MountainMermaid

As in the thread linked above, we were changed from Puerto Plata to Amber Cove and they talked about it like it was a completely different location, but it is just the Carnival port a few miles outside of Puerto Plata. Any tour company you book with privately would probably just pick you up at the other location, but you might want to confirm when you do book that they can do that. Our booked excursion with NCL did not change.

Yes, I stated it the way he phrased it... which made it out to sound like it all was a new change, but I agree that it probably was never supposed to go back to the old way on the clamshells and they just figured it out and "fixed" it. At some point there will be another update that also takes the "shore excursion credit will be applied" statement off of the clamshells booking page, but it still shows that for me even though it isn't true. Glad some were able to take advantage while the credit could be applied!

I also just spoke to someone and he said that it just changed in the last day or two and they now consider the clam shells and things like paddle boards to be rentals, which are not subject to application of the shore excursion credit. So those who booked it with the shore excursion credit must have done it prior to this weekend or whenever the system was updated to no longer allow it.