Paul Bogle

The close quarters of a cruise ship will not be a problem for those who have had the virus and recovered. Antibody testing will likely be widely available long before a vaccine is developed and widely available. I can envision a time when cruises will be offered to this safe cadre. Since this will predominantly consist of a younger demographic than the current profile, itineraries will likely be shorter duration and better priced to attract a younger cohort aching for diversion and provide much needed revenue to the lines.

For the rest of us we will just have to wait.

Cancelled before mid-May? 0%

Cancelled after mid-May? 99%

New York City hasn't started to bend the curve yet. Other parts of the country are likely to experience what New York City is going through in the coming weeks. I will be very surprised to see major cruise lines operating by late May. 

1 hour ago, ColeThornton said:

 

I would imagine though that if things got bad enough where a cruise line would declare a bankruptcy it would be a Chapter 11 reorganization vice a Chapter 7 liquidation.

My point was to ray98's comments; there are different flavors of bankruptcy.

Chapter 7 bankruptcy has an unavoidable relationship to loyalty programs.

Loyalty programs are unlikely to disappear as long as the vendor stays in business. If NCL does survive this it is possible changes will be made to the program but revocation seems extreme. They will be turning to loyal customers for future business.

37 minutes ago, erdoran said:

Perhaps—but what about Viking?

Pure speculation on my part but Viking is concentrated in river cruises in Europe. The few blue water ships added in recent years operate primarily in Europe. The line caters to Americans. With air travel terminated between the USA and Mainland Europe for the next thirty days, Viking may feel it is less costly to just suspend operations than to sail half-empty ships on itineraries that may not be doable.

Dates and times are not available in advance. In our experience they seem to change from week to week as we were able to see Dailies from a cruise two weeks before ours and times and dates bore no resemblance. 

If you want to do Escape the Big Top on your cruise you should head to the box office as soon as you board. You will have the choice of several days/times. If none of these work for you it is possible that additional events may be added later. This happened on our recent Breakaway sailing, but there is no guarantee.

Visiting the box office first thing allows us to book comedy club events as well as Escape so it works for us.

At the moment the pier at Harvest Caye is damaged and ships must tender. This will make getting ashore on a Breakaway/Breakaway plus class ship a real pain if you do not have a ship sponsored tour or priority status. Hopefully the pier will be in use when you arrive.

The Uber Driver waiting area is located between the NCL terminal and the Disney terminal. You can see it on this map provided by the Port Canaveral website.

12 hours ago, HuliHuli said:

 

Not a sermon; just a thought.

More like a lecture.

2 hours ago, rjm11 said:

we have done this often, never lied about who they were for, and never been charged for them.

This has always been our experience.

1 hour ago, HuliHuli said:

"Packages may not be shared and are non-transferable and non-refundable."

This is the rule.

You will have better luck posting this on your roll call thread.

In the ala carte restaurants you can order one entrée and as many appetizers, soups salads, sides and desserts as you like. Some appetizers and entrees have an upcharge which is clearly marked on the menu as applying to the dining package.

The tenders drop off at the ferry pier on Harvest Caye so that simplifies the process for getting to the mainland.

Escape the Big Top is a lot of fun if you enjoy solving puzzles/brain teasers. You cannot book it in advance, only on the ship. To book you should go to the ticket office deck 7 at the starboard entrance to the main theater on embarkation day. You can also book the comedy shows and any production shows you were unable to book in advance. The box office is one of our very first stops once onboard.

It's exactly as listed (or repeatedly advertised on ship tv) It's a studio where a professional photographer takes pictures of passengers for a fee.

I'm hooked.....please don't make us wait too long for the next installment.

I'll happily provide a nice tip!

The bars will not fill your water bottle. They will give you a glass of water which you can pour into your bottle.

We sailed out of New Orleans on the Breakaway in 2019 and the Pearl in 2018. Both sailings boarding began between 11:00 and 11:20. My suggestion is to arrive no later than 10:30. This should. give you time to get checked in and join the priority boarding group you paid for. 

The assigned arrival time is nothing more than a suggestion. Any passenger can show up and check in anytime they like. If you pay extra for the priority package you should most definitely ignore the assigned time on your e-docs and arrive before boarding begins. You want to do this so you can join the priority embarkation group and actually get on the ships soon after boarding begins.

1 hour ago, pattycake1939 said:

Thanks to all. I guess it will be Coxen Hole, hopefully docked. So if ship time arrival is 10am, local time would be 1 hour earlier, so 9am. Maybe I can make the excursion I want after all. It's so hard to make plans. I am from the east coast, so Central America would be earlier...........thanks again......Patti

Honduras does not observe daylight saving time. If you are sailing from Florida before the time change it is likely  your ship will set clocks back one hour and local time in Roatan will be the same as ship time. If you sail after the time change next month Roatan will be two hours behind Florida. The ship will still change time back one hour but ship time will be one hour ahead of local time in Roatan.

No USB ports in our Breakaway cabin last month. (M1)

Their were two 110vac outlets and one 220vac outlet on the vanity.

jfarri4230 I accept that when you arrived in Roatan local time was one hour behind ship time. This is not a fleet wide rule. Time changes are determined by the Captain, not corporate. It will vary by ship.

On the Breakaway last month I could access the www.cruisecritic.com website when connected to the ship's wifi but not logged into my included 250 minute plan. I could not access the boards, I got the spinner of death and timed out.

In a thread a few weeks ago someone said they could access the boards, so perhaps it was just the Breakaway, or my device or who knows.

The Breakaway does not have a pickleball court.