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My husband and I always purchase medical insurance, (for our times spent outside Canada), but have only purchased trip cancellation insurance once - for an expensive vacation in Botswana.

We are budget travellers - choose inside guarantee cabins, less expensive studio apartments, or a room in an apartment with kitchen privileges where we can prepare our own meals, and we don't waste money on what we consider to be unnecessary\unwanted frills.

We feel that if something happens that is serious (catastrophic?) enough to make us miss the trip, the lost money will be the least of our worries.

Then you'll also want to stay away from the fish items at the buffet. :)

Maybe just the smoked salmon? :D

If this is indeed true, the anti smoking zealots are going to be so "in your face neener neener neener" that it WILL get very ugly around here. But, the moderators will allow the zealots to get their shots in before locking the thread rather than deleting them. But, they will delete a few posts from zealots opponents before locking. ;)

'Zealotry' depends on one's perspective I suppose. :rolleyes:

From our viewpoint, not wishing to have our nostrils/eyes/clothing assaulted/permeated by pungent odors is reasonable almost to the extreme. ;)

however, walking out of the mdr twice is a pearler. Did the staff not see you walk out the first time, so you went back and walked out again !!?

My morning smile

We have done two transatlantic cruises in inside guarantee cabins, one on the the HAL Nieuw Amsterdam and one on Celebrity Constellation - both cabins were perfect. We like bargains and would rather travel more often than travel with lots of (unnecessary) frills. We have three more cruises booked, two in the fall and one next spring, and all are in inside guarantee cabins. If we could afford small ships we would cruise on them - would never go on a ship over 20,000 tons - not for the implied luxury but just for the pleasure of being on a smaller ship.

when there is more then one ship in port, the hull art makes the NCL ships stand out and easier to spot from a distance

Individuals whose arms & legs are covered in tattoos also "stand out", (and they're easier to spot in a lineup). ;)

We like a ship to look like a ship .... not something that has been vandalized by taggers.

A totally hypothetical question as in "my area" as you put it, nobody would ever dream of re-booking in those circumstances as ANY cancellation always results in a loss of the deposit which is a tried and tested method of purchasing any goods or service.

Hypothetical only inasmuch as current policy dictates.....policy sometimes/often changes given the prevailing circumstances....the question stands, "If you were offered the opportunity to cancel & rebook without penalty would you take it or refuse it?"

It is my personal view that if you cancel a booking at any time, the deposit should be lost

So if 'no penalty cancellations' were allowed in your area, permitting you to rebook at a lower cost without forfeiting your deposit, you would refuse to accept it and demand to lose your deposit?