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any of the speakers from port towns come on board? Libby Riddles?

5 hours ago, Cruise Raider said:

 

Some of the BinexNow tests are home testing kits, which will not be accepted as the tests have to be medically supervised.  Too bad ... that would make life a lot easier.  

Walgreens offers the rapid antigen test but the closest one to us here in San Francisco is in Oregon.  Really??  It's not like we are out in the sticks.  

I believe if you check the Princess website they are now accepting the at home test but must be supervised via zoom or similar 

13 minutes ago, wowzz said:

US cruises only.

since Princess line does testing at the pier in South Hampton they have a template all worked out which could be done at the pier in Seattle.  Seems they don’t want to bother.  Our age is such that this cruise was our last opportunity to cruise so a future cruise credit might as well be used as wall paper.  This Alaska cruise was way more expensive in the first place that previous Alaska cruises.  This would have been our 11th/  overcharged under serviced!  THEY REALLY SHOULD DO IT AT THE PIER EVEN IF THEY HAD TO CHARGE…THE WORRY OF A LAST MINUTE TEST GETTING BACK IS RUINING OUR VACATION.

8 hours ago, Coral said:

The Walgreen test I did was self administered (rapid) in the drive through. You only had to go 1/2" into your nose and swab each nostril for 15 seconds. 

 

I hate the deep tests and this I tolerated fine. BTW - I hate putting anything in my nose and it was fine.

drive through is not an option..physician must be prsent.

1 hour ago, Coral said:

The Walgreen test I did was self administered (rapid) in the drive through. You only had to go 1/2" into your nose and swab each nostril for 15 seconds. 

 

I hate the deep tests and this I tolerated fine. BTW - I hate putting anything in my nose and it was fine.

cannot do self test drive through

2 hours ago, Chai8 said:

I suspect that the Powers That Be at Princess made this call without really considering what it would mean for those shipping out on our cruise on 8/8. Thus far, I haven't received anything that indicates even accelerated mask wearing. Had I not seen your post and then dug into the FAQs myself, I wouldn't have known. The notification for this has been, shall we say, poor? 

 

1 hour ago, srpilo said:

 

I just checked CVS here in SoCal , and their "Minute Clinic's" show available appointments going out several weeks

it does not go into effect until the 15th

3 hours ago, wowzz said:

Why all the moans and groans ? All us Brits are quite happy  to undergo a test at the terminal. 

Adds to the safety  of the cruise - surely it is a good idea to not let anyone on board that tests positive for CV19 ?

The Brits are doing the test at the port just before you get on the ship.. Princess says tough luck figure it out on your own

3 hours ago, Italy52 said:

Nope

Yes I did…says “urgent”   also states it must be done at medical facility.  There are home test kits that would work but they do not allow them. Walgreens told me they have test kits ordered but the demand is not huge and they do not know when they will get them in stock.  

22 hours ago, jbhermes said:

We are on the 8/8 sailing. We got an upgrade offer from Princess on 7/29. I had a hard time deciding. We had a balcony on Lido deck originally (we have always been on Lido deck amd love it up there!) and the mini suite is on Emerald deck. We ended up taking the upgrade ($119 per person) and figure it’ll be nice to see what a mini suite is like and we will also know for the future if we really want to keep booking on Lido deck! We are excited for the extra room of the mini suite!

Do you have to have Purchased your cruise from Princess to get the email offer?  

7 hours ago, Sea Hag said:

Oh, I agree! I saw that "emergency" part and starting thinking the worst. Maybe people ignore it if it only says "important?" That's all I can think about that.

I agree with you.

4 hours ago, capriccio said:

I've been on 3 Alaska cruises and the presenters and demonstrations noted in the North to Alaska section all happened.  Maybe we were just lucky?  I know the presenters come on the ship and then leave before the ship heads to the next port.

This is our 11th cruise with Princess on this itinerary and the presenters have been on every cruise thus far.  Hope to see them on the Aug 29 cruise!

4 hours ago, Jeter02 said:

I don't even bother wasting my time with those statuses it actually was yellow yesterday so orange is a level down. So I wouldn't be too concerned.

4 hours ago, geoherb said:

 

Yes, this is the menu for the second formal night. I'm going to have a hard time choosing when I sail in four weeks. 

I agree with you about those statutes!

59 minutes ago, kml246 said:

Since this is an all USA cruise, a passport's not required. If you have an EDL (Enhanced Drivers License) then you should be fine. A birth certificate shouldn't be necessary.

 

Have fun!

Some of the excursions do enter Canada so a passport would be required if you choose (and if they let us in) to Canada

16 minutes ago, Wishing on a star said:

Thanks everyone!

From Seattle, you are having to sail outside of the Inside Passage,  I assume that is where there were some high winds and high seas?

 

Maybe they have had supply issues on their Prime Rib, with the restart.

Cant imagine that they would want to take that away!

Going north the first day is always at sea the return is through the inside passage

On 7/20/2021 at 2:00 PM, vivian02 said:

I will be on the July 25h Alaska sailing on Majestic. I to got the e-mail on immigration? Like the one person back a full page mentioned their departing and arriving airline information was missing from the Personalizer. It did not take me long to figure out that I had not enter the information and it had nothing to do with the Ap. I immediatlely filled that information out. I'm still trying to figure out why they called it an immigration issue? First of all my information with Princess has been in their system for years. I think it would have been less confusing by calling it the Travel Section of the Personalizer to be filled in at Princess.com. I am "GO" on the Ap for a blue lane. Smooth sailing ahead is my positive side of this issue. Tim 

I live in Oregon and live within a few miles of a major airport.  The list that drops down to choose your airport has mine listed but if I enter it the program will not save so I choose PDX for Portland which is a hundred miles away and it works.  A little nuts. I really don’t care where they ship my body so Portland works  LOL!

nope

There was a lower price for our cruise and rather than price adjustment (small $) Princess gave us specialty dining for one night which was fine but messed up my signing on for medallion.  I had all green and boarding time now missing and only two check marks in green!  Cannot get medallion pay for my DW and virus to stick in the app.  When I fill out the forms and get to the end all is green until I log back to first page then those go white.  Tried so many times including hard reset on ipad pro and deleting app.  Called the help number and Princess could see that everything was complete on their end and did not know why I was not all green on my end.  Got the stock answer ‘try in a couple days giving time for mainframe to reset because of the addition of the dinners’

oops  8/29 cruise

today is final payment but there is a drop in price  I just called on my booking and they adjusted the price  I received an email with a save 300 so I called and even though I HAD PAID IN FULL THEY TOOK CARE OF IT  it did take 2 hours on the phone

is this the proper venue for this discussion? 

15 hours ago, Steelers36 said:

Princess' online reservations system.  Their internal agents use it as well as outside TA's. 

 

Probably stands for Princess OnLine A??? Reservations???  I really don't know.

Thank you!

I have not had the requirement ever show for my booking.  We leave Aug 29th. All green checkmarks including boarding time.  Only part of the app not working for me is the Journey View to schedule events.

I have been in the green lane and have all the green checkmarks for each of the categories since the last update for the iOS app.  I check daily and have never had anywhere asking for upload of vaccine card.  Hard to figure!

47 minutes ago, Steelers36 said:

My understanding is only the Navigators on the OCEAN team can get into see the MC App data.  Other personnel talking to you have a view into POLAR.

what is POLAR?  I know I am a bit behind the time.

16 minutes ago, traceytd said:

I was told by a Princess staff member that if you use OBC pre cruise to pay for excursion and cancel, they don’t give you your OBC back. You lose them. I asked her «  if I change my mind and want to book something in the spa instead » she said no, the OBC would be lost.
If you book with a credit card, you get your refund back on your card but OBC doesn’t work like that.

I am disappointed. 

If the Princess staff is correct it is a real change of policy.  Have always been able to cancel most excursions up to 24 hours ahead and immediately get the OBC back. In fact I canceled a tour in Skagway last week and the OBC was immediately credited I then rebooked a different excursion using the OBC again.