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Loved the view from the Hudson MDR. Not that any table is far from a window, but we requested one by a window on our anniversary (sea day between Norway and Iceland) since we try to go out to eat at a restaurant by water. And they seated us right by one of the windows. 😊

I could be wrong, but I do believe Abbot and Costello said it first. And of course they also said "Who is on first", a recording of which is in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

Right, the 3 Stooges, Moe. Larry, and Curly. But I think you can still catch them on some retro tv stations while I don't know if young folks would have heard that bit from Abbot and Costello.

And for those not old enough to remember---that line is from Abbot and Costello and refers to Niagara Falls. But if you are not old enough to remember that line, you very well might not know who Abbot and Costello are. 🤣

I had this problem earlier this morning on my laptop, but luckily it now works. In the meantime, I did go to the library and saw it was not the site itself as it worked on their computer. When I could not access the site, it read the site cannot handle your request. Try later. Is this what others saw when they could not get on?

OTOH, they do get to keep the casino open, and that is definitely a money maker for them.

To all of you going on this cruise, have a great one. I will follow along your commentaries (as I start a new year in my life as yesterday was my birthday.) I know the Prima gets some bad press, but let me say that DW and I loved it and really enjoyed our cruise even though we picked it for itinerary and they somehow missed 2 ports. (We did get to one, Brugge, last month on a river cruise. Somehow I doubt we will ever get ti Isafjordur, Iceland.

7600 passengers, YIKES! But I guess there are people who want that experience as the ship seems to sell out. But definitely not me.

Although I only care what the bottom line is, our TA always sends an invoice that breaks out everything. Well not port charges per port, only the total port charges.

I just checked the account, and I guess I misunderstood. It was a $50 credit total.

Thank you once more. I guess it would be too much to ask if lines other than NCL did this. But it is good from your experience to know NCL is helpful in this regard. Hopefully, others are also.

I e-mailed them from their website and received a response today. (They say it can take up to 14 days, but it only took 4 days. First, I started by saying I had enjoyed both our escorted tours and the river cruise we had just completed. I then told them of the food problem as I saw it. They did not answer my question as to whether it was like this fleetwide or just the ship we were on. But they did say they would look into it. And also that they welcomed constructive feedback from their guest. They also said they had never before had this complaint. They also gave us each a $50 credit. However, it is only good for a year and non-refundable.

As always, thank you for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us. One question, do the cruise lines normally give any guidance for passengers to get the waiver of the fine in instances like you mentioned where the deceased passenger "disembarked early" or any other medical emergency disembarkation? Does this vary among the cruise lines?

Know this about the transfers they add on, (I'm assuming it's the same as we had for London), they will only transfer from the airport to the cruise, not from the city itself. So, your options if you keep their transfers are to get a hotel near the airport (which we did), or go back to the airport from your hotel to get the transfer bus.

Now that's funny. IIRC, Simon was the CD when we sailed on the Prima last August.

The question then becomes can the cruise line get the fine waived in case of medical emergency. I believe I have read on the cc boards from @chengkp75 that in case of something like a hurricane the cruise line normally applies for and receives a waver of the fine.

As long as it is actually their experience as opposed to I heard that.... We once had a cruise with a hurricane that kept us out of Fort Lauderdale for 2 days. I later was in a cruise discussion group and someone posted how he heard that it was awful and people were throwing up all over the place. Well, I was there, and that is not what was happening. There was a rough day when the Captain took us closer to land so passengers could get cell reception to make calls to their families, their airlines, their TAs, etc., but it was never like the person who was not there but only heard said it was.

Our funny McDonald's story---we were on a land trip in Paris and DW wanted decaf coffee. (We figured McDonalds was the same everywhere.) And the girl behind the counter said, "only normal".

My point was instead of you being on the phone and frustrated with the service, let the TA deal with them. And many of them have their own private contact within the cruise line. I don't know if ours still does, but he did the last time we sailed on Princess and were getting contradictory information from their phone representatives.

As I read that the music from Deliverance started running though my head.

Although the main reason we go to museums on many of our ports is that DW is a (now retired) art teacher, another reason is that their bathroom are also free.

And the "expert guests" are the one who probably least need to depend on the Princess call center for the proper information. Why don't people just use TAs and let them deal with Princess on the phone? What kind of "control" is it to deal with totally incompetent and often not understandable cruise line phone representatives?

Maybe if there were an Indian restaurant, they would not only not question a Nehru jacket but positively welcome it.

It's freestyle, if you want to wear wire instead of clothes, why not? I really enjoyed last summer I could wear at any time including dinner tie dye tee shirts. Only problem was it spoiled me. We went on a river cruise this past month, and I was disappointed that I had to have collared shirts to wear at dinners. Oh well, still enjoyed the river cruise.

Wow +$2.