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27 minutes ago, drvmywifecrzy said:

 

Make a payment screen

thank you. Mine is still saying final payment due on 9/5/2020 for my January cruise.  Did they not change the final payment due dates on January cruises? I didn't get the letter either.

I guess I'll  need to call.

59 minutes ago, drvmywifecrzy said:

it will update in the details not on the summary page

where is the details? I can't find it? I have a January cruise with final payment coming up and would like to wait....

23 minutes ago, Budget Queen said:

You need to refer to the terms of YOUR booking.   Alcohol and dining perks would have involved you paying the gratuities.   Is that on your invoice?????  

Thank you, thank you. I emailed my NCL PCC after I got the confirmation about it because I didn't see that, but thought I'd check here to be sure. He hadn't responded so I emailed him again and he told me he thought he had added them - I'm pretty sure he didn't. I will say this - before all this, I never rebooked or tried to get a better deal or thought anything of getting those kinds of perks, I wasn't very savvy about that. I had called one time to get the perks within the last 6 months, and the NCL rep said I had to get all of them. I didn't want the alcohol, partly because of the gratuity and partly because it makes no sense for us. We sometimes maybe have a drink in the casino and we get free drink cards, so why pay that gratuity for a drink a day??? So I thought what she said was true and just took it for what it was worth.

When I using my FCC to reschedule a cruise, the PCC told me that I could book what I wanted, and didn't have to get the alcohol, so I've been getting a bit more savvy about it. Since then, I try to get the perks I can! We have never sailed with anything but the single perk of the specialty dining. But all of our cruises coming up, FCC paid, have all the perks but the alcohol!

After your email I went back and checked my reservation and on my NCL page. I compared my other reservations, and they do look quite different, without the dining gratuity. I was reading a lot about the suite, and thought it might be just included with that, but obviously not.

Thank you for all your help. I read your posts often - they are very helpful.

53 minutes ago, pcakes122 said:

Congrats on your comp! I just booked a comp back to back on the Gem in an Aft Penthouse so I think CAS is just really anxious to get us all back! 😊

 

I don't want to dash your gummy bear dreams, but I really wouldn't recommend them considering Covid.  I know people go on and on about NCL gummy bears and M&Ms, but I've never understood that. I'm not really that much of a germaphobe, but bowls of unwrapped candy never appealed to me - especially since I have no idea whose hands were rummaging in those bowls before mine.  Now with Covid, NCL can definitely keep their unwrapped candy!  (Plus gummy bears and M&M's are super cheap at the grocery store and are exactly the same as the ones that NCL serves.)

Oh yeah, I probably wouldn't have ordered them before Covid; it's just a wonderful dream. Glad to hear you got a nice upgrade!!! We tried to book the week before in the same aft penthouse but it was about $7000 and I just couldn't do it.

Thanks for all your comments, they are helpful.

We are on Deck 10. I've been having dreams of gummy bears. =0)

Do you automatically get all the perks (dining, wifi, shore excursion?)? We never do the alcohol as we get enough alcohol in the casino and don't drink much. But the perk is not showing on our NCL page. But the OBC is.

23 minutes ago, Sam Ting said:

Great news, if the ship actually sails and if it does you don’t end up getting it, or being stuck in the cabin for a few weeks.

Well I'm hopeful. It is a year away. And if it gets cancelled, so be it. And maybe our next FCC for that one will be a comparable package. I would think it would be, We've already had 3 cruises cancelled this year, so I'll always be hopeful.

As far as being stuck in that cabin for a few weeks, it would be much better than our inside cabin. I imagine it would get old, but hopeful things will be fine. Life is an adventure! 

I've been cruising for about 4 years with NCL as a Casino at Seas player. We have been on several great cruises on NCL, always an inside cabin offered to us, and we have chosen not to upgrade. We have three local casinos that provide us with Casino certificates, but none since March. Hopefully we'll get one soon.

We did one cruise this March, right before the pandemic closed everything down and people got stranded, and the other three we had scheduled this year have already cancelled, and we've received our FCC. Our October Venice inside cabin was cancelled last week. So we called our NCL PCC to schedule our new cruise. So we had an Alaska cruise this summer scheduled, cancelled, and used the FCC to schedule NCL Jewel Vancouver to Seward and decided to wait to see if we would get any offers. Since we know we won't, we decided to use our recent Venice cruise FCC.

We decided to make the trip a back to back So Vancouver-Seward-Vancouver. He gave us an Aft Balcony Penthouse Suite cabin, and we only had to use our FCC and another $96 for a cabin that is thousands of dollars. I have never an Aft balcony, or a suite on NCL. I am just amazed that we got that offer, with $600 on board credit. To upgrade our first week to that cabin would have cost us close to $7000!

I don't understand how we got so lucky.

And I'm looking forward to reading about the perks for this kind of cabin.

Although over a year away, I don't think I've been more exited!

So my big question is do we have the same kind of benefits of a Haven cabin? I've seen that we get a butler and concierge, and help with things.

Also, we are not in the same cabin for both trips. Will the steward or someone help us move our stuff and when? We want to go explore Seward, but want to make sure we get moved.

Any other advice to make the most of this experience is much appreciated!

We're scheduled for 10/25 ourselves. Hoping we'll be able to sail. We had to cancel our May Barcelona trip on the Epic. Hopefully we'll hear soon. 

I have two cruises scheduled right now with CAS. 9/5/2020 for Alaska, and 10/25/2020 from Venice. My Barcelona cruise for this month was cancelled of course. I ended up using the FCC towards my Alaska cruise. I have another CAS cruise to schedule by 6/14. 

So here is my question - am I only allowed to reschedule for what I already scheduled - like another Alaska or Venice Cruise? Would I only get the $250 pp value for another cruise, plus whatever I paid on the other cruises? In my offer to set my new cruise, it has some good cruises on it, but I'm thinking maybe we'll schedule a longer, maybe Panama Canal cruise? I'm worried our September and October cruises are going to be cancelled.

Any thoughts for those of you who use the CAS cruises?

So so many! We got off the Epic on March 8th after enjoying seeing some folks from prior cruises and making new friends, hoping to see them again on our May cruise from Barcelona, which is not meant to be.

There were lots of casino friends - Marie, V, Evoid, Hali, Coco (who we've seen on three cruises now), so many. And one of the hosts from Taste who remembered our names all week. We loved so many of the crew on the Epic. I hope they are all well. Several of them were close to going home - I hope they have been able to.

On our last cruise on the Jewel last year, we really got to know some of the staff - had such nice conversations when I got to play cards by myself with the dealers. 

I have enjoyed meeting the crew and talking with them so much. 

We got off the Epic the morning you got off. I hope the friends I made with the staff are all ok, especially the casino staff. We loved our trip. And are very sad to cancel our trip in May from Barcelona on the Epic. Hopefully we'll be back on her some time soon. 

no, it's an excursion through the NCL Epic. I would prefer not to go through a company that isn't through the ship. I did see that those are good companies, but I prefer to stay with a ship excursion. I have no idea who runs the ship excursion or anything else. Any help would  be appreciated. Thanks.

I haven't been able to find any reviews for their excursion in Castries, St. Lucia. Let me know if you have any input pleae.

we were on the same cruise! Looking forward to your review. Congrats on the casino win! We spent a good deal of time there too, but mostly at live poker.

10132 on the Sun. Huge.

loved it for our back to back Alaska cruises.

well I answered the question myself so I'll share. Rental at LAX cheaper than the Torrance and than Long Beach airport. And premier shuttle will take us from the port to the rental car place (away from LAX property, but associated with LAX) on Aviation road for cheaper than super shuttle. Thanks all for your help! 

On 9/13/2019 at 10:35 AM, Splinter said:

Did you check into getting your rental car at Long Beach Airport? Torrance is in the opposite direction from San Pedro than Orange, and the airport is closer, and right on the 405 freeway. Shared shuttle there runs about $15/person.

So I checked your idea out. Shared shuttle (via supershuttle - I didn't check any other brands) was way more than $15 a person. They had limited rental cars and they were more than the one I've reserved in Torrance.

BUT, it gave me the idea to check out LAX. We are flying back home from LAX. And they had a lot more rental car choices available. And were close or less than the price of our reserved rental. Supershuttle is $47 to LAX. So that may be a better option. 

My only concern is taking supershuttle and finding the car rental shuttles - but I can't imagine it's that hard at LAX right?

Anyone care to offer up opinions?

Thanks all for your help.

12 hours ago, Splinter said:

Did you check into getting your rental car at Long Beach Airport? Torrance is in the opposite direction from San Pedro than Orange, and the airport is closer, and right on the 405 freeway. Shared shuttle there runs about $15/person.

Thank you. I will check that out. 

I have the same question - and will they pick you up at the port? Thanks for asking Overlake7!

Will Uber/Lyft pick us up at the port? Or do we have to manage our way to a street somewhere?

Thanks for the info on Long Beach car rentals. I'll check the price, but I found Hertz at the Torrance Marriot for about 330, versus over $700 at the Avis in Long Beach. But I'll keep looking. It's been a while since I booked my Hertz that I don't remember if I priced it out and that's why I decided on the Torrance Marriot Hertz. Thanks all!

We get to San Pedro port on a Sunday. We rented a car at what I think is the closest rental car place open on a Sunday at Torrance Marriot. (Hertz). What is the best way to get there? Taxi? Uber, other? We have a hotel in Orange, CA. 

Thanks for the help!

We loved the Star last year for our Venice cruise. We did a  little bit of a different itinerary. To Drubovnik, Olympia, Athens, Kotor and Split. I may be missing one port. But it was fantastic. We stayed in Venice for a few days before. We loved the water bus, and the unlimited ticket was the way to go because we took the wrong bus a few times, and just toured, and got on the next one! 

As far as going to the port and checking in and then going back out, we found the trip in to the ship was time consuming (not the wait, but getting to the ship from the people mover), and we were exhausted. But I'm not sure that you'll be docking at the same place any more.

I spent a lot of time on deck 6 or 7, just walking around and looking.

I highly recommend the Santa Chiara hotel right in P.Roma. I felt like we got a great deal with the hotel and air. And it was just a beautifully luxurious place to stay close to transportation and to the port. 

I know you will have a wonderful time. I didn't have much time to plan as I working like crazy and my husband is not a planner. We ended up doing ship shore excursions for Olympia and Athens. Kotor and Split we easily did on our own. 

Enjoy the planning and the trip!! 

Hi shadowmeboy. I love reading your reviews! Will you be doing a review/vlog of your trip through NM? I'd love to see it....and see what you ended up doing. 

we flew to Seattle and had to wait about 6 hours before our train to Vancouver.

In that time, we walked from the train station to the Skyview Observatory - cheaper than the Space Needle, and I thought a better view. I believe it's higher. Just a gorgeous way to view the city. We then walked down to Pike Place Market and had lunch at Lowell's Restaurant which had a lovely view of the water on the third floor. Then we walked along the water back to the train station, and stopped at some shops. I was surprised we were able to do all of that and still had time (too much of it) at the train station waiting to go on to Vancouver.

https://www.skyviewobservatory.com/en-US/experiences

thank you for the wonderful review! We did a 7 day on the Star last October from Venice. We didn't have the same ports.

For those looking for a hotel in Venice, I would highly recommend Santa Chiara. It's on the water, right by the stop for the airport bus, and close to the train to get to the ship. Very delightful place.