abbydancer2003

We’ll still do Princess but not the Caribbean princess. It’s just too crowded. The ships layout is not as nice as all the gem ships (Ruby, crown etc) and thus has people all over. Its layout is similar to the Grand but has a lot more passengers. The Atrium has a mosaic floor, and we’re dancers so it can be risky for catching your foot. We have the Sun booked in 2025.

We just got off the Caribbean Princess doing a similar itinerary (Quebec to NY) with similar port stops. We were with the Summit in Sydney (discussing if it was possible to switch ships), and of course missing most of them due to the hurricane. I do want to try again, and will probably look at 2025, but if X has a ship doing the same cruise, we'll definately do it on Celebrity not Princess. And we were in Quebec from Thursday to Sunday (ship overnights there on Saturday) and loved it, although I don't quite understand the thing for Poutine.

Thanks for this. I've been on the Caribbean Princess with a significantly altered itinerary. Today is our last sea day so catching up. I remember doing the Maid of the Mist when I was probably around 10 years old with my parents.

Ha. We did a CA coastal on Princess last year. In SF, we had friends who'd we met on a previous Princess cruise, pick us up, and they met the challenge of showing us something we'd never seen - who knew there were buffalo in Golden Gate Park? At the end of the day I pointed out that it's less than 1/2 hour each to meet halfway for dinner. (And we do that occasionally). By the way, if you get to a Grocery store in Toronto, and they have Dare Maple creme cookies, I'll forever be in your debt if you bring me a box.

I thought they ran all night, but on a reduced schedule. A friend and I went out at about 10 and went back an hour later or so. I think we were the only passengers on the tender - rest were crew.

I gather you've never seen the movie A League of their Own (great movie, btw). The teams play all over the area.

They sometimes help, although it can take a while for them to update. On our recent Hawaii cruise, DH's bag was delivered during dinner. Looking at the airtag location, it appeared to still be in the terminal when we went to dinner (ship had left), but the Guest services staff said no bags were left. He did once leave his Ipad on an Air Canada plane. He was able to trace to the Montreal airport. Eventually, and a 100 dollar plus shipping fee he got it back.

Last cruise we put the desk chair on the balcony and moved one of the balcony chairs under the desk.

In Brooklyn a while ago, DH's bag wasn't where it ws supposed to be. A person working there walked the entire terminal with him, and they found it in a completely different section of the terminal, without the tag. I contacted Princess because we had a car waiting and were charged extra for the wait time. They gave us a nice OBC on our next cruise for it. Now we have air tags. Last year, we were walking down the hall to our room on embarkation day and my sister noticed a small bag of hers at someone else door.

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She told me she felt so bad for you - after being so careful, you still got it.

Yeah, that's all been a mess. I've seen refundable deposit cruises moved to a new date/ship etc, and changing to a non refundable, and a change fee attaches. Call again to get it backed out. Ususally, lately, they leave it and just add a 100.00 credit on the fare.

Celebrity always has prepaid tips as an extra charge when you first book. They usually fall off the booking within a few days. The only time it can be a real problem is if you book within the final payment window - in that case you usually have 24 hours to pay it all and they won't have fallen off by then. I had to (this was a few years ago) call and get them removed.

Probably too late for you to even consider this, but the best 7th inning stretch I've ever been to was in Milwaukee.

It's only 8 days, and then you can be done. But you'll probably enjoy it. I hope yo do. Glen & I are on Royal Caribbean for 6 days just before we do our Apex cruise in December. I told him that if we hate it, it's only 6 days (on what might be the worlds largest cruise ship). We can put up with anything for 6 days. Next year, we'll do one on Azamara. Have fun. We' leave for Quebec for 10 days on Princess, where we will have to pay to order food from the app, I think.

Yes, I know. That was my point, ie it was never mentioned in the call as something that was going away. Maybe because, unlike canapes and chocolate, you can't just "ask for it back". 😁

I don't eat fish, so get a lot of fruit amuse bouche. I feel your pain, although it's more of a choice for me, and I recognize that.

I did that at lunch recently - btw, on the way back from Europe on the Silhouette last year, they ran out of raspberries. The Vacharin looked kind of naked, but still tasted good.

Me three, since, as Jim says, too much chocolate, which I don't like.

One thing I find interesting is the lack of anything on the OBC for suites. I know it wasn't addressed in the call, but have they stated it specifically, or is it just that it's no longer listed as a suite perk?

I'm guessing the diners only show dessert. Again, the menus are NOT up to date in sailings months from now. I'm sure Luminae will be open for lunch on sea days, unless they make a change and you'll hear about it from people currently sailing.

We also had to pay when we moved from January to 2025, but our book on board OBC went with us. We did pay the 100.00 change fee, but the booking number stayed the same. They do have to manually add the OBC back in, though, so my guess is that there will be some sort of policy decision about which package to honor on those. Pricing, though, does go to prevailing, so you're probably right. My sister and I have a Caribbean booking that is a holding only. We want to move it to a 2025 fall transatlantic, which will almost certainly not be released by October 4, so I guess we'll see.

Are you looking at the current cruise? There's no point at looking at future cruises (maybe beyond the next week or so) as the menus aren't populated properly.

You're probably right, although I think maybe those that wanted to remove tips would book cruise only, as they didn't want to pay gratuities. It's probably a mix.

Menus are now populating very close to sailing I think.