JustAPilot

I’m with you mate, Epic needs to go into dry dock or get scrapped, it’s old, spewing sludge from the smoke stacks, rust in the public areas, state rooms are a crap design .

This whole they don’t care what you wear to the mdr on embarkation day is very ymmv. I wore a tank top and shorts on Epic this summer out of Spain because it was balls hot and was denied entry for lunch and had to go to the buffet. Told to go change even though our luggage hadn’t yet arrived.

Interesting, at first I was of the mind set that there’s nothing to be proud of if your slamming back 15 alcoholic drinks a day for 7 days straight. BUT when I used the calculator and I was being modest with 2 speciality coffees, 3 beers, a glass of wine and 2 bottles of water, the cheers package still came out ahead. So definitely use the calculator!

To answer your question, other than non alcoholic beer they don’t have zero alcohol spirits. I don’t see why you can’t email the Haven concierge and inquire about bringing your own onboard though before sailing. For our “ha ha” no alcohol crowd just remember the damage alcohol does to your body and the effects it can have being classified as a carcinogen. I commend this individual for their years of sobriety.

There is nothing on that list that isn’t bottom shelf quality. Captain Morgan? Sailor Jerry? Are you trying to relive your college days or just get black out drunk? 😂

This has been discussed to death on the NCL forum, $21.80 per day is essentially 2 drinks a day and that doesn’t include some silly 15 drink limit like Cheers.

The major lines now include the drink package as part of your fare. Nobody is running to their cabin these days to fill their cup with liquor. I’m on vacation, part of that is if I want a drink, I walk up to the many bars on the ship and order one as part of my included drink package.

Or switch cruise lines, what is this nonesense anyways with a 15 drink limit for a drink package that you paid extra for? Coming from the NCL forum I read some of the cruise reviews (which were very well written by the way) props to Meagan and other reviewers for giving us an inside tour of Carnival. Compared to NCL even without the fist fights happening where is the value with Carnival?

It’s in line with the rest of their non-new ships, Star is even worse with that cafeteria style garden buffet.

And you ask what recession we are in when your group can book the whole vibe to themselves lol.

Now that’s one heck of a way to spend 21 nights on a cruise, enjoy friend.

Now find out where they are keeping the Johnny Blue bottle for dessert. 😎

Haha yeah we felt the same way when we were docked in Barcelona with Virgin’s brand new ship across from us. Made Epic look like scrap metal, the burned out logo is the icing on the cake though lol.

Hey as long as they keep the goose and patron in the $15 category it’s all good. But really, I would think that Grey Goose and Patron would cost NCL more money including it in the drink package then removing Bailey’s and Crown Royal. None of those drinks are premium especially in Canada where Crown Royal goes on sale often. Even when we were in France this summer Grey Goose was considered premium and the pricing was equivalent to anywhere else you would get it. Patron even at duty free is not that cheap.

Yeah no one is itching to go to Alaska this time of year.

I just walk by them and think it’s silly, what annoys me is the groups you see of 10 or more checking in with the matching t-shirts. You just know they are going to be an annoying bunch crowding the bars and taking up the waiters time in the restaurants while they all hum and ho on what each person will order.

We also all live in Igloos and ride polar bears to work in Canada. Exchange US dollars for CDN at home at your bank or exchange place, CDN dollar is ridiculously low compared to the US dollar, or use your credit card.

Every year we get people booking hurricane cruises and every year we get complainers that they didn’t get to go to this port or that it was total mayhem when their ship had to divert to a non-scheduled port and immigration and tours were a total mess. I guess NCL is still filling ships and paying bills so the bad publicity they get every hurricane season outweighs it. Just pause cruising for those months and focus on filling the ships in the Med until November then bring the ships back for the Caribbean.

I still don’t understand what you are asking? If you “slipped” through the cracks and got a free premium plus package? The answer is no and if you cancel it then it will disappear and you will get refunded the amount you spent on it.

A DUI in Canada is considered a felony offence and not a Misdemeanor like in the US and you most likely will not be admissible to Canada without an exemption.

Ship looks fantastic, will see how the furniture makes out after a few spring break weeks in the Caribbean. 🙂

It’s for the better, the radar domes near the smoke stack where H2O is was covered in this brown substance from the stacks. I don’t think you want to be breathing that stuff in.

It kinda is, the op is asking about switching the beverage package included in their rate with the soda package instead. I’m guessing they did not book a sail away cabin and booked a regular priced cabin which bumps the price up to compensate for the “free” open bar. Anyone can log into their account and remove the beverage package which just refunds you the tips and tax so nothing the agent did for you that you couldn’t of done yourself.

Agreed, if your paying Haven prices they should include the premium plus drink package which includes bottled water. I honestly don’t get excited for San Pellegrino it goes on sale here at the grocery stores for $1.65 a bottle so not really premium to us.

Celebrity also only includes their “classic” drink package which has bottom shelf liquor where as NCL includes premium brands such as Grey Goose and Patron. If you order pina coladas all day and don’t care what they use then this doesn’t apply.