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Enjoy Labadee...your beverage package works there. Go to Nachi - it's an AMAZING beach and so relaxing. SKIP Jamaica...or get off the ship for a while and get right back on. Dunn's River Falls is great but may not be what you want to do all day. If I had to choose, I'd choose getting off the ship on Labadee and Cozumel.

It will cost you $100 for your day at Nachi including taxi stay on ship.

I had $400 in OBC and could not take it out in the casino,they made me spend onboard Celebrity.

Transport from port in Fort,

Lauderdale to port of Miami on 5 th Nov 2016 would share, or like some help on the Harmony

Thank you for your answers,the shops are the ones near the Hilton hotel.and my take the ( bus or coach) to the beach have been before,and to pick up 2bottles of wine, have to get my priority s right Jennifer

Doing a BtB onSilhouette coming in to fort lauderdale we want to shop, can we get of at about 10 ?? And come back at 15.30 to check in for second cruise .

We are on 31st Oct sailing TA, love the sea days,time to relax and get to know the ship,thank you for pictures it looks so good

These are not mandatory fees. These are DSC. You can change them to zero if you so chose. Of course you won't do that because that would shaft the poor staff working hard. But you are under no binding obligation to pay DSC.

Thank you, MANDATORY is the word I was looking for. We are British and we do not pay for thinks until they happen. Do not Shaft worker, they prefer to have cash, and I get hugs back jENNIFER

I always liked pre-paid gratuities because as a UK resident I find the whole tipping thing in North America a bit confusing and awkward - pre-paying made it seem like I just paid it and all was taken care of.

 

I'm starting to get the feeling that the cruise lines are starting to just treat this as extra revenue. I would prefer if they actually showed the breakdown of where your money actually goes.

 

For my next cruise (Royal Caribbean) I'm tempted to ask Guest Services to remove the automatic daily charge and I'll just tip in cash the old fashioned way (eg, money in envelopes given to stateroom attendant, head waiter, waiter & assistant waiter)

 

That way I know where the money goes and something makes me think the staff would likely appreciate it more

I am new to NCL but on RCL I get Guest Services to remove tips and I do my own tipping I get hugs and kisses because they like it that way.Can I do this on NCL?????????

Hello all.

I finally got our Harmony 23rd October 2016 revised invoice showing the drinks and gratuities promotion., yay, and it is 100% correct, another yay!

 

I am advising that when any other UK cruiser receives theirs to thoroughly check the details as a friend who has booked exactly the same cruise and cabin has only got the grats showing amd no drinks package.

The invoices are all being done manually so I think I got someone who knew what they were doing.

 

The code for the Premium drinks( free for balconies and above) is YAB9 followed by a YAD8 for the savings and for the free gratuities it is YFG5 .

Further down on the invoice in a box it names the promotion applied to the booking.

Hope this info helps people in checking their invoices.

 

The drinks package code for those with inside or OV cabins will probably be different as it is a free Select drinks package.

Thanks Heather, I checked mine it was wrong but got it fixed.Jennifer

Nice pictures we are doing TA in Oct 2015 so you have really upped my excitement. We are RCL cruisers doing Celebrity for a change, the ship looks fab:D:D

Was some one looking for me,yes you can have me as early as 9

enjoyXXXXXXXXXX:D

Thank you for posting, we are Royal cruisers and did not know what to expect on Celebrity as it is some time since we were on one,:D:D

Just booked TA I thought it was a good buy, it's for our Golden Wedding cruise.

Jennifer @Dougie Carluke Scotland.

With all the things that happen to children, do you really want to leave them on board while you go off. My children can not be replaced, do trip that involve kids

I would take Splendor smaller ship and much much nicer ports of call. Each port is so different and people are so nice. (See Venice it is breathtaking):D:D:D

Thank you for all tips I was just going to ask same question? Looking forward to MTD a new venture for use,usually go late seating but as you get older think this is to late for us. Hears to cruising. Jennifer from Scotland

Yes, maybe no one else complained. We don't know. We don't know how many feet away the child was. 10 feet, 25 feet, 50 feet? We don't know. How many other people were in the venue? We don't know. So yes there are a lot of other factors but if you are affected my a situation you have to address it at the time it happens. :)

 

Also, what may be really loud to one person may not be all that loud to another. People are all different.

 

Here's a thought. This all seems to be surrounding the fact that this happened in an up-charge/specialty venue where the OP had to pay $35 a head more per person. However, what if this happened in the Windjammer? or MDR?

 

After all you are paying for that as part of your cruise fare. Are specialty venues supposed to have lower noise levels than other dining venues?

 

If so, where does it state that???

 

Just something to think about. :)

Please let it drop. You were not there,

I liked the old way,they would put both vouchers in my name. Now they say they can't do that must be one sea pass when finished use other one

Mad Mad Mad

Jennifer

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Thankyou so much for all your replies - wife now happy,she got the answers she was looking for ! now gone back to the kitchen before she mows the lawn and cleans the car.... I have to say it is exhausting watching her. I am looking forward to our next cruise so that I can relax. Probably taking her...she deserves a break !!!

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I think even with the changes we get a pretty good deal

Got to look at what were paying also

I think people are expecting everything both ways

Won't happen

 

 

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If we look back at what we payed 10 years ago,we are the ones getting a good deal. I LIKE RCL. and what I get for loyalty. Jennifer

I'm boarding the Oasis Sept. 01 for a TA, I am very curious on how they will handle overcrowding...if there is any. This will also be the first time we sail with the drink vouchers.

 

I will try to post once I see how things work.

I think you will get less overcrowding with the 3 vouchers, have drink at pool in the sun shine , get a glass of wine to take to dinner. Or take a drink back to your cabin while you get ready, or have drinks. With friends that can't us CA or D+

Good move RCL. Hope you love Oasis all my friends are on her, take care of her. Jennifer

Thank you all

Are there hair dryers in cabins????????????

In fact many high end resorts (that provide service similar to what you experience on a cruise) charge a daily resort fee of $10-20 on top of the daily room rate... that can be a surprise if you aren't expecting it in advance!

 

Restaurants (and, I guess, cruises) do "pay a living wage" by factoring in expected and customary tips (on which income servers are expected to pay taxes, too)... eg, if expected tips in a restaurant are $8 per hour, and minimum wage is (let's say) $10/hr., the restaurant pays a wage of $2/hr. with the expectation that the customary tips will make up the difference.

 

So yes, tips are very important in this business model!!

 

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People who work under this rule are of there heads

This is slave labour I thought this was done away with years ago

Employers sould not get away with this