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Sorry to hear about the delay. As a long time fan, looking forward to reading about your cruise. Safe travels home today.

I just looked at our booked June 2025 Alaskan cruise and the excursions are not up yet. We are Platinum too if that makes any difference,

I just went to the website to see what it would cost for a new mattress with delivery. Too pricey for my budget and the delivery was also going to be $1020 for New York.

Wow. I realize it cost you $20 more, but imagine if you upped your bid $100 a person? Very fishy to me.

I am still holding out this will not happen. But you did make me chuckle at work so I thank you.

I am so happy we get another full week of this thread!

You can sell the shares now if you wish. There is not a requirement that the shares need to be held until after your cruise.

We bought 200 shares at about $13 and have gotten back/will get back $550 in OBC through 2024 so I am happy too. With the 200 shares in both my husband's and mine name and both of us being platinum, we switched up our cabins for our June 2024 family trip putting myself in one cabin and my husband in another so both cabins will receive $100 OBC and the platinum benefits. We will go to guest services the first day and get our key cards corrected.

Me too! And getting exactly what flight and seats we want. Agree, very well written. We also try to always purchase full refund air tickets. We mostly fly Southwest where it is much easier. Then we also do not include this fare into our insurance. My husband and I flew first class for the first time this past August from JFK to Anchorage, then back to JFK from Vancouver. We will never fly across the country again and not be sitting in first class. While we are not yet retired, we are almost there and have started acting like we are retired as one never knows what is around the corner. However, we are not sold on always Haven! We prefer the Haven-Lite way without the upgrade to the premium plus.

It hit over $20 this morning which would be up a significant amount from last month.

We did the Baths a few years back and it is really a great excursion. Out of all of the tours/excursions we have done over the years, this one is the only one my young adult children would like to do again in the future so their significant others can experience the Baths. We hired a private charter to take us there since there were nine of us, but all of the NCL excursion reviews have been very positive.

La Cucina is my favorite and my husband's 2nd favorite speciality restaurant so it is nice to see a favorable review. The tiramisu is delicious, give it a try if you go back next week. Again, really enjoying this live thread. Thank you!

Wondering if there is a cost to play?

Well done, @laudergayle. I would like to just add that if the Vibe passes are sold out, I would keep on trying every day leading up to the cruise and then as soon as you board. The current price is $249.00 for the Joy and Encore.

107 cruises! You have my attention. Looking forward to reading about your Viva experience.

We are giving Yetis to our extended family as an extra Christmas gift this year for them to take on our extended family cruise in June. We all have Vibe passes so they will be put to good use. We never cruise without our Yetis.

We were on the Joy which as a bigger Vibe and found the service just as outstanding as there were more NCL staffing it. What is nice about the bigger Vibe is that if one side gets a little too windy, too sunny or too shady, you can switch to the other side.

Have to remember that if and when we are in the Haven again with our young adult children as my son would love them.

I have been finding the website more annoying than usual lately. For me, I now have to log in and pretend I am going to book just to get the final price that includes the port charges. I did clear my cache and that did not solve it.

And I look forward to reading it. We have never gotten thermal passes for any of our cruises. We came very close to purchasing the passes when we were on the Jewel this past August but did not pull the plug.

Thank you, again, for sharing your experiences. When is your next trip?

While we enjoy St. Thomas, we, too, would be disappointed with this switch.

And there is excellent bar service.

Glad you enjoyed your cruise and happy to read you appreciated the Vibe. We are more than happy with our club balcony suite (for the bathroom), Vibe passes and four specialty meals (two as platinum). As I stated many, many times, we will not cruise without the Vibe passes if the ship has a Vibe.

When did NCL change the Haven ice cream sandwich?