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Beautiful pics, thank you for posting, can not wait to go.
Question, did you happen to see the memorial to the USS Juneau and if so where it is located?
I ask because my uncles name will be on that memorial as he went down with the ship, it is something I would like to see in Juneau
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If you want a land tour, I would suggest doing it yourself with a car rental from Anchorage. That way you can stop whenever you need to rather than being locked into an 8 -10 hour bus ride with a cranky kid and irritated grandma. Not to mention the looks from the other 50 passengers when the kid acts up.
Thanks good idea :)
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My cruise for this summer to Baltics booked and paid, now on to summer 2019.
My son, dil and I would like to cruise Alaska, son wants cruise/land tour which I think is just too intense for their 4 1/2 year old. Grandma doesn't want cranky kid making me nuts. By the way Baltics too port intensive so child is not coming on that cruise.
Has anyone done this with a child that young? If so, your experience and tips to keep them from getting tired, overwhelmed and cranky?
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I'm also looking as this will be expensive want to book as early as I can for June 2019 and have time to pay for it and then the air
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Glad I saw this as looking at cruise tours in Alaska for 2019. Think I may do the land part myself and not through cruise line.
I'm already peeved this summer my Baltic cruise which listed Stockholm as port has changed to an hour away, but can deal with it, Alaska hell no, I want what I signed up for
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And, again, I will say that regardless of whether this has been taken in the past, and regardless of how many times you have used it on a cruise (and the more times you use it with shipboard electrical systems, the more likely the surge protector is to fail), please do not use this device or any surge protected power strip on a ship.
The USCG Safety Notice regarding surge protectors on ships"
Why do people look for every way possible to circumvent the rules?? How much crap do you need plugged in?
Theses forums are full of questions from people looking to get around the rules from bringing water on board, smoking and now plugs? Vacation shouldn't be that difficult if the rules are to cumbersome don't cruise.
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Wow , that would be half my luggage allowance carrying all that . The only thing I plug in on a weeks cruise is my camera , then only once ! My phone and iPad are locked in the safe and only come out for 1 hour half way through the trip to check for any urgent messages! , no need to charge or power anything , it’s a simple life for me
I'm on your page, to me that is just insane. I don't even bring a camera to lug around use my Iphone for pics
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Perhaps they confiscate so people don't overload the electrical??? Electrical fire hazard???
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Just got the dreaded email for our June 16th sailing. Docking in Nynashamn (7:00 to 5:00) and no longer showing us cruising the archipelago after our day in Stockholm.
Now to see if they will let us book any of the excursions that they usually offer for Nynashamn.
Disappointed we won't be doing that
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I could go on a rant here but I won't. I am a smoker and have cruised NCL when you could smoke right in your cabin, this no longer applies and I implore other fellow smokers to follow the dam rules and go to designated smoking areas before you ruin it for all and they don't allow smoking anywhere on the ship.
You can't smoke on a plane so what is so hard about walking your butt to the smoking area???
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We are sailing 07/13 and I got the e-mail yesterday.
Not happy at all and the e-mail is so vague - what exactly is the detail of this 'berthing conflict' and why could it not be foreseen and prevented?
I also didn't realise we were paying a higher cruise price to dock in Stockholm proper!
My TA says there is no compensation and nothing supplied by the ship (i.e. complimentary transfer into Stockholm). Very, very poor show from NCL. An e-mail is going off to Vivian Ewart, for what difference it makes.
I had no clue either, and if that's the case a refund, free transfer, or OBC should be given
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I have been looking as well for early 2019 and the NCL website does not have any cruises listed for that time. Wonder if they pulled the plug on Cuba?
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Hmm but if o/p took travel insurance would that not be a covered reason for cancellation?
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I know we aren't allowed to bring out own water onboard...however out of my 6 cruises only ONE confiscated my Zephyrhills packaged water.
Has anyone been successful with getting thru security on the GETAWAY in Miami with their own water?
Thanks!
Have not tried as I don't want to be lugging water around with me. That said the cost of bottled WATER on ships is obscene, so I can see where people would want to smuggle their own water on board.
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My cruise says Stockholm with Nynashamn in parenthesis. We are taking very expensive tours to Berlin and in St Petersburg so were going to try on our own for other ports, guess we will book something for here as I've no patience trying to figure out the public transportation in a city I'm not familiar with. I always worry something will happen and I'll miss the dam ship lol
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Having a hard time finding a solo to cruise to Cuba. Anyone with any info?
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Thank you so much! I've been wrapping up a review of a Cuba cruise I took with a friend in the fall, and I'm *hoping* to get a review up of a Carnival Journey's cruise we took for Christmas before we head off to Barcelona in three weeks :)
Cuba is on my bucket list, where can I find your review?
I found it and subscribed to your blog :)
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I have had my BOA NCL MasterCard for years, and have never incurred a foreign transaction fee, and, yes, I have used it numerous times with NCL. I think you were given faulty information and would escalate the charge to a complaint with BOA. Good luck.
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I used my BOA NCL card to book a tour with SPB tours and was charged a foreign transaction fee, had I known, and my fault for not checking, I would have used either my NFCU or Chase United card, the cards I'll take to Europe.
Did you have the card before BOA became the issuer? Perhaps if you were it was grandfathered into terms and conditions.
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Fantastic review and pictures, I was mesmerized.
I am going on this cruise in August on the Breakaway with my son and daughter.
Have bookmarked to go back for some of your great tips.
Thank You
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When we went last year with SPB it was "drink like a local" Night time river cruise and LOTs of vodka. People from different cruise ships were dropped at a restaurant for dinner and then picked up by SPB. We met some hilarious people and enjoyed the company and the beautiful evening cruise
The night time cruise was beautiful, the vodka was excellent and it was definitely worth it! We spent about an hour and a half at a local bar also.
It was so much fun and we wished we had more free time to explore. The restaurant wasn't near anything probably by design. If you have an option to do something at night with more free time, I'd jump on it.
Hmmm we were going to do the Folk show, but this really sounds fun and interesting
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Not me, after being on a cruise for 7 days, 9 days the last thing I want is stressing to get to airport.
I book a hotel for night and fly out next day well rested
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I've just done this nightmare. I'll be flying out of Newark, so Saturday I booked a UA flight with connection in Sweden via SAS, the fare was soooooooooooo sweet, but SAS did not confirm within the 24 hours so UA canceled reservation SAS does have non stop out of Newark but unless you are flying Business class by time you add up the cost for add ons like selecting your seat it gets pricey.
So back to the drawing board I went and chose UA out of Newark to Zurich, then SAS to Copenhagen
The Return is SAS to Iceland, then UA back to Newark. I try to stay with UA as many options such as luggage, meal I get no charge as I use their cc, plus my miles. It came down to the 11th hour before SAS confirmed. If they didn't I was going to book Iceland Air.
So glad I was confirmed yesterday as the fare for 3 tickets today is almost $900 or $300 pp higher.
The one piece of advise I would give with connecting flights is avoid the bigger busier airports such as Heathrow, Charle DeGaulle, I do this before I book, each airport has a minimum connecting time posted on their website somewhere. The busier the airport, the longer minimum connecting time required for that airport. Just google "minimum connecting time at ..... airport" and you will find what you're looking for.
I also NEVER book through a 3rd party site, I use it as a reference, then go directly to the airlines site, when you use these 3rd parties, if you have an issue you have to go through them, at least that is my understanding.
I am flying in day before cruise departure and staying the night when we get back to port
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When does NCL start to offer these bids for upgrades? I'm sailing the Baltic in 08/18 currently a balcony room.
I'm assuming it's way to early for me to be looking for this email.
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We booked a cruise on The Norwegian Breakaway for Aug 2018 with a departure from Berlin on a 9 day Mediterranean cruise. Fast forward to today and I am trying to find out about purchasing transfers from the airport to the cruise ship and back and guess what its nowhere to be found. You can find info on all of the other ports that Norwegian serves EXCEPT Berlin. So I call Norwegian and they inform me that 1. They have no airfare to berlin from JFK, "you find your own way" and second the transfer from Berlin to the cruise port is $600 PP EACH WAY. yes that is 4800 for 4 people roundtrip. To make a long story short no matter what I tried to ask the supervisor her answer was "we reserve the right to modify anything we want, if you don't like it then cancel otherwise find your own way!
OK norwegian I will speak with my wallet!
I had booked an August 2018 cruise to the Baltic embarking in Berlin?Warnumude, I then researched as I knew Berlin was no where near water, realizing Warnumude is the port. I quickly called and changed embarkation to Copenhagen as Berlin is 250 miles to cruise port, rep said I would be better off flying in to Hamburg, I think 150 miles away, nope nada nope changed to Copenhagen, this far out was very easy to do
Photos From Juenau
in Alaska
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Thank you so much and as an added note the ship was finally found on 3/17/18 after well over 70 years