mjkacmom

If the person who cancels has insurance, they should file a claim with insurance, NCL isn’t refunding them.

Can’t be done.

If there isn’t a coffee maker you can ask your steward for one.

Boarding starts around 11:30? On NCL MDR’s are open for lunch, we much prefer that over the buffet.

Lol literally no one buys that package for full price because it’s offered for “free” as a perk, the only reason it’s so crazy expensive is to increase the gratuity profit for NCL. The OP is trying to decide if the FAS is worth it, if $21 per day is worth paying to be able to drink unlimited amounts of alcoholic beverages. Unless someone maxes out at one drink per day, yes, it’s almost always the best deal.

if you only drink one each a day, then yes.

Not even close, cocktails plus gratuity move the needle to around $14, $13 for wine, $21 pp pd is the gratuity, so two drinks makes the FAS worth it.

I think you are correct, everyone else on the cruise with the FAS is paying the $350 gratuity, but for whatever reason the OP doesn’t want to.

The $350 is the gratuities for the FAS package, it should’ve been charged with the first reservation, because everyone pays that $350 for the gratuities with the FAS. With the upgrade, those $350 gratuities still need to be paid if they want the FAS. What am I missing?

My 20 year old lives in an off campus apartment complex with balconies that face inwards facing the pool, I’ve seen videos of very long beer funnels going from balcony to balcony, I’m afraid to even ask if any of them try to climb from balcony to balcony. I don’t want to know (and of course my daughter knows I would not want her to try it, she was 14 on our last cruise and I still made them stay a foot in on the balcony, and she was my youngest).

As for getting alcohol, most ports have a drinking age of 18, plus many HS kids have fakes. My oldest were 19 and 20 on our last cruise, they went off of the ship with their new friends who bought booze in port and used rum runners.

That is not the norm, right now it’s quoting a top of $91 from MCT to EWR, and it’s a Friday rush hour. LGA and JFK are less than EWR, usually closer to $50. If you have # or more in your party, rideshare will most likely save money. We live 10 miles from Manhattan, my kids have missed that last train home, you are usually looking at $100 max, higher due to the late hour.

Lol of course she has, there is vaping in middle school bathrooms, alcohol use, sexual activities, it starts early. So many schools have locked bathrooms these days do to these issues. Heck I started smoking cigarettes in middle school (quit in my 20’s).

We have 5 kids, we’d get a balcony and put 1 kid in it, and the other 4 in the connecting room. We were way closer than when they were in their bedrooms at home. If 1 of them was fooling around on the balcony, we wouldn’t know. Heck, at home if they decided to sneak out, we wouldn’t know. I’m a very risk adverse person, I tell my kids not to drive when it’s snowing or raining heavily, When my son goes hiking and kayaking alone, I ask for his location. However, once they’re teens, I’m not with the. 24/7. As a parent I did my very best, but they are their own people (now in their 20’s).

I think is just self preservation as humans, folks think that if they did everything right as parents, their kids will do everything right. If course, this just isn’t true at all, but it make people feel better. I have 5 kids, good kids, but so every different than the others, raised exactly the same way. I vote nature over nurture.

And prices were very high.

Heck there is no way I’m paying for DoorDash either, fortunately there are plenty of places that offer free delivery here. But the drivers don’t get those extra fees, they know they are working for tips, they’re like independent contractors and are free to accept or not accept what is offered to do a job. I used instacart a lot during Covid, same concept, I made sure to tip well and my orders were done quickly. It’s a win/win.

Call back, we’ve had adults choose not to get passes while others did get passes.

And those who expect someone to use their time and gas to deliver them food for nothing should definitely not order through DoorDash, but go get their own food.

Lol good luck getting drivers who will take a gamble like that for $2.50. Can you imagine getting stuck driving 30+ minutes and risk no tip? They’d lose money. It’s not a charity. At least the Uber driver gets paid more than $2.50, the longer the ride, the more $ made. It’s not the same thing as DoorDash, where the tip is most of the compensation.

You can purchase a pass for yourself.

If you don’t take the package and pay per drink, a 20% gratuity is added to your purchase (I take the FAS and tip per drink anyway).

Before the word got out, many folks just never got their food. Now they know why. I’d rather know ahead of time that if I didn’t leave a tip, I was going to just be hungry. You can’t force someone to volunteer to pick up your dinner.

DoorDashers always chose based on tips, they get $2.50 per order, who is going to drive to a restaurant, wait for food, drive to your house and deliver it, for $2.50? They’re just being transparent now.

There is no drop off activities for under 3’s, but I do think they have times when the parents can bring them into a playroom. Maybe bring a small blowup pool for bathing?