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I use these deals all the time. Make sure to read fine print. Purchase needs to be billed as NCL.COM (or cruiseline offering promotion) or phoned into NCL (or cruiseline offering promotion) and billed as Cruiseline to get the credit. I normally use these to buy beverage packages, excursions, specialty dining or to pre-pay gratuities. I used to always pay for everything in advance, but now with me being targeted with these offers, I now try and pay for things closer it gets to cruise, So as to save money or rack up those membership reward bonuses. My favorite one was an RCL spend 1K receive 20k membership points. I did charge money in Casino for an RCL cruise, so I could qualify for another bonus they had, unfortunately this was billed as the name of the ship and not RCL. So it did not trigger the bonus for me. So just be careful to read fine print. Luckily I was able to cash out the money and pay off AMEX charge.. LOL. Also some On board charges while on ship may be billed as name of ship and not the ship brand , so you wont trigger the bonus or cash back! ALSO: If you want to be targeted for these offers (all amex cards seem to get targeted) Make sure you add any cruise offer you see , even if you are not planning on cruising with them. They will see you are interested in cruising and will target you when available. Now with all offers they are limited to a finite number of users, so if you see it add it ASAP. You will see an expiration date and you have until than to use it. Here are some of the ones I am currently targeted for and have added to my card. An no I probably wont ever sail HAL or Oceania or Regeant.

I would recommend a tour on your own. We did a discover Miami tour. We had this wonderful company take us around Miami and Little Havana with a stop for lunch. Large Premium SUV fit the 4 of us comfortably along with 4 large suitcases. Picked us at port of Miami and dropped us off at MIA. shuttle2gomiami is the name of the company! Or hang out at MIA. If you have AMEX platinum or priority pass you have access to those lounges. AMEX PLAT- Centurion Lounge Concourse D by gateD12 Priority Pass lounge: Turkish Lounge in Concourse E and H (I think you can purchase day pass also)

Hmm. Very odd. I book thru my AMEX TA to get their freebies. Also received my shareholder benefit a few days later. Must be something off. Hopefully you tried to submit again. Glad to hear you sorted it out..

For the Celebrity overnight. Are we allowed to not come back to the ship until next day? We are also looking at booking this trip for next year. And Ramses 2 day (1 overnight in hotel) Seems to be exactly what we want to do. Long time cruiser...but never have done an overnight.

agree// he is one of the most informative cruise YT's but also super annoying and it's tough to make it thru his click bait video's. So many other creator's with way better content!

June 2023 trip. We used phone to tap to pay everything. From food, beer to tram's. No need for cash! Also tap to pay CC are accepted!

Yes very do-able. If you are arriving to Centraal. Exit towards the water side and walk to the ship (10 min walk) Drop bags off and return to Centraal. You can than take a tram to any area of city or walk around! Great City (we just visited on RCL in June) Sorry for the shaky red line I drew..LOL!! But this is simplest walking path to cruise port.!

I would not recommend taking a HOHO bus. Best bet is to get off Ship and make your way to the Amsterdam Centraal train station(10 min walk). From there take any number of the trams and get a nice view of the city, or take a canal boat excursion also found in the train station area. Both will give you different perspectives of this amazing city!

Flam is surprisingly Vacationer friendly. Lots if info signs and staff ready to answer your questions. Here is the area you can purchase same day trip's or ask about an existing reservation you have. Great signage with info about buses where to line up and what time they leave. I would purchase my excursions beforehand. Norwaysbest website has a lot of excursions that are bookable.

Looks like a great itinerary! Flam and Gerainger are amazing ports! Alesund is also very nice.

Yes you can! We did this last month in June for our Fjords/Artic cruise. To save yourself some time. Walk to the s100 highway. . From there it is a straight walk to the pier. If you go the front of hotel way you have to walk over a bridge and up and down some stairs and across the s100. (but some great views of the NEMO museum and the floating Chinese Sea Palace restaurant LOL) Red is the route I would take. Blue is the route we accidently took, we had to go across bridge up and down stairs and walk across the S100 and than back down to the pier. On the way back we took the red route back to Amsterdam Central for out train ride to Belgium. Straight walk to train station! I circled the areas where you have to walk up and down stairs

We just cruise out of AMS in June. There were 2 porter's standing in front of the conveyor belt. We showed our sail pass to the agent walked right up to the porter and handed him our suitcase's. They put them on conveyor belt. Very efficient process.

We just went thru Heathrow customs in June. United flight. If you have a biometric passport, there is a line with digital kiosks, you will put your passport on the scanner. Once approved the gate will open and you walk thru. You will than walk to the agent where they will stamp your passport. Extremely efficient. And I am not a fan of Heathrow! I would say we went thru in about 15 min. We took the Heathrow express to Paddington station. The walk is very long and took us about 20 minutes to get to the train area. Sign's are clearly marked from the main terminal to the train area. So very hard to get lost. But it ws quite a long walk. I would say it can take anywhere from 15 min to 45 min to get thru, all depends on how many flights are arriving and going thru passport control.

We had a GTY for Jewel Artic/Fjords cruise this past June. We literally did not get our room assignment until 3 days before cruise. We were on flight to Europe when we received assignment. LOL. We ended up in an oversize balcony they considered obstructed. We literally got this room for the price of a GTD inside cabin.

Absolutely worth it. Just to feel the power coming from the Bachelor waterfall. WHen you are on the cruise ship you just don't get very close to anything and you see things from a different perspective. Most ppl sleep thru the Fjord passage since it is so early in the AM, or having dinner when we exit the Fjord.

clearly marked. with direction name and how long of a trail it was. I would say they are basic to intermediate, just wear comyfy shoes.!

The amount of people all crowded on lookout point made for a terrible time. People were rude, pushing, and hogging up the good picture spot's. We had a family of 10 doing some sort of fashion shoot! and they were rude on top of it. The ride up and down made for more entertainment. Wishing I would have booked a RIB tour and or Railway. Amazing view's but probably could have seen that view elsewhere! Here is a picture of how crowded this place can get.

We were to be in Olden at 10AM. I was up at 440AM and barely caught us entering the Fjord. I would say about a 4-5 hour journey. So to be safe I would say 5 hours pre if you want to see entry into Fjord This picture was taken at 4:45AM. this might be an entry marker?? Here is a map of were we were at that exact time, already entering into the Fjord.

Just back from June Fjords trip. Alesund the 418 step fjellstua is awesome highly recommend the hike! We are both in our late 40's and not in the best shape and we made it up in 20 min. This is literally a 10 minute walk from port. View from top: Honnisvag - I recommend using blue puffin tours for their North Cape tour. Tour operator is a husband and wife team who live in Mageroya for "on" season. And in Tromso for off season! North Cape is nice and you can walk around the entire area! Beautiful scenery! Summer Solstice about 12:20 AM

Sorry for some reason it double posted!!

Bus from port of Olden to Loen is 15 minutes tops. Very straight forward route. Bus ran all day every15-20 minutes. To the top was about a 4 minute ride. We stayed on Mount Hoven for about 5 hours hiking the different trails. No time limit's technical plaque they had on wall with info.

Yes... Just back from Fjords cruise. I did not use cash anywhere. Used tap to pay from phone (google wallet) I even used my phone to pay to use a bathroom in Gerainger! LOL!!

We are just back from June 19th trip in Gerainger. We choose Boneseye, amazing tour company! Our skipper was a local who owns one of the farms in the Fjord. She had some great stories. We must have lucked out because it was only 4 of us on the RIB. We booked the 1st boat out. 7 Sisters The bachelor

Just back from Norwegian Fjords with RCL. Port's we stopped in. Gerainger (my favorite deep Fjord stop) Honnisvag (overnight for summer solstice) Flam (hiked waterfall path and went to Stegestein , which was a terrible choice) Olden (went to Loen for skylift and hiked Mount Hoven) Alesund Molde (stop was skipped due to Amsterdam and their lock/salinity levels, so we had to come home 1 day early) So if you have any question's I am now an expert.. LOL (thanks to hallasm for pointing me in the right direction when choosing the right Fjord trip for us, we ended up doing a deep Fjord's for the scenery and beauty)

wife and I are the same sailing! so excited!!!