Madmariner7

6 hours ago, Victoria2 said:

Disregarding QM2 as I have no knowledge there, it entirely depends on the dates and itinerary as to whether the 2s and 1s book out early so it's not a given they go first.

As one who books these, we know which itineraries will sell out within the first day, or couple of days so book accordingly.

It’s funny (or makes sense) - both Q2 were open when I booked ours. Within two hours, the other one was booked. I wonder if a TA was watching the capacity and had an interested customer, and jumped on the other one when it became the only one left? My working theory, anyway.

10 hours ago, Victoria2 said:

Didn't bother taking photos pf QE's sorry but I have quite a few photos of QV's Q2, which is the same as QE but with a slightly darker decor if you'd like to look at a specific area of a Q2.

 

We booked the Q2 and watched a few YouTubes, so we’re good, thanks though!

11 hours ago, exlondoner said:

I believe that as there are only two Q2s and they are much favoured, they often sell out on the first day. Not all cruises of course.

We booked the Q2 today. Alaska in July ‘25!

Thanks all for the replies - very helpful! We’re now leaning towards a Q2. A bit more money (to say the least) but super spacious compared to Q3/Q4. Q1’s look space inefficient and one of our party doesn’t like the idea of being on the aft.

We are looking at a Penthouse QG Suite on the QE, for 3 passengers. A few questions:

1. Is there a curtain that pulls across the cabin at the foot of the bed? It appears so in one video I saw but it’s hard to tell for sure.

2. Is there space to squeeze by the sofa bed (opened) and get to the balcony door?

Thanks in advance to anyone who has info!

Joke’s on them. The pizza is pretty mediocre.

On 4/27/2023 at 11:36 PM, singleflyer said:

Grey Goose is listed under Plus.  Did it used to be included in the standard open bar?

I sailed on Escape 2 weeks ago and GG was in the standard package.

13 hours ago, cruisekitty22 said:

OMG!  I would loved to have seen "Behind The tours" again.

The Behind the Scenes tour for the Latitudes cruise special is of Great Stirrup Cay. As far as I know, they will still have BTS on the ship for Platinum and above (I hope so, I want to do that).

15 hours ago, JIMESOPUS said:

We should get notified sometime this week about what events we are going to attend or will we?

 

The email I got after registration said we’d have invitations to the events we selected/were approved for when we board. I think that they let as many people sign up as wished to and are randomly (or not, who knows with these things) selecting as many as will fit.

Based on a few cruises on NCL, we love Cagney’s and Le Bistro. Cucina is forgettable, you’ll get better Italian at a mid-priced sit-down on land. Teppenyaki is OK but when we went, our waiter recycled the jokes that we heard from the next table 15 minutes prior. It’s salty ingredients on a grill and you can get that anywhere, and the show would be fun if not repetitious. Moderno is OK but frankly, Fogo de Chao (on land) is quite a bit better.

TL;DR Cagney’s and Le Bistro are must-do, others that we’ve tried not so much.

59 minutes ago, bortman23 said:

Few things stand out to me, some have been mentioned by others:

- I've never seen a pop-up to add excursions or transfers etc, on the NCL app, or site

- I've added and left MANY things in my cart, but always get a warning and often an email stating my cart is "about to expire"

Same here, on both counts. I have a fully paid cruise booked now that I’ve added items to, within 30 days of sailing, and if I don’t complete payment on my cart I simply *haven’t added them*. And I know of no way to book transfers from the app, nor have I seen popups.

My take: This is either an issue with Uplift messing everything up, or is simply grossly misrepresented or fabricated by either the original customer or the consumer advocate.

2 minutes ago, Panhandle Couple said:

Dark web types can easily get stolen credit cards, charge a few thing through Uplift, then request the whole amount back.  If NCL complies, scammer gets over $5,000

NCL would be refunding Uplift, not the customer. 

If you’ve opened an email from an external source, it can’t be removed by the original source. This puts the entire story in doubt for me, as well as the expertise of the consumer reporter.

Sent to TAs.

53 minutes ago, hunter68 said:

I will be on the Prima for 10 days, does anyone know the price of the pass for the entire trip?

Log in to the website or the app, it will be listed for purchase for your cruise under “spa”.

47 minutes ago, BirdTravels said:

The Prima was charging $99 for a day pass on port days. The Escape will be somewhere in between. 

I’d expect on the higher side of that range, of course. Thanks!

Does anyone have recent information on the cost of a Thermal Spa Day pass (for a port day) on Escape? I do understand they may not be available depending on demand from voyage passes and spa cabins.

Also, what are the Thermal Spa hours?

I’m Coal, but I hope that by sleeping under pressure on a really hard mattress that I turn into Diamond some day...

Haven Garden Villas on NCL Jewel-class ships have 3 bedrooms.

There are several people with sailings in the next few weeks that have promised to post updates/photos. I'm sailing 3/13 and will do the same.

We've enjoyed the Asian restaurants on both Jade and Pearl. On both cruises, it was the one specialty restaurant we repeated. I'm not sure why they never got a lot of traffic, but we just counted that as a blessing. Sorry to hear the menu is shrinking with the up charge removal, though. If they've dropped the creme brûlée flight, I'll be very saddened.

Note if you book through NCL they provide transfer to the pier - but if I did it again, I'd take a cab. The bus took forever, stopped at another hotel, and when we got there the driver had to unload all of our bags by himself because the Port of Miami is a disorganized cluster-F. What should have been a 20 minute journey took an hour and a half.

We stayed at the Miami Courtyard Cadillac, just north of South Beach. Right on the boardwalk (1 minute walk to the beach). Not fancy but a nice place and well-maintained; great pool, second adults-only pool, good breakfast, Starbucks on site, and options right there for lunch and dinner. We booked it through NCL and got a better rate than I saw on ANY travel site, too - and then paid $50 for an upgrade to Oceanview Balcony. I highly recommend it.

Thanks for the link and thanks for offering to learn how!

Let me know if the link worked - first time I've posted a "public" document to my corporate Gdrive.

And you're welcome!

Well.... do ya?

Yup - 3/26 Southern Caribbean

18MB PDF

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0J-a6fneUlXa25Nb2FxTlZmcDA/view?usp=sharing

Cheers!