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If it's the SEP 25 Nieuw Statendam, see you all onboard.

While the $1 deposit looks nice. It's no value compared to booking onboard for many cases. A two week cruise booked onboard nets $400 a cabin in OBC. Granted you have to tie up $200 in deposits, but it's refundable deposit in most cases.

Are you talking about the Tomahawk Ribeye?

Looks like HAL is running the $1 Deposit deal again. Expires 12 SEP 2023. I wonder what percentage of these turn into fully paid cruises?

Ocean Bar pre-dinner for MDR. Pinnacle Bar for pre-dinner at Pinnacle Grill. Tamarind Lounge (Silk Den) for Pre- Tamarind. Assuming your ship has Tamarind. Ocean Bar for a beer if you are having Pizza from NY Pizza !

Others have said the same thing, but I am glad you returned to cruising. That was a very unfortunate incident, and thank God of the more than 4,000 souls aboard more didn't perish than sadly did. I do believe that the HAL officers are very professional and take their jobs seriously. I have had good conversations with ship's senior officers and feel they are superb mariners.

The Shareholder OBC is a non-brainer for anyone who cruises 14 or more days per year. At today's price of around $16 a share, that $1,600 investment will return $250 a year, thats more than a 15% return (tax free** I might add. Sure the stock could lose part of or all its value. But then again, we could make money along the way. I expect to receive over $700 in OBC from this nice benefit this year. This along with Military OBC, and now AAARP OBC, keep me loyal to HAL. And then there is free laundry for 4 Stars...... ** The IRS will likely go after us for the $250 since I wrote this....

I regret that we don't seem to travel as light! We have too many clothes, but they are clean!

Great to know that HAL credit applies to our great allies to the north and across the pond! I do hope they extend same to our great Australian allies as well!

Yes, as well as how I plan pre-post- cruise travel. If I have a week of pre-cruise travels I show up on ship with a bag of mostly dirty laundry. For post-cruise touring, we have all clean things to last another week=ten days before we get home. The only thing I wish was that laundry tags were easier to remove and not on seams where they pull threads!

Perhaps a tie. But I think we save a few more dollars on laundry unless you drink a great deal of coffee!

Look forward to your posts and photos from the South Pacific. Bon Voyage.

Thank you for the posts, we did Alaska last year and you photos make me want to head North again!

Well the good news is the the ship doesn't sail until the next day. Plenty of time to figure it out.

Posting this in the HAL forum as it's specific to HAL embark. I also asked in Canada Forum and the Roll Call. Boarding Zuiderdam on 1 Sep 2023 in Quebec City. Boarding Pass says Quebec City, Ross Gaudreault Cruise Terminal which is by Old City and Piers 22/24. All port schedules show Zuiderdam at Pier 30 which has a separate Cruise Terminal. I will try to get an answer from HAL today, but often recent Cruise Critic members have the more accurate answer. Do we go to Ross Gaudreault terminal to check in and then get moved to ship by shuttle? Do we go to Terminal at Pier 30? I am assuming its Pier 30 as the disembarking passengers will need a terminal and the ship wouldn't want to move the luggage. ???? Appreciate any insight. Don't want to have to Taxi to one, to have to retaxi - It appears Zaandam ties up at 22/24 during our time in port. We don't both fit. Late edit: It will be easy to see which terminal the ship is at on arrival on 1 Sep!

Looking for some assistance. Boarding Holland America Zuiderdam on 01 Sep 2023 in QC. My boarding pass says Quebec City, Ross Gaudreault Cruise Terminal. I understand this is by Old City and Piers 22/24. All the Cruise Schedules show Zuiderdam at Pier/Terminal 30. Do we check in at Ross Gaudreault, and then shuttle to Pier 30? Appreciate anyone with any recent knowledge. Doing want to have to Taxi twice!

I revived the email within a few minutes of the purchase. Same behavior each time I have bought/used them.

I think you can bring them with you and have them applied onboard. Someone must know.....

I would be more concerned with mercury in tuna or other fish than the discharge of water from Japan's nuclear plant into the ocean. Please note: I am not concerned with mercury in my fish either. The levels of dilution are on a magnitude of a capful of water in Lake Superior.

Agree, I am 4 star, but sometimes will sign up for HIA w/Early Booking Bonus. For me a port intensive itinerary will often push me to say no. Long sea days like a TransOceanic, lends me to take the package. Glad we have choice at HAL. Some cruise lines (NCL for example) tout that drinks are included, then have you pay an astronimical gratuity no matter how many drinks you actually consume.

I did like a late sail, but I am afraid I am in bed before 10.

How many bookings did that entail? If I may ask.

Who was the Captain?

Thinking back to my big "post COVID" trip last year that included a few places well off the beaten path. The places you may prefer not to have the hospital stay, let alone surgery. For those of you reading this topic, many may have recently signed up for AARP to take advantage of the up to $200 OBC. I wanted to point out that Medjet does offer discounts for AARP members. Log into AARP, type "Medjet" into the search block. Use the AARP link to work your way there. If you are under 75, the cost is quite reasonable. Again, it's like any insurance you may buy.....you hope you are just making the company selling it profitable....and never need it.

That depends on a host of things. Where are you and why are you being evacuated. If you are in a major city like Lisbon, Rome, or Athens the answer will differ from if you are in Papua New Guinea or Spitsbergen. It could be tens of thousands of dollars.