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I agree, but in the case of specialty dining and having "paid" for the meal I could understand wanting to have the chance to eat everything.

That very much depends on the cruise and ship. There may be typical days the shows go on, but they could adjust from one cruise to the next.

My mistake, I misread...

There's similar discussion here -

Either the comedy/social club or the Box Office (or both?)

I guess a better way to word it would be "improvement compared to"

Dining opens 130/125/120 days (depending on cabin category and Latitudes status), entertainment (primarily the theater shows) opens at 26/21 days before the cruise.

It's their first time on NCL, it's possible they thought you had to go to the specific restaurant to make the reservations. A couple of us guided them in the right direction earlier in the thread...

Nothing says you have to have ALL courses when you sit at the MDR. You could sit for apps and entree, go to your show and walk back to an MDR to grab dessert after the show.

You won't make the reservations at the venue on embarkation day, there's a central location (Teppanyaki or somewhere on deck 6 usually) where that is done.

I was going to make the same comment.

Not all cruises allow you to select a specific cabin, even with the non-sail away category. Sometimes the cabins are offered simply as guarantee, such as the case with the category I booked for a sailing next year (I booked an inside with perks but I didn't have the option to select the cabin at the time of booking, a balcony is also a 'guarantee' with perks but without cabin selection).

You get it inside the terminal, prior to customs. You get a colored tag and get to look through all the bags with that color tag to find yours.

Something to consider for the underseat bag, and I don't know if this applies to all airlines, all planes, or just this one model plane on this one airline - my bag I use for my computer is too wide to fit under the seat in front when I sit in an aisle on Southwest. The frame is a LITTLE narrower and the bag is too wide. Southwest is an all-737 fleet so other plane models may be different. As I usually travel alone (for work and leisure), I can't just ask my travel mate to swap bag placement to put the wider bag under the middle seat. fortunately, this isn't an issue when I travel for leisure - I have a different bag for that as I don't bring my laptop usually. The bag I use won't fit the OP's needs, but just adding something I've observed.

Yes, the theater productions can be booked at 21 days before the cruise.

Comedy shows are not pre-booked. On the Escape I booked those at the Box Office as soon as I boarded.

Actually, those reservations opened 120 out, you were a month late. They do not release all reservations for pre-booking so you should be able to make reservations once on board. The internet package you have has ZERO bearing on how the app works. You don't even need an internet package to use the app. That said - I was on the Escape in March and everything WiFi seemed to work VERY well for me. The app had some quirks, but that was primarily accessing the PDF version of the Freestyle Daily. However, I don't incessantly manage reservations in the app like some do. Different ship. The ships are, for lack of a better term, islands when it comes to some IT stuff. All the reservations and such are managed ON the ship. That means that THAT ship could have had a server crash or an issue getting the upload of the pre-booked items but others in the fleet didn't have that problem.

No, but if you read the linked thread, someone cut the entire line, claimed they ordered a whole pie and took everything that was out for the buffet line because theirs wasn't ready yet...

Then you're better off in the 2023 thread...

You're paying the gratuity on the cost of the package. No more is expected when you dine.

The person I replied to was replying to something I posted...

Excellent point @BirdTravels - I considered using a TA that was advertised to me as a perk from my employer (it was no deal compared to what was offered to the general public), if I booked through them the room was ONLY on deck 5 (inside room) but booking through NCL it's a guarantee room that could be on ANY deck. The TA wanted 2x the price to book something higher.

It's not really 'organized', they have a table of games to pick from, you grab one and play. There may be a staff member nearby, but they're not really leading anything.

Could commandeer a table in the buffet off-hours for food service. On my cruise on the Escape they had board games at Le Bistro at least one sea day, this might have been that...

Correction - 2x.