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I've had a connecting PH room on a couple of Oceania ships. Never heard any noise different than normal room. Don't worry and enjoy your cruise.

Yes thanks for the reminder. I always check every now and then and have gotten some good price reductions. However it has always been a cancel and rebook, not a repricing. Also sometimes I find a big price increase like my cruise already booked went up by $5000 with the latest "summer sale". Naturally I am not rebooking. 🙂 🙂

I booked a March Papeete to Auckland cruise in May. As of July 1 PH3 is now $5000 more expensive(total for 2 without air). What's interesting is the air credit in May was -$4800 total for two but now there is no air credit. Also interesting if I do a mock booking with airfare the price only goes up by $598 total. The lack of logic is making my head hurt. 🙂 🙂

We did the Antartic cruise this January. The Antarctic peninsula was the highlight of the entire cruise. Amazing scenery and great commentary from the 4 on board lecturers/experts. Would do this again even if it only included the peninsula.

Generally bidding is open for all cabins whether available or not. Your experience would indicate that cabin category is sold out. So even if you were high bidder you wouldn't get the cabin. Occasionally someone cancels the last minute and one becomes available but very rare.

It seems the move was to Amazon Web Services. This moves all the processing to that platform. This should be a great improvement. The press release doesn't mention if the web design etc is moving too. So no NCLH has not eliminated the IT departments based on this press release.

Many (if not most) ports prohibit taking food from ship ashore.

Fortunately there was a Bait and Switch thread posted that filled in the gap for me. 🙂 🙂

I've no experience with regent but have been rejected by NCL and Oceania if I applied too far out from the cruise. Applying closer to the cruise in both cases resulted in acceptance.

I count myself unbelievably lucky. We took a NCL tour in Santorini so avoided the normal tender dock. Took bus from other dropoff point. There was no line for cable car to get down. I don't know why. This was on the GEM last august.

Cooking classes are scheduled for a specific date and time. On our last cruise of 14 days I think there were classes on about 6 days, each different. Many were one day a few were two in a day. They fill up very fast so must book when they become available.

It wasn't worded as a question but I put a question mark at the end as I wasn't sure. This will be my first Viking river cruise so am glad to know this. Yes on Oceania and NCL there is certainly jockeying for position...

Taking our first Viking river cruise in August. That's good to know. I think Viking can do this better because they run the tours? Oceania does not run any tours. They are all third party.

Yes I would choose the port authorities website over NCL. I did this for our Australian cruise leaving Sidney last year. NCL listed the downtown dock while port authority listed another dock across the bay. Port Authority was correct. Port Authority showed this months in advance. NCL didn't adjust until a week before the cruise... No use calling NCL as they didn't have a clue...

Although costly and a major hassle the OP did book a flight the day before. That was a good decision. I have used BOGO once and would not use it again unless very good deal. I had good flights for my trip to Australia but the return trip was delayed by the closing of the Aukland airport due to flooding. The airline is solely responsible at this point. NCL air was helpful in telling me the words to say to the airline rep(sorry I don't remember the phrase). Hawaiian air rep did get me on a flight two days later back home. I was lucky as most people were delayed for a week. Now for the "strategy" I used to get a flight only 2 days delayed. Before calling NCL and Hawaiian I went on Expedia and booked the last seats available for a flight 2 days later. It cost $3800 but I knew I had 24 hours to cancel. I then went thru NCL air and Hawaiian. Once connected to Hawaiian rep and they agreed to reschudle for no cost I canceled the Expedia booking and the seats showed up for the rep. The only additional hassle was the back and forth from Airline saying I booked thru a third party and had to deal with them and NCL saying they couldn't help. It was the NCL's rep that finally gave me the wording to say to the airline.

Yes check reviews for specific ships. For example we'll be sailing on the Star next year and thought we had booked an aft cabin with nice wraparound balcony on Deck 8. The nightclub is one deck lower aft and the noise is reported to be very loud until lounge closes. I rebookded to deck 10 aft.

The short answer is no. There is no way to get waitlisted on a tour using the website. I have to call in. The last cruise I did get the tour I was waitlisted on the first day of the cruise.

Just booked deck 10, this thread saved us sleepless nights...

On our behind the scenes tour on Marina I recall them saying wash is done in cold or room temp water. Someone else can confirm if I heard correctly.

A related question. Are the suites on the corners of deck 8 aft with wrap around deck just as loud(from Bliss Lounge). I am assuming so.

On a related note I wonder how effective is a humdifier in a ships cabin. It seems to me the ships HVAC system may swamp any effect. I am no expert, just wondering.

Fortunately the OP came back and said they rebooked the flight. Post #7

This morning the commute time from San Pedro to LAX is 35 minutes according to google maps. Lets assume you'll walk off with all your luggage at exactly 8AM. Clear customs by 8:30. Catch an uber at 8:40, Arrive at the airport at 9:15. You might make the flight. Seems risky to me.

I was just on the Prima port side in one of these rooms. There was no noise in13208. It;s the best room we have had on a cruise ship. It a suite so included butler service. However we really liked the layout and large space in the bedroom. Since it's not much more than a club balconey it's was a great deal for us.

Where you logged into the website when looking? If I don't login I never get a call.