tyry

12 minutes ago, Son of a son of a ... said:

Not to get all PC, but I believe it is "gypped" and the term is a slur against Gypsies.   The more you know, the more you grow.

I had no idea that's where that came from.  You really do learn something new everyday.

Thanks so much for your review - we just booked this same itinerary and can't wait.  We've only been on the Getaway with NCL and loved it.  

On 7/3/2019 at 5:37 PM, C cruise said:

what is Rock of Ages about?

In a nutshell - it's a boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back story, but set against the 80's rock scene.  Which means (at least in the Broadway version) sex, drugs, and Rock n Roll.  Most stuff is implied, but it is still there.  As a child of the 80's it is everything I grew up with.  If you've seen the film but not the stage version, the stage version is a million times better (my opinion only).  The music is all covers of (probably best described as) either arena rock or hair metal.

Glad to hear that reviews are still great. We just booked Larry's limo for a trip from the airport to our hotel. We land around midnight so I didn't want to deal with taxi/uber.

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After reading a bunch of reviews we've only parked at the port. We've done it a couple of times, parked in the garage and have had no issues. Bonus was I didn't worry at all about my car on vacation.

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Our MUST every time we are in Miami is Cipriani's. Best Italian food I've had and amazing service. It can be rather pricey depending on what you order.

In April we also found a little place in Brickell, Delores but you can call me Lolita. Great outdoor dining space and excellent food and drinks.

You also probably cannot go wrong with Joe's. We are lucky enough to have one here so we've always skipped it.

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Yes! What a great way to start the weekend by finding this. Can't wait to follow along as we have 3 day booked in a few months.

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I just wanted to thank everyone for their responses, sounds like we will be very happy with booking the suite and not the Haven this time.

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Thank you all, I'm thinking we save a couple of grand and skip the Haven this time and settle for a plain "suite" :)

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Hi all, perhaps my search is not working correctly, but I could only find really old threads on this topic. Do suites (categories that start with an S) still get breakfast and lunch in Cagney's? We've only done the Haven on Getaway and not sure if the Haven this time it is worth twice the cost over the same type of room on the Pearl.

Thanks

Ty

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I find on most cruises that the overwhelming number of people want to be out in full sun. I, however, as a blue eyed blonde with already one melanoma under my belt, want the shade. I would think the cabanas won't be overrun.

I'm with you on this - one bout with melanoma was enough for me. I'm always hiding from the sun now on our cruises. When we were on the Getaway they had about four cabanas in the Haven area...I think all but once were we able to walk up and grab one for an hour or two. Hoping it will be the same on MSC.

Wow, that's a harsh downgrade. I guess you're in the U.S.? We don't really have the option to cancel in the UK, we'd lose a substantial amount of money. Cruise lines have us over a barrel.

I didn't even think about that for other countries. But yes, I'm in the U.S. so we can cancel without issues.

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It is clearly stated in MSC booking conditions that your cabin number can change up until embarkation. They cannot however downgrade your cabin.

 

 

 

Annie

Actually they can. We were tossed out of the Royal Suite and put into a balcony in the Yacht Club. MSC blamed a computer error for letting us book. This happened after we booked the day the Seaside opened and we found this out a couple months later. Still debating if we are even going to go.

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We had FJS 10206 last year and it was plenty big enough for me and my DW and our two teenage kids. The second half bath is a great bonus. We also ate in Coastal Kitchen for dinner on a couple of nights which is really the only perk for this class of suite. The balcony was great and had 2 loungers and a table.

We have that exact cabin booked for our April cruise. Glad to hear it was nice with a good balcony.

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I think we were Silver as we had 21 points before the change. Just got an email about it and they have dropped us to Bronze. No grandfathering going on unless I'm incorrect on the old levels.

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We were in one on the Getaway last September. We never felt like it was too long a walk. Would stay in one again in a heartbeat!

You mentioned not dropping off your luggage but going directly to the parking garage...is there a reason for this? We usually drop luggage and the park, at least at other ports.

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Mine is showing $48 for the drink package when I click on the offer. It if was 41 I might have thought about getting it.

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What are you gonna do?

 

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Not sure yet, but we are considering jumping to another line and writing off MSC since this is leaving a bad taste. If we didn't have so many friends going on the same cruise we would definitely be canceling.

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Wow thats not good .How did they determine who got it?

 

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They told my TA it was who booked first. Weird since we booked as soon as they opened for bookings.

We booked Seaside as soon as it was available and did end up GTY Royal Suite. Our TA was assured we had one of the two. Now six months later we've been told that the MSC booking system made a mistake and we've been bumped down to a regular balcony in the YC. They offered a couple hundred in OBC. Have to say we are now thinking about bailing on MSC as I'm so annoyed with them. Glad it worked out for you though.

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Thank you!

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Hi all, we depart tomorrow and will parking in the garage for our NCL cruise. While on the NCL website it states that the garage parking for NCL (B & C I think) is cash only...is that right? All the others we have used are credit cards.

Thanks

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Thank you so much for taking time out of your cruise to post all of these. I'm a crazy planner and even seeing all of these help so much.

Ty

Found the ship...

 

Got here at 9:45. Bags off and parked in under 15 min. Checked in at 10 am into small wait area. Moved to a little larger area about 10:15. Waiting to board with horrible cell service.

I think they are preparing me for how bad the ship is...

Let's hope not....

 

 

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Great review so far - thanks for posting. Did you have any issues parking? I'd recently read somewhere it was hard to park at the port and we will have a car for this trip.

Thanks!

Ty