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I board tomorrow. I promise prompt publication pending postponed pooping protocols.

Indeed, I learned about the dirty banana on my last (and first) cruise earlier this year on Princess. I was surprised how much I liked it.

Turn it down. Maybe they'll send it to me next. 😆

Oh no... We're boarding the K in 7 days and I we were so looking forward to the Grand Dutch.

I am interested in the Grand Dutch. I see that they charge for drip coffee and tea. Is this drip coffee / tea in any way better than other parts of the ship where it'd free? I just want to know if I should bring a cup of coffee over from the Lido for my french fries 😆

First time on HAL.. what coffee/tea IS covered, and where? No beverage plan. Thank you!

Question about booking a restaurant reservation. I want to book Pinnacle for the first day. Right now the website wants to charge $184, however two of our guests (different booking #) have vouchers and two guests will have plenty of OBC to cover their portion. Is there any way to delay payment? I just want to place the reservation right now but pay for the restaurant later (you know, like every other restaurant in the world 😆). Or do I need to pay now, then go to guest services once on board with vouchers and OBC in hand and get it all fixed? Thanks

Bonus: The rest of our traveling party is boarding at 11:30 AM. 😕

That's good to hear! I just got my boarding time (no room).. 2:30 PM. Looks like we have an extra meal to find 😕

14 days to departure and my room is still GUAR. I'm not worried about a bad room, just worried about no room. Come on ...room!

Well I don't know what I don't know. Yes I can see my reservation online just fine, not worried about not getting on the boat, but since HAL talks to the TAs rather than the passengers I don't know what offers/deals may be coming up.

I suppose this is the most obvious problem you could have if you booked through a TA. I did it to save some money, but now I have no access to a TA. I've asked cruise line what to do and they (HAL) said they don't know. My TA is gone. The whole office is unresponsive for about a month. I'm 28 days from my cruise. The upside is that I don't really need much from them. I can survive okay without any contact. At this point it's more the principle of the matter. What do you do when your TA has jumped ship?

I have booked 2 cruises in total, both this year. Princess was something around $200 deposit and the rest due within two weeks, months before the cruise. The other was the Baja California cruise on Hal and they wanted 100% up front.

Unfortunately cruises rarely target people who like beer. 😕 That said, Lagunitas seems to have made inroads with the cruise industry. I think little sumpin' sumpin is usually available.

They changed promotions. Current promotion doesn't show for my November cruise either. Current promotion ends on the 12th. The 13th should have a new one that may apply.

Only time I've seen that on an Android is when I've rooted it / replaced the image. Random applications decide your phone is incompatible after.

I purchased my shares initially for the benefit. I've used the benefit twice. The shares are down a reasonable amount from where I purchased them, but I'd only sell now for tax reasons. I can't give investing advice but if I did not have the stock now and I had a cruise coming up soon, I would probably make the decision to buy them.

I think Btimmer is right. They are showing different packages to different people, possibly based on the cruise. Here's mine: No crew appreciation, (even if following to Terms and conditions)

I don't think this is correct. If it was, I'd grab it.

It took me less than 24 hours. My cruise is in November. I emailed "World_Cruise_Reservations@hollandamerica.com" and got a very quick response.

And these pages show $0 for me right now. I wanted to verify I have $300 OBC before the cruise so I can correct it if there's a mistake. Looks like I'll have to call.

I should have some on board credit from a couple of sources for a cruise in November. I've looked in the app in one place I'd expect to see this but the credit states $0. I haven't seen any place on the website to check. Is this viewable before the cruise starts somewhere? Thanks!

Thanks for the responses. I suppose these kinds of options open up later or on-board only. Is there a free wifi for doing cruise related activities in conjunction with the Navigator app? For example on Princess we'd use the app to do things like: Place a reservation, order a drink to our table, locate passengers in our party, review the daily patter, sign up for activities, join in on some ship-wide games, etc. Is there free guest-to-guest messaging? Thanks.

My first time cruising ever was on Princess, earlier this year. I had their everything-package. Now I'm going to be on the Koningsdam Nov-Dec and it looks like Holland America's "Have it all" is a less-than-everything-package we're likely to avoid. I have a question on wifi options. According to this page there are three tiers of wifi packages available. however clicking on any of them take me to the sign-in page even though I'm already signed in. If instead I go to the package purchase page there are two options: "Have it all" and Premium Internet (for the entire trip). We're just going to want to make a couple video calls throughout the voyage. I'm hoping we can get away with it costing less than $55/call (the price for the premium package is $110/trip). Are there going to be more options on-board? How bad is the wifi-lockout? Thanks for the information.