WickedRed

You really don't want to go to Bar Harbour on 4th of July weekend. That place is going to be mobbed with (other) tourists that weekend. Trails, shops, food places are all going to be packed. Lines everywhere. It would be a miserable and frustrating experience. Oh let's not forget what traffic is going to be like. 🤮 I know that doesn't help with your frustration with NCL, they really shouldn't have planned on BH that weekend anyways. Maybe be just as frustrated with BH for taking the original berthing on that weekend. With the 4th being on a Thursday, there is going to be a huge influx of people coming into Maine for the weekend. Portland isn't going to be much better, but at least they have size in their favor to help with the crowds.

I've had it happen a few times. I'm the stockholder and do an annual cruise with a friend of mine who is not a stockholder. In the past they would give both of us a $50 credit. That said, in our next sailing NCL has given me the whole $100. Maybe that is a sign that they are changing their format.

I figured that was the case. Faster luggage to the room is always nice though. Good for you! With my luck they mailed those to my friend, which would make sense since she is guest 1, and she just tossed them thinking it's junk mail. LOL!

I'm on your sailing! Also Platinum but in a club balcony, but have not received any Priority tags in the mail. My friend is guest one and she's not Platinum, so that may be the difference. 🤷‍♀️ Excited to see Alaska!!

I think this dude just trolled us. Dropped this deuce knowing it would stir up the people and ran. Personally, I can handle the lack of hash browns and cookies but if they ever did anything to the lava cake or raspberry brownie cheese cake... OOooo. I'm a fat redhead and it will be all bad things.

@red lobster just wanted to wish you well with your dog. I totally get it. I found out my dog has osteosarcoma (bone cancer) 2 days after returning from my first VV cruise. Not sure what I would have done had I found out beforehand.

One of the bright spots during the pandemic was being able to enjoy Acadia NP in the middle of summer without the typical summer crowds. BH, Acadia, and MDI will be fine without large cruise ships stopping. Maybe it will lead to an overnight in Portland instead.

I think we've just become more hyper aware of other people coughing and sneezing. The possibility of others spreading their cooties. You just need to decide what you're going to do to keep yourself healthy. If the pandemic taught us anything, it is that most people don't care if their actions make you sick. Took my first VV cruise a couple weeks ago. I do feel they were more lax on getting people to wash hands before entering areas with food or at a minimum use the hand sanitizers. Maybe they feel since we're all adults then we'd know to wash our hands before eating. lol! Can't say I found empty hand sanitizers anywhere on the ship. Soap always landed in my hand when looking for it. Water was a bit trickier. As for 🍍 people. Don't care. They are adults. Just wash your hands before eating. I am curious if WatermelonSugarHigh knows what that refers too though?

They do sell a drink package. It's $109.00 per day plus gratuity and service charge. If you take the free promo, then you're not paying the $109.00 a day. Sounds like free to me, especially since the gratuity and service charges aren't included in the regular fee either. Who buys the beverage package anyways? Even if you get a sailaway room that doesn't include the FAS promo, getting the beverage package is NOT a deal.

Met a couple guys who had camels tattooed onto their big toes. They seemed very happy with them.

First time I've ever seen one was early this year, so it's a fairly new thing for NCL to do. About April or May I had a couple pop up one was 10% off any cruise and another was 20% off any Europe cruise taken this year. I was able to apply the Europe one to a sailaway interior room. Sailaways always seem exempt from extra discounts, so that was nice. Guess to answer your question is this random coupon phenomenon is too new to say if it happens often or if NCL will continue to do them.

Crazy as this may sound, as we all know NCL's website is never flawed nor full of glitches, I think it's a website bug. I tried to mock book a couple different cruises yesterday and had the pink bar appear at the top saying the cabin I tried to book was no longer available. This was between different ships and different room types. They added Aqua and broke something.

I don't cruise 'till February, sent my information in a couple months ago as I'm platinum on NCL, and they gave me status on VV. Send the information in anyways because I think they extended the program, but the website is confusing.

I was a single mom back at that age. She probably doesn't have the ability to take the time off from work nor is a cruise an approved reason to pull a kid out of school. Sure you could say it was educational to see other parts of the world, but we all know that's stretching things. All my vacation time and some was pretty much dictated to me by daycare. I couldn't afford to pay daycare's vacation time plus someone else to actually watch my son so I could work. Nah, I'd vacation when daycare vacationed. Plus 4.5 months isn't a lot of time for a relationship. What if next month she decided the relationship isn't working for her, but now she'd feel guilty breaking up with you because you spent extra money on a future vacation. She'd probably feel trapped in the relationship. You probably don't need to break up, but you do need to adjust your expectation on what she can do. I don't gamble so the idea of picking Atlantic City over a cruise seems silly to me. Then again, spending that amount of money on one cruise also seems silly to me. Hey, you do you. My 50th is in a couple years, and I'm eye balling a Greece cruise. Will go alone if no one else is willing to come along. Definitely not inviting any man I may be dating at the time to come along. If there is such a person, then he can get his own room and pay for it. They only clean rooms once a day now, so a spare bed may not be a bad idea. HAHAHAHAHA!