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The weather is awful. I was surprised that some of the other ships left, but maybe it's something to do with where Sky is docked? The wind would make turning out to the channel very difficult. We left the ship today and are staying in Ft Lauderdale - I have never been in wind so strong as it has been this evening.

I totally agree. I love a Pina Colada but the Princess ones are pretty grim - and also really hit and miss. I found some bars used pre-mixed stuff while others added the coconut 'cream' and pineapple juice etc. separately. The availability of fresh pineapple garnish was also very unreliable.

Oh I agree, I will next time - now I know they don't provide them!

I had to buy some emergency tampons on the last Princess cruise I did. No bag. I wasn't embarrassed (as a 40 year old woman I've bought plenty of tampons in my time) but I can imagine some people might not want to share that sort of purchase with everyone! Likewise something you're buying as a gift/surprise for someone you're travelling with.

Thanks all. Will investigate these further.

Wow, some of these dishes sound great! I'm not a vegan (and not even veggie) but I often prefer vegetarian food so I'll definitely be checking out some of these dishes.

Hi all, We are visiting Belize with Princess in December. I'm really keen to do a tour that includes the best opportunities for wildlife watching - I would love to see a toucan! There are a couple of tours offered by Princess that look plausible, there's a river tour only, plus trips to Altun Ha and Lamanai that also include boat rides. If wildlife is the priority, would any of these tours be better than the others? Alternatively is there a non-cruise tour that would be worth considering? Any advice would be appreciated!

I'm in the UK and both on my phone and my computer "princess.com" gets me the British version of the website. I booked a cruise a couple of days ago, all priced in GBP (even though it doesn't start in the UK). There is something wrong/weird about the cruise the OP is looking at. I get this error message when I search for it: Mon, Aug 21, 2023 on Emerald Princess Pricing is currently not available for this date or the selected cabin type. Please try a different departure date, cabin type or check back later

Sorry, I meant if you have the chance of an evening in Tenerife you might not want to get back on board early enough to pack and leave your case outside your cabin etc. (I recently sailed with MSC and cases had to be ready by 11pm). Whereas if you're just sailing from the previous destination it's not quite such a big deal. Maybe I'm overthinking it!

Ok, so you arrive first thing, get a whole day in Tenerife, then get off the ship at 8am or whatever the next day? Seems like doing the overnight at the beginning would be better unless you're carrying your own luggage off, otherwise you couldn't be out late because you'd need to pack your stuff. Thanks both!

Hi all, I'm looking at booking one of the 7-day Azura round trips from Tenerife in Jan/Feb. Some of them have an overnight in Tenerife at the start and some at the end depending whether you join the ship on Friday or Saturday. I'm assuming if you do it at the start you board on the afternoon of day 1 (Friday), overnight, have day 2 in Tenerife and then depart in the evening. How does it work if you do this at the end? Do you simply get to disembark later on your last day? Any views on which is the better option?

I booked via a travel agent under a different promotion and have the same experience - my ticket/boarding pass says I've got it but it isn't on the app or my online account. I get the impression that MSC's IT is a bit flakey so as I've literally got it in black and white on documents they've sent me I'm going to trust that it's in their system somewhere!

I'm trying to price up a cruise through Carnival's website (the .co.uk version), but I keep getting an error message with my phone number - even though it is pulling the details through from my already existing VIFP account. The error is as follows: The field PhoneNumber must match the regular expression '^(1-?)?(\([2-9]\d{2}\)|[2-9]\d{2})-?[2-9]\d{2}-?\d{4}$'. I'm entering a UK mobile number and have to complete fields called 'country', 'city/area', and 'local number'. I've tried every combination of 44 (the country code) and the mobile number (with and without the first zero) in the fields. The country field is restricted to two characters, the city/area field to 4, and the local number seems to be unrestricted. I've tried making numbers up from scratch, randomly and using real ones - landlines and mobiles - but to no avail. Any suggestions for the format? I don't want to call at this point if I can help it, I'm just trying to price it all up with the options I want, but I can't get to a final cost and payment date/schedule page without getting past the phone number problem. Thank you!