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No matter what answer you get the one that will count will either be the person when you go to check in, or an official at a port.  So get the Visa and avoid any worries during your vacation.

It also depends on your cruise, I have been on a lot of cruises where there were so many people higher than me that my status made no difference at all.   Kind of like being in the third group to board a plane with 100 seats and the first 2 groups have 45 each!

Use the Shotgun approach:

Try contacting whatever local news station where you are that has a troubleshooter or problem solver etc.  Contact them on Facebook, Instagram whatever social media you can.

You can contact the Feds here

If the problem is not resolved, contact the Federal Maritime Commission by email at complaints@fmc.gov or download, fill out, and mail or fax their cruise dispute services request form.

Also record all of your calls after notifying them you are recording the call.  Send an email and always state what you want to happen not that you are booked on 2 different flights, but you want to be put onto the same flights.

Contact the BBB and state the have violated their own T&Cs.

You need to call every  day and record the call ask for names numbers and when to expect a call back.  Always be polite you are just gathering information to provide to the TV station they would love it if you had 20 or so audio clips of calling them and being stonewalled or ignored.

Also email 

• •  14.7k
• August 2, 2015
• Kawerau NZ

You had better check your cruises something was cancelled, ours was for October and was cancelled they gave us 10% off right after they raised the rates 10% of course!

What they said, if you are going to Cruise you want/need to have a passport you never know what will happen or change.

You might even find they went ahead and charged the card on file, of course this will only happen when you want to cancel.  If you miss the final they will cancel, keep the deposit and have you rebook at a higher price!

If you have 3 in a room you can probably skip the 3rd person and see how it comes out or try 2 policies.

I have learned there is a lot the room steward can do for you as long as you ask.

Yes pretty much any extension cord is OK surge protectors are not, so 2 prong cords should not be an issue.

Anything with 2 prongs will  be OK I bring these less than 10 bucks and use a multiple USB adapter at the end.  Most stuff nowadays is not 3 prong unless you have a CPAP or something like that.

The answers seem to be no I keep a couple of these and multiple USB adapters along with some 220V USB adapters like these I bring them along no matter the ship I run one extension to one side of the bed then the other over to the other side so we can charge all of our electronics.  not very expensive and something we just keep in our bags, comes in handy for hotels and other places too. 

Yes we are the same I have a Samsung S23 and  Wife has an iPhone so one of each goes into each bag, we can find out our bags made the plain and where they are most of the time it seems.

The airtags i had in my bags helped us find our backs on the other side of the ship and about 14 rooms down from ours.  I put them in the suitcase not the outside and also used a tile tracker.  Usually the airtag as better for longer distances but the time did tell us the bag was on the plane and was a little better at finding the bags in the hallway.

To me you are really missing out not putting a tracker in your bags for the cost it is well worth it.

Are you counting per person I see a taxi is about 125.00 that would be for 2 people.  The transfer is not bad but can be slow if you are first on.

I would look at the airfare cost but prefer one way with a few extra days at start ende or both.

Always it will depend on many factors, streaming to me means a streaming service like Netflix or Youtube.

You might want to see if you can download the videos/audio ahead of time.  There are extensions and plug is for Chrome and FireFox that allow all sorts of downloads.

https://www.wired.com/story/10-browser-add-ons-extensions-download-videos-photos/

If it does not work for you then you might want to upgrade aboard the ship.  This does not mean that site will work, if it is a free site you might want to reach out to someone that is on your ship now and have them try it. You could find them by the roll calls and see if anyone is posting or just port to the roll call.  https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/20-roll-calls/

I know if I was on a cruise I would be more than happy to answer ship specific questions and be able to provide a current answer.

Are you using Chrome?

Just have someone that is back home do the check in 🙂  Much like checking in for a Southwest flight!

On 12/1/2023 at 8:37 PM, nudistcruzer said:

The full list does also have transformers listed, item 26 right after satellite phones. I would’ve called any phone charger a transformer. I am sure they are not talking about these and I am not sure what they are talking about. However, large, especially older, transformers may contain hazardous chemicals such as PCBs.

My bad I did a CTRL F and somehow it did not work?

I looked at the NCL site and they show this:

Large Batteries, Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRB), ham radios, satellite phones, transformers, lasers and laser pointers are not allowed onboard.

https://www.ncl.com/faq#!#what-not-bring-onboard

But if you look at the full list it does not have transformers, which is good since virtually every charger is a transformer unless they mean these?

One thing to note it does depend on the airline and what they paid but in my experience I could upgrade my seats for money but not points.

The whole NCL is always YMMV, I have had good  flights and so so flights.

Try doing an Eastbound TA you keep losing an hour and your body clock is all messes up.  Going West is much easier.

I have taken 5 TAs and we have found that 5 days at sea is usually enough for us so I would suggest picking a different cruise.  Also for a TA you want to take the cruise home so the flight back is easy!

The insurance will pay you but NCL should still have their money.

Does she have insurance it could be moot of course if no refund, could cancel and get some fees back,

Swapping rooms is pretty common.