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The 4300 is lower berth capacity. When 3rd and 4th berths in a cabin are included, the actual passenger count is higher.

If your B2B is booked as two cruises, then on the first segment you would normally book flights to the ship and on the segment segment book flights to return home. If under a single booking number, then your would book both to and from the ship. Normally it should not make a difference in pricing if only booking one direction in each booking as the prices listed are what Princess has negotiated whether one way or round trip. I am surprised you are seeing different pricing for the same flight when looking one way or as part of round trip. But as someone above suggested, you can book a return on the first segment later than disembarkation day and make it the date you want to return home from the second segment. No need to call Princess to do that. Pricing for International flights are usually significantly lower than if you booked directly with the airline. Prices for domestic flights usually are about the same as booking directly with the airline. A major benefit of using Princess Air is that if your plans change earlier than 45 days before the first flight, you can change or cancel the flights at no charge if you booked the flex fare. Can't do that with the airline unless you are buying first class or business class tickets. And if Princess cancels the cruise after you have paid for the flights, booking with Princess Air gets you a complete airfare refund. Another benefit is if Princess is late in getting to port (hours or days), Princess will arrange new flights home for you if you have used Princess Air. Otherwise, you are on your own.

No current reserving of seats, so just walk in. In 2023 those who book the Premier package will have an area reserved for them. Others can just walk in and sit anywhere but that area until it is released.

If only it was true that the smaller ships in the fleet will still be around. Since the Royal Princess (lower berth capacity 3560) debuted these smaller ships in the fleet left and thus are no longer around: Ocean Princess (lower berth capacity 680) Pacific Princess (lower berth capacity 680) Dawn Princess (lower berth capacity 1990) Sea Princess (lower berth capacity 1990) former Sun Princess (lower berth capacity 2000) Star Princess (lower berth capacity 2590) Golden Princess (lower berth capacity 2590) Only 4 ships with less than 3000 lower berth capacity remain in the Princess fleet. None with less than 2000 lower berth capacity.

Princess has chosen to do the pivoting. The company is saying they do not want the many passengers who had chosen Princess because of the itineraries. So if I want to be on a large capacity ship whose 7 day itineraries include overcrowded ports St Thomas and St. Maarten and also a private Island (or similar type itineraries elsewhere in the world), I have my pick of competing cruise lines and do not have to be loyal to any one of them.

As an example, Princess used to have an itinerary that included cruising up the Amazon river to Manaus. No matter what the Captains say, there will be no dredging of the Amazon River to make it deeper to allow the large ships to go there. As another example, the Falkland Islands has a total population of about 3700 people. How much does the population need to grow to accommodate cruise ships with more passengers than the current population? And one more--- Notice that no Princess cruise ship stops at Venice anymore.

Several years ago there was a post by a frequent Princess cruiser that due to flight problems shoe could not make the ship in Los Angeles. Princess did fly her to Hawaii. But, on the return she had to disembark in Ensenada to avoid the PVSA violation.

A couple of questions: a) Does Princess still have printed Sudoku puzzles available each day? If so, where? b) Although masks are not required, do you see any passengers wearing them when appropriate?

Agree. Even when transferring to a flight in the same terminal you need to go through securtity again. It has been several years, and the security line was over an hour long.

I think that the acceptance/approval of the connection is only once on board. This poster has asked the question on the forum for an upcoming cruise, so this is a pre-cruise question.

No reason other than Princess, once known for its great variety of itineraries, is more and more limiting the itineraries to the relatively few ports that can handle the larger ships.

I have seen this, but not for several years. You could fill one of their paper bags without tearing it for a fixed price. I think they did it when their was low demand during a cruise for laundry services. Unlike a similar service on some other cruise lines, it was regular laundry service with pressing and folding as needed and not limited to certain types of clothing.

Current "Best Sale Ever" runs for a couple of months. I would not expect another sale until this one ends.

From another thread

Only because the steaks are tough.

One benefit of using a good Travel Agent is they know how to do re-fares.

Yes, but with a limit of 5 servings of gruel a day.

And after your cruise, please let us know how many you actually had during the cruise.

Several years old, here is the land part of our Alaska cruise tour.

How tough was the steak?

I know that instead of charging the FCCs to the CC on file, they can be charged to any other credit card number you provide. What I do not know is whether that other number can be a gift card.

As with regular coffee, the liquid concentrate comes at different quality/price levels. Some of the finest restaurants use the liquid concentrate, but they are purchasing higher price/quality concentrate. Rumor is that Princess is not purchasing the higher quality/price concentrate.

Not necessarily. They can list the special desserts on the menu with a price, but with an asterisk that says if you have xxx package, there will be no fee.

Or book now to get the cabin you want and then refare when better pricing shows up.

Or maybe it is three levels high, but only with two levels of seating.