Brian V

My brother and sister in law got back from Miami (11 day Panama cruise) on the 16th, they both got "random" tested at Pearson and told to isolate until they got a negative result - and them promptly got put on their connection to Calgary 😲

Good thing they are both retired, he got his results on the 20th (4 days), she did not get hers till the 22nd (6 days!) - both negative.

Good thing they are both negative because what would they do if they came back positive - declare everyone else on their connection flight as close contacts???

5 hours ago, adhncruisers said:

Ugh. Obviously they didn't consider that not every passenger is from the US. I just tried to register with CVS using our Miami hotel address and it requires a US mobile number or it won't complete the registration. I too would rather have this all done before getting to the pier but I guess we'll just have to hope for the best.

Actually completed this with Miami hotel address and just my regular (Telus) mobile - it took it fine for me - barcodes are now saved on our phones along with vax qr codes and id 🙂

Guessing as long as it is in the 001 (+1) country code, you should be good 👍

Oh, another point - they will text you a link for your results so if you use the same number for you and your travelling companions, you will only have to be "roaming" on 1 phone if that is a concern for you.

On 1/13/2022 at 5:54 PM, cheersforbeers said:

Just have your bar code available, if not you have to leave line a get a CVS  test time and bar code,

Just trying to finalize our online check in for our Joy cruise 2/12, trying to register with CVS and of course, they require a US address...

We had the same thing on our Encore trip out of Seattle, used the address of the hotel we stayed at for Eurofins registration and had no problems (was actually 1st result out!) but that was not CVS so, just wondering if any other non US residents have done this with CVS.

I would rather get this all looked after before we arrive at the pier 🙂

Don't know if this is useful to the OP but we were in 10156 on the Encore and it is bed closer to bathroom.

As n4w points out, they do seem to alternate as you go down the corridor so...

12 hours ago, Fouremco said:

Also, if possible when you select your seat, determine whether there are any obstacle under the seat in front of you than might not let you place your roller there.

Very good point, sometimes you will find a box for the in flight entertainment under the seat which would prevent a roller going there.

Seat Guru is a great resource for checking out specific seats for under seat storage, seats that don't recline, etc.

19 hours ago, vacation44 said:

We are on the same Joy sailing and when I just looked at Teppanyaki, the price comes up at $46.80 which includes the 20% gratuity and specialty service charge.   

 

46.80

US$ 46.80 - ouch!

1 minute ago, shof515 said:

if you have the dinning package, there is no cost for teppanyaki

Thanks, I was aware of that but just thought it showed a price before.

Not going to waste a SDC on that when I can dine at le Bistro or Cagney's 🙂, would charge it on our account if we do try it.

Hey all - was just poking around on our reservation on the Joy (26 days out, can't wait!) trying to figure out what to book for specialty dining and came across this:

I don't know if it's just me (could be 🤪) but I thought that price came up at $29.00usd  previously?

I can select it, select a date and time and party size so guessing it is not closed due to the "c" word I will not mention but...?

Is this a change or am I just that unobservant???

35 minutes ago, tutuwahineLV said:

I love sea days, having nothing to do and all day to do it.

It is kind of the whole point of a vacation, right?😎

You would think the CDC would be telling Americans to avoid Texas...or Florida 🤪

On 1/3/2022 at 12:28 PM, julig22 said:

Link at the top of the page.  If it says 0, try again.

Finally got this sorted...turns out the better half was showing as a first timer 😞

Pretty sure she went to Alaska with me so, got the missing points added and voila! Cruise now available 🙂

Thanks for your help julig22, now to find something to book so I can hit silver before I shuffle off this mortal coil 😉

11 minutes ago, Fouremco said:

Canadian citizens will not need to acquire a visa

Good catch, I just kind of glossed over "Visa" in the title 🙂

It's 7 euro, so about $9.50 - not $95.00

Not a deal breaker but still good to know about before hand 🙂

1 minute ago, bookbabe said:

Miami was CVS, at least as of last week.

Thanks, guess we will be setting up an account with them 🙂

Were originally booked in 11336 so what, 10 cabins from fully aft, got moved to between the elevator banks still on deck 11.

Was quite surprised to get this, we did not request or pay for it.

At first we were worried they had bumped us to a higher category, but not really better cabin (worse location or something) but was pleasantly surprised 🙂

As long as we actually get to cruise, I would have been happy either way!

After reading this (and other threads) I am glad they bumped us up to a midship club balcony from our aft standard balcony for our Feb 12 sailing.

Perhaps this is the reason why - to pre-empt complaints?

Not aware of anyone else getting moved though so...

Thanks for posting this, I see that they have also extended the pre boarding tests (at no extra charge) to the end of February again.

Going to have to monitor this closely, we don't sail until 12 February, and I expect things will continue to evolve...

Any idea if NCL uses CVS or Eurofins in Miami?

5 hours ago, jlseymour3 said:

or to ensure I'm "actively drinking."

No danger of that not being the case🤪

2 minutes ago, mvh said:

Does anyone really think all cruises won't be cancelled by the end of the week? My money is on cancellations.  I'm not sure what I'm hoping for.  Seriously, how good can a cruise be right now?

It's was -28c this morning where I am 🥶 - sitting on a ship in shorts and a tee shirt, sipping a Mojito sounds pretty damn good to me even if I have to wear a mask indoors!

21 minutes ago, Sailing12Away said:

Or with all the quickly changing rules/requirements they don't want people to have to do it more than once.

Expect it was something along those lines.

I cannot imagine how many people were showing up at the pier with missing / incorrect documents because something had changed in the 3 months since they filled out their online check in, and they just printed their edocs and headed for the airport. And we all know how fast things can change these days:)

20 minutes ago, julig22 said:

Maybe your browser

This from the link  https://www.ncl.com/latitudes-rewards-program/insider-offer/terms?hide_hf=true

 

And that gets me to the terms and conditions page, still no cruises available.

Not going to worry about it, just curious...

17 minutes ago, don't-use-real-name said:

From the Latitudes Rewards Points page:

 

Note: We can only credit your Latitudes Rewards account with missing points for cruises taken within the last 12 months.

 

Don't wait too long to get it straighten out - and have a paper trail (documents) to back it up !

My experience is NCL is not user friendly in this respect !

Roger that, this was from our September 2021 cruise to Alaska so that won't be an issue, and I still have all the emails from that cruise so not too concerned 🙂

Lol, I didn't have to ask - this past week got an email out of the blue letting us know that we had been upgraded to a club balcony from a standard balcony.

Checked and it is actually a much better location for us, closer to midships on deck 11 where the original cabin was about 10 doors from the extreme aft on deck 11.

No explanation of why, and we didn't bid on anything? Wonder if this is happening to anyone else...

Hope we get the extra perks as well 🙂

18 hours ago, julig22 said:

If you go to the link and don't log in, it shows 26 cruises, mostly Alaska.  And somewhere I read it is limited to cruises through September.

I rebooked 2 upcoming cruises to get the bonus points, one in April, one in September.

Made no difference for me...just get a blank screen with "No Cruises Found." whether I log in or not.

Guessing it is a glitch, need to call about some missing points on the wife account anyway so will ask the agent about it.

Not the end of the world really 🙂

10 hours ago, don't-use-real-name said:

The 6 month booking rule is gone and the Insider Past Guest Offerings are rather meager.

Rather meager is an understatement...

NCL sends me a Latitudes Rewards email, "Extra 2 points on select cruises in 2022, book by the end of February".

"Great", I think - we are looking at booking something in the Med this coming fall, grabbing some extra loyalty points would be a bonus👍

Follow the link in the email, and there are exactly ZERO cruises available. Nada. Zilch.

"Maybe other destinations are available", I think...guess I thought wrong on that as well☹️

Don't know if it's a website glitch but If NCL wants to sell me something, the least they can do is actually have it available for sale 😞