schmoopie17

What is this Cruise Critic of which you speak?

Are you talking arrival time or disembarkment time? On cruise itineraries I have only seen arrival times...never have I seen disembarkment time posted until the day before disembarking on the colored sheet they hand out. Certainly not a month in advance. Our September Rome cruise arrives at 6:30. I'm planning on carrying our stuff off around 7:00-7:15ish.

Be prepared for a lot of swearing when people get to Foulmouth. 😁

Not in our case. On the last night of our recent Jade cruise we handed our favorite bartender a twenty and he said he needed to put it in the shared tip jar. No biggie...they all work hard. But we wanted him to keep it.

If I tell you I'll be surprising you, would that be enough motivation? Oh wait...that might be motivation to cancel your cruise. Never mind...

We booked the 2025 Pearl TA, leaving a year from tomorrow, from NY with a few stops in Canada, then Iceland, Belfast, Dublin, Le Havre and ending in Southampton. However, we still have a year (okay, eight months before final payment) to change our mind. Kind of leery about Iceland temperatures in early May, based on your weather report a few pages back. We've never been into cruising in parkas, Also, not thrilled about having to fly to NY, stay a night or two at outrageous prices, then have to maneuver around the city from the airport to the hotel and to the port. (Again, based on what we read a few pages back.) But I guess we'll see how it goes...

NCL is really screwing up the embarkation process. Not only taking two hours, but making people be upside-down that long is beyond comprehension.

As has been pointed out many times, check-in time is essentially meaningless.

That's always been our experience. We've never received anything in the mail from NCL except their useless advertising propaganda.

We did the Bliss from Miami to L.A. through the Panama Canal, although it was only 15 days. I may be one of the very few who found the Panama Canal to be...how should I put this?,,,much ado about nothing. Several hours just to get through and not a whole lot to see. But, I am retired and my eyesight isn't what it used to be. (Along with a number of other things).

I don't understand why people feel the need for cabin service twice a day. In fact, on most cruises we tell the cabin steward that we don't need ANY service on some days. (They're busy enough). Do people really make their beds, change their sheets and change towels every day at home?

I'm pretty much always logged into NCL's site. I keep checking existing reservations to see if new excursions get added, watch the countdown calendar, etc. Plus I'm too lazy to have to look up my password if I log out. I also do fake bookings/searches all the time (okay, maybe not all the time...but you get the point) and I have never gotten a call. Guess I'm one of the lucky ones.

It's worth a shot. But don't mail it. 😁

And instead of regular airline food, they will offer Lean Cuisine.

Exactly. I can wear my camouflage shirt anywhere in this country. Antigua, Barbados and Grenada all say that wearing camouflage in their country is illegal. If you choose to wear it there, then deal with the consequences. Maybe weed is legal in those places...don't know, don't care. But just because weed is legal in some places and in some instances, it doesn't mean it's legal in all places and all instances. A cruise ship is one of those places.