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You have written confirmation of payment for services, yet they deny it happened. Sounds awfully strange to me. Are you certain that the original payment of $239 was not separately credited when they processed your upgrade? Also, you said that all of your extras were dropped. What about the other $502 that was requested? (980-239-239). You originally paid that amount (presumably for FAS gratuities) but are not complaining about doubling up.

Freedom! 😁

A truly devoted spouse...😎

Make that about 23 miles.

When you post on an open forum, you should expect some readers to comment back. Whether you like that opinion or not. Such as my opinion: 1. Some people are incredibly good liars. 2. If NCL was absconding with these funds, as implied, on such a large scale, it would be impossible to keep it a secret. THOUSANDS of employees involved. Some will be fired for other reasons and hold a grudge. Other will simply quit. Nothing stopping these folks from spilling the beans. This is NCL, that the NSA or CIA.

We did a 4 night cruise tour with RC a few years ago. @ N near Denali' 2 N Fairbanks A lot of the time was for travel (bus + RR). We did a tour of Denali Park - that was a day. There was some included touring in Fairbanks and we did a dinner excursion extra. Last day in Fairbanks was open (all evening flight out). Just went back into downtown and roamed around a bit. There were some tour options offered.

Wouldn't you be able to connect to the website at the internet cafe?

I believe that refunds for excursions requires 2 days notice.

If texting between the two is the only goal, absolutely.

Just to clarify, the imessaging works without actually logging in to the wifi?

I am quite aware. My cruise next month will run us $460. We're purchasing that for the internet, not local messaging.

Makes sense...but mine was processed within minutes.

If you wait until the very last day (not recommended).

If numbers get abandoned, you wouldn't have posts on these boards from people have 3 or more accounts. Maybe if this "new" one is brand new and you get your new booking switched (however that happens) it would be fine. Best, easiest and complete thing to do is call NCL and get them merged purged, whatever - 100% clean that way, whatever your circumstances.

Previous post covers dining. Entertainment opens 21 days before sailing. Shore excursions are whenever they are listed for your cruise (log on to your NCL account and go to "Explore and Plan". You can select each port so you can peruse the tours for each, one at a time. Note that if you search early, not all tours may have been set up. Most of mine (for next month) showed up between 3 and 4 months out.

It's expensive, but if you pay to upgrade to unlimited internet, you don't have to worry about the minutes, panic about logging on/off - and text all you want to.

Most TA's could not monitor these options if they have (hopefully for them) a lot of clients. It would be way too time intensive. Worse, the promos that NCL is constantly putting out there are often jargon changes with no price incentives or changes - wheel spinning to follow those. Monitoring your own is the best way to catch any better deals. There were some comments about final payments coming due. That's one where the TA should keep a follow up file - for everyone's benefit. I'm currently working with a large, online cruise specialist agency. They have automated messaging for every step of the process. As for final payment, they sent multiple reminders. But something was strange - the date given was 10 days before NCL's requirement. So, I called the TA and asked "what's up with that?" I was told that because some clients, despite multiple reminder emails, still messed up paying on time; they added the 10 days to give more flex time against foul-ups. 🙄

Sadly, another reason that private tours are a risk. But why do you call out NCL specifically? Sure you had a bad experience. But, port cancellations happen with every cruise line.

We did a Costa waaay back and a Princess; plus several each on NCL & Royal. The later two are my favorites. Now, we haven't sailed since before Covid. Overall, the two have a lot of the same feel. As others have written on these boards, things have been changing, like cutting back on the big shows. RCCL has the most outrageous ships, in my opinion. I did bumper cars on Anthem. Looking forward to the go karts on Bliss. 11 months to go...long wait; I think you will enjoy it.

The scheme seems to be that there are no repeats, unless the cruise exceeds 21 days. Actually, I'm surprised that they skipped any.

You speak words of wisdom. Those marketers may want to borrow your thesaurus. Here's another one to chew on. We're flying coast to coast next month to pick up our cruise. My DW talked me into going first class for that flight. Booked it last July after booking the cruise. There are lots of empty seats right now, including 20 of 26 in first. Coach dropped after the initial booking, but first is up 50% (has been this price for quite a while now. There are other flights, every 1-2 hours. All have similar pricing. Where's the sense in that? And there's no funky marketing at work either.

If you both have iphones, you don't need to pay that $9.95. You can text and even call each other.

Agreed. But I did not mention those until later.

Well, my tags just arrived. They look awfully big to me. Particularly the width. They are designed to be multi-cruise line. Maybe some of the others are wider than NCL tags. Won't know for sure until the docs are availalble.

I'm in a CBS, MB. Still 5 weeks out. You're probably right about the tags, but for five bucks, I took a shot.