natshala

Yes, I am using an iPad. I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know how to “clear my cookies.” Can anyone help?

For at least a week, I’ve been trying to log on to Celebrity’s site. I keep getting BAD REQUEST 400 (or something similar). I am able to log in to the app but there doesn’t seem like there’s a way to access luggage tags from the app. Any thoughts?

thanks.

43 minutes ago, drakes2 said:

That name sounds familiar he may have been the beverage manager on my November 20th Silhouette sailing who delivered the Beringer to my cabin. Very tall man.

43 minutes ago, drakes2 said:

That name sounds familiar he may have been the beverage manager on my November 20th Silhouette sailing who delivered the Beringer to my cabin. Very tall man.

So what’s your secret? I’m E+ and have never had wine gifted to me by X.

OP here…my error. I meant VO not V in my post. Sorry for any confusion. I really appreciate all of your comments.

Hello all, we will be on our first Viking cruise in March. We know policies change frequently, so we’d like first hand info from someone currently or very recently onboard.

Are there any advantages to waiting until we’re onboard in March to book a 2025 cruise? Of particular interest is the final payment date. V wants 14 months in advance if we book now. We’d like a shorter date.

Any other perks like OBC, etc. to booking onboard?

Thanks for your help!

If you are able to walk your bags off yourself, you’ll be among the first off the ship. It should be no problem getting a quick shuttle to FLL.

25 minutes ago, cruisestitch said:

The price just changed.  You got in under the old pricing.

That is REALLY irritating. You buy the premium drinks thinking you’re covered, then they nickel and dime you. I hope they don’t do this with martini and WCB cocktails.

We had a lovely dinner in Eden. We had purchased dining/tip online prior to the cruise.

The next day we had a $96 and a $10 charge, both marked Eden, listed on our account. When I called to question these charges, they said we had the “tasting” menu ($96 extra) and the $10 was “extra gratuity” that we had authorized.
 

I informed him that we did not have the tasting menu, nor did we authorize an extra tip. He apologized and removed the charges.

Honest mistake? Hmm. Just a heads up to watch charges. We could have easily overlooked these. 

13 hours ago, TrueCruiseaholic said:

Decoy is now $19.

Interesting. I just disembarked Beyond 12/1 and was not charged extra (we had premium pkg). We drank many glasses of Decoy.

15 hours ago, mikeysed said:

Now that its sailing anyone know? Trying to book specialty dining and want to avoid the evening chic nights

Why?

How does one find out when/if a group is to be onboard? 

We just disembarked from 9 days on Beyond. Room was 6152. No odor and no noise. Maybe we were just lucky.

Hi

just wondering if this changed?

Also, any great Black Friday deals if booking onboard.

we board Beyond Wednesday. Thanks!

2 hours ago, Janedoe2012 said:

I have a similar issue with my iPad. I have to manually enter user name and password vs “saved password” on the iPad in order to log in.

My thanks to all of you for your suggestions. I tried the above first and it worked!

Is anyone else getting this error message when attempting sign in on X site? I’ve been getting this on my iPad for about a week. Oddly enough, it will allow new cruise search—just not my account.

I’ve tried rebooting my iPad.

i can use the app but not get all info I want.

I did a B2B in January. At that time, we enjoyed all four. Going again next month and hoping it’s just as good. 

OP here. Thank you all for your comments. I learned a lot from your experiences and plan to book ourselves going forward.

1 hour ago, gma1 said:

Our  upgrade was economy comfort plus... (more leg room & tilt on seat back ) so not as expensive as business class but still worth a try. 

2 hours ago, gma1 said:

Natashla...have you tried calling the airline direct & asking if you can upgrade & pay the difference? We called direct to Delta & paid them for just an economy plus upgrade each for our long flight back from Santiago, which we also have free air from Viking. I don't know if Air Canada will let you do this but it might be worth a try!!!! We have always had good service from Viking Air also in the past. A couple times we have paid the extra $50 (it is more now) to choose our own airline & flights. 

Thank you! I’ll give it a try.

Thanks for your replies. I guess I bought into “special Viking contracted rates.”  The Viking rep indicated that Viking didn’t contract for ANY business seats on these flights, though. It’s not that they’re gone.

4 minutes ago, CDR2001 said:

If you book flights independently and arrive on Day 1 and depart on Day last, you can purchase Viking transfers for about $50pp, per transfer.  Transfers are included with pre and post Viking hotel extensions, again arrive on day 1 of extension and depart on day last.  If your independent flight arrives on cruise Day1, request the transfer to the ship on the form below. Viking will get you from the ship to the post extension hotel, and then to the airport for no fee, but again the form must be completed since you wouldn’t have Viking Air.  We requested a transfer via the form, and received email confirmation, and it is noted on a revised invoice.
 https://docs.vikingcruises.com/legacy-assets/PDF/transfer_request_form_20130701.pdf

Thanks for your response. 
 

I didn’t intend to belabor the transfer issue, which is annoying but ancillary. 
 

My main concern is why can’t we get Business Class seats through Viking? We were led to believe we had this choice so long as seats are available and they are.

First time on Viking….we booked a cruise for March 2024 and just received our air itinerary. I called today to upgrade to Business class.

The very pleasant Viking rep informed me that, despite the fact that Air Canada still has business class seats available on our flights, Viking isn’t offering them!

I would need to book air independently (to include loss of ground transportation.)

This came as quite a shock to us. The Viking rep apologized and said this is very unusual but Viking offers no upgrades on these particular flights (Rome to Orlando). She also indicated that Air Canada has the right to assign us seats and doesn’t need to abide by our seat selections.

Has anyone experienced this? Do we have any recourse other than booking independently? We purchased the Viking post package in Rome so don’t see this as a good option.

Thank you, bikerunner. Good to hear. I was referring to the new description online.

The classic package description doesn’t include coffees or teas period. It must be an error.

16 hours ago, mwike said:

An added benefit of using a travel agent is that you can pay with credit card and get the benefits.

Can you please explain what the benefits are? I’m a first time VO cruiser and for other lines, always use a big box TA. Since they don’t book VO, I’m using a small independent TA. She hasn’t mentioned any “benefits.” Thanks!

Thank you. Sorry, I should have searched first.