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Fjord4Fun

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  • Location
    York
  • Interests
    Genealogy, Photography, Travel
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Hurtigruten
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Norway / Iceland

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  1. How is the 75/250 miles actually measured. As the crow flies or as per Google Maps?
  2. We are both first-time Princess cruisers and although I've been allocated a blue medallion, my wife has been allocated a gold one. As long as both work I don't really see that the colour is significant.
  3. I really don't see the logic of tipping more because you do not go on excursions. I thought the argument for tipping was based on whether the person being tipped had done a good job (or went 'above and beyond') rather than on the travel preferences of the person doing the tipping. Is that just another strange American custom?
  4. How come? All are just 'doing their job'.
  5. Isn't the clue in the name: OBC - On Board Credit. 🙂
  6. In those far off 'pre-medallion' days if I wanted to get my wife and I a drink from the bar i simply took her cruise card and showed both to the bar staff. What do i do now? Get her to remove her medallion from her wrist or neck? What a faff.
  7. My daughter-in-law is an ICU nurse working 12 and 1/2 hour shifts often with one half hour break, caring for people with multiple life threatening conditions who don't actually get her care unless there is a very high chance they will not make it. She never get tips (or even a decent wage). Please don't talk to me how people working in a commercial organisation 'need' tips.
  8. Does anyone know how long it takes to get proof of vaccination document approved o the Medallion App. We loaded our PDf's a week a ago but they are still showing a 'Pending'.
  9. In Japan tipping on excursions, like anywhere else these, would be considered very bad manners as it implies they would not have done their job well unless you tip them. Height of bad manners.
  10. Just received the following notification from Princess for our cruise departing next week from Southampton: "We are pleased to advise that we have updated our COVID-19 testing requirements for your cruise. Tests are no longer required to be medically observed, and we have updated our acceptable test types to include Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) that are performed at home."
  11. Or maybe swap partners if you get friendly with another couple during the cruise? 😀
  12. How have people managed to upload proof of their vaccinations to the Medallion app? We have PDF's of our NHS documentation in Apple Books which the app can't access. It will allow us to take a photo so do we print the three page PDF and photograph each page? Seems rather impractical. There must be a better way.
  13. In my experience it's an American 'thing' to tip anything that moves. I much prefer the Japanese who would get offended by tips as they are simply doing their job. If people are not paid to do their job that's the employer's fault not mine.
  14. "it is wine and not alcohol. " What is it then?
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