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10 hours ago, ReligBookFreak said:

If you ever arrange hotel or airfare on your own (rather than through Norwegian), your Norwegian travel insurance will pay NOTHING towards the lost airfare and hotel costs.

Alan

We get Norwegian Essentials strictly for the medical coverage, it is not and never has been trip insurance.  Like some others here, we are aware of the risks of not having trip insurance and consciously make that choice. 

We have only been on 10 cruises, most with Norwegian - we always get essentials insurance for each cruise.  Not that expensive and fairly good coverage.  When we start traveling more (after I retire) we will likely consider something like AIG travel insurance that SargassoPirate mentioned (above)

We were looking at Transpacific out of Sydney to Seattle or Vancouver.  Princess seems to be pretty good, but we have no experience with Princess Cruise Lines.  We are going to try NCL from Miami to Lima - then Lima to San Diego.  It has an overnight in Lima which is good for the laser show at the fountains.  

I have sailed on Norwegian 3 times at the discount rate (US Military) it is a nice perk.  I have not heard about the discount for other countries.  Needless to say - Taxes and Port fees are not discounted 😞

I think we are going to do a cruise from Miami to Lima, and follow on to San Diego, it is a bit far out (2026) but it looks like it will coincide with my projected retirement.  I was exploring ideas.  One was Australia (Transpacific - one way or the other), another was Trans- Atlantic.  But this is the one I have seen that goes to Lima out of Miami, and then back up the West Coast of South America, Central America and Mexico. My wife does not like the idea (not sure why) but she is coming around.  She does not know that I am planning this a s a retirement gift/celebration for both of us.  Should be fun!! 

I agree with SargassoPirate.  Direct Deposit takes away the non-cashing of a mailed paper check.  Sounds like these instructions have not been updated since last century (millennium).

59 minutes ago, coopco said:

 

 

Thanks for pointing out NCL has military benefits as well. I'll check it out. Appreciate the tip.

I did not know that Princess had an OBC for retired military until I read it in these forums today. To get the veteran discount on NCL you have to register with ID ME.  It was very quick, but they also send offers occasionally to the e-mail that I used. On our last NCL cruise the difference allowed us to upgrade for ~ $10.00.

Did you say that Holland America also has the OBC for retired military?

Out of curiosity, do they have veteran's get togethers or events on Princess cruises?

Thank you,

Wayne

We started Social Security recently, now it is down to optimization and timing.  So sometime between the end of December 23 - and July, 26

On 8/21/2023 at 10:21 PM, coopco said:

We have mainly sailed with Princess because of their generous military OBC. My husband and I are both veterans and we purchased stock when it was really expensive (but who knew COVID would hit and cause stock prices to tank) so we can’t sell it. Now that we can’t stack OBC, I have incentive to book with other cruise lines I always wanted to try. I know HAL now has a military benefit. Does anyone know of other military/shareholders offers that are attractive? We own 100 shares with both CCL and RCCL, which we bought specifically to get OBC.

We have stock in NCL and get OBC with them, NCL also is giving a 10% discount for military (wife is a veteran and I am retired) I saw this thread and according to Princess (website) military is combinable with other offers.

Military personnel benefit onboard credit program (princess.com)