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I don't think is anywhere limited to NCL, my mom and I were on the Carnival Magic last year where the guy hit a passenger over the head with his bar glass because the other guy asked him to be quiet during the show in the theater. Quite honestly we have been cruising for a while and I noticed a big change in passenger attitudes when cruiselines started offering unlimited drink packages..

We fly in the day before boarding the Sprit and are staying in Waikiki. Looking for excursion ideas for a tour with the lighthouse, points of interest and maybe a round-trip of the island. We won't have a car. Most things I have seen get us back at 6pm when our boarding is 430. Any help appreciated.

Tried previously but will try again

We are flying in the day before boarding the spirit in Honolulu and am looking for any recommendations for a private island tour. We see some online but most get back around 6 pm or so and our boarding is at 430. Neither of us have been to Hawaii before (This is state 50 for me) and would like to see as much of the island as we can while making our check-in time. I have heard the traffic is bad and want to leave the driving to a local. Any ideas appreciated!

I was on the Magic in mid October and never got a post cruise survey. Does Carnival not send these any more?

Correct, we cancelled Viva because of the continued decline in quality and service with the Star being the final straw.

Sorry to hear your experience was as bad if not worse than ours. It's just disappointing to see how far NCL has fallen since lifting restrictions from Covid. We have seen a steady decline to the point that we cancelled our February cruise in Viva.

Glad you were able to get some perks Even as Sapphire, we couldn't get into the tour or the dinner with officers because there were , "a lot of ambassador level guests" inboard is what we were told.

We made all ports and most early arrival!

Fair enough. 90% of what I posted was our experience. I would rather make people aware than not.

We saw lots of reindeer n Longyearbyen. I highly recommend just hiring a taxi there for a tour of the seed library location and the area. Note that you cannot go outside the main town area without a tour or a rifle because of Polar bears. If you want a more active excursions, try https://hurtigrutensvalbard.com/no/aktiviteter They had a lot of excursions that were relatively inexpensive and offered a good variety! Crusing.to and from Svalbard was smoothe as glass...no rocking at all!

You can see this thread on more folks who weren't happy with Prima

Used to live off Pohick, so hello neighbor!

I'm glad you did, we did not on Stat and even Epic in December was downhill from prior NCL experience. We had more than one person on Star relay stories of poor prima experiences.

Venues were crowded, it seemed every time,because there were only a few venues open. When it is dinnertime and you only have 1 MDR open, the buffet and other MDR are going to be crowded. We also noticed that the specialty restaurants were empty most nights. I don't consider a pay for it wine and chocolate tasting, and a walking better "seminar" where the spa tries to sell you expensive shoe inserts to be viable options for keeping occupied on sea days. It was either those options or endless trivia. I didn't keep any of the dailies and quite honestly we hardly looked at them because while paid wifi didn't seem to work well, the NCL app did for the lost part. Amd yes, i say they and them versus we because while I own stock, I do not make decisions on how the ships are run. The best I can do is provide feedback, which was not solicited on this cruse. The ever present vacation hero forms were nowhere on this ship and they never mentioned a post cruise survey. I am merely pointing out our experience and what others told is of their experience on the same cruise.