Suncitycruiser1925

We very much enjoyed dining in the Club Orange Dining room on NS this past January. It is a small dining room with great service from the same few waiters. We never waited for a table (good timing or luck). Mimosas and cappuccinos are available for breakfast at no additional cost. Breakfast and dinner in Club Orange was a relaxing dining experience with great food and service. We enjoyed it and it was a highlight of our cruise.

Thanks for sharing the great pictures. Your cabin looks beautiful. Glad you do not have any issues with noise in your cabin. We once got a good deal on a mini suite which was located under the pool deck. It was very loud with pool chairs being moved above us.

Thank you for your feedback. I think we will be happier with an oceanview cabin, so I will look at those. Are you on Deck 5 or 6? I noticed that deck 6 is under a lot of public areas, so those cabins might be less quiet? I am jeleous--enjoy the maiden voyage on the Sun!

Thanks for letting me know. They were a good value.

Thanks for the pricing breakdown. That helps to evaluate if plus makes sense. Can you still buy a coffee card for a limited number of coffees? That was a good deal for us.

Thanks for posting the video of a 2 person interior cabin. I wonder if you put the beds together if you would have enough room to walk around the outside of the bed to get into it? We were thinking of booking an interior cabin on Sun Princess, but now we are rethinking if we should pay more for an oceanview cabin with a little more room and hopefully a small couch?

We took a taxi and the fare was a little less than $30 plus tip. There was taxi stand at the airport and plenty of taxis available.

We thought all members of the Rock Room Band were great. Rachel Ward is a lead singer and keyboard player. Tommy from Atlanta sings and plays guitar and is a very good entertainer. We saw them both perform on NS in February of 2023 and we were happy to see them again as part of the Rock Room Band. The drummer from Puerto Rico is very good, both as a drummer and singer. There is another young man who sings and plays guitar who is very good (I don't remember his name, but he may have said he was from Nashville). Plus, the bass guitar player was good and also sings. We listened to 2 sets of the band's performances almost every night and really enjoyed their performances. They did not perform on our first day of the cruise which was Sunday. We listened to the BB Kings Blues Band twice. They are good, but we enjoyed listening to the Rock Room Band more than them. That is just our personal preference on type of music. Their lead male singer is very good. Unfortunately, he did not sing that many songs. One night we listened to the band perform for 30 minutes and then he finally came out and sang 2 songs. We did not care for the dueling pianos performances. They blasted the dueling piano performances so loud in the Rock Room area (when the Rock Room took a break) that we couldn't talk and had to find and request the sound engineer to turn the speakers off which he did. Have a great cruise!

Just off NS this past Sunday and we did not see any t-shirt sales on the ship.

Thanks for your replies and input. I agree that my friend's travel agent should know the current HAL protocols. However, I did look on HAL's website under frequently asked questions, masking guidelines, and it does state masks are required during Embarkation and Debarkation, on tenders and Holland America excursions and recommended masks be worn in the World Stage, etc. HAL should update their website in this regard.

Has anyone been required to wear a mask on any ships during Embarkation or Debarkation recently? Or have masks been required at any other times during a recent sailing? Any masks requirements on any islands that you have experienced, recently? A friend of mine was told by her travel agent today that HAL is requiring masks to be worn during Embarkation and Debarkation, during HAL Shore Excursions and masking is recommended in the world stage, etc. I am wondering if this is an old masking requirement and policy that the travel agent pulled up by mistake? I would appreciate any recent cruiser's experience, please. We would like to know what to expect on our upcoming cruise on Sunday. Thanks in advance.

I wish I could use the app.. to order food. Unfortunately, I am unable to download the app. on my old Samsung J7 cell phone. I tried through Google Play Store. I have no problem downloading and using any other app.

Thank you for sharing your recent experience listening to the Rock Room Band. I am sure we will still enjoy their performances, but it is too bad the vocalists were not as outstanding as we experienced on past NS sailings. Rachel Ward was the female vocalist when we sailed on NS in February. She was outstanding. The 2 guitar players who sang were also very good. One guitar player who sang was named Thomas and he also performed on our previous NS sailing just prior to covid putting a temporary stop to cruises. There was also a phenomenal female drummer who performed this past February. She was young and extremely talented.

Thanks for taking us along on your cruise. We are excited to be cruising again on the NS in January. Any feedback on the rock room band? Did you listen to any of their performances? That is our favorite music venue.

Thanks for the posts. I guess we may be listening to the BB King group more on our upcoming January sailing. On past sailings, the musicians and singers in the Rock Room Band were so wonderful, we watched and listened to 2 sets of the band's performances every night they performed.