BunnyHutt

7th cruise, 1st on NCL, 1st to Alaska Bestie and I are cruising 3rd week of September. We have reservations one night for Onda, one for Le Bistro. Rest of week I imagine we’ll be eating in MDR. What is the appropriate dress for dinner? Thank you! 🙂

Booo 😞

Do the club rooms get the non-breakfast service fee for room service waived?

The only trans-Atlantic route JB currently flies is to London, with Paris and Netherlands being added this summer/fall. So *any* JB codeshare flight to Iceland will be on someone else’s metal. 😉

Thank you for the review! A girlfriend and I will be on Encore in September. You mention Choir of Man being sold out. Did you try to book it ahead of time or just wait to check when you boarded? I’ve never been on NCL, or any ship where you have to book entertainment so this is new to me. There are other, smaller, shows on other nights - correct?

This!!! OP - if you’re booked on an itinerary that appeals to you at a price and timeframe that works for you, take it!

Complawyer - what does it matter if you think this horse has been beaten to death? How is people discussing upgrade bids impacting you? If you don’t want to read a topic, don’t click on it! If your inbox is getting flooded with notifications on this post, surely there’s a way to turn them off. 🤷🏼‍♀️ For the record, I am booked in a cabin on a future cruise that I am 100% content with. However, I still put in a super-low bid on a couple of Haven categories because why the heck not? I’m 99.99% confident my bids won’t be accepted but the only thing I’m out is the 2 minutes it took me to click on the email and set my bids. And if a bid *is* accepted…. well I’m sure stranger things have happened.

Clearly you’re trolling at this point. Peace out, dude, and enjoy washing away other people’s pubes because you’re totes cool with that. ✌️

Exactly. But for some reason wanting a clean room on embarkation day is a crime against humanity. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I don’t like/want someone else’s hair in my bathroom sink. Yep, bar is super-duper high. 🤣🤣🤣 And choosing to cruise or not is irrelevant to expecting a fully cleaned room when I check in someplace (surely they have checklists to ensure everything is covered when a cabin is turned over??) It’s not like a cruise ship is some roadside no-tell motel.

Nope, didn’t miss the point. But clearly we have different definitions/visions of what constitutes a “dirty sink.” You’re assuming the OP is complaining about a stray q-tip. Having 2 teenage boys, I’m envisioning stray hairs, soap scum and dried toothpaste. 🤷🏼‍♀️ And when I’m on vacation (that I am fortunate enough to be able to take), part of the reason I’m paying thousands of dollars is so that I *don’t* have to deal with it.

College dorm =\= cruise ship. 🙄 Not to mention the fact that the girls dorms were cleaner (and infinitely less smelly) than the guys dorms. So maybe your bar is just naturally too low. 😉

I do not disagree with you that complaining on here doesn’t accomplish anything onboard. I was merely reacting to the fact that you implied that the OP shouldn’t be complaining (at all) that their cabin was not properly turned over. And a dirty sink and shower from a previous occupant are more than just “overlooking something,” it’s just plain gross.

You’re okay with checking into a dirty cabin? I’m a frequent traveler and don’t have the highest of standards (ie late service wouldn’t bother me) but arriving as a new guest into a cabin where the bathroom hasn’t been properly cleaned is not acceptable. At all. And makes me wonder what else was overlooked.

We’re in a “club balcony suite” for our Alaskan sailing this fall and I just got the upgrade email today. I bid low for the single-room Haven selections as we are perfectly content with our chosen cabin. I did an upgrade bidding on a Royal Caribbean cruise back in 2019 and was much more aggressive. We were happy we did as it was their oldest/smallest ship and the upgrade got us a balcony. It was a Cuba itinerary that got nixed just a couple of weeks prior to sailing and we ended up getting a very large (bigger than we were expecting) chunk of our funds back so it was very much worth it.

Right, I know it’s only for the first pax. I just didn’t think/know it was at every port.

We’ve got 2 teenage boys (15 and 17) and would absolutely choose the private space over the public amenities. It’s a spring break cruise - there will still be kids on the ship. Your son will absolutely appreciate the extra space as well, trust me!

$50 off each excursion? Really? I haven’t booked excursion for my September cruise yet but I was under the impression that it was only a one-time credit. Pleasantly surprised if I am wrong. ☺️

Why not? If an airline changes/cancels your flight, they don’t charge you the extra between what tickets are selling for on date of change versus what you initially paid. The OP did not initiate this, the cruise line did. If they’re trying to book the same cabin category on the same itinerary, the price should be honored.

I don’t see anything wrong with what you were told. It sounds like you both had a relatively mild case - symptom onset was absolutely horrible horrible timing, though you most likely “got Covid” before ever boarding - and did the responsible thing by self-quarantining. There’s really nothing NCL could have done for you more than you already did for yourself and they were completely transparent regarding the costs so they were trying to do the right thing by you in that sense. If you really felt you needed to go to medical, you still could have. And you would have been triaged, waited forever then and billed heavily same as if you had an ER visit on land.

Any rum drinkers on this thread? My drink of choice is rum and Diet Coke. Preferably Mount Gay, which sadly isn’t part of the offerings. It is a golden rum. What would be a suitable substitute? I’ll save the white and spiced rums for the umbrella drinks.

Thank you for this! Yes, the plan would be to use every day. 😁

My friend and I opted for the larger balcony (deck 8 forward) for our Alaskan cruise as we plan on spending quite a bit of time out on it. 😄

Thanks, everyone! I’ve got VZW and will just plan on reaching out with to my fam while in ports. 😁

Can anyone advise the quality of cell service they had while in Alaskan ports? Trying to figure out if I want/need to upgrade to unlimited (non-streaming) package. And before anyone says anything about not keeping my head stuck in my phone/computer while cruising, I’m vacationing with a friend and leaving my husband and teens back home. Awesome for me but I’d still like to be able to keep in touch fairly regularly. 😉