Golden Princess

Just curious what you mean by the personaliser is wrong with the prices. .. is it still wrong?

 

Yes, there is a bug in the online software that takes the AUD price and applies the USD exchange rate to it. :rolleyes: I really wish they'd fix it! :mad:

The actual price is AU $59 but only on cruises longer of 8+ days. Buy it onboard, it only takes a couple of minutes.

Re the Specialty restaurants on GOLDEN . Both are good but CROWN GRILL is just superb . Sabatinis is good, but not the best Italian at sea (NCL takes that hat).

SABATINIS is what Princess as an American Cruise Line thinks a real Italian restaurant would be like . Whilst it is OK Princess should engage an Italian master Chef to make it truly Italian - ITALIAN, not American Italian !!!!

Yes, there is a bug in the online software that takes the AUD price and applies the USD exchange rate to it. :rolleyes: I really wish they'd fix it! :mad:

 

 

 

The actual price is AU $59 but only on cruises longer of 8+ days. Buy it onboard, it only takes a couple of minutes.

Surely if I rang princess then they can charge the right amount... 33 nights is a lot extra if the price is so different... $59A sounds too cheap...

I like to get extras paid before we leave..

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Surely if I rang princess then they can charge the right amount... 33 nights is a lot extra if the price is so different... $59A sounds too cheap...

 

I like to get extras paid before we leave..

 

 

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It is $59 AUD onboard, take it from those of us that have cruised recently that the price is wrong.......Princess know about it and havent fixed the system that creates this price. If you think it is too cheap, then pay it now. When onboard they will refund you the difference;)

Search the Aus/NZ board and you will see many posts relating to this.

Surely if I rang princess then they can charge the right amount...

I wouldn't bet on it! :eek:

That is interesting. I will have to read the other posts.... and maybe ask a few questions.... thanks

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There are alternatives if you want to allocate funds for your drinks package ahead of time:

- buy onboard credit (but that may have the same problem as the package pricing)

- prepay the amount on your credit card

- use a travel card instead of a credit card, loaded with enough to cover the drinks package etc

- put cash aside and pay it into your onboard account during your cruise.

The transfer rate for OBC was very good so I may do that again

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I wouldn't bet on it! :eek:

We are sailing on Golden Princess 8 September 17, booked the Beverage Package on line also found out that I had paid to much,($79.40) the price per day is $59 per person. Contacted Princess about this and was advised that the difference would be provided as OBC, I had them put this in writing they forwarded me an email to this effect! Princess Cruise Line NEEDS to Fix this problem up, so as to maintain good will with Australian Cruises !!:rolleyes:

We are sailing on Golden Princess 8 September 17, booked the Beverage Package on line also found out that I had paid to much,($79.40) the price per day is $59 per person. Contacted Princess about this and was advised that the difference would be provided as OBC, I had them put this in writing they forwarded me an email to this effect! Princess Cruise Line NEEDS to Fix this problem up, so as to maintain good will with Australian Cruises !!:rolleyes:

Think that's what I paid to I thought other Price at time was us dollars so i didn't question it

The transfer rate for OBC was very good so I may do that again

Don't rely on it being the same for every cruise you book. As far as I can work out, Princess set the exchange rate once or twice a year, and what ever rate is in place when you book your cruise is the rate you get for any subsequent purchases for that cruise. Of course, this only applies to cruises where the onboard costs are in USD.

We did very well on our last Golden cruise, scoring an exchange rate of .90 when the AUD was around .75, however on a future booking that I was considering the exchange rate was .70 so I would have lost money buying OBC online unless the AUD crashed before departure date.

Yes, I have noticed the exchange rate has changed since early this year. I am not sure why a previous comment was, that it's cheaper to buy on the ship given the exchange rate for the Aussie dollar... we will be good either way..

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Yes, I have noticed the exchange rate has changed since early this year. I am not sure why a previous comment was, that it's cheaper to buy on the ship given the exchange rate for the Aussie dollar... we will be good either way..

 

If you're on a AUD onboard costs cruise the online price is wrong due to a bug in the personalizer, so it is cheaper to but the drinks package onboard , although Princess does refund the difference I believe.

If you are going on a USD onboard costs cruise then you have to be smart. Check the price offered in the personalizer, then check what US $56.35 is converted to AUD and compare. Don't be in a rush to buy online unless the online price is significantly cheaper - better to wait until close to your cruise and decide then.

We did two Hawaiian cruises (two week ones) on the Golden Princess on holiday sailings (2010/11 and 2012/13).

If you don't like the smell of tobacco, I would avoid the window suite cabins that were described above. for that first cruise listed, we booked just about a month before the sailing and there weren't too many cabins available (we booked an OV that was partially obstructed, but we liked it) and window suites. The WS were out of our price range. but when we were looking around the ship, and checking out the casino and that deck, I pointed out the hallway with the WS cabins and we were so glad we didn't book one (even if the rate was low enough) as the hallway stank to high heaven from tobacco (the cigar lounge is right there or was at that time, and the casino also had a lot of smoking). I imagine that some of that smell would creep into cabins. and that was before Princess started restricting smoking so after that, any venue allowing smoking probably got a lot of stinkier.

as for the ship itself, there are some nice places. try the International cafe in the Piazza area, Plaza deck midships It's not enclosed but a set of display cases with various plates and bowls of food, and it's open 24/7. You tell the counterperson what you would like, and you'll get a small plate with the item. the food changes according to time of day, and you can take your plates anyway just about -- your cabin, a lounge to eat while playing trivia, Princess theater, the pool deck