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We're talking about eight bucks,,, maybe.

Reservations a highly recommended. Walking in at prime time would be hard. You can show up at any time to board. Reservations now may be hard. Restaurant reservations opened on January 20 and many of the prime time reservations are likely sold out by now. Book your dinners as soon as you embark.

The staff in the terminal are all port staff. They are hired personnel who work for which ever cruise line is in port that day. Some would have no idea what a "Haven" is.

There is the also the A List bar for Le Bistro and Cagney's which is nice.

The reservation system does not care how you will be paying for dinners. It just takes a reservation. At the time you arrive at the restaurant, you tell the hostess how you are paying: Latitudes Voucher, Specialty Dining Package (that comes with FAS), Specialty Dining package (you buy on your own like the 2 dinner upgrade), other vouchers, cash (cabin charge). 130 days prior to departure, you can get online and book as many restaurants as often as you want. We did this on our last cruise. (full disclosure, there had been a bug in the the system that would not let you book a restaurant more than once for about a year,,,, but that bug has been fixed in their software and we booked one restaurant twice with no issue). Technically, you can not use your Latitudes Vouchers to at same restaurant twice.

Not really. Many carry their own bags off the ship and there is no tag color. it is first come first serve.

NCL usually serves seafood chowder on the pool deck. On glacier day, there is hot chocolate, coffee and adult coffees on the bow And on the Haven sundeck

Not really. There is a separate line to get you to the document checkers (who handle both Haven and steerage). Avoids the long steerage line. Then you join the steerage passengers to get security screened. Once past security screening, Haven checkin is about 3/4 the way back in the terminal. They have made more “folding chair” space to stage Haven guest in the terminal. Nothing like Miami.

They escort you to an elevator from street level entrance to the Haven check in level (bypasses the line to get on the escalators up to steerage checkin). Then there is an elevator to get you from the checkin level to the waiting area. You board from the checkin level, so you need to take the elevator back down.

300 min is non streaming WiFi. And you only get 300 minutes of use. No videos and no vpn. You can share an account between multiple devices, but only one at a time. Unlimited WiFi same as 300 min except you can remain logged on for the duration of the cruise. Premium WiFi allows you to stream video and use a VPN. Speeds are about the same.

Here's a link to my recent live post from the Seascape to give you a peak at the ship. Somewhere around post #85 is some info and pictures of the kids club.

Sodas and fresh squeezed juice are not free.

I prebooked Teppanyaki on the Joy for an upcoming cruise.

Yes, there is a separate line for Haven going through security. You can't miss it. Big, gold banner-up that says

Consider Royal Caribbean where the smoking casino is at the door of the main dining room on a lot of their ships. Not a unique issue. And on Royal, the small glassed-in casino is for non-smokers while the big casino, which is a main walkway through the ship, is the smoking casino.