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The gratuity of $20 per person per day is still way cheaper than buying drinks OOP.

I really hope it turns into the flu, definitely not there yet. My 19 year old has had Covid twice in the past 4 months (4 times total), and it is spreading like crazy on college campuses, it’s much more contagious than the flu.

Before Covid.

Are you opposed to having a sitter watch them in their cabin? I know I would prefer that option.

Holiday cruises tend to have a lot of children, so cabins with room for 3/4 book up quickly.

It’s children under 18, 18, 19 and 20 years old don’t have curfews.

Why did you put it in your checked luggage?

I was under the impression that wine is now permitted without corkage with the regular beverage package.

Same, and I have 5! That was me running down the hallway!

I’ve cruised on NCL 4 times and paid each time.

From everything I’ve read, no, it is not.

I think most people get the UBP as a perk, it’s crazy expensive to purchase.

Why would hey be judged for trying to protect others? My mask is in no way harmful to you, your lack of mask could be harmful to me. There is a difference.

They occasionally take them out but no, they don’t let them roam free and follow them around. All activities are listed with times.

Only if folks cancel, I don’t think they intentionally hold them back for onboard bookings.

NCL. However, I’ve cruised with my 5 kids. They’ve enjoyed the younger clubs, LOVED the teen clubs, hated the tween clubs, and refused to go (on NCL it’s 10 - 12). Our first family cruise was DCL, my 9 and 11 year olds went once to the club. They’ve all tried the tween club, and then just hung out with each other with frequent parental check ins. On our last cruise, my 13, 13 and 15 year olds found their own friend groups based on age. I had assumed dd13 and dd 15 would stay together, they’re very close, but the kids do a good job at finding kids the same age at the clubs.

Kids 10+ can sign themselves with their parent’s permission, obviously they don’t let 5 year olds just wander around the ship.

Yes, but the pools open at 9, the slides 10, you want to give yourself enough time to get back to the ship before 3:30 the latest.

It’s 4.4 miles from Penn station to your hotel, probably a $20 Uber for both of you. It’s probably cheaper and definitely quicker to just take an Uber from Penn station.

They were planning on taking food that hadn’t been factory sealed off of the ship?

We are a family of 7, 4 cruises in connecting balconies, we were made to book someone over 21 in both cabins (which messed up our perks).

My celiac daughter has only sailed on NCL, but it seems like the lines are very similar. Every night at dinner, not only did she order the dinner for the following night, but she ordered breakfast that was delivered to her in the buffet every morning, she just called before leaving the cabin to let them know she was on her way. It was great!

We are a family of 7 and do this for every cruise, after we board we go to guest services and get extra keys for each cabin.

It’s staffed by the same employees. I’ve sailed on big and small NCL ships from NYC, the terminal handles smaller ships better.

Uber/Lyft will probably be cheapest, just split up. We are a family of 7, it’s always been cheaper to split up than get a bigger vehicle.