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I can honestly that say I've never had a thing for wicker, despite growing up in the south and having a 🥰 mom that loved everything wicker!

@skier05 here's the recent thread too

That's actually pretty cool! I don't suppose you get to keep the basket lol?

... and this picture recently posted by @OrcaGirl on a Live thread from Norwegian Epic

This was posted by @dhanakorn couple of weeks ago in another thread...

THANK YOU!!! for taking the time to post the Freestyle Daily and menus. Having never been on NCL this gives me sort of peek into what goes on during longer cruises. I'm now inclined to eat in the MDR every night and maybe only book additional specialty dining over the 2 free FAS once I get onboard.

Great explanation and link! THANK YOU! 👍 😁

Thanks. I looked at the entire page that lists the description and there are no terms and conditions, no asterisk, and no fine print. Other than calling the customer service number, and in all likelihood getting someone who has no clue, there are no other details.

If you're asking why a picture, to show waste as an issue. If we can post sightings and verifications of 'Cookies Found!' why not counter with examples showing full plates wasted, the reason not withstanding. All of the reports are saying corporate is using that as a main reason.

Now that too would have made an interesting picture. 😢 Curious, and I'm asking because I don't know these things on NCL, do they do this 'Afternoon Snack' offering in every casino? Or maybe just on the smaller Jewel-class, etc.? Is it listed in the daily program?

So, this showed up on my cruise booking options recently. Never much for endlessly dropping money into a slot machine, I'll sometimes set a $20 limit per cruise just for the fun of it. However, this has me intrigued. Anyone that's participated in this, can you give additional details on how this works on a cruise. For a 25-night - and on any NCL cruise for that matter - I'm assuming it's done just once?

For a cruise line that has been notorious for nickel-and-diming people into oblivion, the reported cut-back/removing of 'something as insignificant as cookies' just continues the conspiracy theories of cutbacks and reductions. Take this, take that, a little bit at a time, they'll suck it up. There's never a day that goes by without someone complaining about NCL's food and services. But if it's done over time, people just stop complaining and get used to the hammering. What's going to disappear next? Your guess is as good as mine.

I don't know, I'm gonna need photographic proof. 😉🤣

Again, 19 ships. And 12 pages later from Post 1 we have more reports from ship's officers of it being a 'corporate decision' than we have reports of Cookie Sightings!!! in the casino by some random passerby. And we have ZERO reports from 19 ships saying trays of cookies are still showing up daily in The Great Outdoors in pre-covid numbers. You said: "People having been saying that cookies are no longer available on NCL, per crew and even Officers. On the other hand, others are posting current photographic evidence that cookies ARE available in the Solo Lounge, Haven, Great Outdoors, et al. Both can't be true simultaneously", But it can. Remember...19 ships. We can have it being reported as not available and seeing photographic evidence of the opposite - simultaneously - because there are 19 ships: ships of all different sizes, ships of vastly different passenger capacities, and ships with widely different venues and/or accommodation types where cookies are still available in some yet not showing up in others. On 19 ships. 😎

The Haven and the Solo Lounge are basically 'restricted areas' accessible only to guests booked in those accommodations, and therefore receive some degree of 'special' cookie delivery arrangements due to the very limited number of passengers (Solo Lounge) or its exclusivity (The Haven). Similarly, Cruise Critic Meet & Greets are able to receive a somewhat generous spread of cookies due to the 'limited access'. Those areas and/or events are not 'common areas' nor are they accessible to all passengers on the ship. I don't recall reading a plethora of 'Cookie's Discovered!!!' reports coming from The Great Outdoors on NCL's 19 ships. I do recall reading on here a report indicating that the general practice of having cookies as part of a permanent offering was going to cease in March/April, so maybe it's taking longer for some ships to go through whatever stock they have? Seeing a few pictures scattered here and there from 19 ships with a larger number of reports indicating NO COOKIES! leaves me to believe that open and free unlimited access to cookies in casual dining areas is going to be a thing of the past sooner that you might think.

Despite these images, I'll make the trek out there next May when the ship pulls into Juneau. I'll be there a week prior too on the northbound segment, but have a few other things planned. It's been over 20 years since I last visited, and this is sort of a final bucket list item going back to Alaska again. This will be the last time.

I forget exactly how much I paid for the macarons from the patisserie onboard Anthem of the Seas but they were also around that price.

On a side note, had my first ever Starbucks Frappuccino. I'll have to rate this 10/10. 🥰

THANK YOU! 🥰 I think that I'll have to try one of each, 😉 and imagine those would go very good with a cappuccino.

No. Not photoshopped. They're just using an image from roughly 10 years ago. Compare those two to what's in Post #6 and you'll see a drastic retreat of the glacier that has occurred in the past 20 years.

I was watching a YouTube video yesterday on Solo cruising, specifically the dedicated Solo Lounges. The one on Norwegian Encore looked particularly nice. I'm actually now contemplating a repositioning in 2026 on her when the itineraries become available.

From Marine Traffic

And very late Saturday RADIANCE OF THE SEAS was an absolute show-stopper as she transited the Miraflores Locks after sunset. How incredibly breathtaking that must've been!!! 🥰

Saturday late-afternoon Holland-America's NIEUW AMSTERDAM passed through the Miraflores Locks...