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Around the World if your resident diva is Carlos. (Just my opinion.)

Thanks, all!

Looks like it’ll be a full sailing. Nothing available in app. I will have Rockstar status. (Not Mega.) If I want to have a dinner or two with friends onboard who are not rockstars, what is my first move onboard? Try the app? Rockstar agent? Food booking person/desk? I usually don’t stress about this stuff but this will be my first full sailing and I don’t like eating late.

Reading between the lines, I suspect the FBI is mostly concerned with child exploitation materials. Meaning, minors who might have been caught on the camera.

I think the point of posting it here was trying to alert potential victims (and possible minor family members), since it sounds like law enforcement has very specific details. Not to insult cruising.

Haha. Okay. What's your favorite cruise line?

Lol no. You clearly have an interesting grudge thing going on here with VV (is it because they knocked RC out of the honored cruise critic award spot?), but I’ve sailed four times and what you’re describing is just not a thing.

Some local friends usually drive me to the port, and in February I felt pretty bad that it took us so long to get that last half mile to our terminal. (Half mile traffic jam/gridlock.) This was about 1pm on a Sunday and there were clearly loads of ships in port. Doing the same thing again in a few weeks. Arriving early afternoon again. Just trying to give the friend plenty of warning and the option to decline. 🙂

Is the port traffic jam/construction still happening at PoM? We had friends drop us off at terminal V on a Sunday in February, and it took us half an hour to travel the last half mile. I’d never seen anything like it in years of sailing out of Miami.

Thanks. Asking for a friend who's sailing with her spouse in a few weeks. (Her 3rd sailing, his first, same room.)

I know the boarding lines ultimately don't matter too much, but if Spouse A is a sea blazer, and Spouse B has never sailed, can they both go in the DBE boarding line?

Bumping a slightly old thread rather than creating a duplicate ... I haven't been on NCL since before the pandemic (I've switched to VV now), but I have some credit still burning a hole on my NCL account. I have been poking around the redesigned site and trying to figure out why I was getting GTY/guarantee only for SO many sailings and cabin types, I guess I know now. (As it happens, one thing I was trying to figure out how to select a club balcony with a tub, which I guess is a family club? perhaps? but sailing after sailing wouldn't let me select anything but a guarantee. Same for some other cabin types including studios.) If they don't want to let me pick my own cabin (or at least show me which one I have been auto-assigned to before I pay, like VV), I guess that last bit of NCL credit is going to expire.

I dragged a friend with me on some VV trips last fall (a person who had never travelled much at all before). I kept telling them: we need to take advantage of this (low prices/crowds), it's not gonna last.

Carlos is my absolute favorite (no shade to the other divas).

You can in theory get in a standby line for a second night at the same restaurant, you just can't reserve it.

What are the 'flags'?

Unfortunately, this is the way. You can pretty much tell by the way they answer the call.

Maybe it's because the person (allegedly) landed on a lower deck, and presumably the outcome was visible to a lot of passengers, including from balconies on that side. I don't think that set of circumstances is as common as 'person overboard'. (I did hear (on reddit) that they got emergency tents up really fast to block the view, but still.)

No. One restaurant won't be open that day/night because the staff of that restaurant works the beach club. The rest of the stuff is typical of a port day on any other ship -- casinos/bars*?/shops closed. (*I just realized I have no idea if bars are closed when in port because I don't really drink much.)

As someone who has been through some ... insane ... technical issues with VV, I can assure you that your shipboard experience will be better, and if nothing else your butler (that's not the word they use but the term escapes me) will absolutely get you any reservations you need. We had Aleksander last month on Scarlet (we were also in a Mega), and if you get him he is fantastic.

I've had top notch housekeeping service on all my sailings (no matter what class of room), usually towel replacement (if not total, unexpected, cleanings) at night too. Galley: I guess I'll mention this here in case VV is reading ... last month on Scarlet, I did feel like the Galley has become a less pleasant place than it was last summer/fall. Servers are definitely more annoyed-seeming, it takes longer to get someone's attention (especially if you're trying to, for example, eat lunch on a port day), and on more than one occasion I saw servers who had passed me by multiple times beeline straight past me to newly-seated tables of crew members instead. (This happened. I don't have a persecution complex and I didn't complain. I'm just observant and I was hungry.) (I have ZERO PROBLEMS with crew eating in all the public spaces, but if they're going to be waited on preferentially then you need more wait staff in the galley. Or let me go get my food myself, either way is fine.)

I don't THINK I had any power probs in the suite ... actually, now that I think about it, there was a spare outlet right behind the TV (once you swing the TV out). I usually bring a USB extender (or some combo of USB extender + long HDMI cable) to make sure I can reach in the regular terrace rooms. (Needless to say, I REALLY enjoy my in-room chillout time on cruises.) In-room content is kind of weird, seemed like there were some decent movies, but other stuff they'll have like ... one season of a show, but not the whole show (Downton Abbey comes to mind ... I think it was also just straight up missing episodes from season one.) I can't remember what, if any, live content they had. Maybe some news channels. It's also easy enough to get your FireTV on the wifi (although it will use one of your three device slots). If you stick to the "big" services like Netflix, you typically won't have streaming problems. (Or I didn't, aside from the occasional storm/ship network outage. But I also bring downloaded shows on a microsd card.)

YES, it should actually be pretty easy because (IIRC) the Gorgeous Suite has a TV that swings out from the wall. (It's also possible with the regular rooms/TVs but it's fiddly to get the HDMI plugged in. I usually bring a little HDMI extender and leave it plugged in all the time so I can plug whatever I want into it.) This is how you access the ability to change ports once you have your HDMI device plugged in: 1. Turn on TV 2. Pull the network cable out of the TV 3. WHILE THE NETWORK ERROR IS SHOWING ON THE TV, press the source/input button on the TV remote (it will only work while that error is showing) 4. Switch to your desired HDMI input 5. Plug the network cable back in (don't leave it unplugged, it'll eventually cause an error that someone in the crew will come try to fix). You'll probably need to repeat this every couple of hours or at every viewing session, sometimes it times out and reverts back to the VV in-room content. I used my firestick a ton on my last Scarlet cruise in Feb. (I was in a Posh suite so all the TVs swung out, but I've done it repeatedly in regular sea terrace cabins. But I also have small fingers.) Caveat for Valiant: I've only been on Valiant once, and they have LG TVs, not Samsung. It's possible you need a universal remote that has LG codes to get to the source input button, I don't remember for sure. (I had my universal remote on that cruise and I never checked the in-room remote.) On Scarlet, you don't need a universal remote, the input button on the in-room remote works fine once you have that error message up by pulling out the network cable. For whoever is going to see this and be all "*clutch pearls* why do you want to watch TV on your cruise": My money, my time, my vacation, my choice.

I don't mind it too much, but I wish there weren't two restaurants where you're locked into what is essentially a communal "experience" (Test Kitchen and Gunbae).

(Can't edit original post because we're still living in 2002 over here.) I think what's happening is that the "from $2610 per cabin" wording is based on a price that would be available if certain cabin categories weren't sold out, including but not limited to GTY. For example, it'll say you can get a suite from $4500 on a given sailing, but the only available suites on that sailing are actually $8000 and up. Or whatever. And this seems like the wrong way to present the info, since it gives people a bait-and-switch feeling. The 'from $$$ per cabin' value should be checking against what categories of room are actually available for that sailing. In other words, don't offer a price that is impossible to achieve.