crystalspin

Welcome to Cruise Critic! I see you found your Roll Call yesterday. Other board(s) to investigate would be the individual ones for your island, under the Caribbean Ports of Call, here: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/456-caribbean/

Here is that discussion: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2972921-requesting-obcstockperks/ Here is the link-to-the-link, but you need to open on your phone to download from your respective store. Suspect the QR code there will take you straight through. https://www.stockperks.com/carnivalcorp

I haven't actually done it yet and was repeating the "solution" posted on the other thread. Only it's not BRAID, it's PLAID! (I was thinking BRaid for Broker.) StockPerks is an app for phone, either Android or iPhone. Only.

Look in the left column for a check box to use complimentary dinners. Or maybe right by the pax names...

So much for that idea, USPS is out. Received this email: CCLShareholderHAL <cclshareholderhal@hollandamerica.com> To:crystalspin@ Mon, Nov 13 at 7:05 PM Good day Ms. B, Unfortunately we can no longer accept any faxed, emailed or hard copy proof of shareholders eligibility for processing the onboard credit. We can forward on your comments to our management team, however you will need to create a StockPerks account and upload the required documentation in order to obtain the Shareholder benefits. Kind regards, Matt World Cruise Reservations

I can't find the other "CCL/stockholder OBC" thread where I jumped to (correct as it turns out) conclusion that StockPerks was going to be the sole way to request SHB. Some people had gone through the process accepting the BRAID default status which demanded you signin to your brokerage account. That was when I wrote my letter to World Cruise Reservations/HAL! Someone else later discovered that you do not want that default status but choose ALIVEA option that you won't need to log in, just upload what you would be sending by the old fax method. Wouldn't it have been nice for "Matt" to have told me that? Instead we depend on CC! ETA: found the other thread, added the email to it.

This is the email I had waiting for me this noon: CCLShareholderHAL <cclshareholderhal@hollandamerica.com> To:crystalspin Mon, Nov 13 at 7:05 PM Good day Ms. Bond, Unfortunately we can no longer accept any faxed, emailed or hard copy proof of shareholders eligibility for processing the onboard credit. We can forward on your comments to our management team, however you will need to create a StockPerks account and upload the required documentation in order to obtain the Shareholder benefits. Kind regards, Matt World Cruise Reservations

You probably can't stop us HAL-fan-kids from gushing about the laundry service. If the notices in your e-mail are annoying, scroll to the top of the thread and click on "Following" next to your original poster header. At the bottom of that dialog box, click "Unfollow"! Have a great cruise!

Some of the I's are incredibly small (my experience is with N.Amsterdam), with only a box-shaped stool at the desk, and no other seating but the bed. I would stick with the J and K on Main, on Vista and Signature ships.

Main Deck same as the Nieuw Amsterdam and Eurodam. (And of course the Noordam/Oosterdam/Westerdam.)

Re-read my answer, I was editing while you were reading!

Hi A! I just checked and Unlimited Laundry for my 35-day Hawaii/South Pacific is $7.50 per day (for the whole trip). That would be $135 for your cruise. It doesn't matter when you start the service, if you check unlimited on the slip, it is calculated for the whole trip. BUT, it is per cabin not per person. I personally could never rationalize the unlimited, but did use the bag option on several cruises. Here is what I got in a bag: However, now that I have attained Free Laundry through loyalty, and am contemplating 35-day cruises -- with carry-on luggage only -- I realize I should have used unlimited on some of our longer trips! One thing I want to add to Ruth's answer: HAL's laundry is VERY GOOD and will follow special instructions, even per item, even AIR-DRY!!! (it takes an extra day for air-dry to be returned). My first transatlantic I did all our washing up in the sink, including a least one man's cargo pants! because I had heard horror stories of (other lines) everything being washed and dried on HOT.

The whole fleet is supposed to have Starlink by the end of this year. I've "lost" my note about which ships had it and which still to go, but you should be fine in January either way!

To remove ONLY HAL cookies without crippling your other sign-ins, Click the little circle next to the URL "address" in your browser. It may have a different symbol in it than my is showing (I swear it used to be a padlock!). Then select "Cookies and site data" or something similar depending on your browser. ^^^ HERE

Serendipitously, Holland America emailed me "Last Minute Cruise Deals" on Thursday, Nov 9. There were 20 cruises available, with 10 from FLL (7 RT/FLL and 3 TransAtlantic leaving from FLL). The dates were from Nov 24, 2023, to Apr 13, 2024.

Check your spam filter?

Hungry Whales still had to pay Viator, and that is most or all of their "profit". The rest is already spent as they outlined to you. The restaurants and bars you would have visited are not going to refund the money to HW on the chance that they might sell the food to other clients, for example. This was the risk you took by choosing a non-ship excursion and (especially) using the Viator agency. Hate to be blunt, but the real advantage to ships' tours is not that "you won't miss the ship", it is that you will be made whole if the port itself is missed.

We sailed a 9+7 day B2B last New Years with 2 booking numbers. They were not possible to book as one. We received $100 on each leg.

This gallery of 5186 shows that both "ends" of the SB cabin's balcony are the type of partition that can be opened. (I'm not sure either is shown open on HalFacts, but the Aft 'gate' is shown open on CruiseDeckPlans.) https://halfacts.com/5186-eurodam/

I was considering waiting for Black Friday (who knew it was going to start a week early?) to see if I could get gratuities on my bare-bones Voyage of Vikings '24, but the email on the HIA pppd rate going up 10% on Friday -- with the published press release on the other BF thread -- won me over to paying for HIA today.

My experience is that you have to get pretty high in the Suite category to get a wall and a door. High in the sense of fare-cost! I would suggest two CONNECTING balcony rooms. Voila a wall and a door! Two bathrooms! Most balconies have doors that can be open between them. Depending on cruiseline, you may need to go as high as a mini-suite to get cabins with comfortable seating (i.e. a sofa as well as a desk chair). For the chore of stateroom layouts, try CruiseDeckPlans.com -- I think the free version gives the room category layouts as provided by the cruiseline, and the paid membership lets you see actual photos provided by cruisers! Welcome back to posting on Cruise Critic!

I wondered about the lack of Roll Call so close to sailing! Our Hawaii/Tahiti has 140 pages! Hopefully the powers that be will just rename for the shorter leg and let you keep your information posts!

You are correct, I leapt to conclusion that the new way was going to be the only way. But based on other corporation actions, it was a presumption, not an assumption! I will go back to USPS mailing the information if necessary.

Umm. That is the subject and first (and fourth) post in this thread. I have just emailed Holland America for clarification.