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If NCL "paid a living wage" you...the passenger...would be the one actually paying it. Cruise fares would be increased to cover the wages paid by the cruise line. 100% gratuity, 100% salary or any combination thereof will be coming out of your pocket, not the cruise line's, just as it is now. The ultimate consumer of any product or service is who pays for the product or service.

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First, that's not an official government website, it's a commercial visa service's website. Second, even if it's correct it does not address the OP's question, which is whether a visa to enter Nicaragua is required for Chinese citizen who is a legal permanent resident (green card holder) of the US. The OP really has to contact the Nicaraguan embassy or consulate to get an answer.

Crowne Plaza and Doubletree by Hilton are the only two San Pedro hotels that anyone would recommend.

Reservations are neither needed nor available. https://nycruise.com/manhattan-terminal/parking/

There's nothing very close to the port, but lots of hotels a 15 to 20 minute drive from Cape Liberty. There's a cluster of 5 hotels on International Blvd in Elizabeth adjacent to The Mills at Jersey Gardens outlet mall, including an Embassy Suites, Residence Inn and Courtyard by Marriott. there are some adjacent chain restaurants If you're taking Amtrak to Newark Penn Station there's a Doubletree by Hilton attached to the station by an enclosed walkway so you wouldn't need transportation to get to your hotel. You can Uber from the hotel to Cape Liberty the morning of your cruise. The Ironbound neighborhood near Newark Penn Station is home to numerous good Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian restaurants, if that would be appealing to you.

Amtrak from Boston to Newark Penn Station. Taxi or Uber from there to Cape Liberty. Better IMO to travel the day before and spend a night in NJ prior to your cruise. If you have a couple of days available before your cruise take Amtrak to New York Penn Station, stay in Manhattan for a couple of nights and then take Uber, Lyft or a car service from Manhattan to Cape Liberty. You can also fly from Boston to EWR, then Uber to the port.

IIRC if you are taking a cruise from Vancouver that makes no other port calls in Canada and ends in Alaska you actually clear US immigration in Vancouver just before boarding the ship and are considered to be in the US from that point on. It's similar to preclearing US immigration at most major Canadian airports before boarding your flight to the US. Your flight is then treated as a US domestic flight, just as your ship will be considered to be on a US domestic itinerary.

Not that I'm aware of. Are you asking about a cruise that makes a port call in San Juan? For port calls NCL docks in Old San Juan 99.999% of the time. Pan American Pier is normally only used as an embarkation/disembarkation port so there would be no need for shuttles to OSJ.

PR to conceal a desperate need to cut expenses ASAP. Oceania's corporate sibling, NCL, is making similar itinerary changes. I can assure you the entire fleet isn't suddenly experiencing propulsion problems. Cut expenses and increase revenues immediately if not sooner is what NCLH is focused on .

You won't be allowed to board the ship if you don't have the proper visa.

Did you read @Laszlo's post, made just a few hours ago? It says " NCL just today finally, officially has our new itinerary for the 1-8-2023 cruise" . Did you bother to look on ncl.com to see that the itinerary matched the one that @Laszlo posted? Why would you assume that unnamed third party website showing a different itinerary would be correct when NCL just released the revision today and that revision released to passengers was identical to the itinerary on the website?

It hasn't run for several years.

It's on NCL's website. https://www.ncl.com/cruises/12-day-caribbean-round-trip-new-york-barbados-and-puerto-rico-GETAWAY12NYCSJUBASSLUBGIANUSTTNYC?sailMonths=4294934052&ships=4294959434&numberOfGuests=4294953449&sortBy=featured&autoPopulate=f&from=resultpage&itineraryCode=GETAWAY12NYCSJUBASSLUBGIANUSTTNYC Why would you believe a third party website when @Laszlo, a passenger on the cruise, has posted the revised itinerary provided to him by NCL?

That quote refers to the daily service charge/daily auto gratuity that is added to the passengers' onboard accounts. Those gratuities fund the salaries of housekeeping and restaurant crew. The beverage auto gratuities...typically 20% these days...are what funds the salaries of the bar waiters and bar tenders. You're failing to distinguish between the two different types of gratuities and whose salaries they fund and the article neglects to mention the beverage gratuities.

Correct. Bar crew salaries are funded from the 20% auto gratuity on beverage purchases.

I've told you on the other thread why this information is highly likely to be inaccurate. Naturally I expect the same angry hostile response here that you were so kind to provide on the other thread.

Credible information...my years as a travel agency owner and decades as a cruiser have given me the opportunity to learn from cruise line executives both on land and from senior hotel officers such as general managers and F&B directors on board ships. Oh...and I've had waiters give me the more accurate information that they prefer an additional gratuity to be in cash rather than added onto the charge slip because they can keep the cash while the added tip on the charge slip is pooled. It's rather common for people in general not to read or understand a contract that's shoved in front of them for their signature. Do you really think that somehow crew recruited for shipboard work do a better job of that than other people?

From my decades of experience as a cruiser as well as a number of years as a travel agency owner... Revelation #1: A substantial percentage of the crew honestly doesn't know where their paycheck comes from and how their pay is computed. This is particularly true if they're new...and a substantial percentage of crew on board cruise ships now are new. Hint...the 20% auto gratuity is where their salary primarily comes from. Revelation #2: It's not uncommon for crew to flat out lie about this topic to gain your sympathy and con you into tipping in cash because they can slip those tips directly into their pockets. I'm not saying whether what you were told is true or false today on Oceania, but take it with a grain of salt because there's a chance you were not told the truth either out of ignorance or because you were lied to.

Since you have "NCL" in your thread title I'll assume you're asking about NCL's insurance. If that assumption is correct you should ask your question on the NCL board.

My point is that the "carbon footprint" thing is just BS for PR purposes. It's all about fuel savings and the associated $$$ savings. When you're sitting in port the fuel the ship is burning, while relatively minimal, is doing nothing to get the ship from that port to the next port. From what I've read the increase in fuel consumption as the ship moves faster is not linear. As you approach the ships maximum cruising speed the fuel consumed increases disproportionately to the increase in speed itself. It should be possible to compute an optimal cruising speed for fuel consumption and by doing so adjust your port schedules in a way that reduces total fuel consumption for the voyage.

You don't understand what I was talking about. Yes, the CEO's salary is bloated and he's far too cozy with the board, but I would have said the same thing if FDR were paid $1 per year. His salary has nothing to do with what I said. My point is that some people have the mistaken notion that if crew were paid straight salary that the money to pay that salary somehow would come out of the company's profits rather than the passenger's pockets. That is utter nonsense. You, the ultimate consumer of any product or service pay for everything. The company pays for nothing. Crew compensation is paid by the passenger whether it is straight salary, straight gratuities, or a combination of salary and gratuities. If gratuities were eliminated today fares would be raised today to pay for the former gratuities that are now paid as salary. It's coming out of your pocket one way or the other. The money doesn't come out of company profits.

Allowing more time at sea between ports reduces fuel costs. Ships burn less fuel per hour at slower cruising speeds, just as your automobile burns less fuel per mile at slower speeds.

You, as the final consumer of the product or service always pay for everything regardless of whether it's invisibly buried in the bottom line cost or an added item such as a gratuity. Don't you not understand that if there were no tipping on a cruise ship you would be paying a higher base fare ? Businesses don't pay their employee's wages out of their profits. You, the consumer, pay the wages whether those wages are from salary or gratuities or a combination of them.