awreaper

My wife, son and I have booked several RC cruises since Covid started and a couple were cancelled by RC and the last one (Dec 21) I cancelled when it became clear that you had to be vaccinated.  My wife and I are, but my son is not, and we have no intention at this time of vaccinating him.  So right now we each have about $1600 in FCC credit with RC sitting there.  At this point I would prefer to get a 100% refund and try RC again in the future if the vaccination requirements change.  Is that possible?  If so, other than calling RC and staying on hold for hours and being bounced around is there a better way to request it?  If the credit is not possible, can I have RC move the FCC credit that is in my son's name over to mine and my wife?  We would probably go ahead and cruise with RC so as not to lose the money.  Thanks in advance for the help.

I will get in when we are closer to having a  vaccine.  I don't think cruises will start up again until that is available and you have a vaccination certificate of some kind.  Until then I will invest in stuff that is making money instead of waiting on cruise stock to rebound.  

We are in the same boat, June 12th our of PR on the Freedom.  They still haven't cancelled the cruise but I just got a cancellation notice from Expedia that my hotel room I booked for the night before the cruise has been cancelled.  The reason is the hotel will not be open during that time.  It was the Decanter Hotel.  

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I am not speculating.

I am just stating the facts at the present time and asking you what future looks like to you."

I have no idea and speculating is a waste of time.

Reality and speculation are two different things.  Until announcements are made, we are all speculating.

Its almost like this person is going to win a bet if these cruises are cancelled or in some way they are going to gain if they don't.  I guess some people just like to see unfortunate things happen to other people.  That is a sad way to live.

And your point is?

"Have fun on whatever vacation you go on!!"

We always do!  We make the most of whatever situation we are in.  If we don't cruise we will catch one down the road. 😁👍

Question - "Did they address the requirement for a medical release from a Doctor if over 70 years old?"

Answer - I did not see anything in the docs about this or anything Covid-19 related.  It appears these are the standard Pre-Covid19 docs.

We are scheduled to board the Freedom of the Seas on June 14th in PR.  Saturday we received a 16 page email with boarding instructions, luggage tags and itinerary.  I am not trying to get a discussion going about this boat sailing or not.  Everyone has an opinion on it and they are all just that "opinions".  I thought this might be interesting information.  If the boat goes we will be on it.  If it doesn't, we will find somewhere else to go on our vacation.  👍

Nassau would probably be it for me although I really don't have much trouble with vendors.  They approach me and I say "no thanks" and that is the end of it.  I am a pretty big guy so not sure if that has anything to do with it or not.  Never had anyone grab me or put stuff in my hands, etc.  It wouldn't go well if they did.

I don't know but I was told if it had a green swipe then it was included.

Just be advised that not all games are on the package or at least it was that way on the Bliss a few weeks ago.  The slot where you swipe your card is either green or a yellow color.  The green ones were covered on the package and were basically anything that didn't give out prize tickets.  I would estimate that about 35-40% of all arcade machines were covered by the package.  Most were video games such as driving/racing games, shooting games, etc.  

21 hours ago, david_sobe said:

I applaud NCL for bringing real Broadway shows to their stage without changing scripts or removing curse words.  If you want to see a children's show or a show without curse words, I would suggest cruising Disney.   As we all know, the Jr High school bus has far worse language than ANY show on NCL or Broadway and I don't see parents rushing to put warning signs at the bus stop about foul language.

As I said in the original post "I don't want to turn this in to an argument about acceptable language".   The post was just a heads up to everyone that the language is there, do with it as you will.  

10 hours ago, BirdTravels said:

So, if you are warned, why is this an issue? 

Because "authentic New Jersey profane language" can mean any number of things.  I wanted to clarify it for anyone looking to go to this show.

33 minutes ago, PTC DAWG said:

Don’t they have an age suggestion for certain shows on the dailies? 

The do for the late night comedy shows but I don't recall seeing anything age related for this show.

11 minutes ago, ColinIllinois said:

 

The OP is obviously just giving people advanced notice so if they don't want their kids being exposed to profanity they don't book online in advance.

Exactly, thank you.

I don't want to turn this in to an argument about acceptable language but I wanted to advise anyone going to the Jersey Boys show on the Bliss that it does contain some strong language.  In addition to the "d" and "s" words, they drop the F-bomb about 15-20 times during the show.  Prior to entering the show they do have signs that state the show contains "authentic New Jersey profane language".  Just a heads up in case anyone is offended by this language or has little ears going to the show.

We are just off the Bliss.  I am not sure how much the arcade package costs but it looked like only about 25% or less of the games were covered under this package.

We just did the Bliss on the 12th.  We took a Lyft from the FLL airport.  It was less than $40.00 for a car and 3 people.

Got the upgrade offer email at about 60 days out.  We are in mini-suite and bid on 5-6 different Havens.  My bids were all on the low end rated as poor and showed as "pending" until today.  We are 48 hours out and just go the emails from Norwegian showing the bids were rejected.  The Havens were showing as sold out on NCL.com for a couple of months prior to today.

"I will finish with this regarding the pool area, on day two I woke early to mark four chairs for my family with towels and clips and bags, as this is how it's done on cruises. Upon arrival later that morning my chairs were now down to two, my bag was missing, and I almost got into a fight. Wow! what a cruise dream! "

Just saw this in another post.  This person was all upset because it didn't work out for them.  I guess they didn't get the memo that hogging chairs is not polite and frowned upon by most cruisers.  Maybe they learned a lesson.

I can't ever remember an instance where a cruiser was minding their own business walking around the deck and just fell off the boat, even in rough seas.  If it became that rough I assume they would not let anyone out on deck.  If someone wants to do something stupid or wants to commit suicide they will find a way.

We need another option to sort reviews.  We need to be able to sort them by 'date uploaded'.  I have been reading reviews on the Bliss which we are going on in a few weeks.  Every day or two the number of reviews increases but when I look at the list of reviews, 1/2 the time the new reviews are not there.  I believe this is sorted by 'sail date' so if someone waits a couple of weeks to do a review then it will appear down in the list.  If we could sort them by 'date uploaded' as another option then we could see the newest reviews.  

Some people are like that.  Years ago my dad went to Colorado on a hunting trip and loved it.  He talked about going back for years.  They both retired and I told them I was taking them to Colorado and I was going to pay for it.  I took care of everything.  The only thing they had to do was pack and be ready for me to pick them up.  They were so excited when I first told them about it and then for the two months leading up to the trip they tried everything under the sun to back out.  I would not let them and countered every excuse they had.  Long story short we went on the trip and they had a ball.  He talked about it until he passed away a few years ago and my mom still talks about it.  Some people are like that.  I am just the opposite.  🙂