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clojacks

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    Northern Minnesota
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    Traveling, Biking
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    Celebrity
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Mediterranean, Central America

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  1. On the Marina now during the heat wave in Brazil and we have had engineering to our room twice to see if it can be made tolerable. The first time, our room was at 85 with AC at its lowest setting. It came down a little, but still not even remotely comfortable. Anyone else experience extreme heat on Marina and not have it able to handle it? Ironically, the main area on 5 near guest relations is like a cooler.
  2. You’re correct, to a point. You need a messaging app, like What’s App. Using an Androids native texting icon does not allow you to text between android and iPhone if on wifi only.
  3. You can each “regular messaging” if you both have an iPhone, but if not, you can’t. However my Android communicates with Apple if the ship has a hat feature on their app…
  4. The 7 day we booked on the Discovery just this past week for this coming fall is up only $160 total, or about 5%.
  5. Doesn't it seem like a waste of time to involve a CVP to do what you can do on every other cruise lines website by yourself? This really seems like a dumb system by Princess in my opinion and one I hope they change.
  6. I know Deck 9 is not listed as obstructed, but for me, looking directly down at the top of a lifeboat is as obstructed as it gets...
  7. Not sure if this is a US problem or if you haven’t booked in a while, but it is a huge problem right now, at least in my experience, to book a specific DB cabin. All Princess Deluxe Balcony cabins I have researched lately show them to be only available to book as a GTY, unless you either 1) change the booking to 3 people in the cabin instead of 2, or 2) book it ONLY through a Princess CVP. Because 2 of the decks with the most Deluxe Balcony DB sub category cabins are the deck above lifeboats, and the deck below the pool, I want nothing to do with a Deluxe Balcony guarantee.
  8. Got through to my CVP, and after being "scolded" about how she isn't supposed to do this because I booked with a TA (I didn't, I booked with Princess, but transferred it to my TA), she sharply said, "give me a cabin number", and I did and she changed it from my GTY, but emphasized it with a "this is why you book with a CVP" to which I replied again, that I DID! This is really a bad system for experienced cruisers who do their research and know where they want to be on a ship. I hope this system gets changed....
  9. In what category, how far out from sailing and was it originally booked as a Guarantee?
  10. This little pet peeve of mine has led me to some interesting info regarding how Princess handles certain cabin class bookings.. I went through the particular cruise I just booked for this fall and calculated the number of cabins available in my preferred categories as if I was booking for 2 and as if I was booking for 3. I also totaled up how many of each category there are on the Discovery, which is the ship I just booked. We prefer either the Deluxe Balcony or the Mini-Suite since we like to have a sofa or seating area to relax on, instead of sitting at a desk chair or on the bed. On our simple little 7 day cruise down the Mexican coast and back, all Deluxe Balcony cabins are available only as a GTY booking if you are booking for 2. However, if you are booking for 3, every single Deluxe Balcony cabin is available to book. I prefer a DB category, because it is either located mid-forward or mid-aft. There are 83 of that category on the Discovery. Currently, I could have booked any one of 67 different DB category cabins out of 83, if I was booking for 3, but if booking for 2, I can only book a GTY, even though, as I said, there are 67 out of 83 DB still unoccupied. Ironically, 40 of those available DB cabins sit a deck above the life boats, so, while not technically obstructed, my chances of getting one with a view that I would say is obstructed as a GTY, are unfortunately pretty good. I am just going to call my CVP, and I'll see what they say...
  11. Taking some of the suggestions in mind, has anyone had any luck calling Princess with a cabin # that shows as available to book as a triple and ask to book it as a double? Has anyone booked a room for 3 with the intent of getting a specific cabin or location and tried to change it to a 2 person cabin? I know somebody is going to say, "you're going on a cruise, enjoy it wherever you are on a ship" but that's not the point. I know of no other cruise line blocking a double booking like this when there are cabins available for 2. I'm just really really curious why Princess started doing this?
  12. But don’t all the Deluxe Balcony cabins sleep 3 or 4 because of the sofa bed? Why would all the Deluxe Balcony be listed as GTY then? I’m not sure your “guess” is correct..
  13. I'm wondering if anyone can help me understand what kind of crap Princess is using for cabin releasing. I decided to look at a cruise in NZ for January 2026. I checked on my TA's website for cabin availability for 2 in Balcony, Deluxe Balcony, and Mini Suite sub-categories. For plain balcony categories BF thru BA, my TA showed 19 available in every category. When I counted in the Deluxe Balcony categories, EVERY ONE...DF thru DA , were listed as Guaranty. When I checked Mini-Suites for 2 it was back to 19 available in ME thru MA. Then I decided to check Princesses own website. The first couple of sub-categories in Deluxe Balcony's for 2 showed GUARANTY only again. So, I decided to change the criteria to 3 in a cabin, and checked just Deluxe Balcony category DB, and over 80 cabins appeared as available? What possible logic or reasoning could be at play here?
  14. Some of the explanations, or "opinions" in here seem way less than plausible. I contacted my TA, he said the Balcony, and Deluxe Balcony, and Mini-Suite cabins on the 2 Mexican cruises we are looking at...on the Discovery or Majestic in early/mid November, were all listed as GTY as well. I don't get how having people call reservations to inquire about cabin availability can be more cost effective than having a TA handle reservations.
  15. We are looking at a couple of Mexican Riviera cruises in November and all the sub-catagories in Balcony, Deluxe Balcony, and Mini-Suite only show GTY available to book? Is this a new way of booking cabins with Princess? Are you unable to select specific locations? Sides? etc.... I find it hard to believe they have sold all the allotted specific cabins for cruises in next November already...
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