jebhoward3

Our travel agent gives us a rebate after the cruise as there is little to nothing to spend OBC on with ACL. We have cruised 11 times with ACL so our shore excursions are no charge for us.

On 11/25/2023 at 10:22 AM, Capri73 said:

Hi

We have been assigned 739 on the Soujoin.I know from past experienced people have complained about the noise from the pool area.Can someone tell me how bad it is?

Thank you

When does your cruise start? We are on the Sojourn departing on Dec. 22, 2023 in a Guarantee suite, no cabin assignment yet. 

I don't know the answer to your question, but - We booked 1st class air through their Flight Ease program.  Didn't know if promotion was going on, but I think it must have been.  Those round-trip GJT to LAX and return only cost us $152 per person.  That's the price it showed on their website and the booking was available to see on United Airlines within an hour.  We choose our seats on the flight ease website and those seats showed as booked by us on United Airlines website.  There have been 2 changes in the flights by United, but only for a few minutes each time.

We own stock in CCL, will we be able to receive OBC from both CCL and the referral program?

Just wondering if it's the little single serving type, like you get on airplanes. Or is it a little larger, and you can make a few drinks with it.

No charge and detergent pods and fabric dryer sheets are provided, again no charge.

What size are the bottles?

Yes, we always check with the cruise people about bringing fruit on board from ports in Hawaii and in French Polynesia and the answer has always been Yes.  But things can change, one never knows.  Same thing with flowers, we check to make sure it's ok.  Can get beautiful flower arrangements for very little money at Farmer's Markets.  We enjoy the fruit and flowers while onboard the ship.  No way would I try to take them home,  Would need to grow more arms and hands.

Again, does anyone know if Farmer's Market, that is within walking distance to Kona port/pier, is still up and running?

Does Kona still have a Farmer's Market that is just a few blocks from the pier.  We like to get fresh ripe and almost ripe Rainbow Papaya and limes.  It's been a lot of years since we have been to Kona.

Booked 20 night ALLURE OF ALOHA HOLIDAY cruise on June 25, 2023.  Yesterday decided to check to see if Seabourn's Flight Ease program would work for us, as we live in a small town with regional airport.  I had already checked the flights/prices for GJT (Grand Junction, Colorado) to LAX with both American Airlines and United Airlines. 

Flight Ease had a Sale for GJT-DEN/DEN-LAX on United.  Snagged flights we would have booked on our own.  Round-trip Sale price with first class seats and Flexible Fare, Total $303.84 for the two of us.  United's website price for same flights was $1058 for one person.  Choose our seats while booking the flights.  Then a few minutes later went to United's website and the booking was there and included the seats we had chose. I cannot believe how they could get such a inexpensive rate.  Will keep checking every couple of weeks to make sure it does not disappear.

7 days for the complementary cruise, but you can apply it to a longer cruise as my husband and I are doing and you pay for the additional days.

What is the name of the hotel, we have not yet gotten our cruise documents. A couple weeks ago we were told it would be "Canopy by Hilton Toronto Yorkville. We are on the May 17th for Hotel and cruise on May 18th.

When they say 15 day cruise they are counting the day you board the ship as day 1 and the day you get off the ship as day 15, not 24 hour days.

Wording can be confusing as a 15 day cruise is a 14 night cruise and a 14 day cruise is a 13 night cruise.    A 14 day cruise is not a 14 night cruise..

Unless NCL has changed how they are doing it in the last week or so, it's $50 off the price of the shore excursion.  So you pay less to start with and not $50 OBC put back to your account.

On my last NCL cruise in September on Norwegian Sky my daughter and I several times had Jameson Buena Vista style Irish Coffee (yummy).   It was on the menu, I think in the main dinning room, I don't remember if it was on the specialty dinning menus.  Is this coffee available on all NCL ships?   Is it available on Norwegian Joy?  DH and I will be on her this December.

Does "Q" have sugar free BBQ sauce?

There should be no change to your reservation for cruises or hotels.  I would just wait until close to final payment and then notify cruise line to charge the new credit card.  They have no need to know the old one no longer exists.  Just pay with new card at hotel.

Just now, vince_g said:

Jeb, it is right on their home page. And there is a button there that says "learn more"

 

I believe that is for Free At Sea not FREE AT SEA PLUS.

I find nothing on NCL website about it, but thanks to the posts here on cruise critics was able to get it added to my booking.  Phoned NCL and the person who answered my call easily added it to the booking "FASUP'.  If someone has a link to where the info is on the NCL website, please post it.

Thank You

OBC OR FCC?  Never heard of OBC being used for a future cruise.  FCC can certainly be used for cruise fare and many other things.

They live in small cabins that are shared, sometimes 2 people, sometime 4 people.  Not much room for anything.

Or you could try checking other travel agencies website's that show what cabins are available to see if showing the same as NCL's website.

Note to self:   Pack PJ's that are suitable to wear in public.  Make and pack sign "Unable to sleep in cabin due to sewage issue's"

Then if they can not/do not fix sewage issue and will not put us in a replacement cabin go to public area to try to sleep at night.

Sorry you felt your cruise was under staffed.

My DH and I were on 3 ACL cruises last summer/fall and none felt under staffed, had a great time.  We have 2 ACL cruises booked for this fall and will greatly enjoy them.

We do not like cruising out of San Francisco, but for this new cruise it might be in our future.  We have family who live in that Sacramento area who could possibly come and visit the ship and us.