Norwegian Cruise Line

Norwegian Cruise Line has updated its website to indicate the convenience charge for room service orders has increased to $9.95 per order.

The previous convenience charge was at $7.95.

Norwegian Cruise Line announced "Silver Cove", which is a new exclusive oceanfront rest-style destination at Great Stirrup Cay private island.

Great Stirrup Cay is undergoing a number of enhancements across the 270-acre island in The Bahamas. During Norwegian Encore’s inaugural call to Great Stirrup Cay, guests discovered the new oceanfront lagoon area including private beach access, 38 beachfront villas, a Mandara Spa as well as a new Moet Bar and the Silver Cove Restaurant and Bar.

Norwegian Cruise line announced a 40-day dry dock for the Norwegian Spirit cruise ship.

The long dry-dock will add new hull artwork, as well as 14 new venues. At a cost of over $100 million, the ship will begin the upgrade at the dry dock facility in Marseille, France on January 2, 2020. 

Here is a list of what they are adding/changing:

Singer Kelly Clarkson sent an email to her mailing list to ask her fans if they would want to go on a cruise with her.

An email sent to Kelly's mailing list subscribers contains a message from the singer in which she says, "Hey everybody! In case y'all didn’t know, I recently became the Godmother to Norwegian Cruise Line's newest ship, Encore, and I'm super-excited about it!"

After testing an extra-cost Priority Access program, Norwegian Cruise Line has expanded it to all ships in its fleet. No matter what vessel you are sailing on, you are now able to take advantage of the benefits that come along 

The Priority Access program offers guests access to certain enhanced benefits, such as:

Some passengers on the Norwegian Spirit are actively protesting the cruise line and demanding refunds after itinerary changes were made due to refunds.

A large number of guests aboard 14-night sailing gathered in the atrium to protest the itinerary changes due to poor weather conditions.

The Norwegian Joy has completed a $50 million renovation and has set sail on the first of two exclusive inaugural preview cruises before her first official sailing out of Seattle to Alaska on May 4, 2019.

The Norwegian Sun has will call Port Canaveral home for another year, offering cruises to Cuba.

Beginning on April 15, Norwegian Sun will offer four-, five- and seven-day cruises to Havana, Cuba, with select sailings also calling to Key West during its four-day cruises.

Ports of call during the Sun’s five- and seven-day voyages include Key West, Nassau, Bahamas, or Norwegian’s private island beach at Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas.

In April 2022, Norwegian Cruise Line raised their daily gratuity rates for the third time since 2019. 

The gratuity rates are: