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I would look at the prices first on the duty free store just at end of cruise ship port before I walked 5 minutes to MEGA store, then you can compare prices. Sometimes the duty free store has amazing deals if you buy multiple items, if just one bottle MEGA may be better

All the places in town are much cheaper than port area. Never understood the need to rent a golf cart, pretty expensive and you cannot go that far anyway. There are many places in the town that rent bicycles and they can be riden on the malecon, you can ride the full length of the malecon in 30 minutes easy and pass like 25 bat restaurants on the beach and 50 places to buy souvenirs

Yes, VIP Disembarkation is supposed to be included, but the casino staff had to call the concierge for me to get on the 'list' when in the past I got a letter in my room explaining the process.

Yes still wine with the Casino dinner. In talking to other Casino 'dinner' guests, they wanted and received 2 alcoholic drinks instead of the bottle of wine.

And yes there is a CAS line, but no more VIP escorted perk which was very nice.

Well, a lot has changed now making being HOT, GOLDEN or VIP even less of a perk.

I am GOLDEN, so no more Royal VIP Treatment, so no breakfast of lunch like suite guests on older ships. (You did not get that on EPIC, Breakaway or Getaway).

No more VIP check in and getting on the ship before others like suite guests. This one was very nice on previous trips.

No more cigars or cigarettes, also was a nice perk before

No more 'daily' spa passes for 2. You now get a SPA credit, a different amount based on level. For me if was $150, which got my wife a 1 week pass to thermal suite, but not for me unless I wanted to pay for it. Well that is not much of a perk. So before I could spend time with my wife in the SPA for being GOLDEN, now we were separated if she wanted to go to the SPA, which of course I told her she should enjoy. After 3 days she stopped going so it was a waste for us.

We did still get invited to VIP party with other suite guests. Another problem I had was we are still supposed to get VIP disembarkation, last time I was GOLDEN I received a letter explaining the process, this time I had to talk to 3 different people who all pretended like I did not know what I was talking about. Since we were driving home, it was very important to me to get escorted off the ship as one of the first few people so I could get on the road ASAP. We were taking our own luggage, only 4 pieces for the 3 of us, so in the morning we did save at least an hour by getting to partake in the VIP disembarkation.

What I did not like is that the main Casino Host and Concierge made it seem like they were doing me a favor to partake in a program that is clearly listed on the NCL Casino at Seas website

You still get a casino dinner, but so many people have Ultimate Dining I think they should offer something else as an alternative