Fore one day this program is to much. Better to stay in Venice or Venice and Murano. But with Burano you don't have a lot of Venice in this day. There are so much interesting things do see in Venice. 

There is no priority with Diamond on normal port days. YC can go out first, but its to early to catch the train.

It's 2 min walk from the Ship to the trainstation, but the lines in the ship can be long especially when you are not in YC. So this will probably not work, on my last MSC Cruise to Flam with a big ship there were long lines in Flam.

Most of the people will board in Venice, so there are not of excursions.

Where you board the ship?
When you will do an excursion in Venice on your own, they will transport you to the Venice Maritime Station in Venice, this took about 40 Minutes by boat. Then you are near the Canale Grande an can do a tour on your own. 
I will board the MSC LIrica in Venice-Marghera next Saturday and can inform you how it works on this ship at the moment in Venice.

3 minutes ago, bob10173 said:

Sorry, cannot read German.

Look on your country side, there will be informations about Venice. Or you can translate it with google.

And Norwegian is really an other cruise experience, more freestyle and less formal than MSC. We were an a Hawaii Cruise with a Norwegian Ship, but it was to freestyle for us. The Ship was without Haven.

On the German Website: 

VENEDIG - MARGHERA KREUZFAHRTEN 

The Infos are on the website and you recive emails about the process in Marghera/Venice. 
They will bring you to the Venice Cruise Terminal by boat or bus from Marghera Industrial port side.

Whats with the Pride of America today? She is underway from Pearl Harbour to Honolulu instead of Maui.

28 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

this information came from whom?

Crem members from the tecnical team.

9 hours ago, Middleager said:

Do you know of any cruise ship that doesn't need maintenance?

 

You've never seen many drunken elderly people on a cruise, where have you sailed?

 

Maybe your son will be hooked on cruising.

 

We've been on several cruises.  Ship happens, with all ships.  Cancelled or changed itineraries.  Shortened port of calls.  Services/shows cancelled.  We may or may not like the compensations, sometimes zero compensation.  But we always get pampered on cruises, I get to be on vacation with my wife.  Life is short, we make the best of it and enjoy it.

yes most of the europeen cruise ships, not owned by an american company, were in better conditions than the american ones.

MSC has also old ships but never so rusty like the american ones from NCL, Carnival or also Cunard. I like the QM 2 but she is mostly in bad conditions, they fix the chimney with some bands before a TA or things like that in the past.

Drunken elderly? We sailed al lot in the last years with MSC, Cunard, Princess, Carnival, HAL, Disney, Costa and on European rivers. And we never saw so mutch drunken elderlys in bars or the dinner restaurant or in corridors like this week.

on more than 30 cruises we had one or two changes of ports but only for some hours.

9 hours ago, chengkp75 said:

I was not aware of this 2 day dry dock, as it is not listed as scheduled in the DNV database.  It is unusual, for a ship of 20 years old to have just a 2 day docking, especially since unforeseen problems are often found when the ship goes dry, but it makes some sense as an interim docking to make up for the obviously missed docking about a year ago, and to reset things in line with the 2025 class renewal timeframe.

 

To be completely factual, one of the "seven generators" is the emergency generator.  As I stated before, the ship will routinely sail with one main generator down for overhaul, for weeks at a time, so this would not cause the USCG to prevent the ship from sailing.  Even with two main generators down, the ship would not be prohibited from sailing, and could still likely make full speed.  If, however, the problem was with the emergency generator, then that would definitely be a "no sail" item.  Failure of the emergency generator is definitely a safety concern for the ship, and in not specifying that as the problem, I find your answer somewhat disingenuous.  Especially as you camouflage the emergency generator in a lump with the other generators, calling it "just" one of seven. 

 

Now it all makes sense.  Hilo is the typical day for crew fire drills, and also the weekly test of the emergency generator, which apparently failed during this test.

One Problem was the emergency generator and then also an other generator failed, for that we were 60 hours in Hilo.

14 minutes ago, Capitan Obvious said:

 

 

 

 

Same story...it is ALWAYS a "once in a lifetime" cruise and the compensation is never enough. Somebody please put another record in this jukebox.

 

 

Looks like you missed a zero. 20% on a $9000 cruise is $1800 plus the $200 in OBC...that comes to $2000, not $200.

 

 

 

You seem to have a lot of information about the problem, how many generators were involved, the US Coast Guard involvement, how much additional time is needed for repairs, and the future ship schedule...yet you complain that they don't give you any information? What do you want, the name of the mechanic who fixed the generator?

 

Seriously, folks. If Hawai'i truly is your "once in a lifetime" vacation...at the very least...get off of the computer and go outside and see Hawai'i. Once you go home, Hawai'i will be a memory, the Internet will still be there when you get home. Why waste "once in a lifetime" on the Internet?

The Infos are from crew members there we speak not from the offical ships information canal, there are no infos about the generators until this morning from the captain! 

We won‘t book a next NCL Cruise so only 200 obc for us, thats nothing,  2% of the price.

I think also your not happy on a cruise like this cruise. Its much easier to speak from far that is all ok and the Informations clear and promptly.

There are two or more generators down not only one. And the US Coast Guard stopped the ship to sail with the broken generators. It will need a week or more to solve all generator problems.

For the spirit pax its also a challange with the port change today.

44 minutes ago, Panhandle Couple said:

I am sad that your cruise didn't go as planned.

I'm not certain how the long flights to Hawaii have anything to do with NCL.  Do you think you will miss your flight home?

 

Until a problem is verified, and a new part delivered and installed, there is not much updates they can provide. Hourly updates are pointless unless something actually happens.

 

I think sailing by Molokai in the daytime would be nice, as very few ever visit it.  Sailing at night removed any scenic views on any of the islands, which was sort of odd.   Also, they stay mainly inside controlled water area, so may be using the next available slot for the route they are planning, similar to ATC for flying.  

For 26 hours travel time this is a huge disappointement! We missed one port and lost one port day in Kauai.

Hawaii is a once in lifetime holiday for us europeans!

We are experienced cruisers, and had other cruises with itenary changes but much better acted and informed than this time, that is a fact.

40 minutes ago, zqvol said:

20% is more than generous. 

20% future cruise credit for a changed and one missed port and 200 Dollar obc? We do not book an other cruise with NCL, so  200 Dollar refund for a 9000 Dollar cruise?

They ruined our day yesterday with no clear information about the problem and departure time. So our car trip to Kona was too short, and when we returned to the ship there was clear that we do not sail until the evening…

Yes it was big generator problem and the solved it now.
So we will set sail at 8 am with a sea day to Kauai and some scenic cruising to Molokini, Molokai and so. Tomorrow we will have a full day at Kauai.

NCL was not doing a good job with the communication yesterday, so no infos about the real problem yesterday and no word why they dont sail in the evening.

We are really disappointed about that and for our long flights to Hawaii, that also ruin our holidays.

We will resive 100 Dollar onboardcredit for pax 1 and 2 and 20% for a future cruise.

For sure, that was our first and last NCL cruise and we will not use the 20%.

Now it is 8:30 pm and we still in Hilo with no other information! The POA is in the port and now sign of sail away.

In Hilo are at minimum two tug boats. We used for every manouver one or two tug boats and they take an hour to dock or sail away.

We re-rentet our car from yesterday and we were in Kona by car, as we returned on the ship at 1 pm, there are news that we dock until 7 pm and tomorrow we would have a late arrival in Kauai at 2 pm instead of 8 am. The US Coast Guard don‘t let us sail at the moment.

This was boring to not be informed earlier, so we had more time to drive on the island. The enterprise-office hier was really surprised that most of the clients from yesterday were back this morning :-).

The chief ingineer is John Cullan.

And our plann is to drive to Kona when we know how long we stay hier. 
But please no snow, we are swiss and at home its cold at the moment and will snow again.

The chief engineer is a men at the moment.

The ship really needs some maitenance.

I was on more than 30 cruises and this is the first with a problem like this, boring is that we don‘t know how long we stay in Hilo today. We rentet a car for today but not to know when to be back is challenging.

This will be our first and last NCL cruise, also the pax are special, many drunken elderly people on the ship. We never see things like this on a cruise.

Our  teen son was shoked after the first night after a old lady invited him to come with her in her cabin….

We are on the Pride of America Cruise this week in Hawaii. Now we are in Hilo and unfortunately we have a technical problem so that we had to stay another day hier in Hilo instead of sailing to Kona. 
I am interested if that is the first time oder the ship has more problems like this?

The cruise is special, especially the service on the ship.... but we like the Hawaiian Islands, so no problem.

The YC on the World Europa is to small for the amount of cabins also the service was not good as on other ships, so I will sail next year in a normal cabin and pay with the money an other cruise on an other ship.
Really the venues are too small for the more than 150 cabins. The restaurant, the TSL and the new grill on the deck were to crowded and small.

There is a shuttle from the pier to the train station for 5 Euro each way… its a 12 min walk from the Shipp to the train station.