ChinaShrek

Your room key can work to verify your identity for a tour.

I am thinking of booking the Indonesian Discovery or Holiday cruise. This is a 14 or 15 night cruise that leaves out of Singapore and goes to Malaysia and Indonesia. This would be a bucket list cruise but I have some questions before I book it. If you have been on this cruise, how was it? Is is worth flying to Singapore just to take this cruise? I am a history teacher, so I am thinking of sailing around around Christmas when i have two weeks off. How are the ports? I like history, different food, and Komodo Dragons. Will I see all of this? I look forward to all of your comments.

Many cruises are delayed a day or two returning to port and thus may leave a day or two later than originally scheduled. I always prepare for this eventuality.

Then the terrorists win! We must all do our part to have a free world. During World War One people sailed the Lusitania knowing there was a chance they it could be attacked. The cruise ship was attacked and sank to the bottom of the sea BUT it helped bring about American entry into the war.

I decided to cancel a shore excursion that I had originally paid with a HAL gift card. What is the consensus concerning the form I will get my refund in? Will it go back to the original gift card or will I receive a new gift card?

I cruise assuming that the cruise may or may not even sail and that the itinerary isn't really ever "set." Live dangerously!

You should never assume what a business advertises is what they will actually do or deliver.

You can always drop some money into the slots on your next cruise and pray for an offer a few weeks after you get back. Since Covid, I find that I get free interior cabin offers on many of the short cruises (Alaska, Caribbean) but not on the cruises I really wish to take. I usually spend (lose) $500-700 on each cruise so they aren't really free anyway.

Yes, I figured that but I also think an animal or two on a ship could really help with morale or provide therapy to anxious people. A lot of millennials suffer from anxiety. Goats could also work.

I was on the Rotterdam in a Vista Suite, Deck 8 and loved the bed near the balcony. I could sit or lie in the bed all day long and watch the ocean. When i it is further away, the view isn't as good.

I actually wish the ships had a ship cat or a ship dog. That would be cool,

A lot of people will not go on a cruise if the weather is going to be bad.

Do these lines offer cheap or "free" casino cruises for gamblers? If not, I'll pass thank you.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Why did HAL stop using bars of soap or making them available? I hate body wash but most bars of soap are for my needs.

Lots of bars around me don't even have a menu with prices posted anywhere for beverages. Prices change all the time. Sometimes prices are at the whim of the bartender or business that day. I have also found several bars in Maine charge more in the summer when the tourists are around and less in the winter when just locals come in. It would be interesting if cruise lines adjusted drink prices based on the demand from cruise to cruise.

Pinnacle Grill was completely sold out on the Koningsdam and Rotterdam for lunch about 36 hours into my cruises. I would book as soon as you are on the ship if you desire lunch,

What is the control panel for in the cabin? Are we supposed to navigate as well?

I have definitely seen it in the Lido this year.

I saved well over $1000 (even after the Club Orange fee) upgrading from an Obstructed Verandah Cabin to Unobstructed on Deck 8. I haven't even decided if I will use the restaurant for dinner.

Mandatory attendance at a certain time is a thing of the past. The muster drill is simply having your card scanned before the ship will sail.

It is actually $250 off each way. You do not get the full value of the credit if you wish to use miles for one direction and cash for the other.

That's a great way to look at it and I never thought of it that way.

$350 for a 7-day cruise is a steal if I am going to buy WiFi anyway, eat in the Pinnacle Grill, and use the shore excursion credit. That means I paying I am paying less than $100 for booze for a week!! It's almost like they are paying me to drink!

I guess if people didn't buy the WiFi Carnival wouldn't keep raising prices but I intend to look at cruise lines that include it as part of the total price.