Hi all,
Been lurking for a long time, but never posted. This has always been a wealth of information for us as we've cruised, so hoping to get some insights.
We are scheduled to take a 14-day B2B around Norway starting next week. Unfortunately my wife needed last minute surgery scheduled a couple weeks ago. She's recovering slowly but still is weak and is convalescing. We're still trying to decide if we want to go ahead or not with our cruise, which we might skip entirely. If we do decide to go, she is leaning towards only going for 7 days, as 2 weeks is seeming like a lot at this point.
Although it would help from a recovery standpoint to start on the second week leg, we are leaning towards trying the initial 7 day leg as it is our daughter's 16th birthday the first week, and we'd like to celebrate on board.
Any idea what we should do beforehand? Should we contact HAL and let them know we will not continue on the second 7-day leg of the B2B or should we just let them know once on board? Is there any chance we can get any kind of future cruise credit for the second leg that we will miss?
We have travel insurance through an outside company. We should be able to get a full refund of all our travel expenses if we don't go on this trip based on the recent surgery. If we decide based on her recovery to only go 1 week, is it possible to get travel reimbursement for changing our flights to accommodate 1 week (not Flight Ease, changes look to be on the order of $1000). Any chance we can get reimbursement for the second cruise week which we'd be skipping? If so, do we need to work with HAL to have the trip charged as 2 separate cruises rather than a B2B? Is this even possible?
Sorry, lots of questions, thanks much for any insights! Her health is obviously most important. She's doing much better and the surgery was successful, thankfully. We thought we would just skip the cruise, but after 2 weeks of recovery she's going pretty stir crazy and the idea of continuing her convalescence aboard ship sounds like it might be just the thing.