DonTheRadioGuy

Incorrect. Cagney's is NOT open for Specialty Dining Lunch on any ship.

 

On the Star, Cagney's/Mondernos are used as the private dining room for the Suites for breakfast and lunch.

 

The only restaurants that may be open for specialty dining lunch is the sushi bar or Teppanyaki. They use to open Ginza and the sushi bar on sea days, but more recently, they may use the space for other activities (e.g., $10 sale).

I've seen Cagney's lunch menus. I guess they're for the First Class passengers, then. I stand corrected.

You can always sail on the Jade. Her color is grey. Very monochrome friendly.

I think Cagney's is open for lunch.

It works that way on the other cruise lines. Someone new to Norwegian won't expect this quirk.

Really? Learn something every day.

I'm not sure why anyone would expect this to be any different. They're not going to pay your tips for you.

I suppose this is a result of RC making it easier for passengers to remove the gratuities so that folks who do follow the recommendations get stuck paying more.

Yep. I'd love to see the numbers on how many stiffs there are on any given cruise.

I don't see how anyone could enjoy a cruise trying to avoid spending anything more than the basic cruise fare. Constantly trying to cheap out is exhausting.

I have a pair of sneakers that's cream white and have a pattern under blacklight. Finally get a chance to use them!

Thanks - I don't mind tipping, truly. (but the "Service Charge" is indeed another matter) I guess it's my combative way of opposing all the nickel and dime intrusions.

You picked the wrong cruise line for that.

Put $100 cash on your account and pick up your change on the way out. Don't be cheap.

Buy one!

Seriously, a good tailored tuxedo looks like a million bucks and if you rent more than once, it pays for itself.

Mine has only gone up. 5/14/18 on Explorer.

Isn't the lawyer that's always suing cruise lines over flag of convenience issues?

If I'm not mistaken, you can only smoke if you're playing. I guess too many people were using it as a smoking lounge.

On a 4 night cruise, is it night two? That's usually when most cruises have their formal night, to my recollection.

anyone bid the minimum and win?

I did. Inside to oceanview for $25/pp.

I just got the decline email so I figured I'll share the details.

 

Ship: NCL Escape

Sail Date: 1/6/18

Original room: Interior (IC)

Bid for: Balcony

Bid amount: $55-65/pp. Fluctuated a few time but settled on $65.

 

RESULT: Declined 48 hours before sailing

 

Obviously I would have loved to surprise my brother with a balcony for his first cruise but we will have a great trip regardless and will just have more reason to spend as much time as possible exploring all the ship has to offer. And I just made $130 that I had already spent in my mind so that's a nice bonus. There were a lot of balcony and mini suite rooms available for booking as of a few days ago so I thought there was a chance we'd get it.

Smart. I wouldn't go more than $50-75 for a balcony from inside.

Some may not get an email because their travel agents aren't participating.

I never knew that. I guess I learn something new every day.

I haven’t been on NCL in two years and have two future cruises planned with them. I’ve read a lot of talk about bidding on cabins and I’ve never heard of it before. Clearly it’s bidding to get a better cabin, but how does it work?

At a certain point before the cruise you'll get an email offering a chance to bid on upgrades. There's a thread discussing the process that's hundreds of pages long, so good luck trying to figure it out!

lol thank you sir....

My pleasure. I thought about buying one and sneaking it aboard my next cruise lol...

Just prepay. The chances of the level of bad service you got repeating are almost nil.

I just read another thread about this. I want to go on NCL sooo bad, but no drone is a deal breaker for me.

 

Here is a drone video I put together from a cruise we got back from a couple weeks ago.

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I was in the "leave your drone at home" camp until I saw that video. That's really cool.

Wrestlemania? :confused:

 

I thought that had gone the way of leisure suits, disco, and Dodo birds. :cool:

Au contraire...

It gets bigger every year. It's an entire week of events now. The stadium show on Sunday, then full arena shows on Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.

I only do Saturday and Sunday. But many do all five nights.

Two years ago, they did 101,000 at the Cowboys stadium.

Like airport porters, we give $2 per luggage to cruise terminal porters. We don’t give tip to Uber drivers as we load/unload luggages by ourselves.

 

 

 

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You can tip Uber drivers on the app, anyway. No need for cash.

It's almost unusable on mobile. Terrible design.

We are leaving Minnesota on Super Bowl Sunday. Hopefully we won't run into delays with the big game in town. We are leaving that day for a cruise leaving on Monday. Living in MinneSNOWta we always leave a day early in the winter months. Hopefully we will be watching the Vikings playing at US Bank Stadium in Minnesota from our hotel room in Miami that night. :D

You might have had a harder time the day after when everyone would be leaving.

I have never been to the Super Bowl, but I go to Wrestlemania every year, and it's in the same stadiums. I never have had a delay at the airport the next morning.