mattduke1

For us, it was always a can. We had the quench package (me and my wife) and whenever we asked for a Coke or a Sprite, we were given a can. We would order several of them and then took the unused ones and put them in our mini-fridge for use while in our room.

We had port side this time. The only smoke we smelled was from our neighbor on the side who felt smoking on the balcony was a cool thing to do. If you did well with the aft cabins in Alaska then you'll be fine with them in Norway.

We were on Deck 6. The aft-wrap cabins are the only ones we book, so we're quite used to them. Yes, you do feel motion back there. We did have one night out in the North Sea where it got pretty rocky, but for the rest of the time, no bother at all. Many times it's also noisy/vibrating back there when pulling into ports while the ship is docking. But, for this particular cruise, that wasn't an issue at all except for when we were docking back at Rotterdam to end the cruise. Deck 4 has a super wide side section but don't forget it also has the wiper contraption that kind of just is "in the way". It's also not covered, so if raining, not good.

Just got off the Rotterdam (fabulous cruise...had Aft Wrap-Around Neptune Suite) and thought I would post the drink packages and their inclusions since that was something I was wondering about before we cruised. So hopefully the attached image will help those like me. Another worry of mine was the craziness of the Schiphol airport and the port moving to Rotterdam. Our worry was completely unwarranted. Ship docked at 6am and disembarkation started around 6:30am. We were off the ship and on the way back to Schiphol (had set-up private taxi service in advance) by a little before 7am. Arrived at the airport around 7:45am, got through all the mess (we did have Sky Priority on Delta which helped a lot) and was eating breakfast in the KLM Lounge by 8:30am...easily making our 11:30am flight. If anyone has any questions about the ship, experience, or some of the Norway ports, just ask and I'll try to answer them as best as possible.

Could you email me please sir....mprivette2 @ nc.rr.com....just remove the spaces