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Thanks for the replies, if I order the package for a few nights, do I have to chose which nights in advanced? Or do I use it whenever I wish?

Would I still be paying 45$ - 20% for The Porch under the package?

Your assigned dining room is Luminae if you're in a sky suite. We love it. No assigned times or tables. Go when you want.

 

We like to go to a couple of the specialties and we ask for a discount. We don't go enough to get a package. Luminae is fabulous. They'll customize for you.

 

Blu is good - it's the assigned dining room for Aqua Class rooms. But suites can eat there on a space available basis. I think you won't want to go with Luminae.

 

I think you're going to be really happy.

Thanks for the answer.

I plan to eat most of the time at Luminae, just wanted to try everything at least once.

How do we go about asking for a discount? Is the discount random or they have a set discount price?

I plan to go on a cruise soon and I'm a bit confused about all the information about dinning. (maybe some of it is outdated maybe not but either way its a bit confusing).

My goal is to try all the dinning restaurants once. What would be the most cost efficient way to go about it?

From my understanding they got rid of UDP and others so you have to use their new one.

On here it says the charge is 45$ for the restaurants:

https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/news.cfm?ID=7423

While here it says some like The Porch is 25$ and Murano is 50$

http://creative.rccl.com/Sales/Celebrity/Tradeshow_in_a_Box/12029863_CEL_SpecialtyDining_Pricing_Flyer.pdf

So how exactly do I chose which ones the dinner credit from the package is counted on? and how many days do I need to get?

There is also ones like BLU which from my understanding I can get into if I ask? Is it paid or is it included as part of suite?

It is my first time cruising with Celebrity (So far been with norweign, princess, carnival)

Sorry if my questions may be silly or obvious, maybe by sickness is causing my brain not to function, who knows (Luckily it is before the cruise, not on the cruise like last cruise I went to)

Does anyone know about the Dinner on 1st day question?

I'm cruising on the 30th as well.

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On same GEM or Breakaway?

It won't hurt sending an email to pre-cruise concierge expressing your desire for the Spa package.

I'll give that a shot but I will probably double check at the lounge. From what I have been reading pre-concierge stuff is a hit or miss.

Eat breakfast, or at least something. You NEVER know what issues might crop up - like late boarding, etc.

 

Plan for the day -go to Cagneys and get a nice lunch. Relax. By time you are done, your cabin will be ready.

 

Spa Pass - we have never done that. In fact, on the last three cruises we had 2 free days, and never used it. But - I am sure if you ask the Concierge in the Suite Waiting lounge, they will take care of it for you.

But if we starve ourselves, we will appreciate the food more :D Well late boarding would not be an issue if we have the lounge food. But if there is an issue with security or the lounge is out of service for some reason I guess that could cause some issue.

In our last cruise we had SPA included in our rooms so we tried in and liked it so would like to have it, especially on the sea days which we have a bunch of.

Once you arrive at the pier building let the ladies know you are a Suite guest, they'll advise you where to go depending upon what time you arrive. If you arrive early they'll have you wait in the chairs and then send you through the suite line to go through security when that opens. If you arrive after they've started going through security they will show you with is the suite line to get in.

 

After security they'll be signs for the Suite/Haven guests, and generally another worker there who'll check you off the list and escort you in to the suite lounge. In there you'll be able to check in, and have some snacks...juice/coffee/pound cake/pastries/fruit while you wait until about 11:30 AM when they generally start boarding the ship.

 

You'll be escorted on the ship and right up to Cagney's where you can have lunch at that time.

 

 

If' you happen to be cruising on 1/30 the above information won't be correct since both the GEM and the BREAKAWAY will be in port at the same time. I believe the GEM will be down at the other pier, they have a different check in area and waiting area.....but the process is very similar.

 

*Norwegian uses both pier 88 and pier 90 when both ships are in at the same time.

Thanks, yes our cruise is the 1/30 one. Do you happen to know at what time the lounge opens?

And when I get on the ship and get left at Cagneys, I can go to get the SPA passes? Or the concierge/butler can take care of that?

This is the first time I am booking with a full suite on a cruise. I have sailed on once NCL before years ago (though unfortunately it was my worst cruise, Luckily I think the suite perks would have most likely mitigated most if not all of my issues on that trip so I am not too worried but that is another story).

So I would like to know how to go about the first day. I live in NY, so I have no airlines to worry about, just a simple car ride.

1) Should I worry about breakfast at home? Or will the lounge perk have me covered until I get on the ship?

2) When I get to the terminal, do I go through security first? Or do I take advantage of my suite perks for priority boarding as soon as I come in?

3) I know I get to board the ship early but how early? NCL suggests 2 hours before embankment time but if I want to get on the ship as soon as possible, what is the best time to come?

4) I want to get SPA passes (have over $800 of OBC so yeah), at what time would be the ideal time to go for them?

5) I have UDP as part of the promotion, how should I go about dinner on the first day? Should I reserve it pre-cruise using my conseirge? Or can I reserve it once I get on board? (During my last cruise with NCL which again was years ago, MDR was mostly a miss for me so I'd rather avoid it if possible). Is Teppanyaki an option on the first day? (It was the one we liked most on our previous cruise)

Anything else I should note on the first day?

This might not work if you are on a budget but from what I understand, if you take a suite you can have the butler serve you every night at your designated time. No?

Cut me some slack. It seems to me most of the people going to the buffet are more interested in quantity over quality.

I personally like buffets for the variety of choices, but the quality is important too. When I was on the dawn a few years back the buffet and (dinning food too) was pretty bad. Only ok food was reservations though hibachi was good.

The buffet was so bad that when you went to the pasta station, I couldn't tell if the sauce I asked for was marinara or water.

I don't ask for much from buffets, maybe say Bellagio quality :rolleyes:

I am cruising about a month later for 10 days and they quoted me $202 per person.

 

How many days is your cruise? Thanks. Carol

umm...I am assuming that there are 10 days in my 10 day cruise...

EVERY web site that my teams develops is 100% W3C compliant and it takes minimal effort to code in a manner to make it be compliant. It is actually very easy to run a page through the unicorn validator and make any adjustments necessary. The problem with 'coding for firefox' etc is that a lto of the browser specific css "moz', etc" menas a page will not look right in any other browser. In the end, almost any effect that a developer wants to achieve in any browser can be done using W3C compliant code. None of that however changes the fact that Chrome is pretty far from compliant in many areas. It is almost as bad as the early days of the internet when you damn near had to have a 100% separate web site for AOL users. I am sure most of us recall going to a site and have a link that said "AOL users click here"...

Again, you missed the issue that I explained with W3C compliance, the W3C standards are too slow to keep up with the modern web. If you are making basic pages sure, but if you wish to use advanced new features you are pretty much stuck. That is why if you look at top websites such as yahoo, amazon, microsoft and etc they all fail the unicorn W3C compliance test (NCL and CC fails compliance as well btw).

And let me rehash, when I code for firefox, I don't mean code specifically using firefox only features. It means using firefox as a base. You can see what works across browsers using tools like caniuse or just use premade libraries like jquery. If you stick to 1.X they will even for the most part work even on old browsers.

Just because browsers implement their own scripting and styling elements does not mean they are not standard compliant. Those elements exist for more than just web development but webapp development as well.

I also think that you are going a bit too far with comparing it to the old days when we had separate sites for AOL.

I have never ran into any issues with Chrome on any site other than sites that are coded for IE6.

I am cruising about a month later for 10 days and they quoted me $202 per person.

Google Chrome is a second tier web browser at best. It does not fully follow W3C standards and as such it is the short comings of Chrome in many cases that cause problems with web site. Most professional web developers code to W3C standards, not to a particular browser. Trying to write code for the numerous browsers that do not comply would be all but impossible.

I am going to have to disagree from my experience on designing websites in the past. W3C is nice and all but realistically, you will be hard pressed to find websites on the internet that are W3C compliant.

The W3C standardization process is too long and is not keeping up with the web. HTML5 was just standardized this October! And this is due to W3C finally trying to speed up the process and dividing up HTML 5 into sub versions to be released separately.

The most common issue of compatibility on the net for chrome and other browsers are websites designed for IE6 and below. Most modern sites work on all modern browsers due to implementation of libraries that do the dirty work such as jQuery. CSS2 is widely supported, CSS3 remains a mess.

Personally, I code for FireFox (has the best debug tools), run into no issues with Chrome or Opera but often times have to make changes for IE. Though IE has improved so it is not as many changes as back in the IE6 days.

The NCL website is in serious need of updating. For one, a lot of the offline content becomes inaccessible when you log in. On top of that, when cruising with other cruiseships and visiting the websites, I can click on a room and get lots of pictures and a large floorplan, some even offer a 360 view! The deckplans in general are also more detailed on other sites.

I can understand that some content can get outdated and such, but overall the details feel really lacking even for the old content.

Even the most basic stuff like amenities are completely missing from the site. It just feels like whoever made the site did not have NCL's best interest in mind and just wanted to make the bare minimum they were paid to make.

Personally, I think the site is in need of a complete redesign and a lot of basic information to be filled in. Add an interactive deckplan too.

Any butlers on that favorite list currently on the Gem?

You can login to "My NCL".

Great, that is what I wanted to know. Thanks!

(and thanks to everyone who answered as well)

Yahoo is not one of the free sites. NCL is free as well as a ship position site, weather site and some misc maritime sites. Your acct can be seen through the free NCL iConcierge app. You log in to wifi to use the app but you don't need to connect / pay to be able to use it.

And even on the NCL site you can't use all of it. Ask and answer is blocked, so about the only thing you can do for free is look for another cruise or book a cruise.

Hmm...But can I log into NCL.com? or iConcierge is the only way to log in? Ask and answers are on a different subdomain so I guess they only limit it to the www subdomain? login is under www so unless they limit POST it should work? But would like some confirmation if someone knows.

So we are planning to go to go on a cruise on a norweign ship soon and I have a question about the internet. I am aware that the internet is paid by the minute and minute packages and thus.

But I have a question about what is accessible on free internet. Like in carnival they let you visit the carnival page and the carnival forums. Reading an old thread here someone said NCL.com and yahoo news are accessible? Can anyone confirm that?

Like what pages are visible without the paid internet? Can I say login to my NCL account on board? And what other sites are available?