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I asked the tender question in the ports forums and got some thoughtful responses:

Thank you all. I’ve now learned how to look up port schedules and learned that our ship is scheduled to be the 4th of 5 arriving that day so guessing we’ll be tendering and we should plan for crowds

Thank you! I definitely was not looking in the right place so I appreciate you checking for me and the advice

Thank you! It’s the NCL Pearl scheduled to be in Dubrovnik on October 19. And good to know that a Mykonos tender might actually be *better* so seems like nothing to worry about there

Thank you for this very thoughtful response! Agree that NCL is trying to be thorough but I think I’ve got my main question answered which is, there’s not a ton of advanced planning I can do / should do for tendering in these ports

Thanks, it was NCLs site: https://www.ncl.com/about/accessible-cruising-tender-ports they’re both listed as could be dock or anchor depending on sailing is it maybe a capacity warning? Like in Bermuda the third ship in is tendering as there is only space for 2?

Hi, we’re sailing on NCL Trieste to Athens in October. Mykonos isn’t marked as atender port on our itinerary but I just learned that it can be? Is there a way to know in advance or is it just totally dependent on what ships get there first? we were just planning to spend the day exploring on our own, there’s no crazy Santorini -like issues with tendering in Mykonos? For Santorini, we booked a ship excursion to Akrotiri, Pyrgos and Oia that I think might avoid the cable car entirely (5 ships in port that day 😬) and wondering if we should consider something similar for Mykonos? thanks! ps. I have a similar question about Dubrovnik and Split I asked in the other Med port forum if folks have thoughts on those as well

Hi, we’re sailing on NCL Trieste to Athens in October. Dubrovnik and Split aren’t marked as tender ports on our itinerary but I just learned that they can be? Is there a way to know in advance or is it just totally dependent on what ships get there first. In Dubrovnik we were just planning to spend the day exploring on our own, there’s no crazy Santorini -like issues with tendering in Dubrovnik? In Split we’re taking a NCL tour to Krka so I guess only potential issue there is we’ll have less time to explore town on our own after tour if we need to tender back? Thanks! ps I have a similar question about Mykonos I posted in the Greece forum if anyone has thoughts on that too

Thank you so much that’s so helpful!

Thank you!! These are really helpful and interesting! We’re planning to just solo tour in Kotor, Dubrovnik, Mykonos and maybe Corfu. Any tips or favorites?

Thanks everyone! Pretty low bids submitted for both categories but I’ll keep an eye out as we get closer and might increase. Right now and when we booked, balconies were almost double the cost of OV so not much risk of going over.

Oct 14 from Trieste

Oh jeez, I didn’t realize you could bid on more than one category 🤦🏻‍♀️ we’ll bid on both then, thanks!

It’s about 90 days to our sail date, currently booked in an ocean view. Looking at the upgrade bid process and and it looks like there are around 50 currently unsold balcony rooms on our cruise and around 23 unsold club balcony rooms (and only about 5 unsold suites/ Haven so wouldn’t expect a lot of folks to move up). are we better off bidding on a club balcony given there seems to be a supply and demand mismatch there? we don’t care that much about the extra club perks but it’d be really nice to have a balcony for not much more for our 9 day sailing (and one of our first cruise)

Doing this in October so would be excited to see as well