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I think you are avoiding me on purpose. 😜 Kidding. Once I’m retired we should try to coordinate better. You will be on the solar eclipse cruise with my TA who is fantastic and a lot of fun. Enjoy! I’ll have a drink in Crooners for you and Amelia. Glad you are following along! 🥂

E’s first flight landed in DFW early so we are on track to be on time! She should land in LA around 11 AM. I have lots to do before then! Time for coffee then to get busy!

That’s not good news. 😞 Sadly, I’ve seen a lot of cut backs on ship and land-based restaurants over the past two years.

Yeh I’ll wait. I’m not paying $50 for them. Thanks for the info! ☺️

Calling it a night soon. I have to get up early to run errands, clean up a bit and get ready to…

Not hijacking. This is a free flow of ideas. We can get back to the Discovery tomorrow😁. I’m so sad for all of those Sun passengers. I know my DH and I would be in a bad place RN if that were us. Makes my stomach turn. And yeh, your statement above is not far off from truth.

100% agree that they knew, and have known! Padgett needs to go IMO.

Full statement from Princess: I’d fire that CEO.

Not if you have already flown in for your cruise, booked hotels, booked dining and private excursions, taken time off from work, put your animals in kennels, etc… It would sour me on that cruise line. I’d say take that OBC and shove it where the Sun don’t shine! Pun intended.

I second that motion, and I think many of us on here are shareholders! Maybe we should see if he is going short on the stock!

So I just heard about the Sun Princess Feb 18th fiasco. BAD FORM PRINCESS! As a shareholder I am Pi$$ed! They are going to lose a lot of current and future cruisers (and revenue) due to their lack of forethought and consideration for customers. I don’t care how much FCC, OBC or refunds they hand out. People took time off from work and life to go on this cruise. They notify 5 DAYS prior to the cruise?? Wow! Just Wow! Princess crushed dreams and peoples’ anticipation and excitement of sailing on this new ship. Management needs to realize that there is NO LOYALTY anymore with regards to customers sailing on certain cruise brands. We are smarter than that. UGH! Diatribe over.

Bad Form Princess! As a stockholder I am peeved! People are en route already! They are pissing off a whole lot of customers RN. Lost future revenue IMO. They know and have known. They need to call a time out and assess what’s really going on with this ship.

What @wallyj said about the Prizes. Feel free to post your cruise experiences on this thread too! The more the merrier ☺️

@Sailing12Away This graphic explains the different dining venues pretty well. Not every ship has all of them, but it gives you the idea. Again, some of the venues used to be FREE. Now they charge a fee. You can book the Experiential and Specialty Dining (and pay) on the App ahead of time. You can also book your main dining room times on the App ahead of time. Not so with the Casual Dining. First come first serve. I often wonder if NCL will do the same with Indulge. That’d be a huge negative for pax but it’s all about the bottom line.

On the topic of Wine, for any newbies - Princess only allows pax to bring on one bottle of wine each. Additional bottles will incur a $20.00 corkage fee - even if you have the Premier Bev package.

Work week is done (I’m taking vaca tomorrow). Time to finish packing. First, though, It’s Wine Time! 🍷🍷

Oops! Now you've started it! 🤦‍♀️

Weather outlook;

BACK OF DISCOVERY:

It has been done before. When we did a B2B and changed status from one cruise to the next the Captain's Circle staff slapped a new status sticker on the medallion. I had to laugh! Question is, can they be bribed, and what's the going rate for an Platinum/Elite sticker...🤔

Ahh but from what I recall you COULD be in a suite doing a LIVE review in a not so distant future. Just sayin' 😏 The medallion is one of those special orders that you can get in the App. It is basically a sticker. 😂 It's my friend's medallion.

The best I can say is it would be like NCL charging a fee ($15.00) for Indulge but offering it free depending upon the package you buy. A few years ago Princess offered these casual dining venues free to all. Now they have added a charge.

Yes. The medallions are wearable key cards. They allow you to order food and drinks and have them delivered right to you, they open your cabin doors, and are used when you order drinks and pay for items. You are also able to locate friends onboard (love that one). Casual Dining are semi-specialty dining venues that now charge a small fee unless you have the Premier Package. NCL does not have anything similar so hard to compare. OceanReady just means that you have entered all of your info (credit card, passport info, ect...) into the App and are ready to sail - Green Lane means you are good to go. Premium Desserts - I have not tried but YES. These are desserts on steroids.

I will be in one starting Thursday on the Discovery. I am doing a Live review if you are interested.

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