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Speaking of newer ships…was on Enchanted in November and loved the lighter interior colors in the cabins…are Sky and Discovery the same color palate?

Teacher for 35 years…any time you are absent other than a holiday break or summer vacation, or sick days, you are deducted from your salary prorated at 1.5 times your daily rate of pay…so hardly no one takes unpaid days off!!!!

Everyone’s perspective is based on what personal preferences they have. We don’t frequent any bar area or use the app, we also don’t like to cruise over holidays to avoid families, kids, under 30 crowd, or anywhere in the Caribbean. I am looking forward to our Norway cruise on the Sky! This review was very negative, but upon rereading it, found the complaints would not sync with our particular cruise or cruising style. I know Princess wants to attract a younger demo, but thankfully they don’t have all their ducks lined up in a row to achieve that end!

It’s interesting that we paid our cruise fare in USD but our OBC was converted to AUD, even though it was FCC $$ earned from previous USD cruises😳

The key is to only book a refundable deposit…that way you can refare (easiest, but sometimes not available on certain bookings) or just cancel and rebook…I usually do this 2-3 times for each cruise. Refundable deposits usually cost more, but are definitely worth it unless it is a last minute cruise!

If it is something you don’t particularly care about then send it out…we have had way too many things shrunk beyond recognition or come back looking so worn that I literally throw it away. We now go to guest services and ask for laundry tokens instead of elite laundry - some ships will give you tokens for the laundromat and others won’t.

Just talked with my long-time PVP and she said my 2 current bookings had been changed to 2 different planners…she said there is a lot of stealing going on

6 yrs ago in Vietnam our Princess excursion was delayed by the local police on the highway back to the ship…long story short - the ship waited for our bus for over an hour, but then sailed without the other mini van on a private excursion. 4 buses were delayed…1 Princess and 3 private mini vans. 2 of the privates slipped through with our bigger bus, but the third was detained and literally missed the boat. They met us at the next port but didn’t have good things to say about their experience.

Our PVP checked our 2 booked cruises…one was $2000+ higher, the other she refaced and saved us $900…evidently Norway is more popular than New Zealand…

After having several drinks charged on our folio, we started using a RFID blocker sleeve. After the second time at guest services to get the bar charges taken off (we don’t drink), they became rather snippy…the blocker was an easier fix then dealing with guest services!

Exact same thing happened to us on Enchanted at the end of October. We had 5 smaller charges plus a final large folio charge. I was upset when I saw the final folio charge that actually became permanent before the initial 5 dropped off (thought I was getting double charged)…after about a week those 5 dropped off on by one. I understand their reasoning, but would have preferred that they just put an initial $500 hold rather than all those weird little details individual charges!

Nice thing about buying internet on board is that they only charge you the discounted rate…no paying regular price before your cruise and then getting OBC once on board

Caymus is now on the Enchanted, so we opted out of it on our cruise last month

Not going to give them my statement (without blacking out all my account info), so uploading isn’t going to work

Each ship varies tremendously! Last year to Hawaii I barely knew it was Christmas…other ships it’s been everything from full-on to minimal…wonder who’s in charge of each ship’s holiday celebration?

Dreaminofcruisin is right…booking within a year…cruise whenever…you can even move it over to another cruise farther out as long as it is attached to a booking number…currently have one that is 3 years old attached to a booking

Getting the same emails again and again and again…..

When Princess delivers all the things they’ve promised, I’ll deliver on their suggested dress code…until then my dress code promise is as hollow as theirs😂

We did a round trip out of LA to Hawaii in January 2023 and did NOT need a COVID test whatsoever!

Got tired of the extra charges so bought an RFID sleeve and now keep my medallion it in all the time…no charges anymore!

I’m sure Princess will enforce the “dress code” as stringently as they do the excursion activity level policy…if it takes you 5 minutes to walk down the steps on the bus, you shouldn’t be on the strenuous hiking excursion!

Once you leave the ship on disembark day, you cannot come back-they will be embarking other passengers and dealing with your luggage becomes your problem once you leave

Thank goodness you didn’t mention the scenery in Norway as not impressive!

Yes, tried all the suggestions above (thx for those BTW). I want to be in charge of my own booking, making educated choices before booking with my TA…if I called them every time I wanted to check pricing, I’m sure they would block my calls ASAP for taking up so much of their time! I currently have 2 cruises booked that are fully paid for so can’t jump ship quite yet. Celebrity is a bit higher, but will be trying them for 2 cruises next year…. Also tried river cruising last month, so those combined with land tours may be our next new adventures!

For the last week almost every cruise I look at says current pricing not available. Yes, I have reinstalled, cleared caches, restarted, rebooted, deleted…done it all, but all the cruises I have been looking to book say the same thing. The one exception finally showed a price today and it is $1400 more than when I looked a little over a week ago! I have reluctantly been able to put aside my frustrations with all the “new” charges and call center issues, but enough is enough! I know many here have jumped ship to Celebrity or HAL, but I really wanted to stay with Princess. Good-bye Princess, hello Celebrity!