Jump to content

Victorious8

Members
  • Posts

    629
  • Joined

About Me

  • Location
    California

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

Victorious8's Achievements

Cool Cruiser

Cool Cruiser (2/15)

  1. I’ve sailed in two studios (Escape and Epic), and inside on Bliss (shared) and an inside solo on Dawn. As well as a balcony as a solo (randomly got a free upgrade on the Encore TA) and a balcony with my partner on Breakaway. I am currently booked on Bliss and decided to take the studio even though there would have been no price difference. I feel like the insides just feel so bleak when I’m in them. I did not feel that way when I stayed in either studio. on Escape I picked a cabin right next to the lounge and loved being able to easily crawl my hungover self over to get some fluids in the morning. For my upcoming Bliss cruise I similarly booked the closest cabin to the lounge that was available. I’ve had a great time meeting other solos on my adventures. All of my prior solo cruises I was single. I now have a wonderful partner but on the holiday family cruise I was just on I realized how I missed cruising solo. I don’t think I’d ever do a 7 day+ solo again, but since my weekends are often wild and go go go, I’m excited for the nice and quiet 5 day trip I have planned in two months!
  2. Thank you everyone! You are correct I was looking at the Bliss repo! Just want some quiet time to myself but wanted to save PTO if possible/I love a direct flight. After considering things I will plan to take the 10am direct flight the next day (it’s the only direct flight for me). Since I am a fully remote worker I will just plan to leave the boat by 8am and then walk to my hotel. I’ll make sure to select one with a cozy lobby that I can use to catch up on work before exploring the city! Any recommendations are appreciated! I am an able bodied woman in her mid 30’s, definitely somewhat athletic so no fear in rolling hand luggage a mile or two. I’m from Northern California and it’s always been a dream of mine to sail in and out under the Golden Gate Bridge so that’s one of the things I am looking forward to most. My name is also Victoria and visiting Victoria has been on my bucket list since I first learned about the city as a child! Can’t wait!!
  3. I am looking at booking an NCL cruise that ends in Vancouver. The cruise arrives in Vancouver at 11pm on Thursday, the schedule says 6:00am Disembark. Are people normally allowed off that evening? If I wanted to take a 10am flight on Friday could I make that happen?
  4. This makes me so happy! I love your reviews, I’m headed on the Breakaway Sunday and was randomly reading your Joy review to get some ideas from ports I’m dying to know, is Sakari’s new bf the “Mr. potential” from last cruise??? I did the inaugural Encore cruise as the lone solo in her early 30’s and it was such an amazing experience. I was given a free upgrade to a balcony because they said there was issues with my room (I had booked a studio). I made tons of friends and all of your venue pictures brought back so many happy memories. This cruise will be my first going with a partner! I’m so excited to experience a cruise with someone. Can’t wait to read the rest of this when I’m home!
  5. I am so glad you commented here, I haven't been on these boards in years and I have always loved your review and watching Sakari grow up over the last 10 years! I am on your cruise day 1 of the Joy trip and furious about the relationship that ended in cheating 😞
  6. Wait - I guess I paid a 25% penalty of what my airfare costs was. That is how the amount was figured. Interesting, still worth it to me to be home a few hours earlier. It also wasn't that much more than what I would have had to pay to get home from the airport.
  7. Alright - so it looks like I am being charged a fee because of the change in airport. When initially booking, the new airport was about twice as much as the one my family decided to go with (I was not privy to these decisions) so it looks that by switching one leg of the trip to the new airport I incurred a fee that seems close to the original increase in cost (though not exact). I paid that fee and now I am hoping everything is okay! I probably won't update unless something bad happens!
  8. I am in a group for my flight and many people have posted they have received their flights. In the group I am going with almost everyone has received flight info (and almost everyone has a unique deviation date). Maybe because it is the holidays and things are booking up they are getting them out fast. I spoke with my travel agent after the fact and they reached out to NCL who gave a non-answer and said something about someone may be penalized for doing this. I am hoping nothing happens. I will try to remember to come back to update as things happen, or hopefully, don't happen.
  9. I was surprisingly sent my air confirmation for a cruise that is over 100 days out. I was able to use the booking reference number from the email to add the flight to my rewards account for that airline. I wasn't super stoked about my flight home so I decided to call the airline to request a different flight route home. They said I could and that it would be allowing them to take over the reservation. There was a charge about $25 each to make the change, I paid it and was sent an email with the updated reservation. I didn't really think about how it could impact the overall reservation for the cruise, but now I am a little concerned. Anyone else have experience with this? It is the flight home, not that I think the cruise would help me much if things went wrong, I would absolutely not expect their help (I have a day extra on the way and on the way home so I am not worried) - I just don't want to somehow screw up the cruise fare itself. Thanks!
  10. I thought you enjoy knowing that I am reading this review as I sit on the NB Amtrak Coast Starlight headed from SLO to Sacramento!
×
×
  • Create New...