LindaKB

I've been a Carnival cruiser most my cruise life. Until my sister booked The Bliss last March for a little "Girl's Cruise" It's beautiful & I loved the Observation Lounge. I remember walking around the big model of The Bliss in there & closely examining every deck. (My husband loved the Carnival Miracle *me too, it's my favorite ship) because of the Observation DECK. I know, long story, but we sailed last January on Panorama Havana Suite, which is nice, but Panorama has no Observation Deck!! 😠 So back to why I was studying the Bliss model. I was talking to my husband that with The Bliss Observation lounge, it doesn't matter there's no Observation DECK...(it's so nicely done) However I saw an outside Deck on that model. My sister said, "oh that's for The Haven. Only Haven people can get there" That's all it took when we booked Panama Canal

I'm still reading this thread. On page 75. But this question pops up in my head. You mentioned the Haven Horizon for coffee & croissants. What time does that open? We're early risers & I think the Haven Restaurant opens at 7? We're sailing on The Bliss in December. Panama Canal

Proves the importance of getting Travel Insurance. Especially for such a big vacation.

Thank you for your quick reply. My travel advisor is away from the office LOL so I went ahead & called the concierge. She said my agent had it in there, but for some reason it wasn't "added" Whatever that means? Anyway, it's all worked out & lesson learned. We won't have them do the flights again.

We're in the Haven for Panama canal this December. We called & asked to arrive in Miami 2 days before (before the deadline) and asked for the Marriott. Got our flight info & we arrive the day of. Would our pre-cruise concierge be the one to call?

I'm reading thru past your question & not seeing it answered. Did you get an answer to this?

I called Lynn my Norwegian Advisor/agent. She handled everything. Arrive 2 days before. Stay at the Marriot & all transfers. 😊

On the Bliss last Spring we got the Thermal Suite. It has a huge mineral spa pool with many jets. The usual hot tub ( mostly warm) Showers to rinse thru out the main room. Robes, towels &lockers men/women locker rooms with private shower & changing room. Sauna Steam room Salt room Frozen tundra room. 🤣 Ceramic heated loungers. Our experience on the Bliss. We had a club balcony room for the week but got the week pass for the thermal suite. Bring shoes (I had to wear tennis shoes one time I forgot my flip flops) the frozen tundra room requires footwear. Also day passes are available for passengers on port days. Our port days the thermal suite was a loud busy crazy mad house. People camped out on the ceramic loungers with towels stacked up underneath them for pillows while they watched movies & shows on their iPads. Loud talking, just like the main pool. We ended up not going on port days. And the last night it was open till 8pm. We had a routine of using every room. By 6pm they were closing the frozen tundra ☹️ and defrosting it. The ice melting causes a pool of water several inches in the whole place. We were unable to use the frozen tundra or be comfortable on the ceramic lounger holding all our belongings so we left. Lesson: sea days great. Port days and last evening not so much.

Hello & thank you for this highly informative thread Gary!! I started on page 1 & am now on page 40. I can not emphasize enough the value of actually READING from page 1!! Every couple pages it seems some one chimes in a question that is most always answered the page before! 🙄 That being said, here goes my question ( I'm still bound & determined to finish the entire thread) My question: we're booked (first time) Haven Spa Balcony December 4th Norwegian Bliss. We're on the West Coast & got the flights on our booking too. We would like to arrive 2 days before. Would we ask now our pre-cruise Haven Concierge to do this? She was able to easily change our specialty dining reservations over the phone yesterday. Thank you all for your help. We're fairly new to Norwegian and brand new to The Haven

Was this ever answered for you? I'm reading thru to page 28 & don't see this answered?