Windsailer

The price for Unlimited Laundry has definitely gone up. I just paid $98 for it on my 14 day cruise on the Noordam in Australia. I just check the price for my August cruise on the Nieuw Statendam in Europe. It's now $147. Still worth it to me and a good way to spend my OBC.

Thanks. Good to know.

Thanks! What time do they open for breakfast and dinner?

Thanks for all this information. Very reassuring!

Thanks. It is just me traveling and I prefer to eat meals by myself.

Are there tables for two?

Made a big difference when I boarded the Noordam on 2/11 in Sydney. Went right to the check in desk and was on the ship at 11:25am.

Colin Jacob. I don't know if they are still giving out masks. I brought my own.

They were mandatory for the first few days then the Captain said they weren't required. But with the number of people coughing I still wear mine in crowds and on buses. Wish the people who are coughing would wear them but mostly they don't.

I am currently on the Noordam. No one has said anything about canceling Tauranga. But on the other hand they insisted that Napier wouldn`t be cancelled the morning of 2/16 yet it was csncelled later that day.

The reason I asked is that people have expressed surprise that a test is necessary when their cruise is less than days away.

SO what does HAL do if a passenger on a cruise that requires pre-cruise testing shows up to check in and hasn't done the test? Does HAL test them or just refuse to let them board?

Is there a separate area in the MDR for Club Orange passengers? Just unclear how that works!

My Boarding Pass says Priority and lists my check in time as 2:40pm. Group 1. So I can show up long before 2:40pm to check in?

I am making a note of this! Thanks.

The HAL PDF describing the program is pretty helpful. It's on the Club Orange page of the HAL website. As far as cost - this is what it says: "$25/person/day on cruises up to 13 days $15/person/day on cruises 13+ days." After reading these threads recently I looked into CO and decided to see if it was available on my February cruise. It actually was. And though it did not appear as though there were any cabins were available for the upgrade - I was wondering what the "alterative benefit" would be - they found me one. I went from a VH balcony - which I was perfectly happy with - to a VA. Since I was on a roll I also booked it for my August cruise on the NS. A separate dining room will be lovely. Again, I went from a VH to a VA. My TA did take some educating and she finally found someone at HAL who understood the program.

So in Sydney if you don't have Verifly you can't enter the port check in area?

If it were me I would send HAL a message on their FB page and if no response then post your experience on their FB main page. Very poor customer service.

So I just boarded the Jade. Paid for and had the 72 hour before test. They never asked to see it. Pretty irriated by that.

And NCL didn't notify me either. I wouldn't have known if not for Cruise Critic.

I wish that NCL would stop changing the rules weekly. I now need to find a place to get tested in Istanbul before I fly to Piraeus. 😞