SeaShark

Your flight information should be looked up on the AA site using the six digit Airline Conf #. This is the left most column of your flight detail.

LOL...they have the rest room with a view on the Jade too. Although the window isn't quite as large!

Yes...you can use them anywhere now. Well, almost...you can use one coupon anywhere, but the second coupon has to be used at a restaurant different than the first.

Last time I checked "I believe it's sold out" and "It's sold out" are not the same.

What?? No $2 bills? 😉😉

Yes, of course, you can look at it without obligation. However, to get one of the entrees on the menu, you would have had to pre-order it the day prior.

...and the fox assured us that the unreachable grapes were, in fact, sour.

Sid... If you like trying new things...next time you are in the Vibe, ask Rommel to make you a Cream Soda.

Hidden Prima "trick" . . . While the MDR menu does contain a few Vegetarian options, it pays to know that there is also another Vegetarian menu for the MDRs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The only downside to it is that you have to ask for the menu (best to ask the hostess) and you have to order what you want the day PRIOR to dining so that they will have the ingredients pulled and ready to go. Then you just tell your server that you ordered a Vegetarian meal and it is prepared and served to you.

Great slide pics! Since so many here were certain that people screaming as they rode the slides would interfere with their enjoyment of their balconies, perhaps you could ask the slide ops to see what % of people actually do scream as they ride...

So explain the other side...if all it takes it a morning Starbucks and wine with dinner to come out ahead, then why would the cruise line kiss all their profit goodbye so easily? If the guest comes out ahead, the cruise line loses...do you really think the program is set up for them to lose?

Oooooh, but I would. Given the reputation that NCLs gen pop reservation team has on these boards, why on Earth would anyone want them handling their reservation? First, I'm going to book with someone whose job description doesn't a) grant them those duties, and b) doesn't require education/experience in that aspect, only to learn that my booking agent won't be able to provide an ounce of assistance going forward with the reservation and I'll have to rely on people whose reputation for knowledge (at least on CC) is...shall we say "lacking"? Um, no thank you. Pass.

I'm confused...did someone say that it wasn't possible? It certainly wasn't me, I only asked why I'd want someone to handle my booking knowing that I'd have no way to contact them between booking and sailing to resolve any unforeseen issues.

One aspect of this that those who are recommending the use of certain credits cards might want to consider. The guest would be incurring one charge (for everything) on the recommended card through NCL. NCL is the party who actually pays the airline for the ticket. NCL is not using the guest's card for the ticket purchase. The card issuer only sees the one payment to NCL...not a breakdown of what covers the fare, taxes, DSC, airfare, drink packages, etc...just one lump vacation purchase. So, when the airline cancels the flight, that won't be covered by the card. In fact, if the airline has to do a refund because of the cancelled flight, that refund goes to NCL, not to the guest.

No...the booking was not cancelled, the ship sailed as scheduled. What happened was that the OP took the Free @ Sea air...without requesting a deviation for an early arrival. NCL booked them tickets through Delta airlines with a day-of-cruise scheduled arrival. At this point, the OP asked about arriving earlier, but they were informed that it was too late for a deviation to be applied. Due to weather, Delta airlines ended up cancelling the flight and Delta airlines was not able to get the OP to the embarkation port, and as a result, the OP missed the sailing. The OP had NCL's insurance on the cruise, but no insurance to cover the airfare.

My advice: forget trying to figure out who is right, and do what makes sense. It is better to have the form and not need it, than to need it and not have it....right? In addition to your points, you also have to remember that the Muster Station for the Haven cabin is likely different than the Muster Station for the non-Haven cabin. In the case of an emergency, the kids will have to be with the grandparents and not the parents...which makes having the consent form even more necessary.

I have a number of questions on this review...for example, above you say "We were not told this prior to booking". How would NCL, know....PRIOR TO BOOKING...that they even needed to tell you things about a cruise they weren't even aware that you had an interest in?

Well, seeing that you only recently created an account here, and seeing that this is your one and only post...Welcome to Cruise Critic. I like to take people at their word. You state, in the quote above, that you "wrote glowing reviews" of your prior NCL experiences. However, you didn't share the WHERE of those reviews. Could you please provide a link? Where did you post these reviews? Under what name? I love to read what a self-professed "huge fan" had to say in their reviews.

Well...you have to understand something. When they say they pay attention to Cruise Critic, you have to understand that they are interested in the REVIEWS that people post on Cruise Critic...not on the general chit-chat and carping that goes on in the discussion forums. If NCL were interested in our opinion of the Prima, they would read https://www.cruisecritic.com/memberreviews/getreviews.cfm?action=ship&ShipID=1434 they wouldn't comb through discussion threads hoping for reasonable evaluations.

but again...my point is that it isn't NCL making you have baggies, you bought those on your own.

And did YOU decide to purchase, pack, and carry those baggies to the cruise on your own?

Well, as you know, hunger isn't something specific to teenage boys. We have dinner, and then the next meal planned is the next day's breakfast....and we all have to figure out how to get from one to the other. We do this each and every day...it isn't something new and unique to cruising. Needing to ask how someone should control hunger is, in and of itself, an issue that someone needs to address on their own. Given the availability of food on a cruise, hunger should not be a problem for anyone. If you're hungry...eat something.

Yet that clearly isn't the point. The point is that CruiseNext personnel are there to sell CN certs, be the onboard Latitudes reps, and to conduct port shopping talks. They are not travel agents. Those are the facts, and I'm not going to ignore them simply because of internet "but, ...." on a message board. Call that committed if you want, but maybe you should consider why you are so committed to changing my mind. If I actually was wrong, why does that bother you so much? Have you nothing better to do? You say "no one cares", but you don't act like it. I'm still waiting for the genius who can explain why I would want a CN person to be my travel agent given that I'd have no way to contact them outside of the one cruise for any issues/questions/problems that might arise with my booking.

I think that the interesting aspect of this has basically gone unnoticed. The thread title attempts to blame NCL for the behavior "NCL is turning cruisers into..." (as though the cruiser has no self-control) while ignoring the fact that this only happens when people bring the empty zip lock bags with them while cruising. Everybody putting food into a zip lock came to the cruise prepared to do so...they were ready before stepping onboard. This is planning and forethought...not happenstance.

Um, prevention?