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Jareds_mommytoo

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  1. I found out about the cake the last two days of our trip
  2. No only alcohol drinks take one of the 15,
  3. There is not an APP activation fee there is an oceans now fee, to activate the food and delivery part. but when we messaged crew chat the didn’t really care, it was like oh you are not getting charged why worry
  4. We just got off Friday there were always extra drinks that were not ours ( we never went close to 15 but….. like i max out at 3 one day i had nine showing by 6 pm) i would have been long in bed if i drank all that, and like i said we had a crown grill charge
  5. In the app, there is shipmate messaging that works in the ship net, but it will not give notifications there is a message, we had our kids set a timer to check it regularly
  6. It doesn’t state its free just that it’s available
  7. If so how do we book it ( first princess cruise for us)
  8. So for us this was my shipboard math 😜😉, when I compared the base price of just the cruise, to the cruise with plus it worked out plus is $52 US or $72 canadian a day for my cruise…..I subtract my gratuities ($16 US or $21.50 canadian) and we would buy internet because we have older teens staying home alone for the first time ($15 us or $21 canadian), the rest of the package doesn’t interest me so that means i am paying $22 us or $30 Canadian for the drink package after I subtract what I feel are fixed fees for me. I do not drink but if i was to buy the zero alcohol package it is $29 a day US or $39 Canadian. If I was to buy a bottle or 2 of water a mocktail, maybe a specialty coffee, a sparkling water with dinner i would probably hit that $22 US a day easily. Now if i did drink, looking at the menu 2 glasses of wine or a cocktail or two i would break even before i even ordered any non alcoholic drinks. My US to Canadian conversations were more estimations. The advantage for me to add the plus in canada and pay in canadian, if i ordered as I go on the ship and being charged in US my credit card adds a service fee for U.S. transactions so that would have added about an extra 3% plus they charge one or 2 percent exchange rate then the posted, so it could be an extra 5% on top of the ballpark 30% exchange.
  9. We found a lot of processed foods, like canned fruit or sauces and gravy from mixes. Meats over or under cooked. If i asked for med it was anywhere from blue rare to shoe leather well done. Watered down juices. The service was always great
  10. What cruise line has the best food lately, I am thinking the more family ones like NCL, Royal Caribbean, princess, HAL etc… we were on princess last fall and the food was pretty bad. Like 2 star all inclusive bad lol. We almost pulled the trigger and booked a Royal Caribbean cruise but reading the reviews scared us off, normally we take them with a grain of salt, but there were so many. I understand they were amazing pre covid… We feel, it really doesn’t matter how hard the employees work and how great the service is, if head office gives them subpar stuff to work with.
  11. My teens have been on holland America a few times, if there are other teens on board and they are out going enough to strike up a friendship, they will have lots of fun, if there are not a lot of other teens they will be board, the teen program sucks. We were just on carnival in april, my teen asked to go back to HA because the food was horrible on carnival, compared to other lines we have been on, we are just in the middle of trying to decide between Ha or trying a MSC cruise in nov.
  12. There is a question on the arrivecan about if you have tested positive in the last 180 days, it will tell you do have to back it up with documentation.
  13. I know on the bottomless bubbles package its fountain soda, what about the cheers package can we get cans. I am not a huge fan of fountain.
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