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  1. Would you prefer during daylight hours when you might be walking about the ship? Would you prefer to have doors suddenly being closed in front of you so you couldn't get to the buffet as quickly as you wanted? 4:00AM will disrupt far fewer people's movements about the ship.
  2. Currently, reservations can only be made for Allegro and Concerto dining rooms. Symphony does not appear on my Medallion app for reservations.
  3. On our last princess cruise in 2018 we put a luggage tag on the 12 pack carton and it was delivered to our room with the rest of our luggage. Not sure if they still do that.
  4. I wish they would stop perpetuating the "Formal Night" fantasy in their dress code FAQs. If they aren't enforcing it, why continue to create so much needless worry about what to wear. It would eliminate so many of these "what to wear on formal night" threads. Princess is doing no one any favors by sustaining this pointless fantasy.
  5. Not everyone on the left coast. We renewed our California driver's license two years ago when the old ones were about to expire. We had our paperwork ready, paid the usual renewal fee, and the REAL ID license was processed in less that 20 minutes at our local DMV. We received them in the mail about 10 days later.
  6. There was a recent story that made worldwide news of people who were refused boarding even though it was one of those "closed loop" itineraries. They were denied because some countries on the itinerary required passports. They were told from different sources that they did not need a passport and ended up losing all their money spent on the cruise when they were refused boarding. https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2902852-guests-denied-boarding-due-to-passport-requirements-at-port-everglades/ I would never chance going out of the country without a passport. Too many things can happen to cut the cruise short and having to come home right away, which will require you have a passport, or days waiting to get one issued to get home. At about $16 per year for your first passport that will last 10 years, it's one of the least costly things you will spend money for on your cruise. And one of the most valuable things you will bring.
  7. How about Royal? Does it have the same lights?
  8. Not interesting at all. Just typical. Many of these brand new members who immediately post their gripes are just trying to demonize a company by flooding social media with negative rants that have little similarity to reality but exhibit a massive amount of entitlement. They spread their anger, hoping the target of their wrath is harmed, and disappear. They are not interested in advice, just interested in available outlets they can use to cause as much negative harm to the company as they possible can.
  9. Yeah, right! Are you sure it isn't being held by a stowaway? Or a mannequin? I really doubt Princess management would allow an on duty crew member looking like that to represent the cruise line. SMH.
  10. That shouldn't make a difference if the crew member is honest and values his job.
  11. True. On most lines all cash tips must be immediately surrendered to the purser'. Those are held until the accounting is done to reconcile all passenger accounts. If a passenger removes or reduces their gratuities, the cash tip amount will be used to offset the money lost. If the passenger keeps the auto tips in place, then the cash tips are returned to the person it was given to. Failure to report those tips can result in disciplinary action such as demotions or even termination in extreme cases.
  12. Never mind. I have become bored trying to push this rope uphill.
  13. And not only would the final fare be more than the base fare and gratuities combined, the crew in the tipping pools would also be penalized since many are from countries that only tax income from salary but do not tax income from gratuities. They would also end up paying more in taxes if salary and gratuities were combined leaving them with even less income. In the end, no one wins when gratuities are rolled into the base fare. Especially those who would no longer be able to stiff the crew by removing or reducing the gratuities to a "fair" amount, whatever the heck that means. 😕
  14. As has been mentioned already, for cruises leaving from certain European countries, as well as Australia and New Zealand, the cruise lines have been forced to roll the gratuities into the base fare to counter the proclivity of your brothermen removing them. You have read all the comments on this thread, so YOU DO KNOW how this works since it has already been carefully explained. That you continue to ignore those explanations by STILL commenting that the staff must be working for nothing baffles me.
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