Norwegian raising daily charges AGAIN !

I too hate the daily gratuity increase but you know what, sailing is still way less expensive than booking your own hotel, adding restaurants, and then trying to take in a decent show. Out of my 15 plus sailings over the past 20 plus years, I have received exceptional service from the majority of services offered on those sailings. There has only been a few personnel that were disgruntled and did not provide the service you expected or wanted. But if you give this any thought, it may be because of the minimal pay, long hours and possibly not everyone tipping. I agree with OldGreyWolf, the increases for services are inevitable like death and taxes. The day when you can enjoy a great vacation that is cheaper than a cruise, I will switch over, until then, enjoy cruising.

we all hate price increase but we all like getting a raise at our jobs. Also.. We all like good service and good food and better and new ships... So it is what it is... Inflation will all be there... Can't do it without money provided by the consumer. Nothing is free in life...

They are taking lessons from Disney

Shrug ... it is like death and taxes ... inevitable. They need something to cover all of the included perqs so auto gratuities is the way to go. I am sure all of the other lines will soon follow.

As a matter of fact, I was charged 14.58 per person.

Thanks for the heads up--I'll have to watch that.

I just booked a cruise with NCL a couple days ago. I received an email stating that they would honor the original rate until April 1. So I went online last night and paid my service fees. However, now that I am thinking about it, they charged me the new rate.

We just got the email for our Sept 30 cruise.

For the upcoming cruise, the grays are already paid. We can pay the old rate for the October cruise as long as we pay before the sail date.

Has as anyone ever requested an annual report / financial statement from any of these companies to see how these funds are distributed ?

Glad we'll still get the old rates in Sept. We tip extra anyhow, but there's gonna come a point when we'll cut back on the cash.