RedIguana

No post cruise transfer for me on either cruise. I think you were on my March 10-17 out of Port Everglades, although I think you were on a B2B. August cruise is out of Amsterdam.

I did not have the blurb about leaving it on for disembarkation on my March cruise, nor for my upcoming August cruise. I wonder if Club Orange makes a difference.

As of this point the restrictions are just on the two World Heritage Fjords from what I can tell, so those ports you listed are not affected at this time. I suspect at some time in the future similar restrictions will be embraced for the entire northern and western coasts, but that is just a guess. Tromso and Trondheim at least can be considered as being located on fjords, but would have to verify they are on glacier carved bodies of water vs other formation types. Honningsvag and Leknes are on the outer islands, so no traditional fjords need to be traversed to reach them. I have all of those ports on a HAL cruise later this year, and thanks to your questions I will now be embarking down a deep rabbit hole encompassing the geology of the western and northern Norwegian coast.

It is good to see they are starting to test biofuels for large marine diesels. Hopefully the Norwegian government will allow their use for the 2026-2035 transition period, and suitable infrastructure and biofuel production can be in place by 2026 for biofuel use.

The 2025 cruises are available. If you want to cruise the Fjords on HAL I would suggest booking for 2025. I do not believe HAL has any ships that are currently capable of meeting the alternate fuel requirements that are set to go in effect for 2026 for the Fjords that visit Flam and Geiranger. I also do not know if other Fjords have been added to the restricted list, or how far in before the restrictions take place, or if the coastal ports face restrictions. i believe more will be known about 2026 and beyond restrictions late in 2024. But if you want to cruise the actual Fjords and not just the coastal ports, I would plan on it by 2025 at the latest, even if you have to book a line other than HAL. I was on a 9 night in 2022 (RCI) that visited the 3 major Fjords (Flam, Geiranger, and Olden ports).

Nieuw Amsterdam is scheduled for pier B arriving Saturday, November 30, at 8 am from the Dominican Republic, and departing 4 pm for Port Everglades. Pier B is the dock the city does not control.

From what I have seen post restart, the mass market lines have dropped prime cuts for choice, unless an upcharge is involved. So not on the same level as an upscale steakhouse. The Tamarind on the Pinnacle class ships may fit the "exceptional" you are looking for, as I have not seen many analogs on land, at least in my part of Florida.

From what I understand, the "local issues" stabilized a few years ago (I have made both of my scheduled stops). The 2 docks the city controls basically don't allow ships, the one they don't control does. If your ship is on the schedule at Caribe Nautical, local issues should not affect your stop, but high winds may.

In three weeks we will find out @HUNKY is booked on Carnival..... 🤪

This sounds like a pretty complicated problem. You can give the high school kids a crack at it, but it might be better to just start with the real experts, the junior high and middle schoolers. 😈

No. I complete whatever I can shortly after booking.

It's been that way a few years at least, if not since the restart. RCL group has been doing it that way a few years before covid.

Using the class vs the ship name enables cruisers who have been on that class but not the actual ship to answer general questions pertaining to that class. I was in 7190, so a deck below you, in march. No issues with smoke.

13 nights and under CO is $25 pp/pd. 14 nights and longer it is $15 pp/pd.

The four and five star priority means you have accumulated enough points to be a four or five star. Should those that earned their four or five star sailing in insides not be granted priority because they "paid" a third less than those that earned theirs sailing in balconies?