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Hi Don,I agree with you about breaking rules and felt a twinge of guilt at having considered the prune juice bottle route but I have a problem with the "contract" thought. When you signed your lease to move into the shopping center I'll bet you had read it, and probably pretty carefully. I do not have a contract with Norwegian yet. So far I've paid a deposit on a cruise and, a week later, at their insistence, I've paid the balance. Thus far I have signed nothing beyond an agreement to pay CruCon for our tickets. Norwegian has yet to acknowledge our existence and this is fine with us as it is the way things usually go. I expect we'll receive a cruise packet a few weeks before sailing and not until then will we be able to read their terms and rules. It's possible that legally we're bound by their as yet unknown rules but I'm having trouble convincing myself that I'm morally bound by a rule which is waaaaay outside my realm of expectation, especially when that expectation is based on a fairly substantial background of experience.In truth, I'm not going to "cheat" because I've always chickened out of that sort of thing. But my disappointment at this truly nasty rule is dimming the pleasure of anticipating this cruise. My husband and I are not big drinkers, indeed we don't drink at all at home. We only drink on cruises and not heavily then and we normally only cruise once a year. (This one is a special extra to celebrate our 40th anniversary and his retirement.) One of the pleasures of cruising for us is our "balcony cocktail" while preparing for dinner and/or (not usually but sometimes both) a Bailey's night cap. This isn't huge on the list of pleasures but taking it away really is a bummer.
Hi Don,
I agree with you about breaking rules and felt a twinge of guilt at having considered the prune juice bottle route but I have a problem with the "contract" thought. When you signed your lease to move into the shopping center I'll bet you had read it, and probably pretty carefully. I do not have a contract with Norwegian yet. So far I've paid a deposit on a cruise and, a week later, at their insistence, I've paid the balance. Thus far I have signed nothing beyond an agreement to pay CruCon for our tickets. Norwegian has yet to acknowledge our existence and this is fine with us as it is the way things usually go. I expect we'll receive a cruise packet a few weeks before sailing and not until then will we be able to read their terms and rules.
It's possible that legally we're bound by their as yet unknown rules but I'm having trouble convincing myself that I'm morally bound by a rule which is waaaaay outside my realm of expectation, especially when that expectation is based on a fairly substantial background of experience.
In truth, I'm not going to "cheat" because I've always chickened out of that sort of thing. But my disappointment at this truly nasty rule is dimming the pleasure of anticipating this cruise. My husband and I are not big drinkers, indeed we don't drink at all at home. We only drink on cruises and not heavily then and we normally only cruise once a year. (This one is a special extra to celebrate our 40th anniversary and his retirement.) One of the pleasures of cruising for us is our "balcony cocktail" while preparing for dinner and/or (not usually but sometimes both) a Bailey's night cap. This isn't huge on the list of pleasures but taking it away really is a bummer.
