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No surprise, as I have attended the drills on other cruise lines. And my feelings were the same. Without the practice of putting the life jackets on properly, many will not know how to do it properly in a true emergency. I also disagreed with the other cruise lines that held the drills by your assigned lifeboat. There is no guarantee that the area of your lifeboat or the path to it is safe in case of a real emergency. Princess did it right by holding the muster drills inside so that in a true emergency passengers could be led to available lifeboats with a viable path to them. Also, the Princess policy of holding muster inside means that, since almost all musters do not involve abandoning ship, passengers are not subject to harsh weather conditions for the time, sometimes hours, it takes to resolve an emergency.

Best part of watching something on DVRs: You can bypass the ads, not wasting 20 minutes of your life for every hour of shows.

If any procedures would have changed between your two segments, you would been told to attend the second muster drill. Without any changes to procedure, your first muster drill would still be remembered by you. However, someone who has not recently cruised on that ship would have no idea if the procedures they heard months ago on the same or different Princess ship are the same now. Having attended umpteen previous muster drills does not mean nothing has changed.

One more question: What times are the shows in the Princess theater in the evening?

How tough (or tender) was this steak?

Can anyone who has been on the Island recently tell me: a) Which dining room is used for Club Class? b) What the production shows were? c) Are soap bars available for the bathroom if you ask the cabin steward? Thanks

Ratings for ABC, CBS, and NBC this past Wednesday: NBC’s Chicago Fire (7.2 mil/0.7) copped the night’s largest audience and, like Med (6.6 mil/0.6), was steady. P.D. (5.7 mil/0.6, read post mortem) dipped. CBS’ Survivor (5 mil/0.7, read recap) dipped, while The Real Love Boat (1.9 mil/0.3) and The Amazing Race (2.4 mil/0.3) both held pretty steady. Over on ABC, The Goldbergs (2.4 mil/0.3) dipped… The Conners (3.6 mil/0.5, read recap) Abbott Elementary (2.6 mil/0.5), and Home Economics (1.9 mil/0.3) were all steady… and Big Sky (2.3 mil/0.3) ticked up. The RLB was tied with Home Economics for the lowest viewership. RLB had 38% of the number of viewers that the lead-in show before it had.

There is no mandatory tip for specialty restaurant meals. The staff there are included in the tipping pool that everyone contributes to. So the $116 you have paid is all that is due. Of course of you think the service is extra special, you can always give the staff an additional cash tip the evening you dine there. (Of course if you purchase a beverage while dining in a specialty restaurant, the beverage will have an 18% gratuity added to its cost. If you have a Plus or Premier beverage package, then beverages within the allowed price range will have no cost or gratuity added.)

With vaccinated people not being tested anymore pre-cruise, active cases can easily get onto a ship now. The problem for those who would have preferred to cruise under the testing and masking conditions in effect at the time they booked a cruise is that they cannot cancel and get an FCC for full value now that the rules have changed. Yes, someone who tests positive for Covid pre-cruise can get a full FCC refund, but a healthy person who would prefer not to cruise with untested and unmasked passengers and unmasked crew cannot.

People were aware of the risks at the time they booked a cruise. When we booked our cruise for later this year: 90% of the passengers had to be vaccinated 100% of the passengers had to have a pre-cruise Covid-test 100% of the crew were required to wear masks passengers were required to wear masks indoors except when in their cabins or eating or drinking passengers were required to wear masks when outside in a crowded area Now, none of that is true for our cruise this December. And the best I can tell, our ability to cancel a cruise due to Covid concerns with no financial penalty no longer exists.

I agree 100%. With the old system, 100% of the passengers put on the life jackets. Based on the number who did not do it correctly the first time, that practice is definitely needed. I suspect less than 10% of passengers put on a life jacket before the ship sails under the new procedures. And of the number who do, I have no idea how many do it correctly. This could prove deadly in a true emergency.

I am not Doug R, but from my experience in the working world: o Inhouse work will be unique to your organization. It can be good or it could be bad, but it is developed by people who have an interest in the success of your organization and usually know the product well. o Third party vendors have no interest in the success of your company past the current contract. Even if they are familiar with the industry, they do not know what is unique to your organization and how to implement that uniqueness in their product for you. o If the third party vendor is providing the same service to your competitors, than using it gives you no advantage over the competition.

Or take his/her Medallion when you leave the cabin while he/she watches the safety video. System will think he/she has not seen it and he/she will have to watch it again.

Yes, that is one way to find the opportunity to bid, but many people do not know this path. Most people are aware of the ability to bid because Princess sends an E-mail to them about it. However no E-mail is sent if a person has opted out of marketing E-mails from Princess. In fact, Princess will send more than one E-mail. Today I received a second one for an upcoming cruise: Booking # xxxxxx: You can still upgrade! Dear Guests, You might have missed it – or maybe were mulling it over – but that upgrade is still yours for the bidding. With Princess Upgrade, all you have to do is make an offer on an even better stateroom before you sail. Don't miss out – bid today! By clicking the Get Upgraded link, you will navigate to a 3rd party website that is not owned, operated, or controlled by Princess Cruises or any of its affiliates. (Booked through a travel advisor? They'll be happy to help you with placing an upgrade offer.)

Also depends if you opted out of Princess marketing E-mails.

Or, what is bad for passengers who do not wear masks can also be bad for crew who do not wear masks.

The reason is they are not known (scheduled) in advance. Ask any guest lecturer. They usually say they will have a lecture the next day but will not know what time it will be until they see it in the printed Patter.

It should show up as available OBC on the cruise and should be available to spend on an excursion now if you wish.. But you do not have to wait, as you can contact Princess and ask how much OBC is currently available.

All that is verified is that the Medallion is in the cabin. You might be elsewhere. (Just be sure you have someone who can let you back into the cabin.)

I see what you mean. Weather looks foggy, so it could have been early that day. I do notice people in the hot tubs.

My guess is that the scenes which show very few people outside in the center of the ship were not filmed at a time many people would be there. Sure, access to the part of the upper deck where the cast/crew were would be restricted, but there would be no reason to restrict access to the pool area as anyone there would be too far from the taping to be identifiable.

First cruise for Princess was on April 27, 2003. I do not know when it started service for the original owner.

My guess: Covid. They said he was suddenly ill. Had to be something sudden that would not clear up in a day or two.

Usually when you try to sign in with a second device it will ask you to confirm you want to disconnect the first device.

Many (most?) existing Princess passengers book a the Plus/Elite package, so current customers see value in the packages being offered. Even pre Plus/Elite packages, a number of people who bought the higher priced beverage package did it just for the convenience of not having to keep track of beverage spending on a cruise, not because they saved money. So those people, as well anyone who had purchased the original beverage package for other reasons, save $$$ with the Plus package. My point was that the minute benefit was worth more $$$ than the unlimited benefit is worth. Thus I do see that as a reduction in benefits. Yes, supposedly having unlimited minutes is better than a fixed number. But based on internet performance as reported recently from many Princess ships, it takes unlimited minutes to accomplish what used to be able to be done relatively quickly. And streaming your favorite movies/shows, well, as they say in Brooklyn, Fuhgeddaboudit. And the limitation of the elite 10% discount in the shops to items only at full price is another definite reduction in a benefit. Of course the addition of a 10% discount on Princess excursions is an added benefit, but the more cruises a Princess customer has been on, the less likely booking Princess excursions is.