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3 hours ago, motopolitico said:

Ever hear of insurance fraud? The insurance company wants confirmation that none of us took the cruise prior to paying out. RCCL prevaricated repeatedly and frustrated our attempts to obtain this most rudimentary information. 

It would seem responsible for RCI to wait until your planned cruise reached its final destination before producing this type of document. They have to be able to truthfully say that passengers X, Y and Z did not embark on this cruise at any point. Your child was denied boarding last weekend, IIRC, so I am not surprised that no documentation has been produced yet. Hopefully it will come along quickly now that the ship has disembarked that cruise.

Keep in mind that cruise cancellation departments and insurance have been super busy dealing with COVID 19. They may have had to add extra new personnel to deal with this.

A few years ago my father passed away after the final payment date of a very expensive cruise on a different cruise line. It took months to get a refund through insurance, and we had a death certificate. (I’m not sure that his wife was ever refunded - insurance through it was perfectly reasonable to expect a

new widow to go on a 3 week cruise one month after her partner passed away).

I hope your kid kid is feeling better, and you can get some satisfaction shortly.

Hello Danish Viking and thank you very much for this informative thread! We will be visiting Copenhagen in August this year so I am following with interest.

Off the beaten pat kind of question: do you know if there is still a cat cafe in Copenhagen? I can find one online, Cafe Miao, but do not see any updates since 2017, which leads me to think it might be closed. My kids and I are crazy cat people and look forward to meeting kitties wherever we go.

Thanks for sharing this. It all looks/sounds yummy!

43 minutes ago, molly361 said:

You have to go all the way thru the booking process and enter all passengers names, then on the next screen it will show you the refundable amount

Thank you! I went ahead and booked.

For other cruisers with the same question: after entering passenger information I was given options: pre-paid gratuities, dining time and refundable deposit. Choosing refundable deposit added $153 to the overall cost. Well worth it this far out!

We are planning a cruise for the summer of 2020. I found the perfect itinerary with Royal Caribbean. However the deposit they are asking for is non-refundable, and more than we can afford to lose if things don’t work out. It is highly likely we will go on this cruise, but I can’t access pricing or schedules for airfare or hotels this far in advance. RCI seems to be having a sale right now. Do they offer refundable deposits on non-sale fares? If they do, and I book at the higher price, will I be able to take advantage of upcoming sales or price drops? 

Hello Baltic cruisers!

I’m starting to plan the next cruise for my family of 4 and we’d like to cruise the Baltic Sea. I understand that “larger” cruise ships don’t dock in Stockholm but rather at Nynäshamn. Can anyone tell me what ships would usually dock in Stockholm proper? I know that ports are subject to change per weather etc, so no port is guaranteed. I just don’t know what constitutes a “smaller” cruise ship.

NCL newbie here. I’m looking for prices for a family of 4 - 2 adults, 1 teen, 1 child - on a Baltic cruise for summer 2019. On the NCL site when I enter “4 guests” it seems to give me the regular price X 4. I can find no place to enter ages for guests 3 and 4 other than to go through and enter personal information on all passengers, which seems excessive when I just want a preliminary idea of cost at this point.

Does NCL routinely discount guests 3 and 4 in the same stateroom? Or does NCL ever offer “kids sail free” deals?

(And since I know many cruisers hate kids, don’t worry, mine are civilized and supervised. I promise.;))