febtober

Curious if you were able to discover anything? I've checked several other places and can't find anyone else having this problem. I've tried different browsers and even different computers, but get this same SHPREQ045 error. I know they'll have a shore excursion desk on the ship, but I'm worried the three I want may be sold out.

Good to know. I'll be coming from Nassau County. At first I was going to take LIRR then uber from there to save a few bucks, then I realized that was actually more expensive than just fully ubering door to door from my house to the pier.

I just came here hoping to find an answer myself. Almost all of the excursions give this "No Activities Available (SHPREQ045)" error. Their website has always been less than stellar. My cruise is in less than two weeks, and the whole excursion page for Port Canaveral just says, "We are working to enrich our shore excursions program, they will be bookable soon" when they were available last month.

Nah as a husband myself, they probably just weren't going through. We were on the Magic recently about 70% of the messages would work. My wife would show me her phone and there would be multiple sent messages, then I'd show her my phone and I had gotten none of them.

Very interesting thanks. I like the technical details. Maybe a dumb question, but I see you use the acronym "GA" frequently - what does that mean?

I'm seeing some stupid cheap prices on NCL's Bermuda cruise aboard the Joy out of NYC on October 29th for 7 days. If I go, it'd be me, my mother in law, my one year old kid, and my six year old kid. For roughly the same price we could either get two balcony staterooms, or one "family suite", which is a bit over 500 sq ft and has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a living area. The family suite is an interior room, but it has some goofy "virtual balcony" where one wall is an image of the outside or something. I'm not really knowledgeable about NCL's terminology, but I don't believe this is considered part of the the haven. Either way it'd be my mother in law and the baby in one room, and me and the six year old in the other. I'm kind of leaning towards the suite, but would like any input. We just got off a Carnival cruise a couple weeks ago where we had two balconies and rarely used them. They weren't really in a great location, though. Also, how's sailing down to Bermuda in late October/November? The fares are so cheap it makes me think there's something wrong, but from my brief Googling I don't see any red flags. Looks like hurricane season should be mostly over. I know for at least the first and last sea days I'll probably need a light jacket, but that's no big deal.

I just got off the Magic and also paid for the premium plan. It was horrible. I requested and received a refund. My wife and I also each paid $5 to be able to message each other via the Carnival Hub app and that was spotty as well. I'd see her in person and she'd ask why I wasn't responding to any of her messages, and I'd tell her I didn't get any. She'd show me her phone which would half a dozen messages as sent, and I'd show her my phone which didn't show a single one received.

I just did this in a roundabout way. I sailed my with and our two kids and we got two staterooms. When booking, I put me and one kid in one room, and her and another kid in another room. While actually on the ship, we had one room and they had another. This allowed me to purchase the Cheers package just for myself, as my wife doesn't really drink and might have three or four drinks over the entire cruise and she can just pay for those.

Ugh, checking in at the pier was a real pain with a baby under 2. Everyone in our party is fully vaxed except him as the vaccine was only recently approved for his age group. Kids under 2 require no testing, just a vaccine exemption from carnival, and they don't need to apply for the exemption; it's automatically granted to them based on their age. So we show up to the pier and find that me and the kiddo still have to go to the separate check in line for those that have exemptions and need to be tested, while the rest of my party went to the regular check in. They should really have a separate line for people who are only there because they're traveling with a kid under 2, or at least let them move up to the front of the line. All we needed was to get the exemption letter, sign it, have an employee stamp it, and go. It shouldn't take more than 90 seconds. But since we were in the same line as everyone getting tested and taking a much longer time, it took nearly an hour to work our way through.

@habcyou must have gotten one of the last rooms. I was on that same sailing and on Monday (second to last day) three of my party tested positive. I was down in the medical bay with them and the doctor commented, "Oh, I see you have two staterooms, that's good because we're out of isolation rooms." So the positive people stayed in one room and the negative people were able to stay in another. While they instructed the positive people to isolate, they also said, "But nobody is tracking you or anything", although I personally wouldn't mind if they did. If you were just told you're Covid positive and 15 minutes later you're swiping up at the casino, there should be some repercussions. The positive people were also given free room service and the little bag of snacks. We had a letter from guest services giving us an FCC of $98 which was what they calculated for the pro-rated portion of the time lost. They came and got us a bit after 9am the next day to disembark. I also counted around 25ish people down there on deck zero. I don't know how many were actually positive though - the two negative members of my party were also down there since we were leaving as one group. I also don't know if that was the only covid group on the ship, or if there were multiple ones taken off at different times.

Thanks. Can't really tell by a picture, but just going by simple math I don't see how it could be anything other than a king. Do you know if that sofa turns into a bed? Looking at the floor plan online it looks like it might be too small, but I can't really tell. I'm thinking I'd need to move all the way up to a club suite in order to get a sofa bed

Thanks for the info! A balcony would be nice of course, but it's double the price and you don't get much more interior space, which is what I want. We just got off a Carnival cruise a few days ago where she had her own balcony cabin and I don't think she stepped foot onto the balcony once.

I was actually curious so I just called them up. The rep said the same thing as the website, that the room contains two twins that can be pushed together to make a queen. I told him that's not really possible since two twins make a king. You can't make a queen by pushing two beds together and he said, "Oh, well, I guess they make a king then". I'm relatively certain they make a king, but that seems like a pretty important fact for them to mess up. Queen is plastered all over their website in many places. Seems like a glaring error, but I don't generally think I'm smarter than a multi billion dollar company, so again, maybe I'm just missing something.

Thanks, I guess the simplest answer is the correct one and it's simply "that's how NCL does it." Just seems odd but oh well.

Actually I just thought of another question: How exactly are they making queen sized beds? Two twins pushed together equal a king. A twin is the smallest mattress you can usually buy. If the beds are separated, I assume that means I'd be sleeping on something even smaller than a twin?