On the NCL home page click on LEARN MORE under the header for whatever promo NCL is advertising

when the page opens click where it says *View for full Terms and Conditions"

and you should see

https://www.ncl.com/about/terms-and-conditions/promotions

The CruiseNext offer is toward the bottom of the promo page.  Below is copy and paste of the current offer.  This is very common offer - we prefer offers that don't require booking a balcony or above to use two credits.

CRUISENEXT DOUBLEUP! OFFER
Booking Window: May 9th – May 13th, 2024 11:59 PM EST
Offer Details: Book a Balcony or above stateroom on any sailing booked at least 4 months in advance and apply TWO CruiseNext, CruiseNext Haven, CruiseNext Lite credits*

We requested a one time price drop FCC for our NCL Spirit cruise sailing from Honolulu April 22, 2024 and arriving in Vancouver BC on May 8, 2024.   Received email on Jan 29th granting the request and stating the $300 pp FCC would be applied upon completion of the Spirit cruise and would be valid for sailings within 12 months from the scheduled date of debarkation.  The FCCs have now been applied to our accounts and show expiration of May 8, 2025.

Absolutely beautiful day in Icy Strait Point today.  It was our first Alaska port on NCL Spirit 16 day Honolulu to Vancouver BC cruise.  Sunshine, upper 50’s and viewing whales from ship and shore, couldn’t ask for more.  Weather forecast for Juneau and Skagway looks equally good.  We are blessed.

50 minutes ago, Rick&Jeannie said:

Day 11, Kuaui 

This amazing itinerary is very quickly approaching the end! I have to admit, a lot of it is becoming just a blur with it getting harder and harder to remember what we did in which port! 

Today we're doing the "Director's Cut" movie location tour. Another long tour at 6.5 hours. This is one that our group has been looking forward to.  Lots of movie filming locations. I'm glad I'm not using a film camera! I'd go broke burning through rolls of film! I'll get some posted when possible.  I'm "fueling up" right now at The Local!

Would love to hear what you think of this excursion. 

Only two more sleeps until we're on the Spirit.  Have really enjoyed your postings.

We booked the GoldBelt Tram in Juneau yesterday.  $49 cost, my charge -0-, Larry's charge $41.65 which includes the Diamond discount.

Looks like the kayaks aren't considered an excursion.

Thank you for taking the time to do this live report.... really enjoying it.

Have you checked out the Multi-Purpose room on deck 13.  Are there library books available there? 

What has been your favorite restaurant?

Karen

We are Diamond on NCL and for some reason I thought we didn't have to select a boarding time.  Had some difficulty getting

photos uploaded but now have our cruise documents and it shows time selected to arrive at Pier 2:30pm - 3:00 pm.

For boarding process it says Boarding begins at 12:00 pm.  Departure time is 7:00 pm    It also says

Please note the time you have selected to arrive at the pier.  Guest arriving to the pier before your select arrival time will be asked to come back at the appropriate time.        

Has anyone boarded POA recently who can verify if the Honolulu port sticks to the "selected arrival time" and denies entrance until that time.   If they're strict we'll ask hotel to hold our luggage and hang out for a while.  Thank you

Karen

1 hour ago, jean87510 said:

We just disembarked the Spirit for the March 28 cruise from Sydney.  I was going to post about our experience instead of a live thread.  Have fun!  

We're enjoying the live thread because we're on the next Spirit cruise.  Would also love to hear about your cruise. 

aft facing balcony???   do not book one on deck 8 as they are above Bliss lounge ..... noisy

aft facing deck 10 balconies are deep enough for loungers and chairs

there are some YouTube videos

We did a very port intensive cruise on the Star in April ... even though ship doesn't have an observation lounge or great outdoors she was perfect for that type of cruise

9 minutes ago, RosieRoo said:

I know this doesn’t answer your question, but I have a similar scenario. The price of my May sailing went down quite a bit. I received a FCC from NCL, same as you.  The weird thing is I had bid on upgrades before requesting the price adjustment. Now if I go and try and modify my bids, I can see them, but when I try to modify them it says “no eligible cruise found”. I have never seen that message before so I’m assuming because I got the FCCs it cancelled out my eligibility to bid. I’ll be curious to see what your experience is. 

I have an FCC resulting from price crop after final payment for our upcoming cruise on the Spirit and am still receiving Upgrade notice offers.

don't know when you're thinking about cruising but the Norwegian Dawn has a great itinerary April 22, 2025 and it is priced reasonably

using Firefox all of the April 2025 Prima sailings are showing up

31 minutes ago, AKR2011 said:

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I always pack seasick pills just in case. I would never expect them to be provided. I guess it's a nice gesture, but I throw them in my suitcase along with other "just in case" meds like Excedrin, Pepto Bismol, Emergen-C packs, and some kind of cold meds. Anyone else do the same?

We always take a bottle of Rugby Travel Sickness, 100 Tablets  currently $6.41 on Amazon.  Meclizine HCl 25 mg   Without medication I can get sick standing on a dock and in all our cruises have never been seasick when using these.  One tablet in the morning and I'm good.  Also use these when flying, riding in back seat of car or seated anywhere on bus or van.  

mking8288    if you're still on line you might want to edit your post to show stateroom upgrade using 60,000 points from Inside to Balcony .... rather than from OV.

Question on your diamond upgrade on other stateroom .... were you within one year of award?  We haven't used our diamond upgrades and don't know if we've lost them.

5 minutes ago, cruiseny4life said:

I saw that original article too. They took the name of the "spokesperson" out too. 

 i noticed that too     Original article listed a supposed NCL spokesperson

2 hours ago, laudergayle said:

Dang it!!  Still no xtra discounts.  I feel like chopped liver☹️

lol me too

Last year they gave me 10% off coupon (not the latitude sailing) but it was for same time period we were already booked on an NCL cruise.  Had to look at that stupid coupon until expiration date arrived.

We do have the Bliss latitude coupon this year.  We love the Bliss but our upcoming Spirit cruise has 5 days in Alaska and there is so much more of the world to see.   If it gets really cheap, maybe .......

At 2:16 into this video by The Cruising Sisters they show electrical outlet in interior stateroom 11306

Sorry ..... we did the very long tender day into Venice on our Star cruise in April.  There is separate thread about it so won't go into it here.  We flew into Venice two days early and then took the train to Trieste morning of the cruise.  We dearly loved Venice and want to go back.

It figures that on NCL website the itinerary for this cruise is still being sold as the original itinerary..... no pop up saying itinerary has been changed.

Question on how the one time price drop FCC works. I just received email from NCL advising they've granted us each $300 FCC after completion of our upcoming Hawaii to Alaska cruise on the Spirit.  Took less than a week to receive response so I was pleased 🙂

Once the Spirit cruise is completed and the credit is actually on our accounts how does it show up when it is applied to a cruise?   Is the cruise fare on the invoice reduced by the FCC or does it show as a payment towards total price of cruise.  I'm hoping it's the latter.

Thank you.

Here is a YouTube video by Kayla Djukic of NCL Prima sideways inside 16187.  Stateroom is in same location as yours but two decks up.  Room tour starts about four minutes into the video.

Here is NCL answer to your question

What are Norwegian Cruise Line's Age Requirements?

...............

and as mskaufman said people often book a parent and a child in one room and parent in child in another room for booking purposes

Also see this thread

I did erroneously say we went down the Grand Canal when I should have said

Giudecca Canal but it was still wonderful 🙂

I am very glad we booked the ship excursion to Murano / Burano because we were among the first off the ship.  We chose that excursion because we spent two nights in Venice before taking the train to Trieste day of the cruise.   I love Venice and want to go back!

Funny thing .... I'm filling out the Shareholder Benefit Request Form for our upcoming

Spirit cruise ($250).  Under Name it shows "Owner of the 100 shares will receive the onboard credit".  However on every single NCL cruise where I've submitted the form and backup paperwork showing I own the NCLH shares the OBC is split between my dh and myself.  Not a problem for us as very long time married but if they're going to split the OBC anyway why put that wording on the request form?

15 minutes ago, Sailing12Away said:

Thank you! I honestly never looked in that section because I never felt the need to know the times. Didn't realize they snuck a peek at the specials in that area. Only took 10 NCL cruises.... at least now next month for #11 I'll be a few steps ahead of the game. Hence the 'learning my way as we go....'.

Same for me except NCL cruise #25 is coming up in April 🙂

There are a number of YouTube videos on the Spirit ..... here is a fairly short

tour of the Spirit done by Chris Frame that shows most of the ship

This video by Iconic Adventures is also very good

Several YouTube vloggers were on the Spirit Honolulu to Alaska cruise last year.

Stef (Sean & Stef), Ben & David and ParoDeeJay all posted a variety of videos.

We're on the Honolulu to Alaska cruise this year so have really enjoyed watching them.