BirdTravels

Show reservations 21 days prior to departure. Shore ex as soon as NCL negotiates contracts with vendors.

Bot tricky. If the excursion is sold out, you may lose it to a standby passenger during your cancel and rebook. The cancelled excursion will be a refundable OBC (does not go to your credit card) so you can cash it out on the last night of your cruise.

Totally agree. But it is getting the kiddos to disconnect or $1K. Personally, we would not pay the $1K. Fortunately, there was not a demand for WiFi when our kids were cruising. Now, they cannot their own WiFi when sailing.

I would upgrade your Free at Sea minutes to basic unlimited wifi. Everyone shares that one account. Only one phone can be on at a time. When a 3 device access the WiFi, one gets bumped off. Or upgrade to a 2-device package and you suck it up and stay off the WiFi when the kids are active. It is the cost of the WiFi. No gratuities. wifi is available ship-wide on all ships. In your stateroom and in all public areas. We share 1 account across 5 devices. Two phones each (one personal, one work) and a iPad. Sometimes a 6th device is my laptop if I carry it.

Yeah, US rules do not apply.

I drink bottled water on the ship because of our encounter with what is really in a ship's water system. Naive.

Welcome to Cruise Critic! If you stand in line at a bar, you can get a glass of water. That's about it. You can get water, tea, coffee at restaurants. You can get juices for breakfast at restaurants. The buffet, when it is open (and Observation Lounge on selected ships), you can get water, coffee, tea, milk, and flavored waters. Sodas, energy drinks, bottled water are come with a charge. Add 20% gratuities to the prices below: Or there is specialty coffees

Haven eats!

All breakfast room service comes with a $4.95+20% tip charge = $5.94

They will ask you to be out of your stateroom no later than 8:00 am, so "staying on the ship" means hauling around all of your belongings. It could take 10-20 minutes to get on an elevator at the end of disembarkation.

In each port, you should expect to be able to start disembarking around the advertised arrival time. That being said, many/most people on your ship (could be thousands) will want to leave the ship shortly after arrival. All aboard time is no later than 30 minutes before departure.

All ashore should be around 9:30 am.

Old days are long long long gone. Pay your daily service charge.

Just throw the tags away after you claim them in the baggage hall. No tag. First bus available. There would be several dozen buses associated with people disembarking with a brown tag. Uber is a nightmare since there is no pickup area. Most people haul their bags down the street or across the street in hopes of finding their driver on their first pass. Once you miss a pick-up, the "meter" is ticking and you get charged for excess pick-up time.

Nothing special. Maybe a cake in the Buffet. Also acknowledging that it is Mother's Day in the US and Canada. But it is not in all countries. For example, in the UK, Mother's Day was March 10th. On our NCL cruise last month, there were guests from 60 different countries.