julig22

When is your cruise? Cruise first has to be a new booking, 120 days or more from your booking date. Current offer is $250 for a $500 certificate, offer expires in a couple days, no way to know if it will be extended or reverts back to $150/300. Good for 3years. CruiseNext is worth $250, good for 4 years. It will take time to transfer if you buy online. Normally you can use 1 but double up allows you to use 2. Current offer is any cabin, 4 months out. You should be able to book and apply certificates later but be aware that the double up offer changes frequently.

CNC is simply a prepaid voucher and basically has nothing to do with your reservation status. Just a form of payment, just like using a CC or check.

Never had an issue adding CNC anywhere along the way, up to final payment. And adding another if the any cabin double up promo comes along.

Just have back-up plans to arrive in either Quebec or Montreal if you use NCL for your flights. I've only flown to Quebec once and as I recall they don't always have daily flights so if there are no flights the day you choose to arrive you'll go to Montreal for example. I'm using NCL for my flights but I'm doing the reverse trip, ending in Quebec, for exactly this reason. But I don't know whether to sign up for the post-cruise excursion to Quebec or Montreal!

Guy on the deck below me was smoking on his deck - and flicking his ashes/cigarette butts overboard. 3 guesses how that worked out for him...

Because they know that all the folks from the upper decks look directly down on them LOL.

Whether or not an authorized user is reported to the credit bureaus is entirely up to the issuing bank.

I think you need to have a certified test for proof, if you haven't already had one done.

NCL is very accommodating with respect to food allergies but you do need to manage your expectations. I've read a few rants because people expected to find a variety of GF desserts in the buffet for example. Or they didn't like to have to pre-order because they didn't always know a day in advance what they wanted to eat the next day. As long as you keep in contact with the kitchen while onboard, all is good. If you don't, your choices may be limited.

Not on your specific cruise, going later in the summer. I've used NCL air a number of times, will continue to do so, although I did not for this specific cruise, as I will just be flying from Seattle and have a voucher that I need to use up. Assuming they haven't booked your flights yet (doubtful at this late date), book the NCL pre-cruise train excursion that takes you from Anchorage to Seward. If you have a pre or post-cruise excursion booked when they book your plane tickets they will attempt to make sure your flights allow you to make the excursion. That might make the difference between an early or late flight. And if you call the excursion desk, rather than booking online, they might also be willing to look to see if your flights have been booked.

Excellent advice. Most likely, contacting NCL air department will get you nowhere. They have their policies, they stick to them (although I was told a little while ago that they were changing management). But those policies can be overridden, on a case-by-case basis if you calmly make a reasonable request PRIOR to your flights getting booked. Been there, done that. vicepresidentguestservices@ncl.com

Not only was your response incorrect, it had nothing to do with the original question DO THEY DISCOUNT...

As a solo you only pay half-price for airfare with the BOGO offer so yes, there can be a financial advantage. I've used it many times. How much of a discount depends on the overall cost of the flights. For me, NCL doesn't discount a flight from Seattle to Anchorage that much and I have airline credits to use, so I'll book my own this time. Note, I will be using airline credits that I got when a NCL-booked flight home got cancelled/rescheduled for the following day. The same flight I might have booked on my own at 3x the price.

As far as I know, you can only use points to upgrade from Inside to OV or OV to Balcony. As to solo-supplement, that depends on the cruise. Many of the Alaska cruises this summer had no solo-supplement for inside and OV. Others vary from no supplement to just a slight discount. As to upgrading once onboard - chances are slim to none unless you happen to be on a cruise that isn't already sold out. And even then it's not very common, just not something NCL usually does. I believe NCL recently allowed studios to bid on upgrades, don't know if that's still the case. Or you can watch the pricing and see if prices go down, supplement or not, and ask for an upgrade (assuming you are already past final payment).

Seward is a little different than other ports. Generally speaking, you will fly to Anchorage and take either a bus or the train to Seward. So your options to get to the ship on time are limited. I'm booked for the same itinerary but not using NCL for this particular trip, flying to Anchorage from Seattle and in that case, many of the flights arrive super early in the morning - still debating my actual plans on when to fly. But I have booked the pre-cruise excursion which is the train transfer to the cruise, leaves Anchorage about 1 pm. So you can definitely book that instead of the NCL transfer - if the train is late, the ship will wait. And the excursion credit(s) apply, so might be cheaper anyway. In the past, I've also been able to book the NCL transfers, even when flying in early - sometimes it did take getting a supervisor who knew how to override the system. But on my last cruise they cancelled my transfer shortly before my cruise, stating some nonsense about security at the airport. They assured me that it was only that specific airport (Buenos Aires) but I'm getting the feeling that they are doing it elsewhere.

Just depends on your itinerary and the excursions you choose.

To make it more interesting I have found that they add on $25 onto the excursion to make the free $50. I was simply commenting on your $25 statement. Nobody disputes that prices may be different.

Yea, that's not how it works. They might raise the price, they might not. But they don't just arbitrarily add $25 to everything. Comparing exact same excursion, different cruiselines, can be a little difficult, due to differences in transportation logistics, etc. Simple example: Goldbelt Tramway in Juneau - $50 ($35 child) if you buy online or onsite. $49 ($29 child) with NCL. So actually free for #1 passenger, cheaper altogether for a child.

Not true, nor is it was the OP was asking. Whether all passengers have to actually disembark depends on the port. On some cruises, B2B passengers just gather in one of the restaurants or the theater. Ship does not have to have a zero head count, just all passengers have to be accounted for.

Bidding typically opens 110 days after final due date for the cruise. So makes perfect sense.

Yep, I just looked. Gondolas are more now. Booked it at $49 for an upcoming cruise, now it's showing $69 for the cruise I hadn't finished booking excursions - I usually book it because it's free.... Just hadn't done it yet, oh well! Wonder if they'll eventually up the excursion credit if they have to increase the prices on all of the cheaper excursions that currently qualify as "free"

As written in the Promo T&Cs: In the case of multiple excursion credits or discounts, the $50 Shore Excursion Credit will be applied first followed by any additional shore excursion discounts

Doubtful that what you actually spent has anything to do with the bid. They already have that money, the idea is to get more. So your $500 bid is better in that respect than another bid from someone who originally paid more but is only bidding $250. So logically, in my opinion anyway, you are on equal footing with anyone else who has an equivalent cabin, regardless of how much they originally paid. Now how that plays out when different categories are bidding on the same upgrade, hard to say. It then becomes a game of backfilling empty slots.

I think TA OBC is usually refundable, assuming the TA pays for it. NR OBC is usually from NCL. That aside, shareholder OBC is listed as nonrefundable. However, on my last cruise I believe it was applied toward my CN purchase. At least that's how it originally appeared on my account. Due to a bunch of excursion credits and additional NCL OBC what went where got kinda lost by the end so impossible to completely verify. From my experience, it appears that different ships have different accounting systems so that might also be a factor.

If you book onboard, it shouldn't be an issue as far as I know. As to applying to someone else, the OBC is automatically split between guest #1 and guest #2. If you're talking about more than 2 people, you'd have to run that by Guest Services.