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This was our experience in Sept '23 and Jan '24. There were maybe 3 over the water cabanas that were being used.

We were on 01.28.24 sailing. We were able to book our family of 6 upon boarding. You will need to go straight to Hibachi to book. Everything else can be booked a the specialty dining kiosk or at Hibachi while you are there.

According to the logo in the pool this is a NCL ship 🙂

Saw this comments from Michael Bayley on the unnamed site this morning

If you go on the app, dining, pick the venue, menus the wine lists are there.

Hubby hit a major last week on Voyager. $987 plus a couple of bonuses so he got around $1050. That was second time on this machine to hit a major. The other time was back in March.

About 30 days before the cruise your e-docs will be emailed to you, or you can find them online. The tags are the next to last page. You can print from there.

Symphony will be sailing out of Cape Liberty in 2024. We said for years we'd never sail anything bigger than Freedom class because of crowds. Finally tried Allure in 2020 before covid and LOVED it. Oasis is now our preferred ship class. Itineraries are much better on smaller ships though so if we are looking to visit other places we'd go with a smaller ship.

Thank you for this information. I'll try that.

Considering booking a TransAtlantic cruise and would need one way airfare home afterwards. Is it possible to check flight pricing prior to booking the cruise? I checked American and Expedia to get an idea and the one way fare is 3-4x the cost of the cruise. I'd seen comments that Air2Sea is the way to go to get cheaper one-way fare. I don't want to book the cruise if the airfare isn't affordable.

Priority now goes to those who purchase the Key.

OMG when I was quickly skimming the overview I initially read "Your casita is the ultimate retreat between DRUNKS in the pool..." I was like, wait, what did that say???

Yes I was excited about when Michael Bayley first started talking about it and saying it would be complementary. That didn't happen. The times we've been to Coco Cay at South Beach we've not had any issues with kids. I'd just as soon sit there on free loungers and enjoy my time rather than paying to sit at the Hideaway area.

We were on that same cruise and had the same experience. The kids were out of control! Climbing on everything, running, just acting crazy. We've been on 30+ cruises and it was like nothing we've ever experienced. We didn't know before getting on that it was Yeshiva Week. It is definitely something that we would avoid in the future.

There are some 8 night cruises from Galveston on Harmony that go to Coco Cay. We are on one 9/2024. I think there were 4-5 in 2024. Pretty sure I saw some listed for 2025 but may not have been Harmony.

Haven't seen it on any of our recent sailings. I loved that tower and wish that they would bring it back!

Wow! Our sale price on Wonder was $98.

We're on Wonder 1/28 and have booked dining packages but see no way to pre-book reservations yet. Since it's the test ship I'm hoping we get to book early.

These are the itineraries I was waiting for as well.

Yes, in the past as long as you were booked prior to the increase date you got the original gratuity. Now they want it up front. We have cruises booked thru the end of 2024 but I'm not about to give them all the grats up front for the next 8 cruises.

If you want to pre-pay at the current rate you can do so but it has to be before 11.11.2023. After that it will be at the new rate. We have always pre-paid but with the once a day service now, this second increase in 13 months is making me consider otherwise.

Last increase was Sept 2022, before long it will be a bi-annual event.

At one time when My Time Dining first started it was required to pre-pay gratuities. It still says that on their website but they no longer charge upfront.

I agree. Just put it in the total and be done with it.