GORDONCHICK

Along a similar line, platinum get flow water as a perk. Does it appear in your cabin or do you have to request it?

This is a 9 night cruise with only one "sea" day. The quotes are because on that one day, we will be traveling from Corner Brook, NF to Quebec City, across the Gulf of St Lawrence, then up the river. We will have a port side balcony, so we will be able to take in the scenery the whole time but will probably check out public viewing areas as well. The Observation Lounge definitely sounds like a place we will check out - especially for tea sandwiches (seems like a good place to grab a nibble before going for lobster in Boston).

Completely familiar with this - but it pulled wayyyyyy too much that wasn't applicable. Hence the post.

Will be on the Joy 9/4. I need the scoop on the ship - the great places away from crowds, favorite public viewing areas, fave MDR, etc. Any other things I need to know? It's almost like I'm a new cruiser, not having been on NCL since 2017. I know many things have changed, service reportedly has declined.

yes

I didn't get anything for June. I even went back and looked at emails into May. What did I miss? I know it's probably too late now, but just wondering.

I'm a scenery hound, so I don't care how cold it is. I was out on the balcony on the glacier days (the coldest days of an AK cruise) with a deck blanket taking pics! I will say, if you're cruising RT out of NYC, it won't be as scenic as ours will be as we will sail from NYC to Quebec, so up the river! And we got a port balcony, so as to get as much land viewing as possible.

They may not need/want great, but I LOVE and appreciate great so point me in the right direction! I'm a bit of a foodie. I've had good, really good and not so good lobster rolls, so great would be greatly appreciated!

Yes, this is very common. IMO, it's also helpful to have the extra bathrooms! However, I could also see if you had several young children, you may not want them to be in their own cabin (especially if they are escape artists!) - even if the rooms are connecting. And some parents don't wish to split up to have one of each of them in each cabin. I can definitely see pluses and minuses to both.

I used 2 on 6/16 and our cruise was just over 90 days at that point. We did book a balcony.

Your port choice for diembarkation may not be set up for that. A lot of things have changed since covid, and while this was available a few years ago in many places, that may not be a thing anymore. Not only would you have to be processed through immigration, you would have to be cashed out on the ship. And there may be more things along those lines.

I know the Joy has family insides that can sleep up to 6.

Good to know those are stll around! I used to have one for every NCL ship we'd been on but I've been going through stuff and got rid of them.

Like I said, it's been a few since we've sailed (4 years to be exact). Lots has changed.

There are maps all over the ship.

I never saw baked Alaska on NCL - even in Alaska. Saw it many times on X.

Hotel Director (4 stripes on the shoulders or cuffs for formal uniforms, only answers to the captain).

I have metastatic breast cancer. I literally don't care what y'all do, collect or wear. Y'all do you. I'm gonna do me while I can.

You lost me using the wrong "their" there. We've never gotten tier pins but would have liked to. Honestly, I don't care what others wear or collect. I don't have time for that. Ask me why - it might change your perspective a bit.

I was told/read that MDR menus can be found on the app under your booking but I haven't found them. I must be looking in the wrong place. This is our first sailing snce the app, so I'm sure there's a lot I'm unfamiliar with/haven't figured out yet. Also, I know we used to be able to get creme brulee in LeBistro but I didn't see it on their menu. Is is available on board anywhere? One of my favorite memories is from about 10 years ago. We were in the MDR (group of 8), and the HD found out I loved creme brulee - I have no idea how unless the HD he relieved told him. They weren't being served in the MDR but here came 8 of them delivered to our table on top of what others had ordered for dessert. A guy at a nearby table started pointing and was gettng ready to say something. One guy in our party would rather smoke than eat dessert so we passed his creme brulee to the guy at the other table. Hubby is going to want to know if crepes are still made and served at the buffet in the evenings.

A wine we like. Not a fan of the sparkling wine. We've also given them as part of an extra thank you to crew. I can't have alcohol anymore due to medication so that's what we'd do now.

Edited - found what I was looking for!

Just say no if you are prone to sea sickness. I stck to midship. Sometimes what they consider an upgrade isn't an upgrade to us.

That's really too bad. All NCL sailings are not indicative of this. And the first issue was most likely not due to anything NCL did or didn't do, but the others are.