ruimin

37 minutes ago, Knights on the Beach said:

 

Looks like I have the same option to do it this way for our September Mardi Gras cruise.

 

 

Yes, through my Carnival PVP.

Thank you, I believe because I booked though travel agent, so I can’t open the 

the page like you did. Thanks again!

ruimin

1 hour ago, Knights on the Beach said:

I was just able to pay our gratuities for our 4/14 cruise using 3 AARP gift cards.

 

From Booking & Order Details, I clicked on View Invoice Details, then next to Prepaid Gratuities, I clicked on Add which took me to the payment screen showing the Gift Card option.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you book your cruise directly with the cruise line?

ruimin

Thank you both for the info, greatly appreciate. 
ruimin

31 minutes ago, BruceMuzz said:

You could take a combination of buses and subway trains, with a bit of walking. But its really not worth the effort.

Just take a taxi.

Thanks, I appreciate the help, do you know roughly how much it cost?

ruimin

On 11/17/2023 at 4:39 PM, BruceMuzz said:

Your Cruise Line is not being upfront with you - or perhaps they do not yet have a berth assignment this far out from the cruise date.

 

There are 6 International Cruise Ports in the Tokyo Area:

2 in Yokohama and 4 in Metro Tokyo

All 6 ports are called  - at one time or another - a Tokyo Cruise Port.

If you Google Tokyo Cruise Port, you can find schedules for ship calls at all of these ports.

To narrow it down a bit, 3 of the International Terminals are located in Tokyo Bay, where any ship calling there must pass under the Rainbow Bridge. This bridge is quite low, so only small ships can access those Terminals. If your ship carries more than around 1000 pax, it will not fit under the bridge.

To narrow it down further -  2 of the Downtown Tokyo Terminals are used almost exclusively for Bay, River, and Dinner Cruises. Your ship most likely will not go there.

If your ship is small enough, it could call at Harumi Terminal in Downtown Tokyo - a very desirable and convenient place.

 

Your ship will most likely call at the new Tokyo International Cruise Terminal, located just South of the Rainbow Bridge and just North of Haneda Airport.

 

If it does not call there, the other 2 options are Osanbashi Terminal in Yokohama, or (if Osanbashi Terminal is full) or (if your ship is too large to fit under the Yokohama Bay Bridge), Daikoku Container Terminal in Yokohama Bay.

 

Tokyo Tours are offered from all 6 Tokyo Cruise Ports.

Hi, we are leaving on a cruise from Daikoku Terminal in April, and our hotel is near Yokohama train Station (besides taking taxi to the Daikoku Terminal) can you recommend any other ways of getting to the terminal? Thank you so very much.

ruimin

21 hours ago, Bgwest said:

Absolutely agree on purchasing FCDs once on board. Best deal at sea.
We always keep at least 6 each “in the bank”. 

How many FCD can you use for each cruise?

ruimin

11 hours ago, Miaminice said:

Here´s the report of our most recent cruise to Japan...
 

We are about to book a fourth cruise to Japan - it´s fabulous.

 

 

Thank you for sharing!

26 minutes ago, voljeep said:

Buy some casino credit pre-cruise.  Take the voucher to the casino, and they will give you cash back.

How do you buy casino credit, thank you!

ruimin

3 hours ago, millybess said:

We didn't get it either.  In fact, we booked a 2026 cruise mid-December.  Then I read the promo thread here 3 days later.  I sent an email to my Viking agent and asked for the promo.  We received a new invoice with $1000 off the previous invoice.  

Wow! I need to get the name of your Viking agent, please send it to mingr at comcast dot net thanks!

I didn’t get the letter either, when I was booking my cruise my V agent asked me (did I receive the promo letter?), so I’m out of luck since I didn’t get it,

23 hours ago, Azulann said:

We  too  book a new cruise  and rescheduled an upcoming cruise from 2025 to 2026. Kept all my onboard discounts when I originally booked this cruise. 

Got the promo price and also discount stated in  the letter  from Viking ( had to have a booking before Nov 21) for a new booking for 2025. 

 I am a happy  camper.

 But neither of these cruises are in 2024. ☹️So maybe I will find a last minute deal  next year and book something.

What kinds of offers did you get? Special promo code? Thanks for sharing.

ming

Gift card, can I use it? Would that work?

Thanks!     Ruimin 

The Classic Soda package, we don’t drink a lot of soda, so can we get bottles water instead? Thanks for the tip.

ruimin

On 10/25/2023 at 7:36 PM, reps23 said:

We will be staying at The Hyatt Regency Yokohama before boarding Royal Princess on April 27 with a cruise from Yokohama to Anchorage.  Does anyone know of a tour guide that will pick us up in a car at hotel and take us on a one day tour of Tokyo and one day to Mt. Fuji.

 

we have contacted the hotel and they will not arrange any private tours.

 

thanks.

We’re on the same cruise I believe (Royal Prince 4/27/2024), we’ll be in Yokohama on 4/23, I have looked in to local guides, didn’t decide anything, if you find something interesting please let us know, ( minrittatgmail) and I’ll do the same.Thanks !

4 hours ago, san diego sue said:

Can't log into the personalizer on the website any more for my husband, doesn't recognize his password. For me, sometimes I can log in, today also says password  incorrect.

I have given up. Will just do it through booking number. However if I want to see anything else,

history, Future Cruise credits etc, can't do it right now.

I have the same issue, I changed password and do it again and again, same issue.

ming

We have a happy ending to the missing suitcase drama. We thank Viking Customer Service for resolving our issue with having to pay UPS to get our bag.  It turns out that the nearly $100 we paid is just a brokerage fee and about 1/4 of what it cost to get our bag from Berlin (the bus company paid the rest). We hadn't heard of air tags or luggage RFID tags until this incident and we very much agree with the people who recommended them. Ours are on order. I have to reflect on how much wasted time and grief we could have saved had we used these tags. We will still maintain higher vigilance with the loading and unloading of our bags. Hopefully the air tags will make this a simpler task.    Dave

We recently enjoyed a wonderful Viking river cruise - the Elegant Elbe.  The luggage problem occurred when we checked into our hotel in Berlin - one of our bags didn't arrive with us. It turned out 4 bags were missing altogether. After a couple of weeks the bus company found the bags in a "never used" compartment. After nearly 2 more weeks we received our missing suitcase, all intact, but we were charged nearly $100 by UPS for the shipping. We have appealed to our Viking Customer service rep and let the bus company know about our unhappiness with having to pay. The costly lesson for us is that no one admitted any mistake or role in the mishap and, therefore, it is, by default, our fault.  One of the wonderful things about these cruises is having the cruise line handle transfers for you. We will still enjoy that, I guess, but we will make every attempt to watch our luggage get loaded and unloaded on/off any bus or van - since we appear to be responsible, if not culpable.

Matt and Jimmy, I apologize for not getting your contact info.  I you're reading this please contact Dave at lyrytsar@gmail.com

4 hours ago, donswife said:

I just made the reservation and it showed the credit at the payment screen.  If it is the complimentary suite dining,  it only works the first night. 

Thank you! We have 2 complimentary specialty dinner with our booking , hopefully 

will work for us too.

ruimin

On 9/17/2022 at 9:56 PM, donswife said:

Unfortunately, it seems that you can only book excursions with OBC prior to boarding.  We had a specialty dinner included with our booking, and I was able to apply that on the medallion app ahead of time.

Can you share how to apply it to medallion app. Thanks!

Ruimin

11 minutes ago, WatchHill said:

Not all luggage fits through the scanners. Standardsized suit cases, like the ones we check in for a flight, will not go through. Tried it a few times and was sent to the back of the line.

 

The tipping at USA ports is one more reson I prefer leaving from Southampton UK.

 

Dacy

Do you tip them at Southampton port?

 Thanks 

2 hours ago, leck57 said:

 

Monday late morning. Just Google Heathrow chaos and you'll get an idea of what things are like. Seems like any day is a problem.

Oh no! we have 1PM flight on Thursday, leaving Southampton port 8:15 AM with private transfer, hopefully we will make it. Thanks again for answering.

4 hours ago, leck57 said:

 

I'd caution you about doing this at Heathrow. When we departed Heathrow terminal 2 last Monday it was chaos. Took us three hours to check in and there were queues going everywhere. I noticed the testing centre signs but I would do as least as possible at Heathrow. Probably the worst airport I have been through and locals in the queue with us said there had been stories about short staffing for quite a while.

What day of the week and time of the day were  you there ? Thanks!

On 5/4/2022 at 3:52 PM, DEL67 said:

tracie17 - I too ordered the tests for reentry to the US through Princess for our cruise a few weeks ago.  However, I did not need them because Princess offered free testing on the ship for those passengers returning to the US after disembarkation. 

 

The cabin steward took swabs the morning before the end of our cruise and printed reports were sent

our cabin in the evening.

What ship are you on? 

8 minutes ago, MalteseFred said:

 

You have mail.

Got it, thanks!

15 hours ago, MalteseFred said:

OP, do you have an email address where I can contact you with a surefire way to have it applied

within minutes, I am not too keen on posting that info on a public forum.

 

Thanks,

Fred.

Hi Fred, is it possible for you to send me the info to mingr at comcast dot net

thanks!