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That happened to us on a prior booking and they had no problem applying the credit. It was through HAL directly but should not matter.

Could you use multiple on one cruise 🤔

We've done more than one, but previous one was September and the offer mentions the NS which we have only sailed once. Both are to my name .. weird. Just a lucky mistake a guess....

Has anyone received more than one "welcome back" offer (OBC for a future booking) We cruised in December and received one just before Christmas, which we used a couple of days ago for a new booking. Today we submitted our shore excursion reviews, and shortly after received another identical offer but with a different expiry date (a week later). It's not enough to encourage me to make another booking - but curious if it is a mistake. Has anyone received more than one "welcome back" offer?

What is that pinging??? .. do you hear a pinging??? 🤔 😊 Great approach by HAL. Glad it is all going to work out... I figured he should be responsible for any effort or cost for you to get your bag back. Love the way he blamed "another" family member - 😎

It happened when we sailed the Rotterdam last September. Luckily, the guy with the wrong luggage was on our HAL transport bus, and they figured out it was him since his luggage was all that was left at the port. Someone from HAL came on board and explained what they thought was happening, and then arranged for the parties to swap luggage at the airport (since they were both headed there). Maybe not that uncommon? The guy who took the wrong luggage was seated behind us on the bus back to Amsterdam and it was funny hearing him talk it out with his wife. In the end .. he really didn't actually know which luggage they took on that holiday .."was it the blue or the black bag?" .. not what you want to hear after someone has left with luggage.... Really standout colour tags and ribbons are a good idea I guess. When the person gets home and realizes they have the wrong luggage, I assume (hope) they would contact HAL and that should start the road to recovery ...Good luck!

As others have said airfare to Europe has definitely increases. We are in the same 'boat' with a European cruise in September with airfares being much higher than in the past. Keep in mind, it is early and there are generally not sales yet for flights that far out so hopefully still a but of reduction from what you are seeing now. Our large Canadian airline is still only offering sales into June for international. A thing I like to do to appease myself is combine the cost and cruise and cost of the airfare and ask myself - is that a decent price for "air and cruise"? and then if it is a number I find acceptable, focus on that while trying to whittle down the air cost as an added bonus. Good luck!

I can't answer your question but am going to add my recent experience which has me wary of use Flightease in the future - ' we booked a flexible fare and were fully paid (before final payment date). We found a new flight for a savings of about $300 and rebooked the flights with it stating the $300 would be credited to our account on sailing (since we had paid early). HAL changed out embarkation time earlier, so Flightease had to change our flights to meet the new departue time. The last change (which we did not initiate but was forced from a HAL change) appeared to them wipe out our reduced fare savings as we were not credited to the $300 cheaper rate that we locked in. We still have a request in with accounting to review this and have not heard back .... it will determine whether I use FlightEase again.

https://www.hollandamerica.com/en_US/find-a-cruise/E3N07D/J357.html It fits in your window of dates. I have not done this itinerary, but others here can speak to it. I believe it is also a great itinerary for 7 days though. For your dates, you have only the option from Copenhagen (instead of Rotterdam), but it is the same itinerary Viking Saga itinerary otherwise I think. Also - same class of ship.

You can do Viking Sagas on the 2nd of Aug from Copenhagen.

We did that itinerary on the Rotterdam this past June and thought it was a great itinerary. We solicited opinions on here for 7 day options this one came out on top.

Thanks! I really never clued in until I was reading a thread on another cruise line with a similar program and it then became clear. It is a nice benefit then!

We purchased a $100 FCD (Future Cruise Deposit) on board our cruise in December (just filled in the form and put it in the box) and now have a very simple question - When we use it, is it to be $100 credit towards a deposit on a cruise or would that become the deposit (essentially becoming a reduced deposit of $100 total).? I had presumed it is just a credit of $100 towards the normal cruise deposit . When I read some threads people mentioned it having the benefit of a "reduced deposit" , which I just thought meant people feel they are reducing their deposit by that $100 by prepaying some months (or years) before. I've read the terms and conditions but it's still not clear to me which it is.

I think if the Princess line has a class of ships with a good component of ballroom dancing for entertainment, then it would be that much less likely HAL would ever incorporate it also. Princess and HAL ate both CCL cruise lines, and they have to differentiate them somehow. Not a lot of things you can do, but the focus of the entertainment is probably one of the bigger ones.

My "guess" is that it would be flagged so that whenever they are checking in to enter the MDR, they would automatically be offered the Vegan/Vegetarian menu as defaults over the regular menu. Just a guess though. We are "primarily" vegetarian, but eat seafood when cruising so we generally just use the normal menu.

Barcelona, Florence and Rome were the 3 mentioned that I was referring to. Sounds like you have a fantastic trip to plan and look forward to - enjoy!

I can't speak for the poster of that comment, but I agree with them and would call them "first Europe cruise" staples . If you have not been anywhere in Europe. those 3 ports have major WOW factor offerings.

This did this on the Rotterdam in October and I would have called it a fail.They had a talented piano player, playing in a packed bar Ocean Bar full of people talking and laughing very loudly where he could not really even be heard. It was in essence a very talented musician becoming background music (that people just had to talk louder over). I felt really bad for the guy. Billboard does do sets of "request" music. You're right though, never any duelling (thankfully), not sure why they keep getting called that. On our last cruise, they played a show one evening in the theatre and were joined by the dancers and had some visuals using the screens around the stage and theatre. Really enjoyed that show (forget what it was called).

In the end if the demand is there (enough people are expressing interest in something), I do believe they would still be offering it. Like anything, It may be popular for a while, and then maybe not. If they have venues that start to become unpopular (empty), I expect that would be why they stopped them offering them.

What's generally might the "PLUS ONE ADDITIONAL OFFER!" listed at the bottom of the table be?

I can see itineraries with "Heritage cruise" across the top for at least a week now. Not sure if you can filter for them, but they are marked with a banner along the top.

As my knowledge of what people do on cruise ships is limited to what I have seen on "the Love Boat" , I googled the job description for a CD. They aren't involved in the planning or selection of entertainment (which I think makes sense), they are more day to day managers of the entertainment on board (among other things) https://jobdescription.org/cruise-director-job-description.html#:~:text=Cruise director job duties and responsibilities include%3A 1,among passengers and their fellow crew More items

On the Rotterdam last September there was a piano player in the Ocean bar (I guess it was probably happy hour, pre dinner time) . It was a little sad though as the bar was packed, but no one was listening and just raised their voices quite loudly to speak over him while playing. Had we not started polite applause between songs, I don't think anyone would have even applauded. I hope that would not be a common experience, but it was our only cruise of 4 with a piano player in the Ocean bar.

Good to hear. Our next cruise is on Celebrity which will be our first with them and really looking forward to it.

A misunderstanding - I was referring to your suggestion that HAL check out Celebrity and see what they are doing. This sounds more like you want HAL to include more of the things they (HAL) have done in the past.