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I booked a guarantee balcony on the Joy for a Panama Canal cruise and got an angled balcony. Spoiled me for life!

I'm a lanyard and stick it inside my clothes cruise card carrier. Too many of my clothes don't have pockets. If I'm going ashore, I can add my passport card and some tip money so I don't have to carry around a bag/purse.

#1 Because Norwegian took steps to make it financially easier for some one to cruise solo: first by building studio cabins but then recognizing that some solos wanted a view or a balcony and added a discount for solo use of those rooms. As YakCruiser said. NCL WANTS us solos. #2 If you are an introvert solo, "Feel Free" means you don't have to pick a dinner time and sit at a table with 5 strangers. You can sit alone in the dining room and its OK.

I did the Panama Canal onboard the Joy in January of 2023. I did a shore excursion that went from the Pacific through the old locks to Gatun Lake. Then the next day we took the Joy through the new locks all the way from Pacific to Atlantic. It was one of my favorite cruises. In fact, I booked a cruise January of 2026 on the Bliss going through the other direction. So if I do a shore excursion from the Atlantic through the old locks to Gatun Lake, I can say I've been all the way through 3 times in 2 cruises! In the picture, my excursion is in the old locks and the cargo ship is in the new locks. For the Joy's journey through the locks, I stayed in my balcony cabin and had the View from the Bridge on my TV turned up. I went between the two to watch everything. Being under 5 ft., I knew I wouldn't see anything from the bow anyway, LOL. I'm not on a balcony next time (at least not at this point; we'll see if prices go down), so maybe I'll end up venturing out to the bow. As an introvert solo cruiser, I'm a fan of Norwegian but Princess' itinerary is very similar. The cruise from Cabo, Puerta Vallarta and Acapulco is amazing if you are a fan of marine life. I saw whales breaching from my balcony and sea turtles eating in the port where we were berthed. I missed the dolphins, but there was a pod of them that went by as well.

I got an email with the case number. Waited 10 (I think?) days and didn't get anything. Emailed them referencing the case number as instructed to do and just got a reply of a new case number. Waited the ten or what ever days and then called NCL and they said that there's nothing they could do and to email again even though I would get get the generic email with a new case number. Ended up mailing them the certificate and all 3 emails certified mail and got an immediate response with the credit. Hopefully just emails will do the trick for you.

Awesome! That makes me happy since I had just finally acquired the full 100 stocks and then was worried that I would never be able to use them.

Has anyone tried OBC with a solo room (not the solo suites but the new designation of solo inside, solo Oceanview, solo balcony). I'm curious if "Singles paying 200% are entitled to full onboard credit value" will be changed to allow for solo category bookings or if we will only get a portion of the shareholder credit (or nothing!).

Maybe they're trying to look like a flowerhorn:

https://www.ncl.com/shore-excursions This is a good place to check which shore excursions may be available. Nice has 6 and Kusadasi has 11.

I watched a YouTube video recently where they said they would never sail NCL again because they were nickel and diming them. I believe it was their first ever cruise. NCL charged them a daily service charge. How dare they!! AND charged them the full price on excursions before applying the $50 discount as onboard credit. Shocking! 🤣

If you are switching rooms, they will provide priority luggage tags with your old room number and new room number. You attach them to your luggage and leave the luggage in your room. The steward will move them to your new room.

Just was in this scenario. NCL linked the cruise. They will ask you to confirm and then send instructions to your cabin on how to go through immigration but then you can immediately return to the ship. When I rolled over to gold status they sent a congratulatory note and some treats to my cabin. I did get a note about 50% off laundry but I didn't note if that was due to gold status or just a special they were running.

So, if the price of your cruise drops and you rebook, instead of $500, you only get the $250 you purchased the certificate for?

Thank you!