blacklamb

Yes we did go to Tivoli on Wednesday night so you may have seen us. As for the tour it was not the Latitudes tour but the two hour one you can book from shore excursions, I found out about it when I was reading another review for the cruise. It was a little expensive for what it was but you did get a nice photo of you in the main galley with a map of the cruise route and photo of the ship as part of it, and the ships washing machines are amazing. Something I learned on it is all the meat, cheese, dry, and frozen food, along with beverages and merchandise are shipped in from Miami to Germany and Dairy and produce comes from Germany because the quality is better than Denmark. Also fuel is from Russia.

As for my tipping I was in a party of two and tipped the concierge $100 as she helped us out a lot more, I took advantage of her services to book all the things I could not book online (Ice Bar, Behind the scenes ship tour, etc...) as soon as I got to the Haven. She also helped in moving a some of our reservations around when plans changed. The biggest thing she did for me, and what really earned her tip, was to get my Hop On Hop Off Bus tickets refunded when they were a mess in Stockholm and also my Taxi fair I had to pay because the last bus to the ship was too full.

My butler I tipped $10 per person per day so $180, he did not do as much for us other than deliver breakfast on our port days and make sure we always had treats in the room.

We gave our cabin steward another $50, they do get part of the daily service fee, because he did a great job and even worked secretly with my wife to decorate our cabin with cards and decorations she brought for my birthday while I was in port with her.

Last we gave our two great bar tenders $40 each for the great service they gave and for pouring us a lot of drinks... 8 bottles of misscato just to the wife and a lot more.

Hello from your new acquaintance on the Getaway, Thank you for this great review it was fun to read through and compare to my thoughts. I'm already missing Kumar and Ateeq they took such good care of us, and I was right TravelR was still not done with his great and thorough review by the time we got back :)

You can download offline maps in Google maps for when you don't have data avalible or have it turned off cause you are trying to limit its use. I just downloaded all mine for this trip when I take it on the 14th.

I got my upgrade today on the August 14'th Baltic trip. Went from a Midship Mini-Suite to a Haven Spa Suite (H9). I big right on the poor/fair line.

My typical day involves carrying it on with my carryon bag, then getting lunch. Around the time lunch is over ~1:30 the room should be open, I drop off the bags, hit the bar and the pools and all cares in the world drain away. Hopefully you will not have have to lug it around long.

as with all medication and medical devices you should bring them with you to insure that don't get lost or damaged.