SeekingKillerWhales!

Thanks for another great review. Can you add a link here when you post about the Christmas cruise? Love reading your detailed posts! And wave if you are ever in Aberdeen! (Or passing through to the beach.)

Looking forward to it.

Sorry about your loss and the missing of the cruise. 😞

How does the complimentary ice cream work? Well, the first day it doesn't seem like it does. The second day you realize it is hard at work when it takes a little more effort to get your pants buttoned. By day four it is hard at work expanding your lower stomach and equalizing that increase through your hips. And finally, in an extreme burst of productivity, it settles into the space below your chin where it lingers for weeks after you return home. It continues its hard work, until you massively step up your workload. A very efficient worker bee that doesn't "cost" you a dime. 😉

Wait, y'all have access to all the M&Ms you want and you waste your requests on steak???? Pfft. 😄

Ahh, bummer. (Well, yay for the fish.) But now we have photoshop....

If you stay at the Edgewater you can fish out of your room. Just like those four long-haired Brits did back in the 60's.

Because people might want a removable tag holder. I was just making an observation from looking at the product.

I just got the vinyl tags in the mail for an 8/25 cruise, as did many others on the cruise. They are nice. Note the Amazon holders only fits the printed version, not the ones they send you.

I know we're supposed to look at the picture, but I love this fish mobile!!! Now I have to find some variation of one for my "ocean" bathroom!

Really looking forward to this one! We're on the Sun in August. Know it probably won't be available in time, but will happily read when it's available. And thanks for all the food porn! 10 days of not caring what I eat and I can hardly wait. (And, oh yeah I can't cook, so a variety of food is a wonder!) Love your reviews and happy sailing! And wave if you are ever in Aberdeen!

I think most people would, but the two people I am traveling with in August and myself all selected inside rooms on the lowest possible floor as close to the center of the boat as possible, to avoid sea sickness. Swaying that high up would have us all green all the time. 😄 (I'm the least susceptible so will take a higher room if one of us gets moved.) And someone else mentioned being close to the buffet - I find seven flights of stairs (we don't use the elevator) a great incentive against late night snacking! 😉 OP - I hope you have a blast and the room works out great for you!

They have a limit on the number of bodies they can hold in the morgue. If they get too many, they throw the extras overboard. Usually FIFO (first in, first out.) Same with the brig, although for that they throw the worst crimes overboard first, not by order arrested. Usually you are safe if drunk and disorderly, but completely hosed if assault and battery, or attempted murder, or worse. [Do I really have to say I'm totally kidding? 😄]

Those drinks look amazing. I'm printing it out and seeing if they have any available when we go in August. (Not going to Glacial Bay.) More to add to my lengthening "Drinks to Try" list! 🙃

I suspect an extra tip at the beginning (and end if well done) will help with getting the bed made up during the day and evening. (Since the room is tipping $80/night I think it should anyway.) Or you can have it made up in the am, and ask how to lower the one bed, and take out the other in the pm. I'd be surprised if you have to have the beds open all day. (But I'm an inside, singleton type so others will be far more knowledgeable than I!) In any event, have a blast!

I don't mind a later room ready time, or once a day service, or paying a small fee for room service. But when I check into my room that first day it has to be clean. I'm not living in someone else's filth. NCL needs to have enough staffing to get the rooms clean. Everything else is gravy, but that is a must have. And yes, I'll wait until 9pm for a sparkling room. 😁 Prefer not to, but clean is more important than early.

How much were the martini and margarita tastings? They look amazing. 47 days to being on the Sun, so I am especially loving this review. Thank you! Am hoping shadowmenboy does his magic too!

If you are willing to have a blocked view, why not bid on an ocean view cabin - you might get a much better location for the same price. (This assume you have access to the bid process.) I am biased as we now tend to get inside cabins due to affordability, noise and light abatement, and less motion for sea sick reasons. Never felt the need for a window (after our first Alaskan cruise with a very expensive balcony) because we are never in the room. And I'd hate to have people have the ability to look in my window. In any case, you will have a blast!!

Yes, under tonight's entertainment lineup, second page.

I recall someone on a thread mentioning that their insurance paid them $500 for cancelled ports, but I can't remember the thread, and I'm not sure that's a common insurance coverage. I wouldn't want to pay the premiums on a policy that covered that because I think it would be a very expensive policy. And, partially thanks to discussions like this, I will never book a cruise for somewhere I am dying to go, nor one where a single port being cancelled would destroy my cruise. Also, credit cards might offer some protection, but many others on here will be a lot more knowledgeable than I am. I do think you should get a % of your port taxes and fees back for every cancelled/non-replaced port, however.

Well definitely not if you haven't had a hot shower in 3 months! 😁

This is day one in Seattle. Wouldn't that be the schedule for the people getting off the boat, not those getting on, which is after breakfast anyway?

Grr, so I edited too long and it would not actually keep my edits. So just a new post to agree with weisla about real time buffet hours. Seas2mountains has a great review about the spirit and on the June 29th Daily, it shows the buffet from 7am to 11am. So chocolate croissant for all!

Gotta keep that Speedo bod!

I'm an early rising (generally around 6am), but can't handle food until about 9am. Often 10am. I also stop eating on cruises at 7pm, whereas I know people who start dinner at 10pm. Other people are also early risers, but late eaters. There are a variety of preferred eating times, same as not everyone eats the same food. I don't understand the people who think only their opinion and preference matter, and screw everyone who doesn't agree with them. This all goes back to customer service/value of the product, and the more NCL cuts corners an provides less and less for a higher cost, the more people will migrate to other cruise lines. It's very easy to compare the dallies of NCL and Princess and decide which is more interested in you being able to do what you want when you want to. And without large crowds all fighting for scraps the last 30 minutes of breakfast. No one should have to eat breakfast at 7am because that is your preference, same as no one should be forced to wait until 9:30am to eat because that is my preference.