Norwegian's increase in daily service charges

Has anyone received an email about Norwegian increasing their daily service charges? Our TA says this increase goes into effect 4/1/17. If you booked before 3/31/17 you can prepay your gratuities at the lower rate. See below for details......

' Please be advised of some important information about your Norwegian Cruise. Norwegian Cruise Line is making a nominal adjustment to its daily service charges, effective April 1, 2017. Norwegian's discretionary daily service charges make it easy for guests to provide gratuities to key onboard staff who provide superior guest service during the cruise, including their room steward, restaurant servers and behind-the-scenes support staff. The new rates for all ships, except Norwegian Sky are: $13.99 per person per day for any category up to a mini-suite stateroom $16.99 per person per day for any suite or Haven category To better address the demands of the enormously successful all-inclusive product aboard Norwegian Sky, the new rates for Sky are: $18.99 per person per day for any category up to a mini-suite stateroom $21.99 per person per day for any suite category Any guest that has made a booking by March 31, 2017 will have the option of prepaying their service charges at the current rate if done prior to sail date. Guests with existing cruise reservations who have already pre-paid their service charges at the current rate are not affected. '

I know it's not a substantial increase and the staff definitely deserve their gratuities for the great job they do for us. However, any little savings we can get can be put into a fund for the next cruise. [emoji6] Hope this helps.

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I am sailing the Sky, so I would have to pay 19 a day. We will be pre-paying.

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Has anyone received an email about Norwegian increasing their daily service charges? Our TA says this increase goes into effect 4/1/17. If you booked before 3/31/17 you can prepay your gratuities at the lower rate. See below for details......

 

' Please be advised of some important information about your Norwegian Cruise. Norwegian Cruise Line is making a nominal adjustment to its daily service charges, effective April 1, 2017. Norwegian's discretionary daily service charges make it easy for guests to provide gratuities to key onboard staff who provide superior guest service during the cruise, including their room steward, restaurant servers and behind-the-scenes support staff. The new rates for all ships, except Norwegian Sky are: $13.99 per person per day for any category up to a mini-suite stateroom $16.99 per person per day for any suite or Haven category To better address the demands of the enormously successful all-inclusive product aboard Norwegian Sky, the new rates for Sky are: $18.99 per person per day for any category up to a mini-suite stateroom $21.99 per person per day for any suite category Any guest that has made a booking by March 31, 2017 will have the option of prepaying their service charges at the current rate if done prior to sail date. Guests with existing cruise reservations who have already pre-paid their service charges at the current rate are not affected. '

 

I know it's not a substantial increase and the staff definitely deserve their gratuities for the great job they do for us. However, any little savings we can get can be put into a fund for the next cruise. [emoji6] Hope this helps.

 

 

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Yes, we got 2 emails today.

There are already at least 2 threads on the topic...

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2472418

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2472247

and a pinned thread:

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2472524

There was another one too, may have been merged already...

I got 3 emails from them around 10:30 pm tonight. $.49 pp/day which equals $3.43 pp for a 7 day cruise. It won't break the bank and isn't enough of an increase to make me pre-pay

I got 3 emails from them around 10:30 pm tonight. $.49 pp/day which equals $3.43 pp for a 7 day cruise. It won't break the bank and isn't enough of an increase to make me pre-pay

Our thoughts exactly. Our Travel agent did mention RCI did the same or similar. Either they did or they are going to, I don't remember which. Doesn't really matter. The amount of increase is not biggy, the strage figure of 13.99 is but I am sure it sounds better than $14.00. I would rather see a slight increase every year or so, than a $2 or $3 increase all at once.

I prepaid, there are 7 of us, $24.