ChiefMateJRK

I don't want to listen to either of those ever.

What if your cabin-mate also owns 100 shares of NCLH?

Some don't need to be forced. The last thing they want to do is to sit on their cabin's balcony and miss the fun of being on the ship.

We did it once. It was free for two of us. It was worth about that. You may see more wildlife on the bus....

If a good friend was paying half the cost of my cabin, I will gladly share half of my itchy-and-scratchy bucks with them. If I don't like them that much, I'm not sailing with them. In fact, if my name is first on the reservation and we take a Shorex together, I'm going to pay them $25 to offset my discount.

Meet up at a bar on the ship?

Why are serving portions even in the equation? If you're still hungry, order more. Same price!

I got off the Spirit last Wednesday. The pizza in the buffet was the best I've had on NCL. They've gone to a slightly thicker crust that actually has some flavor.😎 Also, the "noodle soup station" (or whatever they call it) was great. They had a lot of good stuff. If I want a good burger, I go to the local or MDR. I sometimes get soup and salad at the buffet before joining DW and DD at the MDR for lunch. They like to get off the ship and shop and I like to stay on the ship and eat/drink/chill/gamble. win-win!

Welcome fellow boglehead.😎

It makes absolutely no difference how it is assigned.

There is a very well accepted saying on that major investing forum. "Once you know enough to select a good financial advisor, you no longer need them" This is VERY true.

I don't tip the Concierge or Butler a dime!! I do tip the Steward if the service is good. Not as much as others do (or claim to do), but I don't stiff them. I do tip the persons who prepare and bring me drinks, because they make me happy and I want them to be happy too.😎

If you book early, you can book an inside that doesn't have pullman beds hanging off the wall. Otherwise, just have the steward separate the beds.

Fortunately, a Guinness is still a Guinness, and they were at almost every bar on the 16 day itinerary I disembarked last week. 😎 A few ran out temporarily, but I may have had something to do with that.... No worries, I just ordered a Blue Moon.🐀

Works for me! Of course, I'm in the minority who couldn't care less if they want to retake my photo. I'm about to get on a cruise ship! Ain't nothin bringing me down.😎 Perhaps the problem occurs most with those who don't drink?

That sounds like a huge downside.

Ship?

Yeah, I'm just not seeing it either.

Like many, I have never smoked but grew up in a house with a parent who smoked. The smell has never really bothered me. In fact, on my last cruise I spent some time in the enclosed "smokers" casino room, to play a slot machine that was only there. Most of the time, nobody was smoking in there. There was one guy who came in occasionally to smoke but not gamble (yes, that's against the rules, but since I was gambling without smoking we had an offset 🤣). I'm not a believer in the hazards of occasional secondhand smoke. I'm sure it is more dangerous than bubbles on my balcony, but we're splitting hairs.

You left out the worst of all, often discussed here in the past. A balcony near people who have the nerve to blow bubbles off their balcony. According to many experts here, if one of those bubbles pops on your balcony, it will create a tremendous mess that will take hours to clean up and, even worse, an immediate safety hazard for anybody who foolishly enters that hazard zone. The horrors.😱

He might have been a bit wiser if he said to "focus on how to use the money you've saved." Unfortunately, there are many, many people who think that the only thing they can use money for is to spend it on themselves. Whatever makes them "happy."😎

What? I'm pretty sure than I'm one of only four or five who actually answered the question asked in the OP. Did you?

At all ages, life is too short to not enjoy every minute that you can. I enjoy every minute of my cruise as long as I'm on the ship.😎

So those are equivalent?

Interesting. Which venue?