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How are folks getting upgrade offers (ex. phone, email)? I am new to HAL and have used the cruise line emails for bidding from NCL/RCL but how does it work here? We booked through an agent and have a balcony for Australia on Noordam........just wondering if I need to whitelist something other than hollandamerica.com in my junk mail ha ha

Thanks for the pictures! Just curious if there is any way to see if your bed will be placed near the Window on Holland America? I looked at my Noordam deck plans and couldn't see anything. It seems not many lines provide that level of detail for some reason.

I can't imagine we will see Russian stops for 3+ years at this point. Rightfully so, it isn't smart to fund the war machine of a country toppling free nations.

Such a great thread of all the codes here, really wish this was a sticky, in fact should probably REPLACE some of those existing stickies TBH.

Cruise Fish website died now I use Cruise Plum and Cruisewatch

Just curious if anyone has had a city change recently on their BOGO flights? I selected BWI (Baltimore) but wondering if I will end up with IAD (Dulles).....however looking in the T&Cs it seems they only will select alternate airports within 60 miles and by Google Maps, IAD is 63 miles from BWI. I suppose I could end up with DCA (Reagan) as it is within 40 miles but unlikely as this is for international and not much there. "Norwegian Cruise Line reserves the right to select an alternate airport within 60 miles based on itinerary"

Is there really an email address at Royal to send your reservation back? Anyone have it? I found this one from a 2018 thread: Agencychanges@RCCL.com

They should have notified customers as soon as they could have, especially given the price point on the NCL Greenland itineraries. But other than that, cruise travel is risky and good they didn't try to force this one. Sorry for those who missed their desired ports, I know that would be very frustrating.

I was told by crew and other guests that the industrial facility was not allowing outside parties into the area. This is really the middle of nowhere, so even if you knew where the outside of the restricted area was, not sure I would trust the other party to find it. If it were me, I would definitely just have them pick you up at the shuttle drop point in town.

WRT Riga, the buses didn't have toilets, the tourist office didn't have toilets, but I am sure if you patronized a restaurant by purchasing a snack/ coffee, they would make one available. Honestly, even NYC is bad for public restrooms but I empathize with the challenge as I love my coffee a little too much myself and that is even without adding significant medical complications.

When I was there, that particular one-room stall was open with no fee required. Our itinerary had a particular lack of public toilet facilities in the ports, this one included. We just used this one, the free one in the library, and the free one at our bike tour meeting point.

We did the bike tour from this company, and they were great (they don't cover old town OR the central market on the bike tour, so definitely don't miss those in your spare time): https://www.rigafreetours.com/ It is a really sad arrival spot in the middle of a cargo shipping field without any cruise ship facilities...but they had 10 buses ready for us when we disembarked and tourism staff from the city were there to answer questions. Took about 20 minutes to arrive, but due to traffic took about 35 to return. Last shuttle to the ship was 6PM, and we caught the 5:30PM and it was PACKED with people standing / sitting on the floor. They drop you on the main road by the river, right next to a public toilet (link below), a few blocks from the old town and tourism staff meet the buses there too and provide maps and mark locations for you, HOHO buses are there as well. https://goo.gl/maps/DAeaqysnk69oURX6A **Should share an important piece of info which is that since this "port" is inside an active shipping port facility, taxis are NOT allowed to enter (and some refuse to go this far away to the middle of nowhere where they won't get a return fare). Some ship staff tried catching taxis to get back on time and had to be dropped off at the facility entrance, far from the ship and catch the bus from there** Overall, Riga is a glorious beautiful city and it is a shame the first impression is so bad, but they are doing the best they can with their port situation and larger ships. In addition to the sites seen on the bike tour (including art noveau district), our favorite spots were the old town, the central market (incredibly large and diverse but more for getting a "taste" of local shopping goods, not tourist crap), and the Library (easy walk across the river, a cool modern building with a few free exhibits inside).

We are taking RCL out of Frihamnen and arrive early at the airport 6AM so wanted a little more scenic way to burn time before our noon check-in. We are very mobile and only bringing one bag each so light travelers. If we take the express train to central station....perhaps a brief walk through Gamla Stan (old town)..... it looks like it is a 1KM (15min) walk to Nybroplan, where the local 80 ferry runs to Frihamnen (and beyond) with a 1-hour ride. Should just be 39SEK ($4USD) each as a normal commuter ticket. Anyone ever done this? Ferry 80 Map https://sl.se/globalassets/linje-80.pdf Ferry 80 Timetable https://mitt.sl.se/ficktid/vinter/V80.pdf