Itchy&Scratchy

I am sure they'll give you a medallion at the terminal. I was worried that ours wouldn't arrive in time, so I picked them up at the terminal instead. Sometimes USPS is very slow.

do not do the Caribbean Princess. IMHO.

imho, both ships are extremely similar, so I'd choose the better itinerary/price.

so are the bartenders.

I don't mean tipping extra. But if you cancel CA, and only plan to tip your cabin steward and bartenders, what about MDR staff where you still plan to eat? Are they not deserving of a tip even if you don't ask for extra butter or a baked potato?

yes and yes

you don't eat on a cruise at all?

many on our cruise 2 weeks ago got their assignments literally 3-4 days before the cruise. However, they paid $499 pp for a minisuite guarantee, whereas I paid a lot more for an inside cabin, so they weren't complaining too loudly. They said they saved a ton of money by booking a guarantee compared to booking an assigned cabin. 🙂

We just did cave tubing with Butts up first week of June 2024. Here is my review: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/3013301-enchanted-princess-review-june-1-2024-western-caribbean-with-food-pics-dailies-and-more/page/2/#comment-67514678 we had a good time (but it was VERY HOT).

We did Butts up first week of June. Here is my review: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/3013301-enchanted-princess-review-june-1-2024-western-caribbean-with-food-pics-dailies-and-more/page/2/#comment-67514678

should booked the cabin you wanted and then added Plus.

that's not good. Both of ours were around all the time.

well, DH now got covid on 3 out of 7 cruises, so...

yes, of course, but it's been more than a year and a half since the last booster, so it won't make any difference.

neither our cabin attendant, nor my parents cabin attendant made any towel animals. I am assuming they are very busy and have no time for this.... But Enchanted had a demo last year and a demo this year, and it's still fun.

I saw the same last month. Plus was $70 and Premier was $90. I even asked here when the price increased. I looked directly on Princess website. An hour later it was back to normal. Glitches... It was for a cruise out of Ft Lauderdale, and I am in the US.

and we got $25 total in Princess Prizes (between 4 of us).

last week on Enchanted it was ALL cans. Once in a while a bar didn't have cans or cold cans, but had a fountain soda machine. What I found more interesting is that they didn't charge us for Red Bull, San Pelegrino or Perrier, but the app said we only get 25% off of them with premier package.

most likely. The current one is a lot lighter. April one was like our bout in 2022 - with rib-wrenching cough and misery.

indeed it is - $7 for Heineken 0.0. My dad had a ton of them last week.

no, we enjoyed it, except for my DH's catch of the day - he didn't like his main course. And ours was included in the Premier package, except for the kiddo. OBC paid for him. I said the same in the survey. What's with all the beans????? Ran out of potatoes?

we just did an 8 day on Reflection with our 13 yo DS. He had fun. He doesn't like teen club anyway, but he went for 20 minutes to make us happy. It had nice programming and other teens enjoyed it.

All in all, we had a great cruise, 10/10 would do it again. 🙂 Disembarkation was pretty smooth, even with slight delays, so we finally got off between 9:30 and 10. Got an uber pretty quickly and headed to MIA airport. Sadly, we couldn't take advantage of the EZ check as I planned, since our plane left MIA at 1 pm. I thought it was leaving at 2:30, but no. On a positive note, we finally got home before dark. 🙂 We usually take a very late afternoon flight and get home at 9-10 pm, but SW changed our FLL departure from 5 pm to 7 pm, so we were able to change our flight for free to a 1 pm departure out of MIA instead. Yay!

We really enjoyed a towel folding demonstration on the last day. You could also take any final composition back to your cabin to enjoy. 🙂 I got a bat! My mom got an anteater: some of the other figures:

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