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On 10/30/2022 at 1:59 PM, Cruising Lynne said:
... I had the chicken enchilada with mole sauce and the husband had the carne asada meal. ...
We're doing Los Lobos on our first at sea day. Funny you should mention this. Until I saw Pati Jinich demonstrate how Mole is made on her PBS show, Pati's Mexican Table, I'd never heard of Mole. I was a little freaked out when I saw how it basically begins with incinerated peppers. And evere since then I've been fascinated by it and can't wait to try it. This was going to be time to do it.
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Just now, hallux said:
Is there a comparable competitor on the market? Swapping them would be quite a challenge.
I mean, perhaps so. But they can't win a court case proving the propulsion system is neither safe nor reliable, and then not face their customers and tell us what they intend to do about whatever ships are currently using them. -
Last month, Norwegian Cruise Line's lawsuit partners, Holland & Knight won a $159M judgment against ABB for misrepresenting the safety and reliability of their Azipod propulsion system.
Great. So now what? Is NCL still using these systems, if they now have such little faith in them that they have successfully charged ABB with being fraudulant about their misrepresentations?
If they're not safe, have they swapped them out already?
Anyone know?
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What NCL is most pressing about is that your identification match what is listed on your PASSPORT. It's the State Department who will make a big whoopteedoo over a missing middle name. If your middle name doesn't appear on your passport, or you're on a cruise that will not require one you're probably smooth sailing.
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4 minutes ago, travelgip said:
On this topic - I bid for an upgrade on 1/21-1/28/23 cruise on the Escape. When I log into NCL app & website I don't see anywhere where I can see my bid or status. Any advise please?
Go back through the Room Upgrades link just as though you were going to bid on another room. You will have to re-insert your last name and booking confirmation number. The next page should show you your most recent bid. (You can also click or swipe right to see the other available items for bid in case you want to bid on two staterooms at once.) There won't be any status updates until just under a week before embarkation when they start to award the bids.
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13 minutes ago, cruiseny4life said:
I'm the Karen in the wild, so my husband does all the talking...not really sure how I got to be so successful in the HR field. 🙂
Vinegar tongue seems perfectly suited for HR.
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15 minutes ago, cruiseny4life said:
Why do you call me out like that? I thought we were buds!
lololol We are. I wasn't quoting you. Are you the "high horsie" in your imagination? 😄
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21 minutes ago, garysol1 said:
I just got off the phone AGAIN with NCL and they are now saying that they can link all of the reservations but since we included the air promo they would need to charge us an extra $100 per guest to do so....... I asked for an explanation but the rep really did not have one. I think I will have my wife call......lol. She has sharper teeth than I do.
Perhaps "sharp teeth" isn't what's called for here. Perhaps a gentle, neighborly:"Awesome, thanks for getting this done for me. One last thing, is there anything I can do to get that hundred dollars waved?"
...might be more in order?
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I would draw your attention to the caveat (mentioned twice, in the first sentence and the last sentence of the opening paragraph) that "...destination specific travel requirements supersede any NCL embarkation protocols".
It also cautions you to read the entire document carefully so that you are aware of the requirements specific to the country you are visiting.
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8 hours ago, ChiefMateJRK said:
So, you decided to book this cruise entirely because they served coke? That's just nuts.
Honestly, I think this thread was started by someone who just wanted to play comment hall monitor.
https://www.ncl.com/newsroom/norwegian-cruise-line-announces-beverage-partnership-with-coca-cola-during-norwegian-primas-christening-voyage?fbclid=IwAR28Rid4loznrL6ZlUG1wVsfHpV49mLri8qJsj9hzVgDgtuRYC_unjTYmx4-
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Are you considering booking cruises on every ship that serves coke this year?
Or did you just want to make a point about people commenting without having been on the actual ships?
Because you could have done that in the original thread that we've already been looking at for two days.
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I’m a non smoker. In fact I’m a former smoker who quit the day of my first visit to the cath lab 14 years ago. If I want to gamble I will and I couldn’t care less if someone is smoking or not.
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On 10/13/2022 at 3:23 PM, Always Cruising said:
I called NCL Latitudes IT today, and was told to log out of NCL.com, chose a new password and log back in. It worked! Who knows what gremlins messed up my account before?!?
I’m in communications and entertainment. I have to deal with IT support almost every day.
They have this little trick when they’re not particularly ready to help you with whatever problem you’re having.
They give you 5 or 6 meaningless little busy-tasks to go off and do before they will let you in to see the Wizard. Like bring back a broomstick. Or change your password.
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17 minutes ago, MsTabbyKats said:
.but my friend "the retired TA" told me that she made "pennies" per booking. If the TA makes pennies ....how are they giving these generous discounts?
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Apparently the standard for success for a lot of people is who can come to the phone first. But of course that’s one thing, and it leaves the other 8 or 10 or so things you either need help with or that could go wrong that goes to the quality of assistance.
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7 hours ago, BirdTravels said:
Hmmm.... The Prima was christened on August 27, 2022 with the first paying cruise commencing afterward.
We sailed on the Breakaway on August 14, 2022 and we had Coke products already (the Breakaway switched from Pepsi to Coke during the week of August 8, 2022).
So,,, Your "incorrect" is incorrect. Ships were serving Coke products before the Prima.
@YVRteacher is correct.
Ah now we have TWO wrongs. But that doesn’t make you right.
@kasimir already addressed your bad Bliss info. As to how you got your hands on some Coke on the Breakaway? Well, we only have your word for that.
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2 hours ago, YVRteacher said:
Nope. Several ships switched to Coke before the Prima was launched.
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Prima is the first. All others will follow.
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when you called, and the recording said “if you booked with a travel agent, press 2” or whatever the prompt is …. Did you press 2? Or whatever?
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I understood that they begin finalizing bids at 10 days.
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Possibly they’ve begun awarding bids? I mean, just because there are 87 available for reserving doesn’t mean they were all marked for upgrade offers.
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22 minutes ago, dbrown84 said:
just to be clear, if you cancel the drink package you only save on the 20% gratuities. You don't save anything on the cruise fare. To actually save on the cruise fare, you'd have to pick a sailaway cabin, which would mean not picking your own cabin and you'd lose all the free at sea promos, except you'd still get the shore excursion credit
True. For two people the Premium Drink pack is $136 pd pp. For our trip that would have been $828 total if we didn’t get it as a promtional addon and just paid for it. After I canceled ours we received two refunds: $390 and $108. -
Boy, you wanna get someone’s dander up? Get them to reminisce about the time they wasted a ton of money when almost no one else fell for it.
NCL Wins Lawsuit Against ABB for their "AZIPODS" - Now What?
in Norwegian Cruise Line
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The link to the judgment summary is what we all now know. If there’s something in it you want clarification on, that would require conjecture, and I’m fresh out of it at this time.
I was just hoping someone may have come across other news about revamping of any of the ships’ propulsion systems and so far it doesn’t look like it.