EvanBedar

You are twisting the musical abilities of the wife of the OP into some grotesque facsimile of your mother’s complete lack of ability to perform just to make it seem the same without knowing anything about her. And if you had used my whole quote above you would have included the part where I suggested she could play in a room where other musical instruments are played.

Imagine being married to someone who not only didn’t support your musical aspirations but complained behind your back about it to a room full of his stuck up anti music friends. Ugh. I can think of a word that starts with “D”.

Conversely, if it’s a room where a piano can be played, absolutely no reason why an acoustic guitar couldn’t be played and a song sung as well. Loudly. There are musicians and vocalists performing and singing all over every cruise ship. I wonder what you musicphobes do when you have to walk through those “rude and annoying” areas.

“Discouraging” and “disallowing” are two different concepts.

But you can’t breath residue unless you wipe your hand through it and spread it under your nose like Vicks. You’re entitled to complain about stink. But this is where your claims of allergies ends.

I can’t imagine why anyone would care. Unless you showed up rolling an upright tack piano across the gangplank.

oh are you gonna tell me the holy water that comes out of the tap is just as holy now, are ye?

Crap. I guess I won’t be asking the steward to stock my mini bar with that holy water then.

I personally became done with Ebay about 6 years ago. Waaaaay to cozy with PayPal, one of the least secure and most invasive pay systems around.

To a lot of people I think it's just relative to what everything costs otherwise. People have an idea what NCL cruises run in their favorite stateroom category. When they see a break in that price, it motivates them. It sounds like you're more motivated by a static end price, which will place more restrictions on where and when you can shop. But if you've decided A) I paid 10 grand for that Greek Cruise with Princess last year, I want to stay 2 grand under that, B) I don't want to be stuck with an inside cabin, C) I have an excursion budget of 2 grand - then BOOM. An NCL deal that gets your stateroom for two passengers down to 5 or 6 grand is, by any measure, a great deal!

Not for nothin’ but Chrome IS Google.

I just want to point out that every single respondent is making “price” their only talking point to sell this package to the OP. “Use NCL. It will be cheaper.” Not everyone considers only price when making a purchase decision, although… I know … it’s how we’ve been trained in America to be good little consumers. But I personally also need to consider space on an 8 hour flight. I do not want to die of a pulmonary embolism for a cruise. And as long as I’m considering it, I may as well consider advantages. So even if I do use NCL’s flights, the first thing I do after I have a confirmation number is look for the offer from the airline to upgrade to premium economy. In the case of United this gives me 4 inches of leg room, priority boarding, and 2 free checked bags. Then? I mozey on over and choose my seats. A little more? Yes. But as I said, it just depends on whether you’re a “price is all that matters” person.

Oooo! Extension cord! THANK you.

I believe it is prior to 24 hours before the excursion departure.

My first time on NCL, but not my first cruise by any stretch. When you arrive they should all be laid out on the desk for you, along with other cabin extras you might have requested. That's how it's always been for me.

If you are using an apple ipad, select "print". When the print dialogue opens, look for the dropdown menu at the bottom and select "Save to PDF." Save the file to your machine and print from your PDF viewer instead of from the website. If you are using a microsoft tablet, select "print". When the print dialogue opens scroll to the bottom and click "Print Using the System Dialogue." When the printer finder box opens, scroll down to "Microsoft Print to PDF." Save the file to your machine and print from your PDF viewer instead of from the website.

Most of us are not auto mechanics. We wouldn't know distributor cap from a hub cap. So when we made the last second decision, "Premium or Regular", we had absolutely no empirical evidence on which to base that choice. We flipped a psychological coin, and it usually came up Regular. (We tend to default to what's cheaper unless we just got paid). But in the case of a CPAP machine, it's not auto science. Tap water leaves lime deposits. So does bottled water because it's not filtered of minerals. And the deposits can, at the least build up in your water tray over the heater, heat up and smell like burning hair. Now you're breathing that drek. And at worst the lime can invade the entire water path and shorten the life of your machine and become a host medium for bacteria. Easy peezy.

I think the cruiselines have little secret recruiters running around trying to convince everyone that the tap water is uniquely delicious. And they are relentless.

Yeah great. 🙄

https://www.tripsavvy.com/norwegian-cruise-line-eases-vaccine-requirements-6383343

I can’t help it. I run hot.

Ok so they’ve dropped testing. And they’ve canceled the vax requirements. But do they still shoot you in the head with the little thermometer gun when you board? Can you imagine making it all the way to the ship, and then being refused boarding because your temp is elevated a couple degrees? Maybe just from pulling luggage across a parking lot and up the gangplank?

Ok. Let us know either when you are, or have a question about it, yeah?

I sent a request at the end of July and got a form email saying I would get a response within 30 days. Still waiting. I’ll probably just end up going Cruz56379’s route.