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pbenjamin

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    Still sampling
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    Havana

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  1. 11630 is under La Cucina, not the Great Outdoors. We did an Alaska cruise on the Jewel in 2019. Our party had 3 mini-suites (now Club Balcony) and a 2BR suite, all on Deck 11. One mini was 11628 (next door to 11630, under La Cucina) and the two others were aft-facing (11154,11156) under the Great Outdoors. The 2BR was 11012, under the Library. Nobody experienced any noise issues.
  2. On the 10/2 sailing of the Breakaway, the stores were closed until the afternoon of Day 5 when they had a "grand opening". No models yet. Nothing with Breakaway or any of the ports on it.
  3. Flamingo poop. You make this statement time and time again and ignore others who relate having successfully gotten dinner reservations taken care of by the pre-concierge.
  4. From what I saw, the only reason to buy alcohol at the duty free shop is if you have nonrefundable OBC. I bought a bottle of Veuve Clicquot, a bottle of Zacapa 23 and a Macallan Lumina. The first two were priced on par with Total Wine here in Phoenix. The scotch is a duty free only item, so no comparison.
  5. They do make them. Just google "Illy Nespresso pods". They are aluminum, too, quite useful if one is boycotting Nestle for doing business in Russia.
  6. Nice tip, thanks. That's how to avoid the annoyance, but I still don't understand why they have started making these unnecessary contacts when I haven't done anything different than I have done in the past.
  7. I believe that I was logged in, in fact I think it remembers me and logs me in automatically. Maybe I should do my fake booking from another browser that doesn't log me in, but my behavior hasn't changed and this was not happening in the past.
  8. I often do fake bookings on ncl.com, to see what cost, availability, etc. is like. In the past, such a visit would often result in automated emails to finish the booking, kind of annoying, but harmless. Twice recently such visits have resulted in phone calls to both house and cell from someone claiming to be a PCC. I have a PCC. At 6:30 this morning I was awakened by such a call. This new activity is more than annoying. I spoke to my PCC and he was unclear on why this was happening.
  9. We ate in La Cucina on the Jewel in 2019, it was one of our favorites. We went there on the Breakaway earlier this month and it was really disappointing. The Spaghetti Carbonara was great (was on the Jewel, too). The rest was either awful or not memorable. The pizza was undercooked and tasteless. The Beef Lasagne Al Forno "just tasted like ground beef and tomato sauce" according to my wife. Our opinion seemed be shared by our fellow cruisers, as this was the only thing I was able to book online (we booked the cruise well after reservations were opened to all). It was also the only specialty restaurant that we ate in that seemed to have a lot of empty tables. The service was also pretty bad but I can't remember any specifics. We had 4 specialty dinners. We ended up going to La Cucina, Cagney's twice, and had a dinner from Le Bistro in-suite.
  10. This was not a suite thing, it was a Haven bar thing. I asked for a can of soda at the bar, handed my key card to the bartender, which he waved away. I got the same result from other Haven bartenders.
  11. As of 10/9, Breakaway had no Zacapa 23, no Hendricks and only Johnny Walker Black and Red. That was the Haven Bar, didn't check Maltings.
  12. They are not. They are roughly 1.75"x8.5"
  13. What makes you so sure that it was an exception?
  14. To be clear, there was no charge. My wife likes to drink a soda in the evening and I would just walk up the bar and ask for one. Below the bar there is a fridge with the popular items like Coke and Diet Coke. They would go back around the corner to a cabinet for more obscure things like Diet Sprite, which weren't refrigerated. At one point, while sitting at the bar, I mentioned that my wife was suffering from a bad case of motion sickness (remnants of Ian). The bartender, Agnello, pulled out a can of ginger ale and a green apple and sent me on my way.
  15. I'm pretty sure it's free. I had them make a smoked Manhattan with Whistle Pig rye but I had the Premium Plus beverage package. I'm sure that there wouldn't be a charge if they made it with a whiskey from the basic package. Smoked Manhattan
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