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mmmm ... I think you mean Delaware River. Mississippi = New Orleans

And less expensive hotel-wise.

Remember Bermuda has only 2 berths for med-large ships at the dockyard - there's one in Hamilton but it's for the smaller sized ships. NCL is not the only cruise line that takes dibs to the berth(s) and day(s) .... NCL already has 2 ships visiting weekly, occupying one berth on Sunday to Friday - that's 6 days of the week. RCCL also has 6 ships visiting weekly, 4 days of the week. Celebrity one ship 3 days of the week. Other lines do send ships to Bermuda but they can do only on the days that the berth is available to them. BTW, in 2026 when Jewel homeports in Philly, she does Thurs-Thurs and will come here for two days Sat-Sun, just one overnight. Breakaway from Boston doing Sun-Sun, here in Bermuda Thurs-Fri one overnight. This leaves the Aqua which homeports in New York and will do Sat-Sat, and comes to Bermuda Mon-Wed 2 overnights. That means in 2026 NCL will have dibs to one berth for every day of the week 🙃. This year 2024 we have 2 NCL ships weekly, but in 2026 we'll have 3 NCL ships here weekly.

No tender ports in this itinerary. Unless one or so of these ports provides their own tender boats to assist Viva in transporting the pax between ship and port. Viva’s (ditto with Prima’s) lifeboats aren’t certified to tender the passengers to port.

OP said Viva in the title.

It’s great that you are able to go to Nuuk. You’ll be docking there. Nuuk is the capital of Greenland. Its old name was Godthåb.

Hey Y! I’ve been on the sidelines reading your fab reviews about Island Princess and great photos! Keep it up! Now it’s time for you to realize the real reason your ship is skipping Q and N in Greenland … if you haven’t been told. NONE of the ships that had Q & N on their itinerary have been able to reach either ports so far this year due to ice. They were able to reach and port at Nuuk even if it wasn’t in their itinerary. Hopefully you’ll be able to get to go to Nuuk. I read elsewhere in CC (can’t remember where) that the global warming is the culprit that the glaciers have been calving more this year, producing large icebergs to float out … a real danger to cruise ships! A real disappointment I can imagine - we also missed Greenland (3 ports) 2 years ago - weather related - and we went to 4 ports in Norway instead.

Reached a new and different height of hogging during our latest cruise (June 2024 Star Tromsø to Reykjavik via Svalbard) … breakfast time table hogging!! There was a large group of one nationality sans proper manners on the cruise. We searched for a vacant table on the last morning but many were adorned with 4 napkin cutlery rolls. Those table became occupied much later (like not within 15 mins).

I’ve tried entering our cc during online check-in time 21 days prior but they never accepted it as it’s a non US one - even though it was always accepted when paying for the cruise in full.

Yeppers, prolly started by me. We went on Encore’s maiden TA back in Oct/Nov 2019 and had a good time but wouldn’t go back on her due to missing Spice H2O. Also we’re fed up with the GoKart Tracks … new Aqua will not have one for the first time after 5 ships!!

It's Encore first dry-dock - Nov 17-Dec 3, 2024. Prolly a refresh, however, let's hope the Laser Tag area gets replaced with Spice H2O ... 😉🙃🤪

@ColdCruise it's the STAR not Sky. You can ask the mods to correct the ship name in the title.

Jobson's Cove. Crowded at weekends, and when the schools are out. (they are now out).

Yes, it's the Jobson's Cove.

You need to realize that the Bliss eastbound TA in Jan 2025 is the pre-drydock (in Brest France) crossing. Eastbound means you have several 23 hour days. January = definitely NOT a warm weather crossing. They will start stripping parts of ships toward the end of cruise. A month later, in Feb 2025 Bliss is on westbound post-drydock TA back to Miami with same ports of calls but with some 25 hour days. Still not a warm weather crossing either. They will be finishing the uncompleted jobs and making finishing touches during the voyage.