High C's

Wonderful review and fabulous pictures! Huge thank you for taking the time to do this 🙂

August 30th. Yes that’s likely the reason :(

We are on the same itinerary starting Aug 25. This tour at the Hubbard Glacier is not offered. Is it something you can book on board the ship? It sounds fabulous! Thanks for doing this review!!! 🙂

Just booked a tour for the end of August. So glad I read this post! Thank you, OP, and everyone else that contributed! 🙂

@coral - have you been on both of their boats? The day we are looking at has their earlier tour (9 am) still available. The 9:45 is sold out. I am going to assume the 9 am is the smaller of the two?

New to HAL so please pardon my lack of knowledge. I want to book a cruise for this summer, and a $1 deposit sounds almost too good to be true!!!! I also want to book Club Orange, and take advantage of being bumped up within the category. Is it possible to do that on line as well at the same time? Or do I make the reservation, and then call in to add CO and select my new cabin? Many thanks in advance.

He was on the Emerald on our recent cruise in August. He is the BEST!

Hope they enjoyed it like we did. This is the 2nd time we've done BI, and I could easily do it again (and likely will!!!!). We thoroughly enjoyed the Emerald. Thought the staff were stellar. We didn't allow the little "first world problems" (ie not having the wine we wanted, etc) to bother us. Recognized that the crew worked VERY hard to make it as enjoyable as it was, and accepted things as they came.

We disembarked this morning. LOVED this cruise! The crew was one of the best we've ever had. I hope you all enjoy it as much as we did! 🙂

If it helps, we sailed from Southampton on Emerald Princess Aug 13. All we had to do was attest that we had taken a test within the past 3 days and that it was negative, as well as show proof of vaccination. Our friends who boarded also experienced the same. I agree the wording pertaining to voyages beyond Sep 6 is confusing. We will also be on the Enchanted crossing, and we are very glad we leave before the 6th! 🙂

We boarded the Emerald Aug 13 in Southampton, and were asked VERBALLY if we had taken the test. And had to show proof of vaccination. That is all. We got the email sometime between Aug 5-12 (didn't notice date, but we were "off the grid" on the QM2 without internet, so it came as a delightful surprise!!)

Thanks. Tried to connect via the link. Took me Cunard's page but told me "the page cannot be found". Do you recall what it said?

You are extremely articulate and very well spoken. Thank you. 🙂

I assume nothing was announced today? Or have I missed something?

Oh ok! I did not realize that. Many thanks for the clarification. 🙂

Yes, I agree for reimbursement for costs you do NOT get reimbursed for. But I was just clarifying that, as far as I know, you do not automatically get some kind of reimbursement simply for missing a port.

Do you mean claim for any expenses that you cannot get a refund for? Because I can't imagine insurance would pay out simply because you miss a port. Its in every cruise contract that there is a likelihood that could happen, at the Captain's discretion.

Quick question - do we remain in our cabins until our level is called? Or do we have to vacate the cabin and meet in an appointed common area to wait for our disembarkation time?

Just a guess here, but I think at the OP referenced the "unlimited Amex card" in an effort to explain that it wasn't lack of credit that caused her attempted purchase to be declined. If you think about it, the staff would not have accepted the credit card in the first place, so it would never have reached the "declined" status in the first place. And I'm all for understanding that cruise lines are currently under staffed and that we all have to be more patient than perhaps some may usually be, but for a Manager to knowingly close the kitchen while a customer still had not received their food is not a matter of being "understaffed" - it is incompetence. Just my opinion.

@Jersey42 - THANK YOU! Your summary, along with the input from others, really helps me. I am going to paste it to my "notes" to refer to. Again - many thanks to ALL 🙂

Thanks 🙂. As I get older, the head gets thicker. Don't even get me started on the TV converter.......

Oh! So I can still use iMessage on board, even if I'm in airplane mode?

Thank you. So I got that part right at least!!!! 🙂

OK, I "think" I've got it. For the INTERnet on my phone - I turn off my data (put on airplane mode) and then turn on wifi, correct? That way I will not incur any data charges for texts, etc? And to that point, texts do NOT come through when on wifi only - only when my data is turned on. But I can use WhatsApp to communicate with home. Do I have that straight???? (God I'm bad!!!! lol)

So, to use the medallion app does not require wifi? I realize the actual medallion itself is our old "key card", but to maximize the functionality, we use the app, correct?