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Just got home last night and need to catch up on work today. But I promise I will get to all the questions this weekend! 🤪

They also said that the buses run until 4:30 but all aboard wasn’t until 5:30 so I was confused. The water taxi was operating right up until 5:30. They also have a number of them going back and forth. It was one boat where you would have to wait until it came back to get on. They were constantly going back and forth.

Just got off the Sun Princess. The new port is not that far away from old town. You can purchase a bus ticket from Princess for $9 ahead of time and they say it takes about 20 minutes. The actually ride is more like 10 but they do wait for buses to fill up. Or you can take the water taxi, the “Sea Bus”, for 2 euro each way. Princess “warns” that there may be long lines but that was never the case as far as I could see. The Sea Bus also takes about 10, maybe 15 minutes. Since we had a private tour pick us up at the cruise terminal but then drop us off in old town after, we asked the suite concierge which type of travel was better and they said to use the water taxi as it was very easy. Even Princess was not recommending the bus!

I haven’t used a ship sponsored excursion in years and never had a problem. As karatemom2 said, their business model depends on them getting you back on time. They would go under if they didn’t. 1 hour away is not a long time. Private tours are so much better. As cr8tiv1 explained, if the tour company is nervous about getting you back, they won’t book it. And yes, we used a private tour company for Peggy’s Cove.

I agree. It feels more like home on Princess but they do have their problems. Celebrity is just a better product. Although…. I just got off the Sun Princess today in their version of The Retreat and they have definitely stepped it up a notch. Service throughout the Sun was much better than other ships and their suite service almost was equal to Celebrity. Almost. Much better than in the past.

We just got off the Sun Princess today and there is no activity in there yet. Our cabin was right outside. Still just a bunch of tables with table clothes on them.

Me too! I was a little worried that the first few nights were too calm.

So talking to people this morning, I guess it was really rough last night. They said we were rolling a lot. But I slept right through it.

Now that the cruise is over ☹️ I will say that there was movement throughout the cruise. Whenever we came into port there was A LOT of shaking as the thrusters kicked in to help the azipods. But there was also some movement at night as the speed increased. Just a little port to starboard shaking but we love feeling the ship move so it didn’t bother us. With the beds facing either aft or forward it was actually a comforting movement like rocking a baby’s cradle. Nothing too bad.

I don’t necessarily disagree with you @JimmyVWine just correcting the comment about it being weather related. I don’t think all executives are evil money hungry devils. There are reasons for the change in port, they just aren’t sharing them.

Teaser #3: For Santorini yesterday, they had us all meet in the lounge at 7am. Yes 7am on vacation! When the tender operation started, they escorted us all down and put us on the first tender. We were the first people up the cable cars with very little waiting. Our private tour was at 10 so this gave us time to walk around the town as it was opening as well as stop and have some coffee and Baklava for breakfast! Did I groin about having to get up so early. Sure did! But I was glad overall. They are really treating us like kings and queens on this ship.

But the problem with your argument is that they cancelled the port before we even got on the ship. A full five days before we were supposed to dock there. Are you telling me that they knew the weather conditions five days a head of time and made the call to not go there? It’s the same with some Santoríni cancellations. There are too many ships in port and the cable car will be an absolute mess. We were the only ship in port yesterday and we walked down instead of standing there for 90 minutes.

To be honest we have not made it to the suite breakfast even one day yet! 🤪. We will try on the last sea day tomorrow! But yes, it’s in the Signature restaurant. We know that much!

From what I can tell peaking over at my neighbor. 🤣 I actually really love the love seat. It has a foot rest so we can both “recline” comfortably.

Sorry, didn’t even know cruise ships HAVE a gym. 🤪