rattla

Sorry if it’s a really stupid question, but my wife would like to try steamers, but I have a seafood intolerance. I presume there would be no other options for me if she wanted to eat there?

im just generally interested but was trying to read back and understand the main areas of your disappointment, I have seen about the fact you listed you holiday itinerary up front and was disappointed when items were seemingly forgotten. Was that the basis of the dissatisfaction?

I wanted to put my personal opinion from our Butler tipping, (should comment that as someone from the U.K.our tipping culture is different) We were on Getaway for 16 nights, and our butler was very friendly. We used him maybe 6 mornings for breakfast delivery split throughout the trip. Apart from that only other request was for some milk from the fridge a couple of times. about a week in after say 3 deliveries I gave him $30 and then at the end we gave him $70. my opinion is that that was an appropriate sum of money for a good butler who did the simple sporadic things we asked for. People are different and that’s fine, but honestly I find some of the amounts being mentioned quite shocking 😊

I think this is because it’s in a sailing from Southampton in the U.K. Because in U.K. laws, prices must be shown inclusive of mandatory service charge. So the tax doesn’t include this part of the price which is about 18% on RC. I.e. take the service charge off and it would be about $22, hence $2.20 tax

I had it, was really tasty 😊

I had it, was really tasty 😊

Tonight’s special

Good question, I’ve just popped down to check out the MDR dinner menu and yes appears it is a dish the main dining room have tonight 😊

So to update in this topic, we are now halfway through our 16 night cruise and noticed that they are advertising a special in the Haven for Dinner tonight.

Yeah we’ve been getting on fine with it! 2/3 glass with ice then milk then add short shots from a 2 capsules into a coffee cup with a bit or sugar/sweetener- we put a bit of ice in to stop it getting too hot, then poor over the ice and milk. 😊

We are on 16 night out of Southampton in Europe and there are no comedians onboard. i think the issue is that comedy doesn’t tend to travel well, and what one country finds funny isn’t always the same for other nationalities. Seems they look to avoid comedy when sailing outside of home markets for that reason.

So just an update that the plan worked a treat 😊 Got the butler to leave some milk (he bought some small cartons) and then added the espresso with ice and Voila!

Got the fresh squeezed Orange yesterday thanks 😊 Although messed up this morning when called and ordered orange juice from our butler as didn’t specify fresh “squeezed” so will learn for the future lol

ok thanks, it was about £20 pre boarding, so looks like it may be cheaper to buy onboard then anyway 😊

I know NCL offer a water package pre boarding, but Mrs Rattla has decided the day before that she would like some water, and obviously now too late to buy. Do they sell the package of like 12 cartons onboard, and does anyone know how much they charge? I presume it’s still cheaper to do that than buy individually at the bars?

Correct. It used to be entertainment and dining 120 days earlier but now only dining and entertainment is 21 days. Although that’s only for a couple of shows anyway.

I think there may be some bearing on where you sail from as the letter Someone copied suggested. This is an example of one of our receipts for drinks in June on Anthem of the seas when we were in Bilbao, Spain. We left from the U.K. and went to stops in France and Spain and it was only while in the 2 Spanish ports the tax was required

yup all the U.K. cruise lines always have kettles as standard. And interestingly some of the other cruise lines (namely MSC and Princess for sure, maybe others) actually bring out kettles when sailing out of a U.K. port and then take them away again when the ship goes elsewhere 😊

it should just be the Spanish ports, we have had this on several cruises with different cruise lines, added while in ports and until you leave the waters.

We have a 16 night, so interesting how we get on, but get 3 speciality from FAS and bought 2 extra, so with those spaced out will be interesting how it goes, as still potentially 11 meals from that menu. Have heard from some that on longer cruise they sometimes put on daily specials. So will be interesting to see if that happens 😊

I found this at first that in one place it didn’t let me but I looked somewhere else and it would. I can’t remember if it was the app or the website I got it to work on in the end, but I just remember it only worked in one of the places. So Try both places 😊

Is the fresh squeezed orange juice, properly fresh squeezed? Also, is it included with haven even if just on the Premium Package? As I know the Premium package mentions Fresh squeezed juices are not included in Premium package?

Sorry I thought it showed the date, but was only the ship and the days - that was 1st October from Southampton (on Getaway). there’s a similar sailing on 12th Oct for 10 nights. getting close though now so quite a few have sold at those prices.

as it seems you are in the U.K., when we book a Haven cabin we get all the Free at Sea benefits included automatically with no additional charge. within this package it’s the Premium package with drinks up to $15, but excludes bottled water and Starbucks. You can chose to upgrade to Premium Plus for a fee. In the US they have to pay gratuities on the parts of the package, but in the U.K. it’s a set fee, however that fee is include in the booking for Haven bookings. N.B. I think if you get a Haven cabin via the Bid Up process, this may not be the case and you’d only get FAS if you booked it on your original booking