Sand and Seas

Thanks for this reference- Just went to their website. In addition to proctoring your own test, they have walk-up sites in several cities.

Two questions if anyone can answer one or both- 1-For the PortValet service, how do you pay your luggage fee to your airline (Delta in our case)? 2-Can you purchase your NCL transfer to airport using your OBC? (We will have non-refundable)

Hmmm.....I can book 'Noise Boys' for $719 (US).....guess I'll wait for that price to go down!

Has anybody heard about the 'Sail & Sustain Mixology Experience' for Diamond and Ambassador tiers? Sounds fun to us!

If HHS will not be covering tests anymore, I wonder if CDC will be easing back on their recommendations about travel🤔 I know that personally, I will continue (for the foreseeable future) to home-test before flying anywhere just for my own peace of mind.

We are definitely saving a SDP for Food Republic. Split over the two days sounds perfect!

Thanks for responding- We love the Food Republic. Just wish they would have it open more often!

We love lunch at Food Republic and usually plan for 'at sea' days when we know it will be open. On our upcoming Alaska Bliss cruise, there is only one day listed as 'at sea'. Is it possible FR will be open for lunch during some of the other days? Some days, we have early morning calls at Juneau and Ward Cove. Would they open FR at 1pm or so?

By looking at the deck plans, there is a good possibility. Although the numbering of cabins on the Joy differs, she is a sister ship to Bliss, Encore and Escape. On the deck plans for the Bliss, the balcony cabins in those same positions are 8138/8738. There is a good youtube video for Bliss 8138 that shows an angled balcony large enough for loungers. Looks like a great deal for a BF cabin😎

I'm starting this thread to list current CAS Hosts on each ship. Over the last many years we have enjoyed getting to know many hosts and then seeing them again on another cruise. Please add for any NCL ships Casinos that you have current information for. To start, I've recently read reports here on CC or social media for these ships: Breakaway- June 2022 Exec Host is Florina Avram, Senior Host Leilani Ferrer (Reported that Florina is moving to Prima soon!) Joy- June 2022 Executive Host is Ralph Galarrita, Senior Host Rodrigo Gem- April 2022 Carey (Lewis?)

Our best have been 'hosted' cruises through Caesars. Everything paid except airfare. Includes drink package, specialty dining and all gratuities paid. On two of our hosted cruises it also included hotel night before in New York (Gansevoort and New Orleans (Harrah's for two days before & after). Cruises have been in Balcony (very happy with) and Haven(woo-hoo!).

I thought in reading about ArriveCan that one person can fill it out for everyone in their cabin. In our case, it would just be for the two of us. Is this correct? Or do each of us need to download the app and complete the application?

I've never seen anything as detailed as the Breakaway/Getaway spread sheet for other ships. If you click on the visual aids on that spreadsheet it does show the cabin numbers on the outside picture of the ship for a couple of different cabin classes.

There is a great picture of Breakaway/Getaway B6 and M6 cabins on the visual aids tab of the link I copied below. I bookmarked this years ago. I don't know who was the fantastic CruiseCritic member who created this, but I wish we had one for every ship! Was this what you were looking for? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10YW7fMQarer30UCHKqKJ_zLDmbyMTczCTtYf2XRflh8/pub?single=true&gid=0&output=html