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If anyone cares, the reason OP's tags were missing room info is because of the way NCL constructed the file for the tags. I ran into the same issue when I tried printing mine due to ink cartridge problems. OP, try printing from a different printer.

Just to add a data point, my 8 day cruise on the Getaway over President's Day Week was $309 per person.

Any questions about the Disney World leg of your journey? I know this is primarily a cruise forum, but I'm a WDW parks person so if I can lend a hand in planning for anyone then I always try to considering how much there is to consider. What are your plans for the parks? What resort/hotel will you be staying at? What are you looking forward to? Any specific food or restaurants you're targeting?

It's not going to be super accurate. The PDF is showing that it hasn't been updated since January 9th. Who knows how often they update this.

My ship arrives in Port Canaveral at 1pm and doesn't depart until 6:30pm the following day and I have these questions: Can I access the Daily from within the app when I'm off the boat? Or do they only provide it when connected via Wi-Fi or in paper form? I'd like to know the All Aboard time the day I'm off-ship. Is there any other way I can find that out in advance or at least the morning of? I'm planning on telling my Steward that I'll be staying overnight off-ship, but in the worst case scenario is there any person on the ship or otherwise in case we are late for the all aboard time? Please do not chastise me for asking this. I am planning on being back well before all aboard time, but I'd still like to know if there's someone I can contact in case this happens.

I don't know what you want me to say, it was clearly listed as being less than the price of a regular Balcony plus Spa access and it's weird that you'd even try and call me out on it.

On the NCL site, yes, that's what's being showed to me too. The prices I quoted were from my TA site, but I understand your point. It's definitely not a situation where the room was just booked, however, I thought that was the case early on too. If you try to go through the checkout process of booking a Spa room as displayed, it'll update and show as not available, but if you go back to the same grid 15 minutes or so later, or even a different browser at the same time, it'll appear as an option again. So it's definitely not someone booking the room before I can.

This is not what we're talking about. It's well noted and understood. I'm curious, not debating it, but how do you know they don't change room categories for each sailing? What's stopping them from doing so? A couple reasons. One, lower advertised prices(ie a Balcony without the Spa perk) help draw people in last minute(this particular itinerary is about a month away). Two, selling an individual Spa pass plus the Balcony room is more profitable than selling the Spa Balcony together.

Ah-ha! That's a great point too! I did the math on this one to be sure. The TA I'm using is listing the Spa Balcony as $160 more than the equivalent regular Balcony, but for this specific itinerary, the week long Thermal Suite pass was $309 per person! Meaning, they're pocketing the difference of $149 per person by not having to provide access to the Spa!

This is decidedly not what's happening. It's very clear that NCL has a timer for rooms in the checkout process already. It's very easy to see and understand that when someone picks out a room/diamond, it's held and not available for others. It's very easy to cross check this but simply letting the timer expire, giving the room time to be "re-added" into the pool of inventory until it's showing as available again on the site, and then calling them directly about it without adding it to cart. This is common amongst eCommerce platforms, especially for ticket vendors like TicketMaster. This is not what's happening. You're misinterpreting what I'm saying based on the other comments above. This is has nothing to do with temporary holds on rooms during the checkout process. If this were the case, my TA would be able to see the room listed as available and allow an upgrade for it and that has not been the case. I've asked multiple different times, multiple different people, and those at Team Lead or Management positions. Unfortunately, since posting this, I've learned why this is occurring and it doesn't sit right with me. The NCL rep I spoke to today informed me that they cannot search their reservation system by room #, only by room category. They confirmed this with their Team Lead. As it turns out, what's actually happening is that the room number that's showing as available on the TA site actually is available on NCL's end, but NCL has recategorized it into a lower priced category. Basically, the TA site is correctly showing the room number as available, but because it's no longer specifically defined as within the original room category, the entire category shows up as unavailable. What's actually happening with the room is that NCL has recategorized it from a Balcony with Thermal Suite access to a Guaranteed Balcony where room number isn't assigned until check-in. This allows them to essentially advertise and fill a Balcony room without having to provide the Thermal Suite privileges that was actually supposed to come with the room. tl;dr NCL is using better quality rooms with similar specs & qualities but without the additional benefits to help fill unbooked rooms.

I'll be on it too, we have a Roll call thread for it here:

Since booking my Feb 2023 cruise back in September, I've been keeping track of room pricing and availability almost daily. There have been multiple instances now where I've seen a certain room category open up that I was interested in, called NCL and my TA about it, and have been told someone must've "snapped it up" before I was able to. Despite refreshing the booking availability page multiple times or using a different browser with cleared cache/incognito after the 15 minute hold period, later in the day, or even in the following days the rooms still appear as available. When I go to actually click on the desired room category, the website displays that it's no longer available, but using a different browser it'll show me the pricing for that category anyway. I've noticed that my TA's website that pulls available rooms from NCL has never shown the same room category availability that the actual NCL website is showing. So either NCL isn't successfully pulling room availability to their own website OR they're intentionally misleading people to believe that certain rooms are available to try and get them to book a room that is available. Has anyone else had any other experiences like this?

To add to this, Laszlo's itinerary length is 12 days. Not sure why they wouldn't have given him 6.

I'm curious @Laszlo, did you receive your 6 free liters of water as part of the new Free at Sea perk beginning Jan 1st?

Haha, the Python script was only like 25 lines, took an hour to write, and would cycle through a new URL once every 3 seconds or so. I just ran it in the background and set up the code to write to a CSV if anything was found but nothing ever was.