Sea Hag

Thanks! 😃

I booked our flights on my own for our first cruise with HAL, which is coming up this September. We're doing the HAL shuttle from and to SEA TAC. On other cruise lines, I've been able to enter our self-booked flights into our cruise setup in my account, but it beats me how to do that with HAL. Can't find it either on the website or in the app. How/when/where do I do that? I would assume that they'd want to know for purposes of the shuttle and for assigning boarding time. Any advice here will be very much appreciated. 🙂

An inflatable wedge pillow might work well for him. I got one off Amazon some years back when I was having reflux problems and needed to travel, and it worked well for me.

The CFAR in Platinum Protection really came in handy for us when our cat got sick two days before scheduled sailing. Things do come out of the blue like that, and we were happy to get a future cruise credit instead of nothing.

Don't miss the noodle bar on Lido deck, up near the burger place. Great stuff, and configurable to your liking.

Oh, I do understand. It's been many years since we booked an inside, but I well remember the size of a couple of them. I think one we had on Norwegian was the smallest. This one still might come as a shock to us, since our last two cruises have been in one of the huge M6 minis on Princess, but I'm sure we'll be fine.

I think we'll really like this cabin. The "tight but doable for 2" part doesn't bother me, since I well remember weeks spent with the deluxe accommodations of a 5' X 7' backpacking tent. Tight but doable. 🤣😅

Good to hear. Based on reading what people say here, I changed our reservations for September 2024 to 10044. I think that's going to work great for us. Really good location and some natural light for my hubby.

That's that then. I'll just purchase as we go along. Thanks!

Good info! Thanks. Prices are fine.

We don't do HIA since the math doesn't work out for us. I was just looking to see if there was a coffee card option like Princess used to have, and I found the one listed in the subject of this post. The text says this: "This beverage card can be redeemed for a variety of beverage selections from soda and espresso to non-alcoholic beverages." My question is, how many drinks does this buy me? How many capucchinos could we get with it, and is it shareable for both of us?

And Carnival. At least they did some years back when we booked a spa cabin on the Splendor.

I haven't had this happen, but I think you're right to be very concerned. I'm sure you'll keep trying to get either chat or a live human on the phone to get them to explain this asap. Please come back and tell us what the upshot was. Wishing you the best.

I got off the dime this morning, called HAL, and got CO. It took a little while, but really not all that long. The lady on the phone was very nice and helpful. I now have the veranda cabin that I was too thrifty (cheap!) to book at the get go. And I'm hoping for one of those orange tote bags to add to my tall stack of Princess blue tote bags. 🤣

Thanks! 🙂

I have a question on CO that I either don't see an answer to or that I'm not clear on. I booked our first cruise on HAL a couple of months ago, and didn't find out about CO until afterward. No worries on that one. But for the next one I book, I'd definitely like to get CO. My question is that, if there's a cabin upgrade available, so you get an exact cabin assignment when you add CO? If so,are you given some options on which cabin is assigned?

Costa Maya was cancelled on our recent cruise due to high winds, so I can't really comment on that. I will say that we had a great excursion in Belize. We did the Altun Ha ruins and river cruise excursion. The ruins were great, and so was the river cruise. Gorgeous ruins, with a couple of them still being climbable. The river cruise was really nice. Saw some crocs, birds, and even manatees. The included lunch was terrible. I would recommend this excursion, but be prepared to not have a decent meal.

We're not suite people, but we did finally book one after the restart. For years, I'd heard people here saying the the suite breakfast in Sabatini's was the best perk of having a suite. Having tried that, I'm inclined to agree. They definitely do have other menu options there, and they're very agreeable about making something that isn't actually on the menu. Oddly, or at least I think it's odd, my favorite breakfast entree was poached eggs served in a glass bowl over crispy hashbrowns. Simple but perfect.

So would I except for the fact that it's too under-the-buffet for me. And it looks like it's under the kitchen. I put us under the buffet kitchen once. Never again!

HAL's app and website are way worse.

That's hilarious!

You have all my sympathy. Hives really horrible.

It'll be fine as long as they don't carry the astronomical theme too far and end up with Uranus Princess.

I don't plan to bid, but if I change my mind, I'll go to my method for deciding whether to get a guarantee. I look at the deck plans, and if there's even one cabin in the category or above that I wouldn't want, then I don't book a guarantee. As you can imagine, I never end up booking a guarantee. But this is the method I would use on deciding whether or not to bid.

Sorry you had this happen to you.