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I suspect @cruisenurse2 is really confused now. To Nurse, most people consider the Daily Service Charge to be the "tips" that are customary in the service industry. There is no need to tip additional as @complawyerand @MoCruiseFan describe. Nothing wrong with doing so, but, not expected in the way a tip at a US restaurant is expected after a meal.

If whale watching is of interest, we did one in Juneau with Steve Olmstead at Alaska Humpback Adventures. Great person, and even better experience with him. Reach out and see if he has space on your date. If he doesn't he might suggest someone who does (I know his niece runs a similar boat). He was great, met us right at the pier, gave us a quick little tour of Juneau and then off to the whales. We saw Orcas and humpbacks and much to Steve's dismay we had a humpback surface close enough that we got wet from its spray (I say to his dismay because the boats are supposed to stay some distance away from the whales. Nothing Steve could d it about it as we were not even moving at the time) Strongly recommend Steve. https://www.alaskahumpbackadventures.com/

That's our situation as well. I was able to book a BB category balcony that did NOT include the Free At Sea Perks. Even after adding the cost of paying for a couple drinks/day, internet and a couple of Specialty Dining meals, I found I was still about $600 ahead by not getting the Free at Sea perks. The problem for some people is that most categories that do not include all the perks also do not allow you to pick a cabin. I think I got lucky with mine.

To be clear, it's 2 drinks per person. for a couple that perhaps one person doesn't drink at all, that's 4 drinks per day the other has to drink. Also, to be clear, there are rate codes that allow you to pick your cabin but do NOT include any perks. It's not just "Sail Away" rates that don't have the perks. I agree. The search feature is awful.

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Only because this scared me into thinking they raised the price on me, the soda package is $7.95 per day 20% gratuity, so, $9.54/day.

Is it OK with you for people to desire steps be taken to make the ships at least a little bit safer? How about Norovirus - is it OK with you for people to desire ships take some steps to help prevent that spread and thereby making their ships at least a little safer? Or are you like others and feel nothing will make them 100% safe so f-it, no point in taking any of those precautions. Might as well save water and get rid of sinks in the bathrooms, right? Ships aren't safe, so, lets get rid of all the SOLAS stuff too.

All those words are completely irrelevant to what I wrote and have nothing to do with what I wrote. I didn't ask if you or anyone would "feel safer". I asked if the ship was some degree safer. If you can't acknowledge that with 10 (or even 1) fewer positive people on the ship it is at least some degree safer, regardless of how miniscule that degree is, then I'll assume nothing would make the ship safer in your eyes. Well there you go, it really doesn't matter to you what anyone does. By the way, again, I didn't say "safe" as in 100% absolutely safe. And I don't think anyone is trying to make that claim.

Oh, I think it's very apparent that s/he didn't realize it wasn't meant literally.

Isn't the ship at least some degree safer without those 100 people? I don't know of anyone who believes the testing is an absolute solution. I think most people recognize that it helps and it's better than not doing anything at all.

Would love to hear how the Intercontinental is these days, contemplating it for our November cruise.

I've had that happen before. The real revolt happened on the flight I was on where catering failed to cater the ice cream 😉 At least you got notice ahead of time. We were told after we were in-flight.

This doesn't make sense. If she is willing to go topless in public, why would it matter if people can peep on her balcony?

I can't believe the people in this thread making excuses or otherwise seemingly trying to justify a cruise ship being out of a type of spirit. I understand all the supply chain issues, but, if NCL is going to insist on Just In Time provisioning they put themselves at risk of not having what they need. Now that it's happened, I would hope they are adjusting their model and they start stockpiling so it doesn't happen again. Although I doubt they are.

what is the $100 OBC? If you reserve a cabanna for $260, you get $100OBC so net cost is $160?

It's been said, but, I'll repeat because it's important: check the Cruise Critic Alaska forum. I organized almost all our tours based on information in that forum.

Related question - When I bought CNCs back in 2018, I thought we were told that we could always use two if we booked balcony and above 6 months out. I dont recall that we needed to look for special offers. Am I misremembering? I was able to use both a couple months ago when I booked a balcony 6+ months out, I have no idea if I was taking advantage of a special offer or not.

If you read the review it states the open bar is very limited to 4 types of mixed drinks.

do you recall where or how you booked online?

This is kind of interesting point to me. I was an engineer for many years in the Navy's lead underwater sound lab. Our focus was on finding and identifying big objects in deep water (e.g. Soviet boomers) a problem that they had solved but we continued to improve upon. As the cold war ended, and smaller regional crises became the focus, the focus started to shift to finding small objects in shallow water. It was about that time that I left the lab and defense work. That was 30 years ago. I guess they never really solved that problem?

This is interesting considering the ship was at 60% capacity.

Despite what "Amber" wrote, I suspect you'll get some amount of port charges back. I hope you come back after the cruise and let us know.

@LGW59How many fractured wrists have you seen and dealt with? I suspect not many or maybe none. I've seen and managed a lot. You might be very surprised at how little pain is associated with many of them. Sometimes people need to be pushed very hard to have it seen and x-rayed and then they are shocked to learn it's actually fractured. I fully understand the lack of urgency on the part of the OP. I've seen it first hand dozens of times.