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Thank you all!

Hi, My family is considering a last minute cruise next month. Wasn't sure if any of you had experience with this. 1.) My sister just realized that her passport expired during the pandemic. Is she able to sail with just her birth certificate and say a driver's license? 2.) We have never used the kids club at RCCL. Her kids are 4 and 5. Are the kids club open on the Anthem and is this drop off or do you stay with them? 3.) We are looking at the Halloween sailing. We've never been on a cruise ship during Halloween. Do kids get dressed up? Is there any trick or treat? Do you bring candy to give to other kids? LOL kids want to do trick or treat so we weren't sure if need to look at a different sailing. Thanks!

I asked the room steward. They referred me to Cruise Next.

You at least got the water. Last week on the Breakaway, even though my brother and I were both Plat, we didn't get the water. We upgraded last min, so I ended up at cruise next desk and they gave me the dining coupons. Then they tried to expedite delivery of the water 3x last week, where eventually the Cruise Next manager called me and said he gave up and bought me a box of water from the bar across from their area with his own money, as this was ridiculous that they couldn't get the water to me at 5 days into a 7 day cruise. Funny enough, the strawberries made it on the 2nd day.

Insides get $100. I paid for my parents' cabin w/ my card so the promo applied to them as well. I think my TA said it was up to 3 bookings could get the benefit.

We only thought they were so so. They don't enunciate well when singing, so I was only hearing maybe every 2/3 words sometimes when they were singing. I thought it was just me, but I heard others talking about it last night too as they were leaving the theater. Maybe you had diff singers then our sailing.

Yes, it was there this week. It played twice. Yesterday night and the night before.

We just got off the Breakaway today. How its implemented over there according to the CruiseNext team was that we could use our 2 plat coupons at any specialty restaurant, but not the same restaurant for both coupons, didn't matter what the coupon said, as they were trying to be green and not use the new ones yet.

I would vote Thermal pass. I just got off the Breakaway this morning and while I was only in the public area of Vibe, it was very windy up there and a bit cold already this week. And that is with us sailing 60-70s in the US portion and 50-60 degree weather for the Canada parts.

No more announcement yet but they did just pull the gangway. So hopefully moving soon.

We did Newport, Rhode Island yesterday, Boston today, Bar Harbor, ME tomorrow and then will be Canada in St. John’s and Halifax

We are on the Breakaway right now. And were supposed to leave Boston at 7pm. Instead we have been watching police and other folks come on board. Captain made announcement a few hours ago that he hasn’t received clearance from the authorities to leave yet.

Hi, for a more recent report. I did on point this past Friday and used it to get on board the Breakway yesterday with no issues. You provide your own test kit. They asked me what brand when I signed up for the virtual proctoring and when. I had the meeting she walked me through how to use it as I had not used that brand before. I got the test from my local drugstore. It was whatever brand that my insurance was allowing me to have free ones. I think it was flowflex. Thx

Are you able to cancel from their app or something once you get on board?

Yes, we don't mind, lol to be honest, we typically book guarantee so used to that part, but figured I'd ask. I think though, NCL wouldn't talk to me as we have a TA. Oh well.

Hi, for our sailing tomorrow, both my mom and my cabin just won the upgrade bid. I was wondering, this is first time I did this process. If there are a lot of cabins still available in the category we are now upgraded to, are we allowed to request to move to same floor? Or is this more of you get what you get. We're ok with what we have. Just thought it would be easier to coordinate plans if we were lol not 2 floors apart now. BTW, our sailing is not full, so I went from Inside IF to Balcony BA for the lowest $100 pp bid. Prices of balcony had come down already last week, but when I had called my TA, he said for us to upgrade it would be $321 total and we would lose our $100 obc per room to go to Balcony BF. So we decided to chance it at the poorest.

Thank you!

Hi, It's been awhile since I cruised NCL. But I vaguely remember in the past, on the day of embarkation, I used to eat at one of the main restaurants for lunch, not the buffet. I am heading to the Breakaway tomorrow, and was wondering are any of the main dining rooms open for lunch or is it only the buffet? Thanks!

Ah ok, I had seen a button but didn't know it was disabled. If you are willing to share, my email is same as my username at gmail. If not, that is ok too. Thanks

Hi, would you mind messaging me who your TA is? After our cruise next week, we will probably be looking for our next cruise w/ my sister's family. Since my brother has moved to the other side of the country, I will be booking as solo. Thanks

Do you get amex plat benefits when sailing solo? This is only my first time sailing when I had the amex card. Before my brother joined me in my cabin, I was a solo in an inside cabin and my TA said I could only get the amex benefit if it was double occupancy. Thx

Thank you, I will see if I can double check. I've used this TA before, but I didn't have an amex platinum at that time, so I wasn't sure how this all worked.

Oh. The only OBC that I see right now in my reservation is from my stock benefit 😞

Hi, Just wanted to double check. Next week we will be sailing for the first time where I used my Amex platinum to utilize their cruise privileges program when I paid for my cruise. For my booking, my TA said we get $100 OBC and dinner at Le Bistro. However, when I asked him if it is supposed to show in my edoc or anything, he said no, these 2 things would show up automatically when I am onboard. I was wondering if anyone knew where that is supposed to show up. Is there something that I need to bring as proof in case it doesn't show up? Also does anyone know if I have to use my amex platinum for on board account or can I use any cc at this point. Also when dining at Le Bistro, do I have to specify to them to use the one from Amex vs say using my specialty dining from my perks or the one from my NCL Platinum benefit? Thanks

No, normally in the NCL ones I have attended, you don't get anything, although years ago, our meet and greet leader managed to get us a bridge tour, but we were on one of the smallest ships, I think NCL Crown if I recall. But I know that they told us this was not the norm. This meeting isn't to meet the officers of the ship. It is more for cruisecritic folks that are in the roll call to meet each other after talking with each other online and making friends for awhile before the sailing. Sometimes a cc member may organize something like small gift exchange or something. It all depends on how active your roll call is. If officers come, they say hi and maybe answer a few questions, and some will leave like business cards or something, so if you have an issue/complaint, you have a way to provide feedback while on the ship so they can try and address while you are still sailing. RCCL ones are similar, although sometimes they may do small drawing for little knic knack or something, as those are organized by RCCL.