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OP, are you my son? He keeps asking the same questions over and over till he gets the answer he wants. I've found the best way to deal with that is just to tell him what he wants to hear. What do you want to hear?

Seriously though no-one on here can give you the definitive answer for your particular set of circumstances. The airline and NCL can though. My simple answer therefore is to ask them.

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Freestyle dining. Casual experience. Late night chicken wings.

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It's horses for courses Arch. This obviously wasn't your course.

Glad you still had a good time but if the dining setup is so important you should've probably given NCL a wide berth. For is it's the main attraction but the world would be a boring place if we all liked the same things. Probably a lot busier too [emoji3]

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Yeah, I knew this would happen. Evidently, my body is not an appliance rated for electricity, so I'm not really sure about the amperage. I can just tell you the shock from 240v was significantly worse than the ones from 120v. Significantly.

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There are differing safety standards in different parts of the world, and as every traveler knows, different voltages and frequencies of power also. Having 220 / 240v as your source of power instead of the 110 / 120v is one difference that I can see that might make the regulators see things differently. Voltage doesn't kill but it is related to the killer, "current", which is twice as much on a 240v circuit that decides to find it's way to ground through your body via your curling iron. Having been shocked by both in the work place, my opinion is that a shock from a 220v / 240v circuit is worse than one from 110v / 120v. They guy blown off a ladder by 460v I knew said it was a completely different experience. I'm sure there are people who are experts that will now tell me that I'm wrong, and there is no difference between 120v and 240v. But they sure seemed different to me!

Current = power divided by voltage

So the same appliance will draw more current for It's given power output with a lower voltage. Assuming it can work at both voltages of course.

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No insult intended. Whilst you may believe that the US-way is the only-way, it is not. It is a statement of fact that many places would NOT consider putting either an electric outlet nor a switch in a room with water and high humidity. And cruise lines do NOT put non-shaver electrical outlets nor light switches in their bathrooms. Just like most places do not use feet/miles as a measure of distance (vs. kilometers), nor do they use gallons as a measure of volume (vs. liters). I believe that you even buy 2 liter bottles of soda in America.

 

There is no basis for the repeated assertions that the lack of electrical outlets is the cruise line being "cheap". It is a matter of safety.

But then we also have gallons (proper gallons [emoji6]) and miles ...... and litres and kg as well ...[emoji848]

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Welcome to the forum.

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The reasons for the cancellation of the Star call at Dubrovnik were a bit more complex than the OP was able to see from a distance without all of the information to hand. It was a very difficult call.

 

Last night there was a very severe electric storm around the ship and there were a fair few nasty squalls about for most of the night. The weather was certainly very unreliable. The Star arrived off Dubrovnik in good time for an early 7.00 am dock to give everyone time to get their excursions done but according to the message from the captain at about 7am the port was closed due to Northerly winds in excess of 90 kph at the time. There was no indication when or if things would calm down enough to tie-up safely. The options were to hang about for a while in the area hoping for the best or give up and set sail for Venice. The planned stop was already tight to allow for the various trips and any delayed departure to give enough time to do everything planned could have jeopardised the disembarkation in Venice tomorrow.

 

The Costa Delizioza was over an hour behind the Star and it looked like it had to to hang about for over another hour outside the port and then made it's way into dock by about 10am and it looked as though it may have needed help from a tug to get docked. It left for Venice at 1435 and it is now making 20 knots to make it by 7:30 tomorrow.

 

Had the Star captain decided to hold fast on the off chance of a clearance and assuming he then decided he could make it in when the port opened after all and also allowed both big ships to dock at the same time (unlikely) there would only have been about three hours left for the excursions without a lot of unpalettable issues. He would then have been left with either a logical nightmare with the excursion teams, dissapointed passengers who had no time to get into and out of Dubrovnik or stay late and have to race back to Venice after an overstay to make the stop worthwhile and if no clearance came, cope with all three! Never mind all the safety issues to consider.

 

Captain's decision - our safety - no contest - good call.

 

This episode goes to show how complicated things can end up when the weather decides to get nasty and unreliable with a cruise ship.

What a brilliantly concise and explanatory post. Explains exactly to the OP the considerations of the Captain, whose primary consideration is safety of passengers, crew and ship.

Well said Sir, or Ma'am [emoji122]

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