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Just now, ontheweb said:

Now that you gave us the teaser about how you almost did not make it to the ship, how about the full story?

Full story would kinda be an hassle as my English aint exactly fluent, but Ill try somehow;  it involved arriving 1240 on the airport (departure time 5 pm), taking the wrong move (hindsight) and gambling to take the one and only train which would arrive on time (FCO->Rome Termini->Civitavecchia Port) instead of just jump in a taxi. 

Managed to catch the first train seconds before it left (or so I thought), got way too relaxed and suddenly realised that we should have been on Rome Termini 5 minutes earlier. Guess the train conductor, whom I asked whether the train went to termini, didnt really understand and uknowingly just said yes. As it clearly was the wrong route.

Should have arrived in Civitavecchia 3 PM, suddenly found ourself (me and my daughter) in a random place in Rome with no train to catch and a clock running far too fast. No taxi to be seen, lots of ppl waiting. Realised that I had one chance only; to hijack the first arriving taxi.

And it worked, luckily enough, even tho the taxi driver couldnt a single word of English. 1 1/2 hours later we walked into the departure hall and everything went smooth from there (spoked with NCL while sitting in the taxi and got the message that it was important to arrive no later then 4 pm. Succeeded with 1 minute to spare).

A few critically wrongs made by stress in the moment and an agent booking dangerously late tickets

On 6/26/2022 at 2:50 PM, TrumpyNor said:

Or even more important - did you get to go on your cruise? According to your initial post, you should normally be on board the Escape right now. 

Almost didnt make it; had to hijack a taxi infront of a large taxi queue in the center of Rome and came to the port one hour before departure (felt like being in a movie), but that was for completely different reasons;p

The cruise was amazing!

On 6/26/2022 at 1:26 PM, eurodolphin said:

Did you get an official answer to your question from NCL?

I did:

Just now, Turtles06 said:

I agree.  You don’t want to find out at the pier that you don’t have what you need. 

Very true. Ive sent a mail, hopefully it will work out.

27 minutes ago, TrumpyNor said:

I guess that you are meaning the EU national ID card that is available for all travels withing Schengen, and that is also available for Norwegian citizents? 

Correct. Royal Caribbean states the following: "EU Nationals may present a European ID Card." NCL only mentions a regular passport, which is kinda worrying. But totally agreed, hard to see why an EU ID Card shouldnt be accepted.

I have booked Norwegian Escape, travelling from Rome 20th June. Been impossible to get a new passport in Norway for months because of production related problems. Have anyone successfully used the national ID card instead of a passport?

The NCL-homepage only states passport as a valid form for legitimation when entering the ship for the first time.