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Instead of reposting the details, you could ask the mods to retitle the thread, for instance, You cannot do a back to back from one US Port to another with Vancouver as your foreign port.

How do they use the "convenience/freedom factor" to define $50 off the first passenger's excursion as "free"? I know on our Prima cruise this past August from London (Southampton) to Reykjavik there was not a single NCL excursion that was $50 or less. I can at least understand the free in the other parts as you are only paying the gratuities on it, but to claim excursions are free is just totally unjustifiable.

It was the 3rd time I saw Willie Nelson there. The first time Ray Price was on first and then Merle Haggard before Willie. The second time Marcia Lambert (before she was a star) opened followed by Allison Krause before Willie.

Glad you enjoyed it. I was thinking about your question about Luke Bryan playing in what you thought was a small venue. And I came up with a more relevant question. Why did Luke Bryan take 3rd billing on Willie Nelson's 2002 Texas Outlaws tour? It was obvious from the amount of people who left with the top 2 billed groups still to play that many came for Bryan. My best answer is out of respect for Willie Nelson and what he meant historically for country music.

I only had a chair once on the Prima for Syd Norman, and I found I could not really sit. Music is supposed to make you move!

Yes, when you are outdoors, that's big. Our venue for Judy Collins next month is small, just a few hundred. I hope you also looked at the museum link.

You're welcome. The museum is open until the end of December, and then reopens again in April. I think the max for concerts is 15,000. Luke Bryan playing early before ZZ Top and finally Willie Nelson made is so much easier to get out of the parking lot as so many left after his set. Getting out after Santana who always sells out the venue is always impossible. Here is the website for Bethel Woods including a link for the museum. Bethel Woods New York: Concerts, Woodstock Museum & Holiday Lighting (bethelwoodscenter.org)

If you ever drive by again, the site of the original concert is now Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. There is a museum there dedicated to both the original Woodstock festival and the 1960s. There are outdoor concerts in the summer. We did not make it to any this past summer, but the previous summer did see Santana with Earth, Wind, and Fire opening, the Willie Nelson Outlaw tour, lots of groups on before Wille, but we only saw Luke Bryan and ZZ Top, and Phil Lesh with the Midnight Ramble Band (the band that used to back up Levon Helm). There are also some small indoor concerts, and we have tickets to see Judy Collins next month. And no hotels, only a few motels, still exist in Monticello.

Helps when you live fairly close, and the person driving knew the back roads. Actually, I know how I got there, but have never figured out how I got home. 🤣🤦‍♂️ I actually met two others this past August on our Prima cruise who were also there. For the second one, I was on an elevator and a couple got on. The wife asked where I was from and when I said Monticello, she asked if I had been at Woodstock. I said yes, and she pointed at her husband and said so was he. I said I was 22; he said he was 17.

Yes, still waiting for someone to explain why having to call the cruise company as opposed to a TA gives one "total control".

Yes, as others have said a truly excellent TA is worth more than just whatever discount or OBC that can be provided. I once had absolutely contradictory information from a cruise line (Princess) over whether they did or did not have a transfer from London to Dover. I called our TA. He then called the representative he worked with at the cruise line and put us on a 3 way call. After ascertaining the correct information, he said to his representative would he stay on the line and answer any questions I had about the cruise. And then the 2 of us had a pleasant conversation wiht him answering any questions I had.

Wouldn't it be easier to do this with a travel agent who has contacts with the cruise line? Wouldn't that be better than being told you cannot and then hoping they will actually transfer you to to a resolutions specialist?

Aha---The Who--I Won't Be Fooled Again. They did a wonderful set at Woodstock playing basically their new at that time album Tommy. They followed Sly and the Family Stone. The Jefferson Airplane followed them concluding "Saturday's{ program though by the time they ended the sun had come up Sunday morning.

Just a caveat about finding lower prices---be sure to know what may disappear. If the lower price is not part of the same booking deal, things may disappear that were on the original booking. For instance, if the original had OBC and the new lower price does not provide the same OBC, it might not really be lower. Or another example is the new booking may require a higher deposit. If you do not pay the extra for the deposit, you can lose the booking. We had one of those once when a lower price was found, and then paid the extra deposit after being warned by our TA. It was worth it, but not if we had not known and increased our deposit when we opted for the lower price.

Yes, there will be a BIG news flash that it is extended.

We booked our excursion with a stop to the airport in Reykjavik directly onboard on the Prima this past summer and did have both our Latitude and BOGO taken off. We did remind them we had those when we booked. The thing they did not automatically do although they said they would was credit back our BOGO transfers. I had to go to customer service to end up having this done.

I had originally mentioned 6 months on/6 months off because I knew of some entertainers who were on that schedule.

How about the officers? What kind of on/off schedule do they typically have?

Maybe, but IIRC they sounded excited to be going on the cruise according to their roll call post. Princess cancelled it a few weeks later, just "coincidentally" just a few days after final payment was due. I am not even sure if those offers were out there yet as this was really the beginning of the massive Covid cruise cancellations.

Are the waiters and stewards typically on a 6 month on/6 months off schedule?

We cancelled our 2020 cruise with just a refundable deposit before final payment was due as I saw the writing on the wall with Covid. After all how were you going to do a Norwegian fjords cruise if Norway was closing their ports? When I went to our roll call to say we were bailing out on the cruise, I saw someone had just booked it! I wonder how much of a cheap bargain price they got.

Important point, official copy, not the hospital one. Way back when DW got her first passport as an adult after we were married, it turned out her mother had sent her the hospital copy and thrown out the official copy. She had to apply for an official copy from the jurisdiction where she was born. The funny thing is that even though that took some time, so she applied for the passport after me, she got her passport before I got mine.

Well. they did get an adventure, just not anything near what they expeected.

A crew? You mean just having a ship is not enough? 🤦‍♂️

The last time we were in Rome on a cruise, we took the next to last train back to give us some leeway for not missing the ship. It was very hot, and even hotter on the crowded train. And that was before a fight broke out on the train. 😒