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Yes I think I (repeatedly) confuse EBB with Mariner OBC and even Welcome Back promo! Can't understand why I am befuddled...

Yes, when I saw the menu I walked the talk back. I much prefer the Tamarind menu. There are honestly only one appetizer and one entree (plus the vegetarian of both) that my husband and I would even eat. At least in Tamarind there is lamb!

What @FlaMariner said. FCC will expire, FCD is refundable. The original pandemic FCCs expiration was pushed off and pushed off and we finally used our Mar2020 'money' on a 29 Dec 2022 sailing, two days before it was going to be gone!

I think it's 60 or 90 days from launch, or it may go by "quarters" (which would be about 90 days). Or it may not always be the same and be longer, depending on which dartboard they are trying!

I stand corrected. This will not take the place of Tamarind for us. Will not be paying even more for fewer choices that appeal to us.

The Quench package is $17.95 + 18% of that, pppd. You will also get two Premium WiFi log-ins, which you can share with the kids (one device at a time), or buy additional/multi license once you log in. Premium WiFi is necessary for any sort of video or streaming or audio/video messaging; the Surf does not include those!

@Tedferg HAL runs different promos one after another! Sometimes low deposits, upgraded Have-It-All, and yes crew appreciation. Things like credit toward air, etc. Sort of like throwing darts at a dartboard... Last week was CyberWeek and had the included grats and I think $25pp deposits on at least some cruises. Sorry you missed it! You can wait for the next promo or jump in now. The 6 and 7 day California Coastal (early 2025) are still within the Early Booking Bonus time and have upgraded HIA and paid crew incentive, if that is of interest.

I guess I had a premonition as I bought the lifetime without ever buying a short-term membership... eight years ago! I would never post a photo here from there, but I do follow the videos that are from youTube and post the links. And I think non-members can see deckplans. If not, I should overlay the HAL site's deckplans, in the future...

If I HAD to fax, I'd be looking for a computer program AKA an app, to accomplish that task!

No one there to process it. They are outsourcing the stock confirmation. Shrug.

You are below the eating (but not serving) area of the Lido Market. As is mirror image 8145. There may be some self-serve counters on the "inside" of those sections, but the chairs themselves sit on carpet. Here are the deckplans lined up, you are not near the SeaView pool or deck. The pool/deck is aft of the elevators; Lido Market is forward.

Yeah, I don't know! It wasn't offensive by my memory, just disjointed with unrelated questions being asked. The person I was trying to help, wanted a shower without threshhold and I found another couple to suggest, but it seems they are not scanning the HAL board and my topic could just go away! My browser history is not helpful as I spend hours per day on the web and not only CC!

Cliff, here is post #54 from the thread Bruce supplied. It suggests a way (that was working when it was written!) to apply for the SH OBC without using the StockPerks phone app. If you do want to try the app, be sure to choose the Alinea option, and not the Plaid which wants your brokerage data. https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2972921-requesting-obcstockperks/page/3/#comment-66440174

Future Cruise Deposit, as opposed to FCC -- Future Cruise Credit.

Europe is available through November 2025. Not saying that EVERYTHING is set through that date. What area are you hoping for?

Agree, I had been seeing and hearing that Morimoto (and Morimoto upsells in MDR) were in the seafood realm and therefore more in competition with Sel de Mer -- now it makes sense. Just because the chef has a Japanese name, doesn't mean the offerings will be Asian-Fusion like Tamarind.

Came back to say, we did a B2B Sea of Cortez+Mexican Riviera (i.e. two visits to Cabo, Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, one to LaPaz and Loreto) over New Years last year. While our cabin was low and midships, we spend a LOT of time in the Crows Nest (far forward, Deck 12), and have no memory of noticeable motion. We also did a northern transatlantic on the Zuiderdam (a somewhat smaller ship) with cabin forward on Deck 10, and felt only a slight "rocking to sleep" motion.

By using 3x2 FCDs on those long cruises I mentioned above, while the total price is the same, only $600 of our money is tied up in the meantime, instead of $3500! I didn't get it either, for a long time, but after DH retired and we started booking several cruises way out, I saw the light!

This photo gallery on sister ship Nieuw Statendam mentions motion. https://halfacts.com/pinnacle-class/10006-nieuw-statendam/

The number of FCDs allowed and in fact needed (AFAIK) depends on the length of voyage, with three being the max. We applied three (each) to a 24-day sailing and somewhat later moved them to the 35-day Voyage of the Vikings, losing the OBC.

^^^ This ^^^ I have not been cruising as long or as numerous-ly as Hank, but I did start in 1995 and suffered the forced togetherness of fixed dining on three ocean and three river cruises up to 2012. They are decidedly not my fondest memories. Certainly no one that I am still in contact with. Actually only the wife of one couple and one solo (at the same riverboat table) that I can even draw to mind. Then came "free style" on NCL followed shortly by other lines. I believe this is the slippery slope for Hank. No longer were you attached at the hip with people you had nothing in common with. You could sit with NEW people (that you had nothing in common with) nightly and get a big smile from the Maitre-d' when you didn't insist on a 2-top. As the extrovert in our couple, I got to engage with the table as my food inevitably got cold. So for the OP's question: Will Starlink Internet Connectivity Change the Atmosphere on Board? I can only say, hopefully. Will it let me stay in touch with my almost-homebound mother? And my perpetually in isolation chronically-ill sister? Will it let me cruise for 35-days, when I otherwise could not think of doing so? Will it let my husband and I sit quietly together, even if it's reading on our Kindles? If that's what we enjoy. This is not "Kind of sad." This is the new world of connection.

I think they meant on shore, to bring on the allowance...

OMG I love you.

It was a 24-day cruise in a Verandah. It was definitely $150 split between us, deposit paid with a number of FCDs from the recent cruise. Several months later, I decided to move the FCD to a 35-day cruise (different ship, different Verandah). The 2x$75 (or $150) disappeared as it was then too late for Welcome Back.

To me this is saying it is working as it should! I have one long cruise and a B2B2B in 2024, and one in 2025, all with the AARP OBC applied. The B2B2B only just got the AARP applied this week, several months after booking. I had figured that was because it was too far in the future and they needed to be certain I was still a member -- yes I forgot I had the 2025 already credited. The Pricing Specialist that took care of my re-faring under the Cyber Sale offered to apply the remaining AARP!