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2025 itineraries were released end of September 2023 and 2026 itineraries were released in Mid October 2024.

Thanks.

As I have never received an email from HAL, let alone an offer, I have no idea what to expect, so my responses are based on the language as presented. The sentence: "You have to act by August 31 to take advantage of this offer, but your stay is free!" just does not make any sense to me. But this does not excuse the poor copy writing, whether it is by AI, or Copy & Paste gone wrong, or whatever. There must be several layers of management who should have read and signed off on it. They should be sent back to elementary school. edit: sorry, I intended to say that an email from HAL, should not need interpretation. It should be patently obvious what is being communicated.

Gleneagles Townhouse. Small luxury hotel and members club. https://gleneagles.com/townhouse/

Interesting! Did you add it at the time of booking a cruise, or was it added to an already booked cruise? When is the cruise and when did you book? I have only ever seen the option to add the standard HIA.

As I said, I do not understand the wording. However, I do not 'stay' on a cruise ship, I 'stay' in an hotel or resort and I sail on a cruise ship. However, it does not mention a 'free cruise' anywhere. But, we need to see the t&c's to understand further.

I don't understand the wording, but it does not mention a free cruise. The offer is for $200 Onboard Credit on select sailings. Nothing deceptive there, but whoever composed it should be kept in after class for extra grammar lessons.

There is a specific menu for Room Service Breakfast which is in your stateroom. MDR is only open for lunch on some sea days for a limited time window. I have not heard of anyone odering lunch from MDR.f

To post just two lines/one paragraph from an email could be deceptive, as we cannot read the context. Perhaps if you posted a redacted copy of the email then others could express an opinion. As it stands, it does not mention a free cruise, it mentions a free stay, but we have no idea where or what that stay entails.

Others have posted that it is possible to change prepaid and pre booked excursions to (regular) OBC (On Board Credit), however I do not remember anyone posting about changing prepaid/pre booked excursions to HIA. Certainly, I doubt a credit will issue automatically. You could try rebooking the excursion with HIA and then cancelling your original prepaid booking. (N.B. rebook then cancel, do not cancel then try to rebook as the excursion may be sold out.) Failing that your options would appear to be: book an additional excursion to use the credit, or, go to the excursions desk on board and ask them to change the prebooked excursion to using the HIA credit. If this happens, then you will be given the value as refundable OBC for use on the ship. You should be able to exchange it for cash with the front desk, but do not leave it until the last evening to exchange for cash.

If you go to the gov.uk website and apply for another ETA, would it render a webpage that says you cannot apply as there is already a valid ETA attached to your passport number?

DW also tries to put them in her dishwasher............... but I refuse to swallow them whole and instead let them disolve slowly on my tongue.🤫

Amazing the way humour/humor sometimes does not 'travel'. 🤫 This is Calgon over here. I did indeed ponder what you had been doing that necessitated protection and how you would get it as part of HIA. 😂

It's not really a 'Deviation', is it? You are already at the port of disembarkation. Is a 'Deviation' not when you want to disembark at a different port to the scheduled disembarkation port?

I did this on Oosterdam just two months ago. We were in a Signature Suite, but it applies to all cabins. We phoned Room Service as soon as the MDR opened and told them the time we wanted the meal delivered. It arrived on time. You can view the menu on the app or the stateroom TV

Sorry to read this Father. Hope your sight stays strong in your left eye. Although we never sailed together, it was great to 'chat' with you on cruise critic, especially during the dark days of covid. Thankyou for looking after the cruisers pastoral needs while sailing on those DAM ships. Colin

I didn't know if I should have marked your post with a 'thanks' or a 'like' or a 'laugh', as I really wanted to give you all 3! I love your honesty! 🤫😉

Doh! I was trying to compare 2025! Sorry! Too much wine with dinner tonight!

Showing sold out for me on HAL site

November 22 to December 6th of this year looks like her drydock, though I have no confirmation of that.

The 2026 cruise is sold out. I believe for comparisons of this type you must compare like with like and therefore you would need to compare the price of the 2026 cruise as it was 12 months ago with the 2027 cruise as it is now. Actually it would probably be better to compare prices at launch rather than at a random time in the booking process.

Depends on various elements. Will ETIAS actually be in use. Will EES actually be operating. Where will your initial entry into EU take place? Barcelona or Madeira or Azores? If Madeira or Azores then there will be no further interaction in Barcelona - it will be like a port of call. If Barcelona is your first call in EU then you will need to present for inspection, probably. But then, two years is a long time in the future.

Even stranger that nothing is shown for after August 5th.

Rotterdam departs Rotterdam August 30th and disembarks Amsterdam September 6th.