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Cagney's with free at sea
European_CruiseGirl replied to NCteacherlovescruising's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
Itâs (per person) one appetizer, one soup or salad, one main course (with two sides, sometimes they allow more sides) and one dessert. -
Cagney's with free at sea
European_CruiseGirl replied to NCteacherlovescruising's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
I would like to know how they charge something if you are a no show if the place is a la carte. For a place like Teppanyaki I understand, they could just charge the cover. So in other words = for a la carte restaurants they definitely do not charge anything. I just yesterday needed to change a restaurant reservation and chatted with an NCL agent about it. As we are 3 I asked her to book for 4. She gave me this big lecture that as soon as we get on the ship I must go to the restaurant and tell that we are only 3. Otherwise we will be charged for a fourth person. That restaurant being Le Bistro. Didnât start to argue with her but just laughed in my mind of the thought that if someone would try to charge something (they donât) Iâd point towards the empty chair and tell the waiter ââŠand for my friend over here, he will just get some ice water, thank youâ. -
We have never had our middle names (yes two, long ones) added on our cruise reservation. And they are never also on our flight tickets. Never had any problem as long as the last name and first name match with our passport first and last names. It would be actually impossible to have all my names added on the flight reservations/tickets as my first name + two middle names + last name are all together 45 character long đ The reservation systems simply donât even allow that many characters on the name field. I should know, I worked over 20 years at different airlines reservations departments đ€ Obviously our ESTA and such official documents include our middle names too and are 100% the same as in our passports. But for flight and cruise (and hotel reservations and such): only first and last name needed.
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It's been a while since we cruised NCL (we last cruised prior to covid) and I simply cannot remember what information the eDocs should include. We have purchased a dining (5 specialty dinners) and a soda package for our DD. Also we have upgraded our wifi minutes to unlimited wifi. On the eDocs I can see the upgraded wifi on "amenities" section as well as the Free at Sea promos. However on that same amenities section it doesn't mention DD's dinner or soda package. If it makes any difference we originally booked the cruise for 2023 and already then purchased the dinner and soda package for DD. When we needed to reschedule the cruise the packages were automatically transferred onto the new cruise which is now in March 2024. We didn't get any refund of those purchased packages then and they show as purchased on NCL's app and website when I check our reservation and its' purchased items so this shouldn't be a problem. Shouldn't... Is this however still something that I should talk with our PCC now in beforehand or is this normal that these purchased soda and dinner packages do not show on the eDocs? I have the best possible PCC in the world (in my opinion đ) and he works extremely hard...so I'd rather not disturb him with a tiny question like this if this is normal.
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Le Havre as the final port and transfer to Paris
European_CruiseGirl replied to cliffy97's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
I would be very surprised if they didnât have transfers available and disembarkation tours. The disembarkation tours are published only 50 days before cruise departure so youâll have to wait quite long for those. -
Seriously. A 13 year old eating the same kids chicken strips or Mac and cheese as a 5 year old? Doesnât matter if they are girls but still. That 13 year old deserves grown up food and not some 5 year old kids menu stuff. Please do that youngster a favour and let her have adult food. For sure if the 10 year old wants still those kids foods then she can eat them and give her adult food to the 13 year old (cannot imagine though she would either be very happy but anyway).
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It is indeed tough luck. If some or even all cruises would happen to be missing from the history they will not look back for more than one year. Not even if youâd have all the proof imaginable available that your now over 18 year old child sailed 20+ cruises with them starting from age 1.
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Sharing drinks on NCL
European_CruiseGirl replied to AlmiranteChurruca's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
Well op I have to disagree with you on that. NCL, like all other cruise lines with drink packages, estimate how many drinks a person has per day in average. Lets say itâs 10. Yes you are allowed to order two drinks at a time. But for the cruiseline it makes a major difference if you then drink those two by yourself or if you always give the second to someone else because you most likely will be able to drink 10 drinks per day (5 orders of 2 drinks at a time) but you most likely wonât be able to drink 20 drinks per day (10 orders of 2 drinks at a time). But if you are sharing the 20 drinks with another person you again drink only 10 drinks a day which is doable even when you get 20 of them with your package. See NCL doesnât have a cap of drinks per day like other cruiselines might have. For HAL they allow 15 drinks per person per day for their drink package. So for HAL one could say it wouldnât make a difference if you order 15 drinks and give 14 of them to your 14 new best friends. You have maxed out for the day regardless of who drinks those drinks that you get with your package. If you want more you pay. But NCL doesnât have a cap. If you always order 2 drinks and then give one away to your friend you are effectively ordering per day double the amount you would otherwise. And that for sure matters for NCL. -
Sharing drinks on NCL
European_CruiseGirl replied to AlmiranteChurruca's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
Bottled water is not included in the soda package. My DD loves sparkling water, she just gets club soda with her soda package and is completely happy. Still water she can always get from buffet for free (not in a bottle though). YMMV but I have noticed that NCL is very strict with the rules and no sharing is indeed allowed. This is particularly true for adults and with alcohol. For kids it seems to vary a bit: I have many times ordered a drink for myself and a mocktail for DD at the pool bar and have given both of our cards so they can charge her mocktail to her card. Some times they have just given her card back and said âno needâ. Other times they have promptly charged her card as they should. Iâd say 90% of the time they charge the card and I fully expect that to happen 100% of the time I go to order. -
Anyone else noticing payment issues?
European_CruiseGirl replied to slpm1's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
Ah yes indeed @Asawi! I checked my profile and the country is blank! -
Anyone else noticing payment issues?
European_CruiseGirl replied to slpm1's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
OMG - I have been struggling with this payment problem for almost 2 weeks now and this address thing did the trick! One day approx 2 weeks ago I was doing happily shorex reservations and payments online through the NCL webpage and the next day (really, the next day) it just didn't go through anymore. I tried 5 different cards but always got a message of "try another card". I called NCL several times but to no avail - they couldn't understand what was wrong but said I am not the only person with this problem. I just happened to come across this old thread as someone had resurfaced it (thank you, thank you thank you!) and decided to try the address thing. Unchecked the "use the same billing address as on your file" or whatever it said and just manually added my address. And voila - it worked! Couldn't be happier. Thank you cruisecritic members again - you are fantastic! đ„° -
Free At Sea - Children's package
European_CruiseGirl replied to Mullahoy's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
Answer to both is unfortunately no. The dining credits are tied to each person so his credits cannot be given to you. However I do believe there are several places where he might very well enjoy the meals. Italian restaurant for pizza/pasta. Seafood restaurant for fish and chips for example. Non alcoholic cocktails or juice does not belong to the soda package and cannot be substituted for the sodas. There is some free juice/lemonade/ice tea available from the buffet.