Slush

How many days until you change to Platinum? Let say it is 7.  If you are on a 7 day cruise you will not have had a full 7 days on debarkation day. You will turn Plat on the first day of your next cruise.

13 hours ago, 80sGal said:

Do you know if the "secret" hot tub is still in the fitness area or has it been removed?  

I believe that it was removed and is now a Yoga/workout room.

Get a PVP, they can access all the inventory if you want a specific cabin.

At Mahogany Bay, in the duty free shops, can you purchase cans of soda?

Also, you should not be able to see through the bacon. Just sayin...

Just back from the Panorama 11-18 from Long Beach.  Unfortunately the Pig and Anchor did not have ANY growlers or 32oz mason jars available.

I also plan on getting a 32oz mason jar. But would like to bring a lid for it.

In the photos I have found, I cannot verify if it is a regular or wide mouth opening.

Anybody know for sure?

Do something nice for your children.  Get them a passport.

I remember the way that Vince Acevedo worked the audience. He really made me laugh.

20 hours ago, OmarOak said:

Coffee - We had morning Coffee from Explorations and the Dutch Cafe. I preferred the Explorations Coffee and Camille was the most outstanding crew member I interacted with.

Yes, we were on this sailing and we got coffee every morning at Explorations and she knew what we wanted to order daily.

Why upload to anything????  Just use the App and display, that's what we did.

Just off the 12/3 - 12/10 sailing. There was no "Special" line for Verifly. They did not need to check Covid tests or vaccination for this cruise.

I would think that unless they need to check Covid tests or vaccination status that Verifly is useless.

My understand is that the shares certificate/brokerage statement should be dated no earlier than 3 months prior to cruise departure date. My sail date is Dec 3, 2022, so I will be submitting my August statement.

On 8/1/2022 at 1:34 PM, twodjs said:

The free usps tests are NOT accepted by HAL. They are not proctored.

We used our free tests and proctored with rapidtestandtrace.com for $20. 

We did not have any problems. We also uploaded results to Verifly. 

There is this photo also.

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/gallery/image/12264-towel-animal-on-toilet-1jpg/

6 hours ago, Slush said:

I called and spoke with my PCC. I sail out of Barcelona on Wed June 1. 3 days prior is Monday NOT Sunday.  Wed, Tue, Mon. 3 days. I had to reschedule my test to be in Barcelona on Monday over the internet, Instead of on Sunday before we leave PHX. She was very insistent that a test on Sunday within 72 actual hours of boarding would not work.  So we will test before we go at home to verify we are clean and not waste a 20 hour flight, and then again when we get to Barcelona for Holland to be happy.

In reading the rules it states “taken within 3 days” not 3 days prior. This is why they count the day of embarkation as day 1. Yes, I wish they gave an example in the protocol, but they don’t. It’s all semantics, so I’m going with better safe than sorry.

Just now, CruiserBruce said:

But the question has been 72 hours from when? Boarding? Sailing?

 

Previously, HAL typically said "3 days", which meant if you are sailing on Saturday, you could get your test ANYTIME on Wednesday. But some countries are saying 72 hours, which has a starting point, like 72 hours from the start of boarding.

I called and spoke with my PCC. I sail out of Barcelona on Wed June 1. 3 days prior is Monday NOT Sunday.  Wed, Tue, Mon. 3 days. I had to reschedule my test to be in Barcelona on Monday over the internet, Instead of on Sunday before we leave PHX. She was very insistent that a test on Sunday within 72 actual hours of boarding would not work.  So we will test before we go at home to verify we are clean and not waste a 20 hour flight, and then again when we get to Barcelona for Holland to be happy.

I doubt the will modify the package. Just go to Canaletto and get a New York Strip Loin and enjoy. 

We will be using the iHealth tests we received from the Government and have the test proctored with https://rapidtestandtrace.com/ for a fee of $20 each. We will be using our Phones to take the test at our hotel on 5/30 after we arrive for our cruise out of Barcelona on June 1st. I did not have any problems scheduling.

27 minutes ago, LAFFNVEGAS said:

Holland Amrica confirmed to me just yesterday they will in fact be testing passengers at the pier for no cost who have traveled from outside of the Netherlands and will test us on board the ship our last day if we are returning to the US the day we disembark the ship.

Are you sure???

As per HA website for Europe - 

Bring negative, medically observed COVID-19 test result taken within 3-days of embarkation. For guests embarking in Greece, bring your test result taken within 1-day of embarkation (for guests unable to obtain this for Greece, we will provide a complimentary antigen test before embarkation).

I believe that these sailings are on the Miracle and are replacing the 14 day Hawaii cruise that was canceled.

26 minutes ago, ScottsSweetie said:

Following along. We're booked on 9/4 and still feeling like it's a 50/50 shot that we'll be cruising. Our final payment was due on 6/6 and we were not given an opportunity to extend that.

 

I'm still in shock that California is opening up for cruising so quickly after Florida and Texas. I figured it would be several months behind.

We too are on the 9/4 sailing. Rebooked January that was canceled. Figured this would all be behind us by now.

We have just booked  this cruise as well. At least the first 12 days.  I see that there is a roll call for the long version as this continues on for a 25 day cruise.

A sad day, even though I knew it would be coming.  We got our cancellation notice today.  

This is posted in the Panorama Roll Calls - It looks like some Feb sailings are gone too.

A sad day, even though I knew it would be coming.  We got our cancellation notice today.