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Can you use the package for Starbucks anywhere other than the Atrium cafe? (Dawn, if that matters.) I see that they have Starbucks specifically called out on the Le Bistro menu, with pricing, so I was figuring that other restaurants likely do the same thing. I'm not sure we'd get the value out of the package otherwise.

Newbie question - do you have to talk to your assigned cruise planner, specifically? Ours is perfectly fine, but he is on the opposite coast so we have time zone mismatches. I had hoped that I could ask basic questions via email, at the very least, but I just get a call back (while I'm still in bed).

Ugh, that is so frustrating! And exactly what I worried about, as we were doing this side-by-side. Aside from the twin part - same situation here! First time NCL, first time multiple rooms, 6ft5in son plus daughter with way too much stuff to share the bathroom with multiple other people. 🙂 My husband is 100% fine with punting the travel planning to me. I don't think you and I are oddballs - seems like most families likely have one designated planner!

I actually chatted with an NCL rep today about exactly that. (I'm a first time NCL cruiser this year, too.) She confirmed that my assigned cruise planner had linked our two cabins, but there is/will be no way for me to see that. (I wish there was some way that this was visible to the customer, but oh well.) I can making dining reservations for everyone when the booking window opens, but that is it. I am guessing you are also the travel planner for your family? I wasn't concerned about groupings on the excursions, but I found it annoying and inefficient that I cannot just book everything for the whole family and be done with it. I had to sit there side by side with my husband and walk him through each thing he needed to book (excursions, airport transport, etc.), one at a time. The site is terrible and laggy, which I guess I've gotten used to while researching the port excursions, restaurants, etc., and then the charges wouldn't go through for him without multiple efforts. Not the end of the world, but definitely not user-friendly for families with multiple cabins.