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All non refundable OBC is used first.

Not sure. I would have thought that you get to the muster point as soon as possible - the life boats are equipped with life jackets. In the past we all had to attend our muster stations at the same time and you could have asked your question but now we just watch the safety video on the cabin tv and just attend the muster station so you know where it is if needed. I'm hoping that you will not need to have this experience on your cruise.

You can't watch it until you board and you either watch it on the TV or on your device once you connect. There is a Safety Essentials tab under "Profile" on the App with details but you can't watch it from there.

Perhaps I don't understand how that part works. Does that mean if you book through a big box TA then you can't bid even doing it yourself? My TA wouldn't know whether I'm bidding or not - but I get what you mean.

I book through a TA but don't bother them in the bidding for an upgrade and I just do it myself via the Personalizer. My bids are always processed and I receive the unsuccessful advices if I miss out.

The same was offered on Coral Princess every night as well. NO upcharge.

The steak I referred to on Coral Princess, as others have as well, was at no additional cost. It was just listed among the Princess favourites as were other choices.

I was on Coral earlier in Feb and steak was on the menu every night. I had it a couple of times and it was quite good. Obviously not Crown Grill standard but still good.

We are cruising on Sky in July. Our Roll Call has been discussing the best possible locations for a meet up at around mid morning on the first sea day. We may not have enough people interested in a Meet and Greet but a number, say 20, would like to meet up. We have considered the Wake Bar area but that is subject to weather. Vines is another suggestion as there probably would not be too many settling down with a wine early morning, however there may be loud noise from activities in the Piazza. Interested in suggestions from people who have cruised on Sky about decent locations where a number of us can get together for an hour or so. Thanks in advance.

I had plenty of Henshke Henry's Seven Shiraz Grenache on my recent Coral cruise. I thought it was excellent and it was $2 per glass higher than the Plus per glass cost limit (included in Premier). I just paid the extra however many times the staff didn't bother to charge it.

I don't think anyone here has the answer. Just send a quick email off to the Isreali Prime Minister and the head of Hamas and ask them what their plans are.

I agree, it should have been provided regardless. As for your case number, good luck. On 6 February I wrote to Princess about something and received a quick email advising the response might take up to 10 days. Nothing by mid-March so I wrote again just following up the original. Yep, you guessed it - I got another case number with another wait for 10 days. We are now well past that 10 days as well. Princess customer service is a disgrace.

Perhaps but was the OBC refundable? If so they may owe you some money and in that case you should have received a folio statement. I would have thought that you would get a statement regardless.

Fair points. I for one would be quite happy if cruise lines just baked the grats in to the fare. Princess do it to fares here in Aust for us and we just accept the price. If nothing else they should do it just to stop threads on tipping.😏

Many Aussies remove tips without giving it a second thought. It's not the customer who is cheap, it's the company who should pay a decent wage straight up. Hasn't it been proven in previous threads that tips, other than the ones you give directly in cash to staff, just go in to general revenue as the staff now are on a contracted wage? I have broken my golden rule to not comment on a tipping thread as there are no winners in a discussion like this.

They do. I received an email the same day I disembarked in Feb. As mentioned above, check junk folder.

The toilet paper is too shiny.😛

Princess folio summaries are not well set out and where I expect a credit to be shown as a + sign it is often shown as a minus sign -as in a debit for Princess. I thought "Contra" as shown above meant it was a credit to the passenger, but I might have that wrong. I sent an email to Customer Relations asking about a cabin upgrade we didn't get and on the 15 Feb received a reply providing me with a case number and stating a reply would take 10-15 business days. Since then, crickets.

My CVP story is that I entered a competition in the newspaper to win a Princess cruise. Thinking I'd start getting marketing emails I put my "junk" email address as contact. Sure enough an email arrived with a CVP appointed who is based in the Philippines - I'm guessing in the same building where the useless off shore Call Centre is located. Probably wouldn't know the first thing about cruising. I use a TA and will continue that way or just book myself online. As you say, some on here have had great experience with their CVP but if you go searching for one from scratch these days you'll probably end up with a Call Centre dude.

In Aust and NZ it is harder to re-fare. I would try and call Princess, as it appears you booked with them direct. If you had other incentives like OBC you may lose them as they may not be included with the new price. If you can't re-fare it comes down to whether your deposits were refundable. If so, you could simply cancel and rebook. If not you might still be in front but is it worth the hassle. You may or may not get the cabin you had, if one had been allocated.

Some people are just weird. You should have gone to the M&G as for every grouch there are plenty of nice people.

The word of the day is butter. Spread the word.

Yes it is. My cruise in July will never get here if @Pops37 is determining the calendar.

So, not March but April 37th? Gotcha.