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I noticed that many items on Lunch Menu include pork, for example Potato Soup (bacon), Cobb Salad (bacon), Monte Christo (ham), Signature Burger (bacon jam). I wonder if there is a way to get those items with no pork addition. If you have any experience with that, please share.

In Europe, the final payment is 30 days before cruise

FWIW, I had a booking on Brilliant Lady out of San Juan this March, which was cancelled in ~October 2023. The cancellation was not handled well, to put it mildly. Also, my impression is that you must reserve all the restaurants and shows prior to cruise (unless you are in a suite), or make the reservations while you are in the waiting area for embarkation (taking advantage of ship's internet). Otherwise, you would have a trouble finding a reservation slot onboard. But then again those are the things I read about, not my own experience.

Can anybody please clarify how you communicate the dietary restrictions for the 360 experience? Thanks

Does anyone know if a new show is coming on Oasis after the drydock, or Cats will remain for another four years?

Thank you so much @RRFPresident for your most comprehensive response.

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Thank you for your excellent blog type review! I am tempted to book an EV on either Beyond or Ascent, but have a couple of concerns and would appreciate your advice. 1) On these newer ships, they put a Retreat sundeck on Deck 17, and I can see some loungers right above the villas. Do you think the folks on the 17th could look down at your balcony? At your plunge pool? 2) Do you think all six EVs are equally private? 3) If you could select, which particular EV would you choose and why? Same question if your SO would need to use the ship elevators to move between the villa's floors. Thank you in advance.

Do they keep tables in all the specialty restaurants, or only in Crown Grill on the embarkation day?

I am glad Pepper is still in business - we had a tour with him back in 2013

Sorry for the confusion, it is exactly this:

I just found a gangway image here: https://cruisinchandler.com/our-cruises/enchanted-princess-ship-tour scroll down to see the gangway So it looks like there are both smooth and shallow-steps options

Thank you very much, so Grand Turk is out of question. With regard to tides, the tides in the Caribbean are no way as large as e.g., in Bay of Fundy - see here for Anigua https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/noaatidepredictions.html?id=9761115&legacy=1. The range is mere foot or so

I asked a similar question on the Disabled board and on Antigua board, but this one is specific to St Lucia. We will be in Castries on Enchanted Princess and I wonder what the gangway can look like. If it is steep and/or with stairs, would the crew still be able to provide wheelchair assistance? Without manually lifting, just pushing the wheelchair? Thanks for your help.

I asked a similar question on the Disabled board, but perhaps this board has a higher traffic. We will be in Antigua on Enchanted Princess and I wonder what the gangway can look like. If it is steep and/or with stairs, would the crew be able to provide wheelchair assistance? Thanks for your help.

DW and I are planning a trip on Enchanted Princess this Spring with ports of call in Eastern Caribbean - Antigua, Martinique, St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Thomas, and Grand Turk. After our disastrous cruise in Europe on Azamara last summer (steep gangway with stairs in every other port), I would like to make sure the gangways in the Caribbean are more accessible. DW uses a cane and asks for wheelchair assistance if the gangway is somewhat steep. But if the gangway is too steep, it cannot be accessible by a wheelchair. What was your experience in those ports? Please advise. Thanks in advance

Greetings St Lucia experts, My wife and I will be visiting St. Lucia for the first time in March. My wife has a bad back and she cannot climb stairs, though walks OK on a flat surface. She is a good swimmer and enjoys snorkeling. I searched throughout numerous posts here, and it looks like the best snorkeling sites (near the Pitons) are out of reach, as they either require boat travel (no-no with a bad back, and then stairs to get into the boat) or getting over numerous stairs to access the beach from a vehicle. Would you recommend an accessible beach with a reasonable snorkeling and not too many lurking boats/tourists? Perhaps the Pigeon Island? Thanks, voyager

So you buy several flights with award points/miles while they are cheap, wait for schedule change, get what you want and then release back what you don't? Here is the flaw in the plan as I see it: when you release the award flights, they are sold to your competitors by the dynamic pricing, much > miles than you paid...

Certainly, Azamara never offered an additional entry on a different deck to solve the mobility problem. However, whenever such an additional entry is not available/possible, we still have a sloped/often steep gangway. Does Nova;s gangway have stairs? If it does, the only way the crew can help is by lifting the passenger in the wheelchair and carrying them above the gangway. Now imagine typical not-so-strong crew and a 250+lb passenger 😞 So my question is: Is Nova using a flat-surface gangway (along which a wheelchair can be pushed) or a gangway with stairs?

I am contemplating a NZ cruise on Nova in December 2024. The itinerary is just perfect for what I am looking for, and there are no tender ports. However, my wife has mobility limitations so that she cannot negotiate stairs. Whereas she is not a fulltime wheelchair user, we usually request wheelchair assistance for her to embark/disembark the ship. Our only "small" ship experience was a recent trip on Azamara Pursuit in Europe. They alternated between a relatively flat gangway connected to the Port's elevator and a long and steep gangway with stairs. For the latter, the crew would need to manually lift her with the wheelchair, which was a terrifying experience. So much so that she had to stay on board in Bordeaux and Lisbon.. I wonder what sort of a gangway can we expect on Nova? Would it have stairs making the wheelchair impassable? Your help is much appreciated. Thanks!

To follow up: I am leaning towards the local line. But, could anybody please clarify this thing: I hear that many ships including the Adventure were not allowed to NZ ports until after they perform special external cleaning. Which caused numerous port cancellations. Given that Adventure is not frequent to NZ in 2024, how likely that scenario could be repeated in November 2024 for Adventure?

Sorry, I actually asked about the Byron pool (=lap pool on Princess)

Not sure if the link works, but the pool appears to be surrounded by a barrier:

This pool adjacent to the Lotus Spa, appears to have a graduated entry into water - certainly a good thing for people with limited mobility. But, it also appears that the only way to access this pool is from deck 16, by using a flight of stairs down. Is there a way to access this pool for deck 15, perhaps barrier free? On Diamond Princess, in particular? Thanks in advance!

I agree that this particular itinerary is very appealing. But, the company 😞 If you have sailed with them, could you please tell me how accessible the Byron area is on Adventure? I saw the pool and it appears to have a graduated entry that my wife can take. But, can you get to the pool from the ground level (it seems as if you need to enter the area from the deck above). Do they have a lift for the tender like the Royal Princess has? Thanks again, the inputs I get here are so useful