njhorseman

No because the decision on your status will be made by CBSA officer after interviewing you when the ship arrives in a Canadian port.

This isn't a forum or a thread about Princess ships. The forum in which this thread is posted is Ask A Cruise Question, and the fact that a ship is small doesn't mean it isn't a cruise ship.

It just occurred to me that no NCL ship has been docked in Bermuda on a Saturday so far this year and the first ship that will is the Joy on August 20 so no one can say at this time exactly what a Saturday schedule might be. I would assume it would be similar to the Pearl's Sunday schedule as that is the Pearl's regular arrival day in Bermuda.

I'm a little confused about your statement "driving in from the east" since you list Cleveland as your home, but if you would be interested in a hotel package that includes parking and van, SUV or car service transfers to and from the Manhattan cruise terminal rather than taking a train, try trinityresrervations.com .

The ferry schedule varies by day and reflects your ship's arrival and departure times. In any case you've posted your question on a thread that has been inactive for over three years so the schedule in 2022 may look nothing like it was in 2019. I'd suggest you start a new thread .

You're wrong. Pride of America is the only large ocean-going US-flagged ship but there are smaller US-flagged cruise ships owned by American Cruise Lines and UnCruise Adventures that do Alaska cruises with no port calls in Canada.

In addition to my first reply, as of today NCL still has testing available at the pier for those needing it. The passenger will have to pay for the testing.

As I recommended to the OP, use CityMD, which has many offices in New York City. There is likely an office not too far from the Manhattan Cruise Terminal, which is on 12th Ave and West 48th St.

So before the B2B testing procedure change you weren't concerned about possibly being taken off the ship in a foreign country when you knew you would always have to be tested before the second or subsequent segment ? The new procedure lessens the chance of that happening so why would it cause greater concern?

The OP specifically mentioned the "planning section", which to me indicated they were may have talking about booking entertainment, although you may be right about the "IF". On the smaller ships even though production shows are displayed there you still can't book reservations for them and since the planning section doesn't tell you which shows will be presented on which nights not only can't you book them, you can't even plan for them. The Pearl is a unique case because of the ship is used so frequently used for charters. Because production shows are expensive to produce long term entertainment, with the same show running on the same ship for many months, even years, NCL may have decided it just wasn't practical to run production shows on that ship. There's still plenty of other entertainment on the ship.

Other than to satisfy your curiosity, why does it matter? If a test is needed NCL will do it on the ship at no cost to you . The requirements change so frequently that it would be difficult to keep the website up to date and since there's nothing a passenger has to do to prepare for a B2B test it doesn't seem to be worth the effort to keep the website up to date.

Entertainment is never something you book on the smaller ships. Booking show reservations is only for the larger ships, those built starting with the Epic.

Thanks for the compliment. I honestly don't think of myself as a big contributor to this board or an expert on the Panama Canal, but I'll gladly accept your kudos. 🙂 If we can lure @BillB48into this conversation perhaps he can provide some real expertise.

The OP wants gummy worms and pistachios...items that aren't going to be available from room service. We always bring a supply of low carbohydrate protein bars on board...again something you can't get from room service. BTW, it's common practice these days for the mass market lines to charge for room service.

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If there ever was such a place I don't think it exists any longer. AFAIK Fuerte Amador is the only cruise port in the Panama City area.

I had read that when ships were homeporting in Fuerte Amador earlier this year temporary facilities were set up in a tent .

Last winter ships were docking even though the terminal building wasn't complete. A Viking ship was the first, back in November 2021. https://www.seatrade-cruise.com/ports-destinations/viking-first-alongside-new-panama-cruise-terminal Buses were shuttling passengers to the port building adjacent to where the tender dock is . I've had cruises that docked at a number ports where there was no terminal building . For example it's not uncommon for a cruise ship to dock at a commercial port where there's no cruise terminal. There are even piers at which normally only cruise ships dock that don't have a terminal.

I've gotten the laundry back in less than three days while in a concierge veranda cabin, which also has the free laundry perk. I think the timing just depends on how busy the ship's laundry is.

You can't buy them in the UK. They're only shipped to US addresses.

There are no cruise ship calls there at this time of year and the cruise season usually starts in December, so whatever the rules were at the end of the last season, which was months ago, won't necessarily apply in December. Probably you want to check back closer to December.

You misunderstood what I said. Yes the cruise line is displaying taxes and fees separately. Many, but not all do. What the travel agency is including in that number is non-commissionable fare (NCF) which in the cruise line enumeration is included in what you're seeing as "Original Fare". Cruise lines are not allowed to break that NCF out of the fare . Travel agencies can break it out, resulting in an artificially low fare quote in their advertising and promotional materials. Again, the only important number is the bottom line total, not how the components are displayed.

Three bags per stateroom for the length of the cruise. Maximum 20 items per bag. Dry cleaning is not included. If you wish to do your own laundry the launderettes on board are complimentary.

I think you're "finding it odd" because you're calling it "tax" when it's not tax, it's non-commissionable fare that the agency has added into their enumeration of taxes and fees rather than including it in the fare as the previous poster has explained. Cruise lines are not permitted to break out the NCF that way but travel agents are permitted to and some do. Forget the artificial breakdown of the components and just focus on the bottom line total.

If I'm correctly interpreting that your question about balcony cabins has nothing to do with NCL ships per se but rather whether it's worth the additional cost for purposes of viewing scenery then the answer is no, because wherever there's something worth seeing you can just go to an open deck to get a view. if you have any questions about the NCL ships then you should post them on the NCL board. As far as airports are concerned you can fly into any of the three airports that serve NY City, EWR, LGA or JFK. Make your choice based on cost and schedule. LGA is the closest and ground transportation costs to the cruise terminal will generally be the cheapest. EWR is next closest and JFK the furthest away, but ground transportation costs from EWR to the cruise terminal will usually be higher than from JFK because of tolls to cross the Hudson River from New Jersey to New York. If you have any questions about the details you should post them on the East Coast Departures board.