Taking a trip on Norwegian Cruise Line? While you might have already paid for your vacation, there's one more expense to consider: gratuities (or "service charges" as NCL calls them).
Cruise gratuities are simply a fact of cruising. The payments go toward staff members providing service, including your room steward and dining staff. While some passengers see these tips as forced payments, others see them as a rightly deserved reward to hardworking crew.
If you're sailing on Norwegian Cruise Line, then the daily service charges — also known as gratuities — will be a part of the cost of cruising. Gratuities, however, aren't always clear to those who are new to cruising. Some people just aren't sure how they work, who gets the money, and how they are paid.
To help ease any confusion, we've explained in detail everything you need to know about gratuities on a Norwegian cruise. We have sailed the cruise line a number of times and know how it all works. The first thing to know?
While we refer to the charges as gratuities or tips below, Norwegian has taken to calling them "service charges." In this case, all those references mean the same thing. Here's…
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