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Your wife will be even more excited when she sees the closet in person.

Looking forward to following along. The Joy HI is my absolute favorite. I could not believe the size of the closet.

Glad I could help with your list! We have not been on the Bliss, but thought the Beatles show was much better on the Joy than the Beatles shows we saw on the Epic and Encore. We also thought Elements was very good and are looking forward to our extended family seeing it on our June Joy cruise.

Do you and your husband like the Beatles? The Beatles show on the Joy, to us, is great. My husband is not a Beatles fan, but I insisted we go the first time in the Joy and he enjoyed the show so much, we had to see their other shows in the Cavern.

Not sure if this is where @DrUrsulawent but we had our breakfast at the Soggy Dollar Bar. I just had a bagel but my husband had a breakfast bowl which he said was very good.

Thank you. This is the most up to date information I have read so far. I will continue to check daily.

The cabanas come with two Vibe passes. You can only share your cabana with other Vibe passengers.

The cabanas come with two Vibe passes. You can only share it with other Vibe passengers.

Tortola. It is typical if the ship arrives at 6:45 a.m. and all aboard is 2:00 p.m. There were a lot of excursions offered for very early morning. Those with an early excursion had to meet in the theater at 6:45 a.m. I am just saying it would of been nice to order room service for 6:00 a.m. instead of going to the buffet.

As we are up every workday at 4:45 a.m., we tend to get up early on vacation. However, we are also on the mindset we would rather partake in our vacation then spend extra hours sleeping in. There were also roughly a couple hundred people in the Theater that morning waiting for their excursion so we were by far not the only ones up.

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Our Plan B: We are huge fans of the British TV show Death in Paradise. The show is filmed in Guadeloupe and the filming sights are all open to the public for the most part. We plan to stay at the hotel where the crew stays and murders have happened (on the show). Getting there, we are flying into Dominica for a few days, then taking a ferry over to Guadeloupe for a few more days. We will be spending a lot of time relaxing on the beautiful beaches. Did you replace your Encore cruise with anything else?

While I would normally agree, we had to meet for our excursion at 6:45 a.m. and we do like some time after breakfast to use our cabin bathroom.

Having done five cruises on NCL since the restart, we definitely do see the recent changes. Food quality/choices at the buffet and nighttime entertainment leading the way. We tried to place an early room service order for one morning for breakfast and was told the earliest it can be delivered is at 6:30 a.m. which was too late for us. The MDR was opening at 8:00 a.m., buffet at 7:00 a.m. and the Local at 6:00 a.m. I do not remember in all of our previous cruises as not having at least two options. We also wished you were still able to reserve the comedy shows as you used to be able to. On the Encore recently, we had to get to the venue way too early just to get the last two seats. As I mentioned in another thread, while we still love NCL, we love NCL a little less now.

Jamie, welcome back to the NCL boards! Yes, you will have four specialty dining credits in total as platinum. There is now a thermal spa on the Joy. We were on the Encore two weeks back and late time snacks were hard to come by as the buffet does now close down early with no more evening late night snacks. We also noticed a difference in the food options available in the Buffett since our last two cruises this past August and March We are looking forward to our Joy Bermuda cruise this June though as overall, we are still happy with the NCL product.

The process to book them is the same as securing a Vibe pass--online, the NCL App or phone call. Our PCC secured a cabana for our Viva cruise instead of two Vibe passes for next year. You can buy it online too, but then it would have to be paid for immediately instead of with final payment. They are rented out for the week. You are assigned one and that one is for your exclusive use for the week.

Any word yet on the 2024 Ferry schedule? Trying to finalize our early June plans.

Thank you! This does make more sense.

They did raise the prices of the cabanas recently and they are still for sale on other ships. We currently have a cabana reserved on the Viva for February 2025 and I can reserve one for our June 2025 Encore cruise. My point was I do not understand why they would not sell them instead of just letting everyone use them on a first come basis on the Joy.

I am also waiting and hoping they start preselling the cabanas as they do on other ships. I am very surprised they have not done so yet as it would create more revenue as they all would be sold.

Really enjoying your live report as usual. We did have the latitudes coupons on our Encore cruise two weeks ago so wonder if that is a new thing or ship thing. Have a great time and looking forward to your daily report.

There were also no wrists bands on the Encore last week.

Thank you! I really hope they change it to reserve as in the other Vibes. Like the Haven cabanas, it will be almost impossible to get one as they will be saved by early risers. Thank you again and have a wonderful cruise.

Any update on the Vibe Cabanas?

We also get the club balcony suite for the larger bathroom.