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  1. My parents are on the Iceland to NYC cruise (boarded 6/6). They found out today at least 3 ports have been canceled due to the ice - they mentioned both stops in Greenland and at least one other, maybe 2. Now spending the night in one port in Iceland and have 4 days at sea in a row. It was hard to follow them on speaker. Viking offered credit towards a future cruise I believe.
  2. We have a cruise on Saturday the 3rd and did the Walgreens NAAT tonight. (Wednesday)
  3. I have the same problem. I came here to see if anyone had any ideas what is going on.
  4. Just going to chime in. We did a neptune with 4 when boys were 8 and 10 ish and they barely fit on the pullout. I don't think two teenagers would enjoy it at all. Two weeks ago to Alaska we did a balcony for parents and an inside room across the hall for teenage boys and they were delighted to be in a dark room. HAL requires even for teenagers that they be across the hall or next door. I"m not sure I would spring for two balconies although I do like connecting rooms. We have also done a neptune and an inside room and that was super. You can do it yourself on line with two rooms. added: I like Neptune suites on the 7th floor near the lounge. We had a neptune for our alaska trip a few years ago and it rocked. Sooooo nice to have the big balcony to watch the glaciers. That may have been the year we were all in one room. But it is big enough that 4 fit fine except for the 2 on the pullout.
  5. the Walgreens NAAT test is used by a good percentage of people who cruise. It is under the PCR umbrella.
  6. I want to clarify one thing. The Walgreens NAAT test is under the PCR umbrella so may be done 72 hours before boarding. It is NOT an antigen but a PCR. We did our Walgreens NAAT test on a Wednesday evening before our Vancouver Saturday departure two weeks ago. We did take the time difference into consideration so took the tests at 4:30 p.m. as our boarding time was noon. However, from lots of other posts Verifly has no idea of your boarding time so we probably would have been fine doing the test earlier in the day.
  7. well this is old news not thank goodness! But had 4 of us use the Emed tests on board on the Friday before the Saturday disembark. The other 8 used Flow Flex tests purchased in Ketchikan and booked with Azova for $20. All went fine!
  8. I did find that out later. Although one family in our group was considered to be under quarantine on Arrive Can because their 4 year old was unvaccinated but yet there were no hiccups when going through customs during disembarking.
  9. We had Club Orange - great use of $350 to move from obstructed balcony to a VA. We also enjoyed the CO dining room. Fantastic service. I was glad the CO had nice views of the ocean, so long as your table was in the right place. I think the MDR is a hot mess for breakfast even pre-covid. We didn't set foot in the MDR except for one tea. I was glad the ship was at lower capacity, I think it would have been jam packed in the Lido and elsewhere if full.
  10. We were on the Koningsdam last week and 12 of us did the proctored test. We bought the premium internet for 24 hours at $29.99. We purchased on Friday a.m. and took the tests that afternoon while cruising the inside passage and we got off the ship on Saturday. There were zero issues for any of us doing the tests in 3 different cabins. Four of us did the Emed proctored test which needed no appt. Eight of us had FlowFlex tests purchased for $12 at the safeway in Ketchikan. We booked appts the day before with Azova for $20 per test and they proctored it. All super easy. Verifly took longer than 6 weeks ago, probably 4-5 hours to approve. No need to pay for the expediated service on Verifly if doing it the day before.
  11. We were also on this cruise. Fantastic warm weather. I can also chime in on Club Hal (only 25 kids on board!) and Club Orange. We never set foot in the MDR except for an afternoon tea. We were a mixed group of three families most of us in verandas on Deck 6. The family with 4 kiddos was in the side aft on deck 4 with two adjoining veranda rooms with huge balconys. Also would recommend the zip lining in Ketchikan. We did the Tracy Arm and it was very nice, it is a bit long of a day. We paid for premium internet on Friday am and then did proctored tests in the room. We didn't have enough so two of the dads took an Uber to the Safeway in Ketchikan and bought FlowFlex tests for $12 then used Azova for proctoring for $20 per test. Super easy. Disembarkment was super easy and quick. We got off at 8:15, breezed through customs (all they wanted was the paper declarations page), short line for a cab which was 20 feet from customs (all inside) and then zipped off to airport. Short lines at Vancouver airport and we were at the gate at 9:15 with hours to spare. Getting on was fast but so many lines to get into. One family with us who had a 4 year old got stopped and even though child had negative test, HAL said he had to be tested again that day. That slowed them up by an hour which they found really annoying. The mom had to take the child to the convention center testing center (which is closed for everyone else) while dad was dealing with the three other kids. BTW even though the convention center testing was closed, HAL front desk was pushing it all week as an option.
  12. Another option if you don't have the Emed tests handy. For our cruise that ended on Saturday we purchaed FlowFlex tests at the Safeway in Ketchikan and booked proctored tests through www.azova.com. The Azova test was $20. Half our group did Emed and the other half did proctored through Azova. Super easy and painfree. On the Azova website they list all the tests that they cover - lots of choices.
  13. It is good for 24 hours. So if you bought it at noon on Friday you would be good for Saturday. But if you are disembarking and need to test on Saturday then just use your personal data plan, and you don't need the ship. Assuming you are disembarking in Vancouver. Or wait and do it at your hotel.
  14. Hopefully you moved from a VH to a VA! That is the entire point of Club Orange. We just got back from the Koningsdam and had Club Orange. We really liked the CO dining room and never set foot in the main dining room. What I did like was you could see the ocean from CO vs. not so much on another ship we were on. The service is really top notch but the only hiccup we had, we had 3 couples in our group and there are only 2 tables for 6. We couldn't eat until 7 due to one couple having to drop off kids at Club HAL. Anyway, we couldn't sit together the first two nights as the tables for 6 were taken. I felt there was a pecking order for who got what table and I did see several cruisers tip the maitre de. One time we were told "first come first serve" but then another night the group came in after us and got the table. It was a running joke of our group but it all worked out fine, a few times we sat 4 at one table and 2 at an adjoining. One of our group is a correspondent on a national news program so we even had some star power. Ha ha.
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