carte? Is it because the former book up the fastest, or some technical reason with how these register on the reservation?
  9. The 2024 summer cruise season is relatively light since it’s sort of 50/50 between ships leaving from Long Beach or San Pedro. But when the fall/winter 2024/2025 season kicks into high gear the construction on this critical interchange is going to be in full swing, and that’ll throw one hell of a monkey’s wrench into a LOT of transportation plans getting to and from the cruise terminal at San Pedro. I’ll be there in April 2025 on a cruise ship in transit from the Panama Canal up the coast and can’t even begin to imagine how this will affect the simplest of things like going on shore excursions into LA or heading over to the Queen Mary. This is going to be something people will want to keep track of.
  10. Expected to be completed by 2026 https://www.portoflosangeles.org/references/2024-news-releases/news_031324_sr_47_construction?fbclid=IwAR3vHfwH0nSZwwT10lGV9zy9K_S9NA1hvNEsueWc9SOVMLpyerB3ZnypgJA Their FB page for updates https://www.facebook.com/100064510671744/posts/pfbid02prTZjTRs8aiPCD2wYXxGeHDs85M8Leh6FW5uw2m7FRg6tndHT94fhXxcoCVVW1o3l/?app=fbl For reference the cruise terminal is in the upper right corner of this picture:
  11. I didn’t have a cruise booked, but I did work in a VA hospital. Talk about our world coming apart and crashing down all around us. 😷
  12. Oh, trust me, this is delicious! But don’t tell anyone else. 😉 I quite literally buy it by the dozen-box case.
  13. I’ll have to look into those Yeti things. Might be a solution to my drink package. 😉👍
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