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The royal princess had Voss sparkling water in glass for the top tier drink package.

Just do the stock perks app, they did my credit in 48 hours, it shows up online now. It took five minutes.

The desserts are a bit much. This varies ship by ship but on the royal princess they would not just give me the gelato I wanted which was cheaper and easier. So first time I ordered the big Sundae which is free for me with the gelato flavor I wanted. The second time I ordered the big sundae without two of its features, no brownies and no coating the glass in chocolate. They made it as asked. The third time i deleted everything but the gelato but they still put brownies and whipped cream in. I was on princess premier. The next time (in two months) , I will further experiment with the Jack Nickelson method of just getting gelato.

Agreed. In fact Blu is better than MSC Yacht club dining in our opinion. Probably one of the best non specialty dining on any line. We miss it as it is now extremely expensive, and we just booked another princess cruise at about half the price per night.

I have lived in the are for years. The bridge is important and will be missed, but the marine traffic is essential. They need to clear the debris like it is wartime. They can't drag this out over months. It needs to be done in weeks. While most people do not get their food from the port, tens of thousands of jobs rely on it, along with fuel and essential industrial/farming equipment. Two weeks won't ruin things, but two months will cause serious issues. A new bridge will of course take years. But most trucking did not require the key bridge. It was only required for oversize or hazmat loads, which can go the longer way around the other side of the beltway. And yes, this will make traffic worse of course.

I am on the Royal with princess premiere. I can order the fixed menu but nothing else as others have suggested.

We are on the Royal now, and had $100 casino and $100 shareholders both considered in AUD so we took a haircut on those. But our travel agent provided credit was given a good exchange rate, and in fact it was larger than we expected A 13 day cruise is Australia is probably the worst deal for the shareholders credit!

We have been on five princess cruises. We loved our time on the island but there were some major differences. The buffet breakfast was unusually bad. No salmon on 2/3 of days, unlike all of our other princess cruises. Poor other choices, little room to eat. Breakfast in main dining was normal.

We are finding that ocean terrace is not open for much on port days , cutting the possible uses down greatly. An opening time of 5pm is frustrating. Despite being premier they only allow us the fixed menu which seams wrong. alfredos works out much better but we vastly prefer sushi.

We have done six celebrity aqua class cruises and loved them too. But it seems now we are priced out. So we did cruise on the virtuoso in YC in 2021 and loved it. Service was a little spotty in the YC restaurant but the food was good. But overall YC was wonderful, and the non YC parts of the ship were nice with some issues. The gym was unusable due to being half the size it should be. The buffet was rather low quality so we stayed in for YC meals for lunch.

And ocean terrace is closed on most port days for lunch. We love sushi but have had very limited availability as it’s opening at 5pm most days.

They gave egg nog away on the royal princess in the main atrium while Santa was out. No charge or medallion check.

We got one on carnival without asking. It was almost 50% bigger and wonderful. Yes, the shower was more problematic.

I have been on both lines many times. Rooms are available when they are. There seems to be no difference between lines. Sometimes I have gotten into our room early on both lines, and sometimes I have not been able to get to our room or it has not been made ready on both lines. It is a matter of luck more than a difference between lines. As others have said, I prefer celebrity if money was not an object, specifically Aqua class. But our last three cruises now have been Princess, both for itinerary and cost reasons. And we have thoroughly enjoyed them though me miss Celebrity Blu dining. Aqua class is so expensive now I can often get MSC Yacht club for the same price per day. My Elite on Celebrity gets me more, than my status on Princess, but now with us always including drink packages, it means less than it used to. Our next cruise after our soon coming Princess cruise is another MSC Yacht club, so price is clearly driving us away from Celebrity after doing six Aqua class cruises.

We have broken our run of seven celebrity cruises in a row. We are elite and usually do Aqua. But we have now done two princess cruises and book mini suite. It us not as good as celebrity….. but it is around half the cost. Then we also did yacht club on msc and it was pretty much the same price as aqua and it was a pretty good experience. I would like to go back to celebrity but pricing for aqua is near absurd levels most of the time.