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Thank you shof for your reply.

I understand there is an ice machine at NCL's "observation lounges" does the POA have one? If so where is it located?

Thanks to all my cruise pals who her helped clarify my concerns,

It is the NCL customer service advising us we have to check-in before we can leave our luggage with the porters. Her exact words were " we are directed to tell you, you must check-in before leaving you luggage with the porters." the word "directed" in her reply seem to indicate we could leave our luggage, but she could not confirm it.

We have cruised over 20 times with Carnival, Royal Carribean most recently one year ago, and twice with NCL (many years ago). We have always dropped our luggage with the porters, tipped them and parked our car, or went sightseeing till our boarding time. We are cruising the POA in a month and planned to drop our luggage at pier #2 in Honolulu and then do the Arizonia Memorial prior to boarding the ship. NCL is telling us we have to check-in before we can drop our luggage. Can a few of you comment on the correct info? or is NCL just quoting Protocol?

Bumping this topic for further info. We have cruised over 20 times with Carnival, Royal Carribean most recently one year ago, and twice with NCL (many years ago). We have always dropped our luggage with the porters, tipped them and parked our car, or went sightseeing till our boarding time. We are cruising the POA in a month and planned to drop our luggage at pier #2 in Honolulu and then do the Arizonia Memorial prior to boarding the ship. NCL is telling us we have to check-in before we can drop our luggage. Can a few of you comment on the correct info? or is NCL just quoting Protocol?

A couple in our group sailing on the Pride of America does not fly out of Honolulu until Saturday night at 11:32pm after debarking. I'm guessing NCL will make them debark around 11:00am that morning. They are reluctant to rent a vehicle, so they are considering shopping and sightseeing until they taxi to the airport around 3 hours before their flight departs. Does anyone have an idea what they could do with their luggage until they taxi to the airport?

We are going with 808 may be a little more but I like the RSVP to assure a p/u on time. Thanks to the person who refered us to Go808, and thx to Princeton for their info.

Sounds good.

Hello Sal, we are debarking from NCL Pride of America on Saturday Sept 16th. Here is Go808's reply. Thank you for your inquiry. The requested quotes for your transfer as follows. (Quotes does not include gratuity to your driver) From Cruise port to Honolulu airport: 2 passengers - $40.00 4 passengers - $50.00 8 passengers - $95.00 Reservation requests will be based on availability at time of reservation submission. Not too steep.

So did I, for 2,4, and 8 passengers...

I feel your pain! We are having the same problem. Hawaii probably has this set up this way to "share the wealth" so to speak between the shuttles and taxis. I just ran a dummy booking with SPEEDISHUTTLE, for 2,4, and 8 passengers from port to airport. Respectively $40.00/$81.00/$143.00 incl tax and fees. Not as cheap as a cab, they got us, what are you going to do! Hope this gives you some insight,

Will do thx.

Checked today to confirm my stockholder OBC was on account (and it is, for $100.00) but I also noticed there is $50.00 OBC for myself and my spouse. Anyone know where it came from? This is only our 3rd NCL cruise, I'm confident it is not a gift from a person.

Thank you mskaufman for your reply. Interested to know if anyone knows of earlier drop offs?