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Laszlo

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  1. Wow, in 2018 we paid for $3500 for a balcony on the Jewel 7 day to Alaska out of Seattle
  2. I found PCP's were a waste of time. For years we been booking with the cheapest place I have found to book. Our TA handles a bunch of different cruise lines. I always see what the price is with NCL then book with them. Depending on the length of the cruise and where its going we always save $300-$700... sometimes more. A number of times our TA has surprised us with $250 OBC
  3. Your ship will be sold out. If you really want a balcony cabin I would either get it now if you can or plan to bid the maximum amount. Keep in mind a lot of time the max bid is more than what you could have paid for the a cabin if you just booked it outright
  4. Thanks, I figured it would was internal and not external and the need for divers.
  5. Curious what could have been down that they were able to repair it in port?
  6. The DR has a good chance of being overrun
  7. Had a couple in the cabin next to us a few years ago who checked the only two bags they had because they didn't want to lug around a backpack or a carry on. Turns out all of there clothes were in one big 32 inch bag and other stuff in a smaller suite case. 10:00pm the first night I hear shouting in the hall. Long story short they ended up buying a bunch of clothes on the ship.... To say they were the most unhappy people during the cruise was an understatement. They even had their meds in the lost bag. My advice is two bring a carry on and a small back pack for each person, cross pack them. Other stuff goes in checked bags. We can go a week for what we bring in them.
  8. Looking for some photos of the Gem after the last refurbishment, specifically looking for photos of the forward (bow) cabins
  9. Yes, always cross pack, most important thing.... meds... clothes, electronics etc... in carry on
  10. If your luggage is 24 x 16 it should fit, any larger I won't. Our carry on bags are 22 and they seem to just fit as far as I remember
  11. You can't take full size luggage on, I've seen it attempted
  12. We had a Haven Spa cabin on our last cruise. We were taken up to the Haven restaurant (Getaway) with our rolling carry on's. A butler came up to us and said your cabin is not ready you can put your luggage in the room if you want. I took both bags, and went down two decks to our cabin. Our room steward was finishing the cabin and I dropped my bags off
  13. 2024 Cruise are going, 2025 a little up in the air. With lawsuits this will drag out
  14. My wife and I tried it once. It was nice however the food was warm. I had a steak and the mushroom soup for Le Bistro, everything was brought together. The soup was not hot and by the time I got to the steak it was warm
  15. It's pretty simple, keep your crap off the doors..... its not your house lol
  16. At Noon on March 13th 2020 the state announced my company would be shutting down. They were going off rules / laws that were 50 years old. Our reps and lawyers were able to fight it and we won, sort of. At 5pm it was announced we were able to stay open. We are a large printing company and we do work for some hospitals. Driving my 20 miles into work on the 16th was truly bizarre. It was like a snow day without the snow. The one bright spot at least for me was the couple of months of code red. Instead of taking 60-75 minutes to get to work it took 25-30 minutes Lol
  17. You can do a search..... Lots of talk about what to give. It really depends how much you use the butler and concierge. 7 day cruise we will typically tip the butler $100, concierge $50..... Lots of options. Last cruise it was $150 for the butler and nothing for the concierge... we didn't use them and only spoke to the person once
  18. I have so many stickers on our luggage it makes my cringe Lol
  19. And I thought I was the only person who takes picture of our check luggage Lol I do it right before I give it to a porter. I also make sure I have a copy of our plans inside the luggage and I use two luggage tags (ours) and I also put on two of NCL luggage tags on each bag. Maybe its overkill but knock on wood haven't had an issue yet. Cross pack and make sure any meds you take, electronics, camera etc.... stay with you in a carry on and or backpack. Yes I'm one of those people you see rolling there carry on onto the ship
  20. I don't tip any TA and my TA does more than any PCC does
  21. Never did it but I know a couple who did. The only reason they did because they like to drink. And the Vibe has their own bar and the Haven sundeck does not. To me thats not a good enough reason to spend a couple hundred dollars more. I can wait 10 minutes for a drink Lol
  22. You are welcome I like to think when TSA see's them they will pass on making a random luggage check Lol. They are great if you are like me and overstuff your checked luggage
  23. Bingo We have only left our luggage out twice on 14 cruises, thankfully I have very large luggage straps with our initials on them and I use AirTags These are the straps I use.... https://amzn.to/3T9P7w5
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