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Ahoy Shipmates! It was a real challenge but I finally finished the Sun Princess cross-sections (AKA profiles) that I promised. First, here are the jpeg images of the port and starboard views: In these versions, stations are shown, not only bow-to-stern location and deck position, but also location relative to the beam....PortSide, Starboard Side, or Centerline or Amidships. This is shown, respectively, in red, green, or black. The deck plans on the Princess website don't show locations of WCs (restrooms) but they are, , indicated on the deck plans on the medallion. If you check this out you'll notice that almost ALL of the WCs are unisex. So on the display all red and green squares indicating restrooms are Unisex except where noted with L for Ladies and G for Gents. Believe it or not, the medallion shows only one WC as Accessible...shown on deck 6 of the display with letter A. Now for the Excel spreadsheets. There are two versions; one (with the word SMALL in the filename) to be printed on two 8 1/2" x 11" sheets joined together and a second version printed on two legal-sized sheets. The size of the latter, when joined together, is pretty awesome: Sun Princess Starboard COLOR SMALL.xlsx Sun Princess Port COLOR SMALL.xlsx Large versions: Sun Princess Starboard COLOR.xlsx Sun Princess Port COLOR.xlsx I hope that you find this useful!

But sit tight shipmates...a new and improved version of the Sun Princess cross-section (AKA profile) is coming. Finishing up the starboard side and hope to highline it aboard tonight. It will be in color to denote stations that are starboard, port, or centerline as well as in both standard (printed on two 8 1/2" x 11" sheets) and large versions (i.e., printed on two legal-sized sheets).

Greetings fellow Sun Princess cruisers! The following is a message that I posted yesterday on one of the Sun Princess Roll Calls for this June. I'm adding here with the hope you will find it useful. "You took us in the wrong direction again!" is never a great way to start a dinner or a show. As a retired navy guy I'm supposed to know my way around a ship! But we solved the orientation problem several cruises ago when I created a cross-section (or profile) of our ship at the time, printed it out, and attached it to our cabin door with magnets. Yes, I know Princess used to hand out teeny fold-out booklets showing the profile view but the type was too tiny to make an immediate decision on which was to go as we headed out the cabin. And the medallion app, nice as it is, isn't as user friendly for the situation that I've described. In the past, this was VERY difficult to do (e.g., finding a similar class German ship and then modifying it). However, for the Sun Princess this was a snap since I found its profile buried on the Princess website: I imported the jpeg image into Excel and resized it (with some distortion) to fit on two landscape view 8 1/2" x 11' sheets: Sun Princess profile.xlsx I print the file and join the sheets with clear tape, fold the result, and put it into my travel book. I add a mark on the profile to show our cabin location. Once in our cabin, I use magnets to attach it to the door: On another thread I mentioned that this would only work for exterior starboard cabins or interior portside ones. After a couple "Aw shucks!" comments, I redesigned the display over the past couple nights so it works for exterior portside cabins as well as interior starboard compartments: ...and here is the display inserted into Excel and ready for printing: Sun Princess profile Postside.xlsx See you on board!

I replied to you a few days ago that, you're absolutely right about the display working for an interior portside cabin. I overlooked that completely! Anyway, for the past couple nights I reconstructed the profile so it'll work okay for exterior portside cabins: Sun Princess profile Postside.xlsx I mentioned that my dear wife was born and raised in Halifax, then moved to Hamilton followed by Toronto (a graduate of York University and UT).

Ahoy Shipmates! Last Monday on post #2712 (page 109) I shared a profile view of the Sun Princess that I post on my cabin door to orient myself as I leave the cabin. Anyway, I noted that the diagram would only work for starboard-side exterior cabins or, as a fellow cruiser pointed out pointed out, interior port-side cabins. Well, there were a few "dang, I'm on the port side!" and so over the past couple nights I reconstructed a profile that will work for exterior Port-side cabins (or interior starboard ones). As I mentioned in my previous post, I inserted this jpeg image into and Excel spreadsheet that prints on two 8 1/2" x 11" sheets. Sun Princess profile Postside.xlsx Just joint the two sheets with tape for a 8 1/2 x 22" display that can be attached to the cabin door with magnets (the photo below shows the starboard-side printout). Hope this does the trick!

Sure am! We have a starboard-side cabin so when we leave the bow is to our right. If our cabin was on port-side, heading the right would take us aft. I spent plenty of time being lost on the USS Blueridge!

What would be a nice use of the apps memory would be to allow users to access port guides before embarking on the ship. Currently, if one selects Journey > Ship Schedule > Show Entire Ship Schedule and then a "Welcome to..." option, the medallion returns "Connect to MedallionNet on board to download port guides." I imagine most would like to do some planning prior to boarding the ship. We are on the 14-day Athens to Rome route beginning 15 June. Fortunately I found all the very old Princess guides online for all our port visits except for Corfu: Athens ● Barcelona ● Florence ● Genoa ● Gibraltar ● Kotor ● Marseille ● Messina ● Naples ● Rome

Hi CatMom72 Getting around a new ship can be confusing! To help myself with this, on most past cruises with Princess I've constructed a profile view of the ship, printed it out, and attached it to our cabin door with magnets. When leaving the cabin, we glance at the diagram and know immediately how to get to our destination. The medallion app is nice, but this is faster. Luckily, I stumbled across a cross section of the Sun Princess. No need to create one! I fit the jpeg image to an Excel spreadsheet so it prints exactly on two 8 1/2" x 11" sheets. Sun Princess profile.xlsx Then I tape the sheets together, fold, and put in my itinerary book. Once in our cabin, I attach it to our cabin door like this: Alas, this scheme will only work if you have a cabin on the starboard side...🙁 Hope this is helpful for your shipboard orientation.

Quirky app indeed! I downloaded it today and under "My Journeys" I clicked "Completed" and say only two of the 15 cruises that I've done with Princess. I clicked the + sign, presumably to add to the list but, every time I added a past cruise booking number, the app returned "not found." However, I then added a booking from 2017 and the app crashed (!!!). I then closed out the app on my Samsung S20+ and logged back into the medallion app. Lo and behold! The 2017 cruise showed dup on the list! Mysterious but I guess the solution is to crash the app 😁

Right you are! I identified the specialty restaurant wine list online, found the same Seghesio Sonoma County Zinfandel at Krogers for half the price, and brought two bottles on board. Blew the waiter's mind when I pulled out the bottle ("where did you get this?"). And no corking fee if you take the bottle with you when you leave the restaurant. Drink the best for less!

Want top shelf wine? Bring a couple bottles of the best with you when you board. Don't want to pay a corking fee when bringing a bottle to the dining room? If you don't ask the waiter to store it for future dinners, there's no corking fee; just take the bottle with you when you leave the dining room! We didn't know this until the last cruise when the waiter informed us of this. Good to know!