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  1. #1 because two of the stays include a full day at the site. When you are at a lodge for only one night, most of the day is spent traveling between lodges.
  2. Just what computer security experts recommend, putting your personal information on someone else's digital device.
  3. The benefit dates as listed in the annual report have always been accurate. Switching to stockperks just makes the way to request the benefit different.
  4. Historically it is approved by the Board of Directors in February and listed on page 3 of the annual report sent out in early March. It is not in the new annual stockholders report. Not a good sign.
  5. It is reinstated "as it is every year" by late February and is listed in the annual report. It has not been extended yet and is not listed in the just issued annual report.
  6. By now it should have been extended to sailings through December 31, 2025. Using the app just means you can get it a different way for sailings through December 31, 2024. No sign at all the benefit has been extended for another year.
  7. Usually by late February the stockholders OBC is approved for an additional year. I have not seen that this has happened as it should have been extended by now for bookings though December 25, 2025. Has anyone seen any notice that it has either been extended or is being eliminated? It usually is listed near the front of the annual stockholder's report, but is not there this year.
  8. In 2008 Princess did have a cruisetour that did include the Galapagos. The cruise part ended in Guayaquil. The tour part then had a flight to the Galapagos and (depending on the date) a four day or three day Galapagos experience that visited multiple islands.
  9. What a poor excuse. Let's become more like the competition instead of being unique and differentiating the brand from other cruise lines. From this change to now also charging for room service to building larger and larger ships that can no longer go to many unique ports that used to be on Princess itineraries, Princess looks more and more like the competition. If one is going on a Caribbean cruise or an Alaska cruise on similar size ships with almost identical itineraries (different private islands in the Caribbean), why pick Princess unless there is a price advantage?
  10. Call Princess. The air department can help you do it over the phone.
  11. In my case I had a cruise booked pre-pandemic and had paid 95% of it before final payment. When it was cancelled due to the pandemic, Princess offered 100% of the deposit extra (plus the deposit itself) as FCCs. I assume Princess figured that a $100 deposit that resulted in a $200 FCC was good PR. As a result of having almost fully paid for that cruise, the extra OBC was basically enough for a free cruise.
  12. Will this apply to the Chef's Table and/or the Winemaker Dinner?
  13. The difference is that the staff in the specialty restaurants have always been included in the tipping pool for food service personnel. You are paying for that in your daily gratuity charge where it is part of a plus or other package or on your daily onboard account. The restaurant servers are included in the daily gratuity charge. The bar staff are not, so their tips have always come from the gratuity charged when you purchased a beverage or as part of a beverage package.
  14. Currently same price on board the first day as pre-cruise.
  15. There may be a larger selection of 350ML bottles avialble on board from room service than there are available in advance on the web site. No benefit to ordering in advance as even if you so so, you must call room service to arrange delivery once aboard.
  16. For Princess it depends on the ship. The newest ones have USB ports on the bedside lamps. Also some of the recently refurbished ships have them.
  17. Looks like they are essentially extending the ability to make a Future Cruise Deposit (FCD) while on board to buying one for a couple of months after the cruise. They have done this in the past, but with lower OBC amounts than if purchased on board. Since the current top OBC if purchased onboard is $150 (17+ days in a full suite), with this offer having a maximum of $125 OBC indicates again the OBC is less than if the FCD was made onboard. (Note that while the maximum OBC if booked on board is, as shown above, $150, more typical is 7 days in a balcony cabin for which the OBC amount is $50.)
  18. Earlier this year the veteran's OBC was changed to be non-refundable. That may be the $25 discrepancy you have between what they told you on the ship and what you are really getting. Ship's staff are not always up-to-date in knowledge about changes like that which HQ makes. Pre-cruise the part of the Personalizer on the Princess web site that lists OBC indicates which OBC is refundable and which is not. On the ship, unless the Regal is different, the printed onboard account statement should indicate by each OBC if it is refundable or not. For example, on my last cruise the statement said "Shareholder Benefit (non-refuindable)" -100
  19. Only if it shows up in the App when you look at the daily schedules.
  20. 7 night cruise cost for two people $1550. Hours on board: 164. Cost per hour: $9.45 Number of hours playing trivia before winning a ship on a stick: 6 How much is that ship on a stick worth: 6 hours X $9.45 = $56.70
  21. There are two "special" evenings on a 7-day cruise. Some Princess ships do this as two formal evenings and some as one formal evening and one "dress-to-impress". No matter which the ship does, the Personalizer will list it as two formal evenings. The "dress-to-impress" concept is an attempt to balance the desire of many passengers not to be dressed up a second time and the ship's desire to provide another opportunity to take portraits of dressed up passengers to sell. Of course anyone who wants to wear fancy clothing every evening of the cruise may do so no matter what Princess calls the evening.
  22. Even in the past before facial recognition, immigration was not very slow. It took a little longer that using facial recognition does now, but the agent looked at the picture in the passport and visually confirmed it was "you." The thread on the Princess forum says that the holdup was that every single person was being fingerprinted and there was only one line for that. The fingerprinting was done before passengers then went to one of about seven immigration agent stations for looking at the passports.
  23. In a number of ports (I am not sure about Galveston) taxes are charged on onboard sales which would include any beverages. But that would apply to packages (and beverages) sold while in port. Pre-paid packages are not sold while in port and thus any beverages served while in port were not purchased that day and are not subject to the tax. Often packages purchased the first day are not posted until after the ship has departed and thus do not show up as being sold while in the port. In Texas, there are no restrictions on selling non-alcohol beverages in port (package or not) or selling alcohol that Princess had purchased from a Texas distributor (package or not).
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