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there is ALOT you dont see under the water from these ships. the ship draft and the channel depth is the two most important measurements. It might look funny but ships need to do movements to avoid bottoming out and running aground

its 50 dollars, no doubling/combining its a wonderful glitch on the website, noticed the same thing on other cruises

i wonder what is going to happen to New York next year. Do they have two ships sailing out of NY, the Magic and the Costa ship or does the Magic remain in Norfolk/Florida?

it depends on the OBC if the TA buys the OBC as a "gift" to you then it is a refundable if it is part of some kind of booking perk then it is non refundable

Welcome to Halifax

The Norwegian Escape and Norwegian Sky is doing Caribbean cruises out of Miami in August 2023

yes and i also used it for Carnival and Royal cruises too with no issues

Ive been using Azova since May and its been accepted for every cruise ive been on. they are 20 dollars

I check their FB page every now and then and i seen them make posts that they are open on Sundays when there is a cruise ship docked. open from 7am to 3pm

Most likely not listed yet as they still need to plan the itinerary's considering that is like 2 years from now

Carnival updated their system a few months ago were you can use your OBC for shore excursions and other things in their version of the planner I really really wish Norwegian updates their system with this feature.

St John looks busy with the Joy and 2 other Royal ships. how does the port handle the crowds?

earlier this year NCL changed the number of meals with the free at sea perks. with these changes, the number of meals is now based on the cabin you have and cruise length on a 7 day cruise in a studio, inside or oceanview now only gets 1 meal . on a 14 day cruise, you are getting an additional meal

Welcome to St John Norwegian Joy

lunch is just various pastas dishes that you can customize they have 3 types of pastas, 3-4 sauces and then a lot of fillings that you add in

its getting harder and harder for me to go to the brunch to use my platinum drink coupon. i wish it was like the gold coupon that can be used anywhere on the ship

your bag takes a very long journey to get to your stateroom with multiple people touching your bag were it could can get lost very easy The porter that you tip only takes your bag to put it on their trolley/cart. That trolley cart is then delivered to the secure area were another set of people unload the cart and then put the bags thru the security machine inside the terminal. after security, the bags is reloaded on a trolley cart to be loaded onto the ship. Once on the ship, ship people then sort the bags and deliver the bags to your room

bring back the fanny pack, that was the best fashion product back in the day

Welcome to Portland Norwegian Joy

that is correct, you do not get any kind of receipt/confirmation that you dropped off the bag. porters is quick to pick up luggage to send it to the ship

Backing out of the terminal. Looks like that that is only way out of the port. Now is a good time for the captain to put their reversing skills to the test The voyager of the seas, the ship that was in front of the Joy is also heading to Portland tomorrow. Someone is following each other

This is a good question to post to the east coast departures forum https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/317-east-coast-departures/

Back in the day before the pandemic, they was two ships sailing during the summer months. One ship did the Bermuda runs and the other ship did the Florida-Bahamas Bermuda cruises is the main money maker for NCL as that is the most popular cruises. The Florida-Bahamas cruises was the least popular which could be why NCL has stop doing those cruises out of NYC. IMHO, it would be nice if they did some of the 8-10 day cruises during the summer months like what they do during the winter.

Looking at the MarineTraffic website, it is a busy day in Boston with the Voyager of the Seas and Caribbean Princess and the Norwegian Joy